Weekly Snapshot 12w01a, What's To Come and Coming Soon...

Hi minecraftians,


Hope you're enjoying the new year! Minecraft looks like it has a lot of potential this year!


The first official update of 2012 is happening THIS MONTH! You can check out the latest updates by downloading the latest pre-release snapshot! This week:

• All new language translations
• Slightly smoothed colour transitions
• Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
• Reduced the randomness of the Enchantment Table
• Changed colour of the mob-spawning eggs to represent the mob they spawn more
• Added world-type options (either normal or super-flat)
• Made biomes slightly more varied (hills added in forests, beaches added)
• Removed the collision box from ladders
• Updated the fence gate collision box to align with fences

You can download the client and server options of the snapshot by going here!

So, what is to come this month for Minecraft? Well, Mojang have announced that the next version of Minecraft will be released this month. The Mojang team have also announced that the mod API is being worked on! They quoted:

We are currently still preparing work for the mod API. The API is going to take some time to implement properly, so we ask for patience :) Also, Jon is currently working on improving the AI for mobs to make it easier for us to add new behaviors. The first goal is to add breeding support to wolves, and then move on to more useful / interesting villagers.

So, it looks like Mojang have a lot of things planned this month! So, you may be thinking why I did this post? Well, to catch up with what I have to cover, and also to announce a new map I am going to be creating.

It will be a puzzle map, with a hint of parkour, but it will be mainly aimed around puzzle with quite a bit of redstone used. I have not yet started to make it, but I have thought of the storyline. This is all I can reveal, but I will be posting screenshots on here and also making a post of the full version on the Forums. The storyline is the basic 'facility' story, except the bad man is called Bob (:O), and he is your lifetime arch-enemy.

So, are you excited for Minecraft this month? Let us know in the comments!

Ciao,

Mariobros980