We have another SnapShot

Here’s the development snapshot of week 5, 2012! List of changes:

• Many mob-related bug fixes (and some new behaviors)
• Ocelots are easier to tame, and cats can be told to sit
• Many small bug fixes and tweaks
• Villagers will try to detect village houses and live in them
• Updated language files (now with 50% less profanities!)

Get the snapshot here:

• 12w05a Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w05a/minecraft.jar
• 12w05a Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w05a/minecraft_server.jar

If you havent downloaded Minecraft you can grab it here: www.minecraft.net/download

// jeb and jon

See the original post here.

It is good they have made taming Ocelots (Cats) easier, that would have saved @Mangler112 and myself a good 40mins.

See the Minecraft 12w04 videos here.

I managed to find a good video by the M1neTube going through some of the updates;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Also check out this crazy Flying Squid glitch;

Click here to view the embedded video.

In Other News…

Notch reminds us about the “mojang streaming making a game from scratch for charity” thing;

notch: Remember that “mojang streaming making a game from scratch for charity” thing I talked about before? We’re doing it Feb 17-19th!

Could be fun…

Daniel shows us the final Xbox cover art for Minecraft;

Kappische: The new cover art for Minecraft for xbox

Very nice Loving the colours.
I’m not sure if you guys are aware of @MinecraftTeachr, the guy who uses Minecraft to teach kids. Well he runs a site called MinecraftEdu.com (If you want to play Minecraft in your school check it out!) Anyway, I’m going off on tangent…

Basically these guys took it a step further and made a Minecraft super-science video;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Read more on Wired.com

And finally….

Notch was very lazy about his drink today

notch: I was too lazy to keep lifting my orange soda to my mouth, so I got a branch, trimmed it, and put the drink on top. It was fantastick.

miraclemans made him this infographic.

Some Late Additions

Some more bugs being fixed;

jeb_: Public announcement: @jonkagstrom has made doors much less glitchy Also, mobs will know if they’re open or closed

And a sneak peak at the next SnapShot from Daniel

kappische: Sneak peak of the new Minecraft update

Catch you soon guys.

#DoneyKebab

We have yet another snapshot! This one seemed to come up very quick.. I only just made a video showing 12w03a

This update adds Freaking Cats (Ocelot’s) .. haha

• New jungle-specific mob that can be tamed
• Skeletons have new AI and a few new behaviors
• Various minor bug fixes and changes
• Added an experience item to creative mode
• Added a flame item…
• Updated language files

Get the snapshot here:

• 12w04a Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w04a/minecraft.jar
• 12w04a Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w04a/minecraft_server.jar

If you haven’t downloaded Minecraft you can grab it here: www.minecraft.net/download

 You can read more about 12w04a on the Mojang blog.

Minecraft Forum also has some more information;

• Jungle Tree Saplings (thanks Minecraftman1)
• The textures for dispensers and saplings have been changed. (thanks Minecraftman1)
• If a 2×2 square of Jungle Tree Saplings is made and one is fertilized with bone meal, a huge tree is made (Thank you, Wolfrose88 via Minecraftman1)

The guys from the M1neTube attempted to tame/breed some Kitties;

Freaking Kitties Part 01;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Freaking Kitties Part 02;

Click here to view the embedded video.

How-To Tame And Breed Cats (Ocelots) In Minecraft;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Minecraft chick was very happy about the new Kitties!

minecraftchick: Yay!!!! Thank you to @jonkagstrom & @jeb_ for adding cats and KITTENS to the game!!!

minecraftchick: Hmmm looks like @jeb_ added his own cat to Minecraft. Notice the similarities?

Notch is also feeling unsure about the new AI of the Zombies;

notch: The zombies are creeping me out. They’re more intelligent than me! Feels wrong, man!

In other News….

Minecraft chick was sent an amazing picture by @WooonderCraft

minecraftchick: FINALLY someone sent me a package in Sweden! Amazingness by @WooonderCraft! YAY!

