Minecraft revolves around one simple principal: survival. The game is split into day and night cycles. During the day, you spend time gathering resources, whether it be searching for ore, digging holes, fishing or planting crops. Night is spent either indoors, mining underground tunnels, building tools or running around outside being chased by monsters.
We covered WesterosCraft a few months back, but oh boy, how far it's come. The highly ambitious Minecraft recreation of the world of Game of Thrones is still very much a work in progress, but a lot of the important stuff like the absolutely stunning King's Landing above is more or less finished. When I first spotted this over on Reddit, I was in awe of the fact that the team behind the project had done all of this by hand. It's really quite a feat. Read More »
Here's the extent of my basketball lingo knowledge: "Pass me the rock!" I think I learned it from White Men Can't Jump. I'll have to brush up on my trash talk soon, because the hoops have made their way into Minecraft, as PCGamesN reports. Read More »
The world of Minecraft is anything but stagnant. The landscape itself is constantly shifting and evolving thanks to players and the random generator alike. Now, the individual blocks within that world are getting in on the act. As spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, Mojang's runaway hit now supports animated textures. Read More »
Christmas is usually when people take a couple of weeks off, down some eggnog, build snowmen in the yard and so on... but that's not the case for the Minecraft team, who are currently working on not one, but two (!) updates. The second, of course, was concocted as a way of getting the celebratory Christmas spirit in-game, through the form of fireworks. Read More »
You guys like to do stuff in Minecraft, right? Like, build cool things with Redstone? Yeah, I thought so. Fortunately, as GameSpot reports, the folks at Mojang know your creative intentions, and plan on addressing them in Update 1.5, which lays out a bunch of changes to Redstone, including day/night sensors, variable signal strengths, and a brand new capacitor block. Read More »
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