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Community Roundtable: Survival Challenges
Glasscore gallery by oddmimal Survival Mode - it is the default game mode for most Minecrafters, especially on their first time in the game. We have all done it at least once, if not many times: spawn in the world, go for wood, get coal and iron, you...

Dinnerbone Dual-Wielding Demo
Click the image for a video of dual-wielding action! Wee! Not much footage exists yet of the new dual-wielding mechanic coming in the 1.9 Combat Update, but every now and again, a new bit of goodness comes out to tease the senses! In the video above, D...

Snapshot "Soon", Not This Week
Many of you have been anxiously awaiting a snapshot for 1.9, and as luck would have it, the wait may soon be over. Dinnerbone recently revealed that a snapshot might be coming out next week, and with it, a look at many of the teased changes for what c...

Real-Life Robots Learn With Minecraft
A recent article revealed that Minecraft is helping real-world robots learn how to perform complex tasks! These robots are given simple in-game activities - in this case, moving a block of gold ore into a nearby furnace - without any instructions or c...

Community Creations: How2Parkour
Map-maker SuperTrinity recently came out with a handy new map for players looking to improve their Minecraft Parkour skills, appropriately named How2Parkour. It does exactly what it says on the tin: 25 maps of increasing parkour difficulty, which each...

Community Creations: The Better House
GuyKnownAsErik has put together a pretty clever animation/real-life hybrid video, following the adventures of a real-life player in the Minecraft world. He gathers food, resources, and builds homes much like a player would, until he meets one particul...

Community Roundtable: The End
Jeb has been playing around with the new mob, the Shulker, and this picture is one of the results: turning a bunch of Shulkers loose on a group of Blazes. As you can see, it is pure chaos, a massive battle raging between the two monster groups. One pa...

Docm77 Interviews Dinnerbone About 1.9 Update
Docm77 interviews Dinnerbone at Minecon 2015 about the 1.9 update! They talk about new mobs, pvp changes, how the new end dimension works and much more. Enjoy! Adding PvP-specific sound effects to enhance fighting, mostly for feedback purposes S...

1.9 Updates, Minecraft Win10 Edition, "Story Mode" Reveals
  Looking for a recap of revealed 1.9 features, Minecraft: Story Mode, and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edtiion? Look no further! We take a quick look at what to expect for the future, and it's looking pretty good!$(".bbc_spoiler_show").click(function(e)...

Day 2 Minecon: 1.9 Update Info!
The Future of Minecraft panel starts shortly, and we will be giving you all the info on the 1.9 update right here! Features, links, and more await. Prepare yourselves! 1.9 Info: The End: Ender Dragon fight to be massively overhauled, chan...

Day 1: Minecon is LIVE! - Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Minecraft: Story Mode Trailer
Watch events, panels, and more LIVE at the official livestream!   Highlights:   Opening Ceremony Minecraft Windows 10 Announced Telltale Games' "Minecraft: Story Mode" trailer reveal Minecon is now fully up and running! Highligh...

Day 1: Minecon is LIVE!
Watch events, panels, and more LIVE at the official livestream! Minecon is now fully up and running! Highlights from today (Day 1) will be posted right here, including 1.9 info, awesome panels, and more. Keep an eye open, there will be some big new...

Minecon 2015 Starts Tomorrow!
Minecon 2015 is starting tomorrow, and it's going to be crazy! If you are like me and can't attend, no worries! There will be a livestream straight from Mojang during the event, so you can come along without actually being there! Go to twitch....

ComputerCraftEdu: Learn Programming in Minecraft!
TeacherGaming (team behind MinecraftEdu) and Dan200 (creator of ComputerCraft) bring you a clever new way to learn programming and computational thinking in Minecraft. Players start with a tile-based interface to learn the fundamentals of programming ...

1.9 Snapshots Starting With Minecon
While 1.9 will not be seeing a full release at Minecon, Dinnerbone went on to say that snapshots would begin during (or shortly after) Minecon, something that will likely be a relief to many. One of the larger complaints by the community has been the ...

Minecon Capes (and 1.9 spoilers); Minecraft Meets LittleBigPlanet, & More
Every Minecon, a new cape is given to attendees. The image above shows them chronologically: 2011 Vegas, 2012 Paris, 2013 Orlando, and now, 2015 London! The new cape has a darker greenish-blue hue than the 2013 cape, and sports the iron golem's ever-w...

Telltale Games: "We've Got a Minecon Announcement"
Late last year, Telltale Games made an announcement about a story-driven Minecraft game, called Story Mode. The announcement wasn't especially detailed, though it did note some important deviations from Minecraft proper - it would not be an expansion ...

Community Roundtable: Combat Update
The big news on everyone's mind right now is the 1.9 Combat Update, with a tentative release date around Minecon next week. Still, what exactly is the Combat Update going to change? We already know about a lot of things changing in it, but speculation...

What is Coming in 1.9?
Will 1.9 come out at Minecon next week? It just might! Today, we take a look at known features, a few hinted features, and just a handful of speculation about the upcoming Combat Update!$(".bbc_spoiler_show").click(function(e){$(this).next().children(...

Looking at 1.9: Dual-Wielding Explored
Searge recently revealed some new 1.9 screenshots, this time highlighting some of the peculiar new possible mechanics possible with dual-wielding items! It's been known for a little while now that 1.9 would give players the ability to hold more than o...

Community Roundtable: The Theme of Minecraft
Every game has a theme of some kind. Batman games are dark, gritty, and full of punching in a quasi-modern setting. Zelda games are clearly fantasy-oriented, aiming more at magic than technology. Mass Effect points itself squarely at the sci-fi space ...

Uni Teaches Electrical Power, Cybersecurity with Minecraft
Players have, since redstone was introduced, compared it to electricity in many ways. Using certain items and blocks, it definitely resembles the structure of logic circuits and power currents in many ways. That being the case, using redstone to teach a...

Community Roundtable: Game, or Game Engine?
There has been some debate over the last few years about what Minecraft actually is. In short: is Minecraft a game, or an engine to create games with? On the one hand, Minecraft as a game seems obvious enough: there are things to do, stuff to craft...

SethBling Presents: Splatoon
Splatoon needs little introduction to anyone into the Wii U: A third-person shooter of sorts, that centers around characters known as "Inklings", beings that can transform between humanoid and squid forms, and hide or swim through colored in...

Minigame: Hot Potato
Hot Potato is a pretty straightforward mini-game: someone gets the potato, which explodes after a set amount of time. To pass it to other players, just smack them! The potato passes instantly, and it becomes very important to avoid the new potato-hold...