We’re bringing loads of new features to Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Skins! Fishing! Cool boats that support the transportation of wolves.
Skins? Sounds gross
Skins are the way you change the appearance of your Minecraft character. Instead of looking like Alex or Steve, you can roll with a different vibe, like a butcher, dog, or plumber. Skins are purely cosmetic – they don’t affect the way the game plays or give you any special abilities.
But… but… I don’t want to give you money!
That’s fine. There are a few ways to change your skin for free.
Upload a skin from the internet. Use a search engine or Minecraft skin website to find one, then upload it to Minecraft: Pocket Edition.
Create your own skin using the fantastic Minecraft: Skin Studio or your favourite piece of image editing software. Then upload it to Pocket Edition.
Use one of the free skins available in game.
I want to give you money!
Now we’re talking! Bundles of paid skins will also be available. Each pack will contain around 20 skins, and will cost $0.99/€0.79/£0.79. Our first two: City Folk and Town Folk have been designed by the talented, kind, and pixellated Army of Trolls. We’ll also give away a few free skins when each pack releases, just like on console.
I don’t want to change my skin!
That’s fine with us. We’re not going to push skins – free or paid – on our players, even though they’re super cool and you should probably get involved.
When is this happening?
We’re submitting our newest update to Pocket Edition this week. It’ll hit all versions of Pocket Edition once approved by our buddies at Apple, Android, and Windows Phone.
I don’t give a monkey’s about skins. Anything else?
Yes! The upcoming update brings loads more cool stuff. Here are some highlights from the changelog:
Multiple language support
Boats with space for two! Take your pet for a pleasant ride.
The ability to throw stuff from boats, including snowballs and eggs
Fishing! Now you can fish for fishies!
Squids!
Spider jockeys!
Cave Spiders!
Bats!
Adorable baby zombies!
Weird chicken jockeys!
Edible clownfish. Yum!
A fancy new World Edit screen so you can rename worlds, change game modes and do other things
Creative players can no longer be set on fire. Controversial
We’ve stopped cheeky chickens from walking on water
Animals can no longer breed without touching each other ooh err
Drinking milk now removes mob effects
Ridiculous amounts of bug fixes
More cool things that you should discover for yourself
That’s it for now, people.
Continue to have fun playing Pocket Edition, please. And have a nice day!
素晴らしい Minecraft: Skin Studio を使って自分のスキンを作ったり、きみのお気に入り画像をソフトウェアで編集して、ポケットディションにスキンをアップロード。
ゲーム内で無料のスキンのひとつを使うことができます。
僕は運営にお金をあげたいんだ！
では今度はその話をしましょう！課金スキンのバンドルも利用する事も出来ます。それぞれのパックには20個近くのスキンが入っていて、値段は 0.99ドル/0.79ユーロ（訳者注：今だと120円くらい）です。私たちの初めの二つのスキンは：City Folk（都会の人） と Town Folk（町の人）です。才能があり親切で酔っ払いの Army of Trolls によってデザインされています。 また、私たちはパックをリリースする時に、家庭用ゲーム機版のように、いくつかの無料スキンも配布する予定です。
We have been hard at work these last few months working on the new Pocket Edition version. Now we have released a beta version for you guys who has bought the game through Google Play.
Please make a backup of your existing worlds. You can find a small tutorial in the links below.
In order to be able to test the new update you will need:
Android device that can run Minecraft Pocket Edition.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition Android purchase from Google Play Store.
The app will be automatically downloaded and installed on your device. It can take a few days after joining the beta (and after we release an updated version) before you get it, please be patient.
Have fun and report any bugs you find. Please check the Known Bugs section before you post.
If you want to go back to 0.10.x, just leave the Google+ group and wait a little while for the game to revert.
You’ve bought Pocket Edition many, many times
君たちが Minecraft: Pocket Edition を何度も何度も購入していた件について
Everyone likes big numbers, right? I know I do. Here’s a stonker: 30,000,000! You good people have bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition over 30 million times. Thanks!
Let’s put that into perspective: if each Pocket Edition sale was an average sized dog, and you walked said dog every day with a retractable leash in moderate temperatures across uneven terrain, it would consume approximately 290,566,788^3 kj of energy. I know. It’s a big number.