Notch is also asking people how they feel about them tracking the Minecraft logins. To gather data.

notch: Asking permission to add some tracking to Minecraft: notch.tumblr.com

We have no idea how you’re playing the Minecraft.
Right now, the only way we can figure out roughly what people are doing with the game is to track logins. Once you’re logged in, we have no idea what happens.

Looking like people don't mind so far.

notch: I’d rather not have it be an opt-in option, as most casual users would not activate it. But letting people turn it off, sure!

The Minecraft Lego project is also still moving forward.

LEGO + Minecraft model reaches next stage

carlmanneh: LEGO Version of Minecraft Is Seriously Going to Happen

Ok Guys.. Catch you soon

#DoneyKebab

Me again. With yet another Minecraft Snapshot.

I assume you all caught up on my Minecraft 1.1 post recently. That grouped all the Snapshots from before together. This is the first one since 1.1

I also assume you all noticed Minecraft.net and Mojang.com were down in protest of SOPA last week.

Check out my post on it here;

Mojang SOPA Protest

The guys did a little teasing befor the snapshot was released;

minecraftchick: I just saw the world’s CUTEST wolf babies in Minecraft!!! @jeb_ & @jonkagstrom are the best!

jeb_: Green jungle is green

jeb_: Jon (@jonkagstrom) wants to add jungle animals later, but they will not be included in today’s snapshot

PC Gamer did a little story on the Jungle Biome;

PC Gamer Minecraft Jungle Biome

Shortly after he released the Snapshot;

Time for the snapshot of week 3, 2012! List of changes, since 1.1 last week:
•    Ladders regained their collision box, and vines are climbable when they have a solid block behind them
•    Added jungle biome (requires a new world) with new tree and leaf types
•    Updated language files
•    Dispensers will place mobs instead of releasing the spawner egg
•    Zombies have new path-finding AI
•    Wolves have new AI and can be bred (when tame)

Get the snapshot here:
•    Minecraft 12w03a Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w03a/minecraft.jar
•    Minecraft 12w03a Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w03a/minecraft_server.jar

I must say the Jungle biome sounds amazing! Also the possibility of Monkeys! I wonder what they would do? Steal your stuff? The ability to fire mobs form dispensers is also going to be quite fun.. Imagine firing creepers Sssss. BOOM!

Well that about wraps it up for this Snapshot. If you want to check out the jungle you can watch my series here;

Minecraft Jungle Adventure Part 01 What A Lovely Cave HD;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Minecraft Jungle Adventure Part 02 The Flying Squid HD

Click here to view the embedded video.

Minecraft Jungle Adventure Part 03 Doney’s Stupid Steps HD

Click here to view the embedded video.

For now I leave you with this;

notch: Here's a terribly helpful infographic:

Catch you next time

#DoneyKebab

Welcome..

Well it seems Mojang are getting involved in the SOPA protests after all

 

No sane person can be for SOPA. I don’t know if we’re sane, but we are strongly, uncompromisingly against SOPA, and any similar laws. Sacrificing freedom of speech for the benefit of corporate profit is abominable and disgusting. — Notch

Tomorrow, January 18, we will close down www.minecraft.net, www.mojang.com and www.playcobalt.com in a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. Read more about the protest on reddit’s blog, Wikimedia Foundation, WordPress’ blog and Destructoid.

(Minecraft and Cobalt login servers will still be available.)

Info taken from the Mojang Blog

Mojang.com

Update 18th January

Minecraft.net is now down, along with Mojang.com. They both display the following message;

Check out http://www.minecraft.net here 

Wikipedia is also down;

Wikipedia SOPA Protest

If anyone is wondering WTF is SOPA (like me) then check out this video by TotalBiscuit;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Post SOPA Protest

Well as you know SOPA has been shelved.. SO that is a bonus,, We do need to stay aware and look out for PIPA.

Notch seems cool about it though;

notch: The SOPA protest downtime cost us $200,000 in “lost sales”. We should sue SOPA.

notch: Yes, it was a joke. Sales are higher than average today, so it seems like players just waited and bought it later. We didn’t lose that much.

notch: I was mocking the industry’s worry about “potential sales” and “lost income”, two made up fake concepts used to keep accountants busy.

