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News: Indie Game Music Bundle (Including Minecraft)

For those of you who love soundtracks (like me!), you're in for a treat. If you ever wanted to own or listen to C418's Minecraft soundtrack songs, it's now part of a bundle called the Indie Game Music Bundle! The bundle includes 10 DRM-free albums from indie game composers, including Minecraft! What could be better? Well, you get to decide how much you want to pay! Yes, really! As little as a buck.

News: Survival mode Confirmed for Minecraft Pocket Edition!

This is for you fans of the Minecraft Pocket Edition: survival mode has been announced! This has been one of the most requested changes wanted by players worldwide, and now its coming! We should also expect additions like crafting and mining which are, of course, integral to the survival experience. It will be interesting to see how these changes are integrated into these devices.

Crafting Blocks into Bricks: A Minecraft LEGO Diorama

Let's face it. Minecraft probably wouldn't exist today if not for LEGOs. They are fundamentally the same; building objects out of blocks. Only Minecraft has expanded on the idea, creating a world where nearly anything can be made. It's probably even more accurate to say that Minecraft is the digital embodiment of LEGO Mindstorms, thanks to all the working, moveable parts and ingenious in-game engineering that make Minecraft a functional, living world.

News: Minecraft World's Minecon Wrap-Up

Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Minecon 2011 went really well. If any of you World Members attended, please post about your experience to the community corkboard. The opening ceremony was amazing! Here's a video of the release: After the release, we attended the panels for Scrolls and Cobalt. We then attended the Official Mojang Panel.

News: 20 Amazing Minecraft Costumes at MineCon 2011

MineCon 2011 (held at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas) was in a word, awesome. The crowd was overwhelmingly young, the vibe was fun and nerdy, and best of all, the costumes were inspired. Below are my favorites, which unfortunately aren't of the best quality (lighting was low and super yellow, which wasn't helped much by my standard point-and-shoot). If you happened to attend Minecon as well, post about your experience to the community corkboard... if you're pictured below, please comment!

News: A Computer Game Inside Minecraft

Check out this truly incredible redstone mechanism by Users Rezz and Psycho_ewt! It's an automated redstone game with a twist. You control the interactive screen using a retro NES controller. Let us know what you think or if you'd like to see us reverse engineer it. This build contains:

News: Minecraft World Will Be at Minecon!

Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Hey Minecraft World, just a reminder that we will be at Minecon this year! It's fast approaching, in just a few hours we'll be talking to modders, builders, YouTubers, developers, miners and crafters and reporting back to you.

News: Minecraft World's Weekly Workshop: Mob Traps

Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Long ago some smart folks figured out how to make water, lava, and some blocks do the mob killing for them. More recently, with the addition of redstone, these mechanisms for resource collection have gotten rather complex.

News: Dragons!

It's still a work in progress, says Notch but here it is, a proper video of dragons in Minecraft. Notch also somewhat hinted that they would be compatible in SMP!! Time to go make a band of dragon slayers!