Yes, it’s true! In the near future you will be able to change your Minecraft in-game name.
When? When! When?!
We plan to make name changing available on February 4th.
What do I need to do this? Will it cost money?
The only thing you need is a Mojang account. If you currently sign in to Minecraft with an email address, you’re all good! Otherwise, you can migrate your old Minecraft account here. There are no other requirements, and it doesn’t cost any money.
It sounds good! Where can I do it?
Just head on over to your Mojang account page! Once the feature is made available you’ll see a “change” link next to your Minecraft name.
Can I steal somebody’s name? Can I call myself “Dinnerbone” too?
No. There is already somebody called Dinnerbone and names are still unique. You can’t have the same name as another player; they will have to change their name for you to be able to take it. 37 days after they change their name, the old one will become available.
What about all those unpaid usernames from so many years ago?
We will be freeing up all those old unpaid usernames when the new name changing feature is released. If you have an old unpaid name that you’d like to keep, there’s still time to buy it! Read this help article to learn how.
Can I change the capitalisation of my name?
Yes, you can!
Does this mean that I can pick a new name every day?
No. After changing your name you have to wait 30 days before you can do it again.
What if I change my name and then realise that I don’t like it? Can I change back to my old name? Yes, you can. You still have to wait the 30 days though.
If I ban a player “Foo” and he changes name to “Bar”, will he stay banned?
Yes. Same for whitelisted players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server.
How will this work with mods? What about my custom stuff on this one modded server?
Ask your mod maker/server owner. Mods should be able to support this system easily and most already do, but we aren’t responsible for mods or servers!
もし「Foo」という名前のプレイヤーを BAN して、彼が名前を「Bar」に変更した場合、彼はまだBANされたままになりますか？
はい。ホワイトリストやOPプレイヤーも同じです。彼らのインベントリー、ペット、スタッツ、そしてサーバーで持っている全てが維持されます。
どのようにMODと一緒にも機能しますか？MOD入りのサーバーで私のカスタムしたものはどうなりますか？
MODメーカー/サーバーのオーナーに尋ねてみてください。MOD はこのシステムを簡単にサポートする事ができるはずですし、ほとんどは既にされています。ただし、私たちは MOD やサーバーについては答える事が出来ません！
クリスマスで Mojang のブログにも急に投稿が増えていて少々ペースが遅くなってしまっているが、Skin Studio Encore に関する続報についての投稿。セールの期間が12月31日までというのが多かったので、一応まだセール期間中だと思う。
Win an Xbox One with Minecraft Skin Studio Encore
Hello again!
I just posted about Minecraft Skin Studio Encore, but I have even more exciting news to share. Design a festive skin using the app and you’ll be in with a chance of winning an Xbox One!
Here’s how the competition will work:
Submit a festive skin to Minecraft: Skin Studio Encore between December 22nd and January 5th. Include #xmas in the title!
Don’t forget to include #xmas in the title of your skin. That part is super important!
The more festive the skin, the better! Santas, Snowmen, Elves, Mince Pies, the lot.
All users can “Like” their favourite festive skin. Whoever gets the most likes by the 5th of January wins.
The winner of the competition gets an Xbox One and Minecraft: Xbox One Edition! Nice!
Terms & conditions and the full entry details will be available in-app.
Good luck everyone! Get creative and have a great holiday season!
適当な訳
またまた、こんにちわ!
Minecraft Skin Studio Encore について投稿したけど、よりエキサイティングなニュースを持ってきたんだ。アプリを使って、フェスティバル（お祝い用の）スキンをデザインすると、Xbox One が当たるチャンス！
Minecraft Seeds Pro has been updated! On-sale now!
Minecraft Seeds Pro – the best seed-sharing app ever developed – has just received a massive update. Even better, it’s $1.99 instead of $2.99 from today (it’s Christmas Eve in case you didn’t know), until the 29th of December!
