+ Bow Enchantments
+ New language translations.
+ Sheep eat grass and regain their wool
+ Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
+ Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
* Golden Apple recipe
* Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
* Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
* Removed collision box from ladders
* Bug fixing
Minecraft creator Notch working on sequel to – Shacknews.com
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson may have found his next inspiration. In a tweet today, the game designer said “Minicraft 2 is being worked on, for no good reason. It needs a better name, though.” Before you go getting all crazy, read that carefully. As Persson subsequently pointed out, that’s mini with an “i” on the end, not an “e” for mine. Minicraft is the game he created the weekend before Christmas as part of Ludum Dare 22. On his blog Notch described the game as “a Zelda-ish top down game with crafting influences from Minecraft.”
It could be argued that Minecraft was a 2010 release, but it just came out of beta in November, so we’re putting it on the list; anyway, it’s so great, it should be on the list every year. Minecraft isn’t a complex pitch: you’re in a very big, rather retro-looking low-res world. You can walk around, you can pick up things, and you can make other things out of them. While you’re doing this, various animals try to eat you. The end. The complexity comes from you: the Minecraft universe is so endlessly, pleasurably reconfigurable and customizable that it rewards you for the zillions of hours you sink into it by becoming a reflection of your imagination.