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Update: Snapshot 15w33b has been released to fix some nasty bugs, as follows:[Bug MC-85837] – Crash or chunk corruption on turning "text" into Components [Bug MC-85839] – Crashing when summoning a mob [Bug MC-85884] – Lingering potion shows incorrect time valuesRoar! That’s dragon for...

It’s time! It’s that time again! It’s finally here! It’s snapshot time! Snapshots!A little later than I’d have liked, but we’re now ready to start public testing of Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update. As you can expect from the name, the update is mostly about cuddling and farming plants.I’m...

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...

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...

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...

Hello!The Pocket Edition team are a hard-working bunch. Their most recent snapshot is the biggest update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition so far! It really is massive.If you’re on Android and like the idea of testing these features early, join this Google community, then sign up for the updates...

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...

This weeks snapshot is fairly small in the scheme of things as we’ve been focusing on optimizations and furthering spectator mode.Notable changes:World border received a bunch of new options & improvements. Spectator mode has a preliminary interface for teleporting to other players. It’s...

Once again the majority of our time between this and the last snapshot has been spent on Plugin API related tasks (most notably inventory rewrite, block model format and block state concepting), and as such this is mostly a bugfix & mapmaker snapshot. Don’t worry, we have some cool survival...

We’ve been working on major rewrites (inventories/menus/block models) for the upcoming API still, but here’s a bugfixy snapshot in the mean time!Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!Bugs fixed in this snapshot...

Snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot’s snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot? Snapshot!!Notable additions for survival:Item frames can give off a signal detected by Comparators. Lots of changes to villager AI. Some of them now actually do stuff! Looting now gives...

Snapshot time! We’ve fixed a whole bunch of bugs introduced in last weeks snapshots, introduced a few new commands and tweaked a few things that needed tweaking.Notable additions for mapmakers:/tp now supports rotation arguments Player selectors (@p, @e, etc) now support cubic areas. For...

Update: A ‘b’ snapshot has been released to fix lots of crashes!The first snapshot of Minecraft 1.8 has arrived! This update will be split into two primary focuses: Survival gameplay & improvements, and new fancy abilities for adventure maps! We’ve done a whole bunch of optimizing for both the...

Change of plan with the pre-release! We fixed some big bugs, namely large render distances now actually work (best seen on Singleplayer). Today we’re giving out a new snapshot to test this and other things, and if all goes well we’ll pre-release tomorrow (Friday!)To get snapshots, open your...

We’ll be releasing Minecraft 1.7.3 next week, with a pre-release this Thursday. As such, have a small bug-fix snapshot!To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To...

At Minecon we announced our new partnership with Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. After a little wait, we’re now ready to make this publicly testable! This is the very first snapshot to include this functionality and it may be a little buggy, and we’re not finished with all...

It’s the national lets-pretend-its-thursday day! Let’s celebrate with a snapshot.To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can...

To celebrate the upcoming pre-release, here’s a snapshot with extra bugs for added value!To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version...