Here’s what comes with the latest update:
Group PM, stay in touch with ALL your Minecraft friends directly through private messaging in the app! Follow your friends and let them follow you and you can PM each other directly and instantly directly from the app, without exchanging numbers or anything! Up to 10 users can PM in the same group!
Browse through thousands of awesome seeds and creations posted by other users! Get featured with your own!
Share your creations, post your favourite seeds and discuss cool forum topics with other Minecrafters. Connect and play with other players!
Get followed / follower others to stay updated on new awesome content posted by other users.
Customise your avatar and profile to your liking!
Much much more :)
The sale will be at 30% going from $2.99 to $1.99 – it’ll start the 24th of December and continue to the 29th.
To celebrate two years of skin sharing, Minecraft Skin Studio has been completely redesigned!
Since the release of Skin Studio over 900,000 skins have been created, almost 3,000,000 comments written, and over 2,500,000 likes cast. Not too shabby. A lot has changed in Minecraft since then too, so rather than patch the older version, the good people at 57digital have remade their app from the ground up.
A completely new user interface and easier to use editing system
Full support for both Steve & Alex
3D Previews everywhere – including while editing your skin!
Uses the new Minecraft API for importing a skin by username
Loads of advanced tools (including the much requested copy & paste!)
Over 900,000 community skins
The ability to submit your own creation to the community or download & modify!
Upload your skin to minecraft.net and change your skin for PC/Mac.
A trial version of Skin Studio is also available. Skin Studio Lite gives you the chance to design a full Minecraft Skin, but with slightly limited tools. It’s also worth pointing out that Skin Studio Pro users get the Encore upgrade for free! Just go to the updates tab on the app store.
Skin Studio のお試しバージョンも利用できます。Skin Studio Lite は全てのマインクラフトのスキンのデザインする事ができる少しだけ機能が限定されたバージョンです。Skin Studio Pro のユーザーが無料でアップグレードできる点もまた注目する価値があります。App ストアでアップデートタブへ行くだけです。
Just in time before the holidays, we have the pre-release for 1.8.2 ready. There are some bug fixes and performance tweaks we wanted to get out to you before most of us leave for vacation during the Christmas holidays.
As always, there are some bugs fixed:
[Bug MC-51573] – Hostile mobs continue to follow/attack you in spectator mode
[Bug MC-65697] – Explosion force on entities is directionally biased
[Bug MC-66089] – Explosion physics changed, range of some TNT cannons greatly reduced
Aside from bug fixes and performance increases this update includes cookies, milk and of course lots of hugs. Don’t open your gifts before Christmas!
The Minecraft team and everybody else at Mojang wish you happy holidays and a great transition into the new year!
Did you enjoy Info Quest II? I hope so. It took up a lot of resources.
In other news, we’re collaborating with Telltale Games to create Minecraft: Story Mode! Here are some bullet points to celebrate!
Minecraft: Story mode will be a narrative-driven video game created by Telltale Games. It will be about Minecraft.
Mojang is collaborating with Telltale and members of the community to make Minecraft: Story Mode as Minecrafty as possible.
The first episode will be released some time in 2015, and will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
Minecraft: Story Mode will be released episodically, just like The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, or the recent Tales from the Borderlands, which is another developer-collaboration series between Telltale Games and Gearbox Software.
We’re not intending on creating an “official” story for Steve, or explaining the world of Minecraft in detail. It will be a cool game.
The Minecraft 2 thing was a joke. No really. It was a joke.
マイクラのストーリーモードはエピソード風にリリースされる予定で、「The Wolf Among Us」や「ウォーキング・デッド(The Walking Dead)」、または最近の「ボーダーランズ(Tales from the Borderlands)」のように。「Tales from the Borderlands」は他のディベロッパー Telltale Games と Gearbox Software の間でコラボしたシリーズ。
Scrolls released on PC, Mac, and Android tablets!
Scrolls がPC、Mac、Android でリリース！
Scrolls – Mojang’s second game – has just been released on PC, Mac, and Android tablet.
Scrolls costs $5 but you can play the demo version for free! Wander over to scrolls.com and download it!
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