Minecraft's Latest Update Is Huge, Took Ten Months to Make Related blogs Blogs you may like Trending on Related Blogs 5.4k people reading on Gawker 5k people reading on The Concourse 2.7k people reading on Deadspin Recommended by Related blogs Blogs you may like 77,842 András Neltz Pending approval Filed to:
Chickens, cows and pigs have been the only meat-giving animals in
Minecraft for a long time now, and, in one of the most welcome changes included in the game's latest big patch, they are now joined by sheep.
On October 25, 2009, sheep were added as passive, wool-giving mobs to the then-heavily-in-pre-alpha
Minecraft. Shortly after, pigs appeared in the game, and later on, in the game's alpha, they were joined by two other passive mobs, cows and chickens—eventually, all three got their own meat drops. The sheep, however, remained meatless.
So, with the
hunger management is that much easier thanks both to the addition of mutton, and the introduction of rabbits, which also drop meat (and probably make you feel more guilty when you cut them down).
Of course, new meat types is far from the only thing added in the Bountiful Update which, clocking in at
, is the longest-developed update the game has seen so far. There are several new block types, two new enemy mobs: the underwater Guardian and the teleporting Endermite, a new dungeon called the Ocean Monument, and a lot of additional features for the game's scripting engine, which lets mapmakers do much more with an unmodded Minecraft—like last week's , for example. You're the mayor, there's an advisor, and you control your very own city. It's…
, here's a list of major changes in 1.8:
Added Granite, Andesite, and Diorite stone blocks, with smooth versionsAdded Slime BlockAdded Iron TrapdoorAdded Prismarine and Sea Lantern blocksAdded the Ocean MonumentAdded Red SandstoneAdded BannersAdded Armor StandsAdded Coarse Dirt (dirt where grass won't grow)Added Guardian mobs, with item dropsAdded Endermite mobAdded Rabbits, with item dropsAdded Mutton and Cooked MuttonVillagers will harvest crops and plant new onesMossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftableChiseled Stone Bricks are now craftableDoors and fences now come in all wood type variantsSponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wetAdded a spectator game mode (game mode 3)Added one new achievementAdded Customized world typeAdded hidden Debug Mode world typeWorlds can now have a world barrierAdded @e target selector for Command BlocksAdded /blockdata commandAdded /clone commandAdded /execute commandAdded /fill commandAdded /particle commandAdded /testforblocks commandAdded /title commandAdded /trigger commandAdded /worldborder commandAdded /stats commandContainers can be locked in custom maps by using the Lock data tagAdded logAdminCommands, showDeathMessages, reducedDebugInfo, sendCommandFeedback, and randomTickSpeed game rulesAdded three new statisticsPlayer skins can now have double layers across the whole model, and left/right arms/legs can be edited independentlyAdded a new player model with smaller arms, and a new player skin called Alex?Added options for configuring what pieces of the skin that are visibleBlocks can now have custom visual variations in the resource packsMinecraft Realms now has an activity chart, so you can see who has been onlineMinecraft Realms now lets you upload your mapsDifficulty setting is saved per world, and can be locked if wantedEnchanting has been redone, now costs lapis lazuli in addition to enchantment levelsVillager trading has been rebalancedAnvil repairing has been rebalancedConsiderable faster client-side performanceMax render distance has been increased to 32 chunks (512 blocks)Adventure mode now prevents you from destroying blocks, unless your items have the CanDestroy data tagResource packs can now also define the shape of blocks and items, and not just their texturesScoreboards have been given a lot of new featuresTweaked the F3 debug screenBlock ID numbers (such as 1 for stone), are being replaced by ID names (such as minecraft:stone)Server list has been improvedA few minor changes to village and temple generationMob heads for players now show both skin layersButtons can now be placed on the ceilingLots and lots of other changesLOTS AND LOTS of other changesRemoved Herobrine
And, if you want to know more, the Minecraft Wiki has
, including the various bugfixes, of which there's almost four hundred.
This is one of Minecraft's biggest updates yet, so if you haven't looked at the game in a while, now might be a good time.
[Mojang]Questions? Comments? Contact the author of this post at andras-AT-kotaku-DOT-com. 155 155 Hosts of other popular chats