Minecraft news:

It's A Trap! (Animation)
CaptainSparklez put out a fairly humorous animation recently, featuring a guy trapped in bedrock. As usually happens with these things, there's a twist... Enjoy!$(".bbc_spoiler_show").click(function(e){$(this).next().children().css("display","blo...

London Burning!
To be fair, the fire was back in 1666. Always with the tiny details... In the video above, we get a bit of a preview on a joint project with build team Blockworks, Dragnoz, and the Museum of London, which features the great fire of London, and is...

Community Creations: Time's Up! (Animation)
Minecraft animator Blue Monkey (no relation to Winston) put together a clever "Overwatch characters in Minecraft" skit a little while back, and while it is short (it IS a short, after all), the skit is pretty funny! Featuring Overwatch's time-bendin...

MCPE/Win10: 0.15.3 Rolling Out!
It's time for another update to Pocket and Win10 Editions! There was a bit of a snag yesterday with the roll-out only going to Google Play users, but that should be cleared up. Updates for everyone! Each update brings MCPE/Win10 a little closer...

Story Mode: Episode 7 Out Soon!
Tuesday, July 26th - the day Episode 7 goes live around the world! Mojang Having barely escaped the murderous mansion-dwelling maniac in Episode 6, new and even weirder hazards await Jesse and the gang as they explore the Portal Hallway. Doo...

Command Blocks Confusing? Try This!
Highlight video by AntVenom Command blocks are great. They have so much power and versatility to change how Minecraft is played, from simple modifications to completely made-from-scratch games, and it seems like new, exciting things are being creat...

Community Creations: Flower;Corpse (Build)
Click the image to see the gallery It's one thing to recreate a city, or even a country - the base material is there, and only need be replicated - and quite another to create a large, artistic piece wholesale. While they are not very common these da...

Community Round-Table: The Future of Minecraft and Augmented Reality
One would be hard-pressed to find someone on Earth who hasn't at least heard of Pokemon GO by now. The popular app brings people out into the real world to hunt down Pokemon with their phones, capture gyms in their local area, and even meet other pe...

Community Creations: JSON Text Editor
FlyingPiMonster has developed a WYSIWYG text editor, usable inside Minecraft! Wait, what does that even mean? WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get," a style of editor that shows what will be displayed in the final post, work, o...

Project Malmo: How Minecraft is Helping Create Better AI
Katja Hofmann and Matthew Johnson, Project Malmo Minecraft has been stimulating minds and capturing human hearts for a number of years now. Until recently, it was only us, but given the current rate of advance for artificial intelligence, it was just...

Community Creations: Kuni No Tori (Timelapse Build)
Impressive builds are always fun to see, and even more fun to see get built in a timelapse! What is it about a structure going up like it's building itself that has such a broad appeal? Not everyone wants to see the structure go up - some people ...

Community Creations: Automated Tunnel Bore Machine (Vanilla)
Cubehamster and company have created something incredibly useful for any mining enthusiast: an automatic tunnel bore machine! While many such creations already exist in the modding world, few have attempted - successfully or otherwise - to make such...

The Minecraft Movie: What We Know So Far
A brief announcement was made last week about the upcoming Minecraft movie, which spurred a bit of discussion on what it is, when it comes out, and what was known about it. Information about the movie has been fairly limited up to this point, s...

Let's Play Pokemon (Thanks to 1.10)
Lots of people love Pokemon, and it's not hard to see why. Still, you already know all about Pokemon, so let's cut to the chase: someone has created both the game (Fire Red), and a Game Boy to play it on, and thanks to the new features of 1.10,...

Community Round-Table: What Is "Fun" In Minecraft?
Fun is such a strange thing. Depending on who you ask, fun in Minecraft can include hardcore combat, sprawling city-sized build projects, roleplaying games, brutally difficult survival, co-op with friends, trolling strangers, modded Minecraft, vanil...

Community Creations: "Would You Rather?" (Minigame)
SuperTrinity has once again created a pretty interesting mini-game, although this one isn't a test of your reflexes or slaying abilities. Would You Rather takes a different approach to competition, by pitting players against fellow players in a curi...

Community Creations: Destructive Worms (Mini-Game)
JustMrGarretto has produced a truly innovative mini-game inside Minecraft recently. Strongly drawing from games like Death Worm, Destructive Worms is exactly what it sounds like: eat all of the enemies as fast as possible, then face a gigantic ...

Community Creations: Custom Minecraft Computer Case
Redditor dproc made a pretty awesome custom computer case for his 6-year-old son, and it's pretty awesome! Even as nice as it is to look at, wouldn't it be cool to get one for yourself? How about building one for yourself? While dproc's...

"Block By Block" Has a New Site
What is Minecraft anyway? It's a sandbox game where you dig, build, and sometimes fight monsters! Wait, we already knew that... Block By Block is an initiative to engage communities in urban design, and and fund the implementation of public sp...

PS/Vita Updated to Version 1.28
Playstation/Vita players, the 1.28 is out, and should be fully distributed to every applicable region! Never one to fall behind, 4J keeps cranking out the goodness with update after update! 1.28 adds a number of features one would expect as it appro...

Desktop: 1.10.1 Now Available
There's totally nothing to that number. Please do not investigate it. 1.10 has been live for a bit, but the fixes keep coming. Your reports drive the engine of repair! Wait, that's not right. Engines get repaired...bad example. The main fo...

Mojang Guide Book "Survivor's Book of Secrets" Released
Books are not a typical staple of Minecraft, generally speaking. Online guides and direct assistance from friends have long made up the bulk of information-gathering the game, and that has not changed much over the years. Even so, some pretty awesom...

SethBling Presents: Redstone Door Counter (With Tutorial)
SethBling has been creating pure insanity in redstone form for years. It's honestly stunning that he can keep coming up with crazy new contraptions with such speed, to say nothing of how long he has been doing it. Today's tutorial video is no except...

Community Creations: Fragile Parkour (1.10)
Spotlight video by PrestonPlayz Parkour - I've talked about it off and on for years, and it's definitely one of my favorite Minecraft pastimes. When harder jumps and trickier courses reach their limit, someone will find a way to make them even...

Community Creations: DIY Light-Up Diamond Block
Imgur user bradwarm has posted a really interesting guide on how to make your own glowing diamond block! Well, it's more of a diamond-block panel, but that's neither here nor there. The guide includes measurements, materials, tools, and more. Are...