Minecraft News
News: Potions and Enchantments
Potions have been the interest of discussions lately - it was hinted that they would be made using a cauldron. Recent news, however, suggests that the above "brewing stand" would be used instead.
News: The Simpsons Opening in Minecraft
Did you guys catch this last night? The Simpsons kicked off their 23rd season with their classic opening recreated in Minecraft.
News: Are You HARDCORE?
Notch recently noted a possible end to the currently-frozen scoring system: experience orbs may begin counting towards a score total in the near future! The recent screenshot also reveals another likely addition, in the form of Hardcore Mode - death means world deletion. At the moment, Minecraft only offers item loss as a potential deterrent from death; the inclusion of an optional Hardcore Mode would certainly provide a new sense of danger and accomplishment to an already excellent game!
News: Breaking Redstone Limits
Redstone inventions are a staple of Minecraft, and computers designed with it have been a popular form of construction. User dudearent006 takes this to another level with this staggering creation - a highly advanced redstone computer! Featuring 150 bits of RAM, a 10-bit processor and a GPU advanced enough for its own topic, this mind-blowing creation has to be seen to be believed.
News: Minecraft World's Weekly Workshop: Music to My Ears
This Week's Workshop: Music To My Ears The heart of WonderHowTo's Minecraft World is, naturally, “How-To” and so in the spirit of all things tutorial and DIY we will be hosting a weekly workshop showcasing the best and newest tutorials, builds, and inspiring ideas. We hope to inspire creativity and create a place where the community can share ideas and practice skills, right here on our server.
News: New Character Screen Released
Jeb tweeted a new image recently, indicating some significant changes to the inventory - stats, possible bottles for potions and more! An earlier tweet seemed to support the potion theory, with a mention of a possible blindness potion. He seemed to indicate that the inventory/stat changes would not take effect in 1.9, however.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition Coming to Android Devices Sept 29th
Daniel Kaplan posted this video on his Twitter account, demonstrating the new Minecraft : Pocket Edition. He also announced that it would be available this Thursday. Who's going to download it?
News: 28 Weeks Later in Minecraft
28 Weeks Later in Minecraft took a team of 20 people 3 months to complete. Behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcByQV1i09M
BladeCraft: Bladerunner Recreated in Minecraft
Two wonderful, wonderful things converge! Minecraft Forum's rushone2009 introduces the Bladecraft Project, a melding of Blade Runner and Minecraft. The current texture pack and map downloads contain no adventure or goal, just exploring and discovering movie references. Download here.
News: Minecraft 1.8 Trailer
The official trailer for the 1.8 release. It's suppose to be released later this month right? I remember reading sept 18th somewhere.
News: Minecraft "Falling in love" Parody
CaptainSparklez brings us a parody of Usher'sDJ Got Us Fallin' In Love, with a decidedly humorous Minecraft twist! Clever fight (and dance) choreography, diamond mining (well not really), creepers and more await! Give it a look!
Portal 2 Minecraft: the Turret Opera
Catchy song is even catchier when reproduced in Minecraft. If you go to the YouTube page, you can download the MP3.
Minecraft Tutorial: Piston Tips & Tricks
Tell me if this is good; I didnt watch it yet
News: Minecraft Programmable Piano
Youtuber FVDisco has created a fully functioning, redstone, noteblock & piston-driven piano! If that wasn't amazing enough, it's also fully programmable! This video gives us a pre-made song to hear, then walks us through the process of setting up a song from scratch. Take a look!
News: Why You No Use Steam, Notch?
Notch's official explanation as to why Minecraft will not be available through Steam. Makes sense to me.
News: Length of Sprint Jump in Minecraft Beta 1.8
This brief video, uploaded by Jeb, shows the remarkable difference between a normal walking-speed jump, and a sprint-charged jump! The distance a player can jump is at least twice what it would be normally, which opens up a lot of navigation possibilities! Take a look!
Minecraft: Resonance Cascade
Now there are times when I just post a video because its cool, but this one here bought tears to my eyes. A mix of the two greatest games? WOOT.
News: Minecraft Parkour
YEAH!
News: Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release News
The 1.9 pre-release is out right now, download it here! Notch has also said that the 1.10 release will be coming soon, with even more Adventure-related updates. Enjoy!
News: Dance Dance Revolution
If you ever doubted the creative potential of Minecraft, there's something you need to watch. User longhornman99001 has successfully recreated a working version of Dance Dance Revolution in single player.
News: M. C. Escher's Gravity Defying Relativity Illusion Recreated in Minecraft
Minecraft never ceases to amaze, from programmable pianos to serial killers. But now someone has tackled M. C. Escher's famous Relativity lithograph from 1953 that depicts a world not bound by the normal laws of gravity. It's an amazing puzzle of a three-dimensional world trapped in a two-dimensional image. Bergenco's version does it justice.
News: Minecraft 1.8 Is Officially Out
The moment so many Minecrafters have been waiting for has finally occurred. Minecraft 1.8 is officially out. Thanks to SimonEM for pointing it out.
News: A Rundown of the New Features in Minecraft 1.8
Here's a noncomprehensive list of current features confirmed and experienced in Minecraft 1.8. If you have anything to add, please do so in the comment section below.
Projection Mapping Minecraft: Mining in the Real World
Have you guys seen this yet? Ben Purdy used projection mapping to create a "real life" Minecraft block. If you don't know what projection mapping is, it works like this:
News: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in Minecraft Note Blocks
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen done in Minecraft Note Blocks. Still trying to fathom making this! Just awesome!
News: Hans Lemurson's "Minecraft in Minecraft"
Hans Lemurson's "Minecraft in Minecraft" Redstone machine: "a small 2D Platformer type game where you can move around and modify the terrain. It's not truly Minecraft, but it's about as close as you can come with Redstone".
News: Scrolls Trailer
A trailer for Scrolls, an upcoming game from Mojang
News: Mini Minecraft Cake
From Etsy shop EeeBeeDee:
News: Minecraft 1.8 Demo
This one is much higher quality than the last video! Feature | Time
Minecraft Mod: Water Shader
Here's something amazingly beautiful: a full fledged water shader for Minecraft!
News: Statues
Our players make statues of us! <3
News: Rivers!
Here we can see the first released image of a game-generated river! It's a safe bet at the moment that it will face similar height restrictions as default water generation, but that may change in time - after all, we already have legitimately generated "waterfalls"!
News: Beautiful Minecraft Timelapse of a Giant Train Station
Uploaded by YouTube user FyreUK, a bunch of players on a shared server built a train station inspired by the architectural style of Penn Station. It took three days to build and includes: "4 courtyards, one main concourse and a HUGE underground arrivals and departures area to the various different areas on the server".
News: Would you buy this? Real life grass Minecraft cube
Via BoingBoing.
News: USB Minecraft portal
So someone took a ThinkGeek April Fool's Day joke and turned it into something real and awesome.
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