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It’s time again to announce the next MINECON!If you like Minecraft, and you like people who like Minecraft, you’ll probably like MINECON. It’s THE place to see all the cool Mojangstas you fancy, meet people who love Minecraft maybe even as much as you do, and attend panels and events full of...

Have you been hacked? What’s going on, Moj? No! We haven’t been hacked. A bunch of bad people have tricked some of our users into disclosing their account information. We’ve emailed everyone affected, and reset all compromised passwords. If you haven’t received an email from us, you don’t need...

Yes, it’s true! In the near future you will be able to change your Minecraft in-game name.When? When! When?! We plan to make name changing available on February 4th.What do I need to do this? Will it cost money? The only thing you need is a Mojang account. If you currently sign in to...

Just in time before the holidays, we have the pre-release for 1.8.2 ready. There are some bug fixes and performance tweaks we wanted to get out to you before most of us leave for vacation during the Christmas holidays.As always, there are some bugs fixed:[Bug MC-51573] – Hostile mobs...

Scrolls – Mojang’s second game – has just been released on PC, Mac, and Android tablet.Scrolls costs $5 but you can play the demo version for free! Wander over to scrolls.com and download it!Scrolls is hardly anything like Minecraft, but it’s still super fun to play. Watch the trailer below...

We’ve been keeping a close eye on the 1.8 release and have put together a small update that should fix a lot of issues that people have reported to us. This update is compatible with 1.8 servers, but even though it’s not strictly required to update to 1.8.1 we’d strongly recommend that you do...

Yes, the deal is real. Mojang is being bought by Microsoft.It was reassuring to see how many of your opinions mirrored those of the Mojangstas when we heard the news. Change is scary, and this is a big change for all of us. It’s going to be good though. Everything is going to be OK. <3Please...

The 1.8 update is now published to the launcher! Your game should be updated automatically.See this post for a list of changes and features: Pre-release infoGet the cross-platform server jar here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8/minecraft_server.1.8.jarReport bugs...

Update: Snapshot 14w34b has been released to fix the following crashes:[Bug MC-67915] – written_book item page text not backwards compatible with v1.7 saves [Bug MC-67974] – Crash when reaching y=254 [Bug MC-67976] – Cannot place armor stands [Bug MC-67981] – Furnace Inventory is not being...

It’s snapshot time. After last weeks snapshot, which did not include any changes at all, we decided to make this weeks snapshot a little bit more interesting. So we added tons of new features, all of them disguised as bugfixes.Bugs fixed:[Bug MC-29408] – Tab support is not possible with...

This weeks snapshot contains absolutely nothing. Not a single thing. No bugs fixed, no features creeped. Nuhuh. No sir.Notable changes:Beacon light changes as it goes through glass. Added red sandstone. Added an armour stand. Fixed many bugs. Erased all knowledge of The Event.Bugs fixed...

We’re starting to wind down our development cycle, and as such we’re now focusing on bug fixing for a smooth release. This weeks snapshot comes with a bunch of fixed bugs, some more optimization and only minimal featurecreep.Notable changes:Experimental: Mob pathfinding is threaded. Rabbits...

Update: We’ve released snapshot 14w30b to fix some crashes and world holes.It’s apparently my birthday today, so you get a present! That’s how birthdays work inside Minecraft. Todays snapshot is heavily focused on more optimizing, with a pinch of bug fixing and a sprinkle of feature creeping...

Update: We can never be sure if bending space around time is the right approach until we get feedback from you on the 14w29b snapshot that bends time around space instead. We do that by using the newly implemented threaded render batch system. That’s a lot a fancy sounding words, so if you don’t...

We’re starting to enter the last phase of our development cycle for 1.8, and so we’ll be focusing on finalizing features, fixing bugs and optimizing the game over the next few weeks as we draw a little closer to something we’d like to eventually consider releasable. Todays snapshot is one such...

I never trusted Hoppers. Always moving items around, silently, biding their time. And now look at what they’ve gone and done, we have hoppers all over the place! Hop. Hop. Hop.Notable Changes:Bunnies! Bunnies bunnies bunnies. It’s a secret to everybody! More rewrites, optimizations & bug...

Update: Snapshot 14w26b has been released to fix some chunk loading issues.Wednesday is the new Thursday! We’ve decided that Thursday wasn’t very optimal for us to release snapshots on so we’ve moved the weekly snapshots to Wednesday instead. Adjust your schedules and order a new calendar...

In a double feature blog post, we’re happy to bring both a new 1.8 snapshot (14w25a) and another pre-release for 1.7.10!1.7.10 pre-release 4This pre-release allows you to finally upload your own worlds to Realms and adds an option to allow you to enable command-blocks on your own Realm. It...

Small snapshot this week for some optimizations and bugfixes!Notable changes:Bugfixing. Optimizations. Notability intensified.Bugs fixed:[Bug MC-99] – Skins Sometimes Disappear After Death [Bug MC-30192] – stat.useItem.<Item#> glitching with scoreboard [Bug MC-30877] – Crops...

Update: Snapshot 14w20b has been released to fix mobs not spawning naturally.This weeks snapshot brings many bugfixing, a little polishing and possibly even some hugs. Maybe. If you’ve been good.Notable changes:Caves now generate in deserts & mesas. Added new /title command for ingame...