The following is the patch notes so far for the Minecraft 1.6 beta. Patch 1.6 should be out before the end of the week.
Most of the bug fixes are to do with multiplayer but there is quite a few nice fixes for single players too. This patch looks like its going to be bigger than the previous few patches.
Notch announced on Twitter that patch 1.6 will be coming to the Minecraft next week. The patch was mostly a bug fixing update that would include only one new feature the in-game map system. It was later confirmed that a fully functional Nether in multiplayer was being worked on and lots more such as hatches.
In other Minecraft news a new “sky dimension” is being worked on. The new dimension is a series of floating islands. While this was probably just an experiment, Notch has since decided to finish it.
Continue reading to see some screenshots and find out more.
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Terraria which is released tomorrow for the PC, is similar to Minecraft in that you can build and customise the environment. Minecraft’s emphasis on gathering raw materials, item crafting and defending yourself at night is also present in Terraria. However Terraria takes a 2D sprite based approach on these ideas and adds plenty of unique features to the mix it self.
Terraria is more action packed than Minecraft, with boss fights, and plenty of weapons and gadgets to be made and found. Terraria also features NPCs that sell items and once found will wait for you at your base. Multiplayer is also supported and encouraged.
Continue reading to find out more and see a gameplay trailer.
Hello I am King Toko and welcome to my Minecraft Diary. With the popularity of Minecraft and because I only just bought the game recently, I thought it be fun to do a regular diary based on my on going adventures and tribulations in the randomly created world I decided to call Avalon. I chose this name for no obvious reason just randomly.
My diary days will be based on Minecraft’s in-game days and I will try to keep the writing to a minimum, to keep up the pace.
Other important information; I am playing alone and on the hardest difficulty. If I die that’s it, game over and the world gets nuked. Also im not using any texture packs, skins or mods so the game will be played how intended, untouched.
One final note I’m no Minecraft veteran but I know enough.
Continue Reading to read my Minecraft Survival Diary.
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Hello I am King Toko and welcome to my Minecraft Diary. With the popularity of Minecraft and because I only just bought the game recently, I thought it be fun to do a regular diary based on my on going adventures and tribulations in the randomly created world I decided to call Avalon. I chose this name for no obvious reason just randomly.
My diary days will be based on Minecraft’s in-game days and I will try to keep the writing to a minimum, to keep up the pace.
Other important information; I am playing alone and on the hardest difficulty. If I die that’s it, game over and the world gets nuked. Also im not using any texture packs, skins or mods so the game will be played how intended, untouched.
One final note I’m no Minecraft veteran but I know enough.
Continue Reading to read my Minecraft Survival Diary.
Continue reading “Minecraft Survival Diary, Day #1/4: Welcome to Avalon”
Notch has made a 4Mb demo for PC Gamer. You can get it here.
But most important of all you can now get 1.5 update that adds:
“More statistics and achievements will be added over time as we develop the game. They’re only stored locally at the moment, but we’ll slowly be rolling out online storing of achievements over time.” Says Notch.
Also since this update Notch has released some patches that should fix a lot of the bugs that some players might of being experiencing.
According to Notch the latest patch will be delayed until next week “There’s been significant feature creep (we’ve got powered rails now, and lightning hitting a pig will turn it into a zombie pigman), so we don’t have time to get it out this week.” So people waiting for the latest patch which includes weather, stats and achievements will have to wait a bit longer.
This video shows the upcoming 1.5 update, which should arrive this week. Notch says that the “rain and especially thunder is waaay too common in this test, for demo purposes.”
It’s good that Minecraft is becoming more involving. I really like the rain effects and the snow makes it hard to see in front of you which snow does in real life.
This November 11th Minecraft is finally released. On the same day as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has said that:
The version we deem as the “full version” won’t be very different at all from what the game was like a week ago, and we’ll keep adding features after the release as well, so it’s really more of a milestone when we finally get rid of the Beta label, and some kind of goal for us to work towards.
King Toko 