To celebrate the sales milestone, we’re planning a question and answer session with the devs. It will be broadcast LIVE on the internet. And you get to supply the questions.
Hit this reddit thread and submit your query. We’ll pick the top-voted/least offensive ones and put them to the devs LIVE on air later this week. It’s going to be great. Get involved!
Windows phones just got significantly cooler. Now you can play Minecraft: Pocket Edition on the darn things! Hooray for Minecraft! Hooray for Windows phones! Hooray for portable gaming devices. Hooray for direct download links!
適当な訳
ハロー!
Windowsフォンがよりクールになりました。Minecraft: Pocket Edition で遊ぶ事が出来るようになりました！フレフレ、マイクラ！、フレフレ Windows フォン！フレフレ ポータブルゲーム。フレフレダウンロードリンク！(勝手な注釈：最後の辺はそんな雰囲気って言う程度で理解してもらうといいかと)
We just released MCPE 0.9.5, another bugfix version for 0.9. This time, it may or may not be the last, but we hope so!
We found and squashed many nasty bugs still hiding in the very fabric on the game, so 0.9 should be now quite stable. Here are the bugs we fixed:
– (Android) fixed a really nasty bunch of problems caused by locking the device like freezing, crashing, corrupting the world and more
– (Android) fixed a bad graphics corruption issue (missing chunks, corrupted chunks and animals) that happened when switching away from the game
– fixed chunks not loading in multiplayer when the client device is slower than the server
– fixed a crash when loading flat worlds after updating from 0.9.0/2
– fixed a possible server crash when a player disconnects from a multiplayer world
– fixed a possible crash or corruption when playing in multiplayer as a client
– Fixed Bryce Mesa biome, now they actually spawn!
– fixed fountains’ water in strongholds
– (Fire TV) fixed missing textures
And we made a few tweaks, too:
– Players that have been placed at extreme heights by the respawn bugs are now placed back at y=130
– (Android) the game doesn’t waste battery power and really stops rendering now when in the background
– not getting stuck anymore in the “Looking for Server” screen if the server is full
– animals are never despawned, again
April 28, 2013 の時点で10 million 売れたというニュース。10 million だから・・・。え？Pocket Editionって1000万本も売れてたらしい。Minecraft Pocket Edition は比較的最近発売されたので、発売時期を考えると PC 版よりも速いスピードで売れているような気がする。
10 million copies of Minecraft – Pocket Edition sold!
First, we are very happy to announce that Minecraft – Pocket Edition has sold more than 10 million copies as of yesterday. We are very thankful to all the support that we have gotten and people playing and talking about our game.
4gamer の記事によると、 1000万本売れたのは PC/Mac 版という事になっている。Mojang のページでは “we are very happy to announce that Minecraft – Pocket Edition has sold more than 10 million copies as of yesterday.” と書かれているので、ポケットエディションの話になっている気はするが、数字的におかしいので PC 版が1000万本の方が正しいのかも。
4gamer の記事は 2013/04/05 16:17 に書かれており、その時1000万本で、約1ヶ月後の2013/05/29現在は10,669,343 people have bought the game. となっており、約1067万本と67本更に増えている。まだまだ Minecraft の勢いは止まらなさそうだ。
As you may remember with the last update for Minecraft – Pocket Edition we started to introduce the “Survival” aspects of the game (health, mobs, day/night). We knew that the next aspect of the game needed crafting. So let me present: Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS). MATTIS will make crafting on the touch screens a breeze :)
First, fire up your inventory.
Click on Craft
Choose your category.
Choose the item you want to craft. DONE!
In addition to MATTIS we have also added more stuff:
Major version 0.2.0 (first survival update)
+ New mode! Choose between Survival and Creative mode when creating a map
+ New blocks; most notably doors, fences and fence gates
+ Added flying to Creative mode (double tap jump)
+ Added mobs; sheep and zombies being the first
+ Day and night in Survival mode, with monsters coming at night…
+ Gather resources from nature!
+ Tools for different purposes (digging, attacking.. shearing :))
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