Funny guy

Catch you soon

#DoneyKebab

Hello again.. Well we have a ‘proper’ release of Minecraft for you today (well last Thursday)

Jeb_: Was going to upload Minecraft 1.1, but first Bohemian Rhapsody singalong

Jeb tweeted the above along with this link;

http://mojang.com/2012/01/12/minecraft-1-1-update/

Read the full Minecraft 1.1 Update List (Above)

Below is a list of some of the added features:

- Bow Enchantments
- Golden Apple recipe
- New language translations.
- Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
- Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
- Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
- Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
- Removed collision box from ladders
- Sheep eat grass and regain their wool

Plus many bug fixes!

I know a lot of these features are already available in the Snapshots but it will be good to see them in an ‘Official Release’

The ability to spawn mobs is a really nice feature..

Download Minecraft 1.1 here;

Minecraft.net

The H.A.T. Films guys made a great Trailer for 1.1

Click here to view the embedded video.

The M1neTube guys also took a look at the Minecraft 1.1 Update;

Part 01 Apples & Ladders;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Part 02 Egg, Fire & Potions;

Click here to view the embedded video.

In Other News…

Jens has been working with translations some more.. It seems there is so much to do in this area!

jeb_: Getting correct letter and word order of Arabic text was hard, and alignment is still wrong:

And fixing bugs…

jeb_: Spending the day fixing bugs. Doors are weird because they have 5 bits of data put into 4 bits of memory with some coding tricks.

Also if you remember the Super-Flat worlds in the last Snapshot? Well when you turn on Generate-Structures;

jeb_: Just for fun, if you have "structures: on" you may find this in superflat worlds:

jeb_: Also added server property setting “generate-structures” to avoid that in multi-player

Notch was also very impressed with the work Jens has been doing on Minecraft;

notch: Oh my! @jeb_ showed me his tweaks to the biome generator. There are beaches now! And more hills! Very cool stuff!

In fact I expect these are in Minecraft 1.1

Well I think that is it for me..

Catch you soon

#DoneyKebab

What more? Here’s a short list.

- Make Tropico fit for the 21st century: Evolve the island from the Cold War era to modern times and even into the future

- 30 new buildings become available as time progresses, including condos, skyscrapers, Organic Ranches and Biofarms. Replace obsolete buildings with these modern and inspiring designs

- Upgrade old buildings to new variants — modernized apartment buildings, banks, museums and much more

- 10 new edicts allow even more control over your citizens’ lives. Block or limit citizens’ Internet use, create a police state or be a “good guy” and launch the Festival of Love edict

- New single player campaign comprised of 12 comprehensive scenario missions. Protect Tropico from unseen and sinister forces

The expansion releases March and will bleed your pocket a decent 1200 Microsoft Points, until then you can check out the teaser trailer released earlier below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Apart from announcing a heart-warming date for the game’s release, Namco Bandai is also boasting about the game’s 60fps 3DS WiFi battles and exchangeable ”Tekken Cards” through the game’s Street Pass features.

The strangest addition to Tekken 3D Prime Edition has to be the animated film Tekken: Blood Vengance that will be included on the game’s cartridge; a first for the system.

Source: Destructoid

On the XBLA front, gamers can pick up games like Renegade Ops for 800 Microsoft Points and After Burner Climax for 400 MS Points. As for PSN, Daytona USA and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 are available for $6.99, with discounts also placed on Renegade Ops and Sega Rally. Finally, on iOS most games including Chu Chu Rocket HD and Sonic Spinball are $0.99.

These deals will be available starting tomorrow through to January 2, 2012.

Source: Destructoid

Trophies, Achievements and all of that good stuff will also be included in the collection. There will be some unspecified “bonus content” as well.

Source: Joystiq

The game will star both Sora and Riku as they enter the “Sleeping Worlds” to become masters of the Keyblade. This adventure takes them to several Disney-inspired locations, including some new ones based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tron: Legacy.

Source: Joystiq