Minecraft news:

Snapshot Tomorrow? Possibly!
In case you haven't had a chance to check out the most recent snapshot from last week, now is a good time to catch up before tomorrow! Sethbling gives us a quick look at some of the bigger features from the last snapshot, including Elytra, boat change...

Minecraft Story Mode: Do You Enjoy It?
Story Mode has been out for a bit now, and has been well received by players! With a solid stable of celebrity voice-actors, and the strong storytelling background of Telltale Games, it holds its own with a fairly clever story, and interesting ga...

Mod Spotlight: Ships Mod!
The Ships Mod, by Cuchaz, has been in full swing for quite some time, but if you have not had a chance to check out this remarkable bit of engineering, it's definitely worth a look! The premise is simple: build a ship using blocks, then set sail on...

1.9 Nearly Feature-Complete, Says Dinnerbone
Dinnerbone said today that 1.9 feature development is close to wrapping up, ideally by the end of October! What this means is, before the intended deadline, every major feature planned for the 1.9 update should be in the update, though this does not m...

15w42a Ready for Testing!
Changelog notes by redstonehelper! Today is snapshot day! Just kidding. Wait...it actually is snapshot day? I suppose that means we have a changelog to show you! Of special note in today's changelog is vastly improved boat mechanics, and some pret...

1.9 Spoilers: New Ice Enchant?
Dinnerbone teased an image of a possible future enchant for 1.9 today, seen above. Two things seem to be suggested by the image: single-block thick ice might be more fragile in the future (though that isn't definitive), and it may be possible to encha...

Minecraft: Story Mode Livestream Event Tonight!
Minecraft: Story Mode premieres tomorrow, and quite a lot of people are anxiously awaiting it! Ready to jump into all-things-Story-Mode before the actual launch? Then tonight is your lucky night! Tune in Monday October 12th at 7pm PT/10pm ET to joi...

(Other) Things About Minecraft You Might Not Know
A video series by cubfan135 touches on a lot neat tips and tricks players can use in Minecraft, some well known, others far more obscure but very useful! Even if you are - like me - a 4+ year veteran of mining and crafting, there are always ...

Squareknot Tutorials for Minecraft
Tutorials - we all use them, in one way or another, in Minecraft, whether to build new project ideas, to learn how to do certain tricks in game, or just to show how something is made. One tricky thing with creating a good tutorial is making it look go...

Snapshot 15w41b Ready for Testing: WINGS AND BOATS!
Patch notes compiled via Redstonehelper! Today's snapshot isn't like your regular snapshots, oh no. It comes with two awesome updates: Jeb's secret wing item, and boat fixes! BOAT FIXES! Okay, enough wasting time - what exactly is in today's snapshot? ...

New Flying in 1.9?
Flying in vanilla has been around as long as Creative mode, but it has always been the same strange sort of walk-flight. Essentially, normal running with an extra dimension. Jeb recently tweeted an image (seen above), followed by an implication o...

Community Creations: Vanilla Cutscene Generator (1.9)
Brought to us by The Redstone Scientist, this pure vanilla (1.9 snapshot, curreently) series of commands lets you create clean, smooth, nice-looking cutscene camera movements! Incredibly useful for videos, this tool is also a huge boon for map-ma...

Community Creations: Head Soccer
If you enjoy Head Soccer, you'll probably love this Minecraft port of the game! Built entirely in vanilla for 1.8, this mini-game does a surprisingly good job of capturing the original game's feel, so far as Minecraft can manage it. Even if you have n...

Minecraft: Story Mode on the Horizon
The first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode is almost here! It’ll be available to download on October 13th which is less than two weeks away! Watch the trailer up there for a sneak peak of the action. Minecraft: Story Mode is an episod...

Snapshot 15w40b Ready for Testing!
Ready for today's snapshot? Too bad, because it's here! Mostly small changes and improvements, 15w40 is focused on cleaning up things for 1.9, including some improved mob behaviors, improvements to health regeneration, and other neat tweaks! "But w...

Short Film: "Quit Clowning Around" (Captain Sparklez)
Captain Sparklez holds auditions for clowns in the area, but all is not what it seems...It's hard to elaborate on this short without ruining the punchline, except to say "I didn't see THAT ending coming..." Enjoy!$(".bbc_spoiler_show").click(function(...

Community Creations: 360-Degree Video of Build Contest
Gazamo Network recently posted up a video of a 4-player build contest. By itself, this might be interesting enough, but this particular video uses one of Youtube's newest and neatest features - the ability to post an interactive, 360-degree video! Whi...

Oculus Rift Launches in Spring, Will Include Minecraft
While details are few and far between at the moment, it has been confirmed that Minecraft will be packaged with the Oculus Rift - a virtual reality headset currently in development - when the headset hits the market in Spring of 2016. The Oculus Ri...

Community Roundtable: Boats
Boats. They have been a part of Minecraft since Alpha 1.0.2, but they have changed little since they were added to the desktop version. Pocket Edition has seen some variation, with oars and new wooden models, but functionally, boats are almost exactly...

PS: Minecraft 1.20 Out Now!
A minor update for Playstation 3, 4, and Vita is rolling out today! Available in some areas already, it is expected to be fully distributed before the end of the day. While this update is small, consisting mainly of bugfixes and an admittedly pretty c...

Snapshot 15w39b Ready for Testing!
Today's snapshot mainly focuses on fixes, which is a good sign! Bugs squashed are bugs no more. Here is what to expect! CHANGELOG Performance improvements Nearby chunks were rendered on main thread, will now only be rendered in main thr...

Community Creations: How Big is Minecraft?
Happy Saturday! Today, we join Mike Ridolfi in a surprisingly analytical look at exactly how large Minecraft is, in every sense of the word. Enjoy, and have a good weekend!$(".bbc_spoiler_show").click(function(e){$(this).next().children().cs...

Community Creations: The Nine Realms
The Nine Realms: at first glance, it seems like any other large-scale Minecraft build. However, the project's lead, Adam Clarke, explains exactly what it is, and it's much more than a mere build: The Nine Realms is a large, global combined art...

Minecraft: Story Mode Launch Date: October 13th
The first Episode of Minecraft: Story Mode will be released on Tuesday October 13th this year. It’ll be called “The Order of The Stone”, and it will be on pretty much every major platform ever! One really neat feature is that players...

Snapshot 15w38a Ready for Testing!
Today's snapshot focuses a bit more on mob combat than player combat! As seen above, skeletal riders are now a thing, and they are terrifying! As if it wasn't bad enough that skeletons use aimbots, now they can chase you on horseback too! CHAN...