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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 been a while, but we’re ready to announce the theme of the next update and finally give you guys the first peek at what we’ve been working on for the last few months! We’re pretty excited and I hope that you will be too. Let’s get to it!Minecraft 1.10: The Love and Hugs UpdateWe...

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...

We just published a pre-release version of Minecraft 1.7.10 that contains updates for Realms. All Realms related modules were moved into a separate library.How does this release affect you? If you are not playing on Realms, it does not change anything at all. The main advantage is that we...

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...

It’s been a while since the last snapshot, hope you didn’t miss us too much. We’ve been working a whole bunch on lots of internal rewriting (for plugin API, to make things easier for ourselves and to make things run so much more smoothly) but a lot of that isn’t in this version as it’s fairly...

We are going to GDC this weekend, so there will be a pause in snapshots for a short while. But before we get on the plane, we wanted you to have the latest changes to play with.Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it...

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...

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...

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...

I could write a big changelog with all the new features, all the fixed bugs and all the reworked code… but I could also go spend that time making some more new features, fix some bugs and rework some code. Brb coding!To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call...

I’m a little snapshot, short and stout. Here is my screenshot and here is my [FATAL CORRUPTION IN CLASS SXQ CANNOT CONTINUE]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...