Pocket and Windows 10 get redstone! Bunnies! Doors!
Here’s the full changelog.
New Features
Redstone Circuits: Redstone Wire, Torch, Lamp, Levers, Buttons, Pressure plates, Tripwires, Trapped Chests and Detector Rails. Craft them all!
Cute, fluffy, crop-eating, bunnies
Desert temples
New types of wooden doors
Removed Features
Stonecutter (RIP)
Herobrine (RIP)
Tweaks
Redstone can be used to control doors, trapdoors, TNT and rails
Faster boats with improved handling
Increased item tooltip visibility time in Windows 10 Edition Beta
Stack count labels now use a bigger and more readable font
Slimes and Ghasts now actually spawn!
Hunger restored by food items now match the PC version
Flowers created by using Bone Meal on Grass now depend on the biome
Skeletons now run away from Wolves
Obsidian now breaks in 6.5 seconds rather than 3
Minecarts now stack on top of each other
Boats now stack
Beetroot soup now stacks
Fixed Curved Rail and Redstone behaviour
Improved Slime spawning
Block lag should be significantly reduced. Everything should feel more responsive now
Updated door textures all over the place
Even more Ghast and Slime spawning
Bug fixes
Mobs no longer suffocate in carpets (because that was kinda cruel)
Held items now look better in first-person mode
Loads of other bug fixes that are too boring to go into here
Whether you’re off to explore the mysteries of the desert or taking your first steps into the wonders of redstone engineering, I hope you have a jolly old time.
Watch the Pocket Edition devs go on a spooky journey
Hello!
Unless you’ve been hiding under a cobblestone block for the past few weeks, you’ll be aware that redstone is coming to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and the Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta in the near future.
Redstone is a bit like Minecraft’s version of electrical circuitry. Though you can already make amazing builds in Minecraft: Pocket Edition and for Windows 10, redstone will provide opportunity to create actual devices, like rollercoasters, automated doors, and mob grinders. Players of the Java version of Minecraft have been using redstone for a long time now, and they’ve made things that even the cleverest of clever brains at Mojang couldn’t have predicted.
To show off just a few of the things that are possible with redstone, Shoghi and Daniel have taken on a spooky map created by our friends in Redmond, and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. Watch the video below. Please be nice in the comments.
We’re getting closer to a release version of Minecraft 1.9 and this is another snapshot on our way to get there. In the coming weeks we will focus more on performance, stability and bug fixing.
If you want us to look into certain bugs with higher priority, vote for the most annoying bugs on our bug tracker to draw our attention to them.
Update: We’ve released a ‘b’ snapshot making End Crystals, End Rods and Tipped Arrows properly obtainable in Survival. In addition, it fixes numerous bugs and some crashes.
We’ve come a long way, but we’re finally approaching The End of the 1.9 snapshot series and are starting to work closer towards a full release.
We’ve now got almost all the features we wanted for 1.9 done and stable, with a few minor balancing and polishing tasks left to do. In the coming weeks we will focus more on performance, stability and bug fixing.
Notable changes:
Rebalanced loot found in generated chests (dungeons, for example)
Added new mechanic for respawning the Ender Dragon
New item: End Crystal. Currently drops from Skeletal Horses.
Re-rebalanced the golden apples.
Made the “buff bar” at the top of the screen properly respect hidden & ambient effects.
Made the new saturation -> food mechanic only apply when you’re not hungry
Fixed many bugs.
Bones and bone meals are now 50% cooler. No particliar reason why, they just are.
It seems that lots of you are having a great time on Minecraft: Story Mode – a narrative-driven game developed by Telltale Games and set in the world of Minecraft. That makes us very happy!
Well, prepare yourselves for even more enjoyment because Episode 2 – Assembly Required is now available for download on all platforms. That was quick, eh? Watch the trailer up there for a taste of what’s to come.
For more on Minecraft: Story Mode, check out the official website. It’s packed with fun info and cool animations.
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