Minecraft 1.8 when is it out

Together, 1. Here's what to expect with Caves and Cliffs part 2 , along with the latest news on the Minecraft 1. Minecraft 1. This release will form part 2 of the Caves and Cliffs update, which was originally intended to be released as a whole with 1. But Mojang decided to split up Caves and Cliffs across two major updates, to give themselves more time to work on the monumental changes these releases will bring to Minecraft.

And I really do mean monumental. Caves and Cliffs part 1 added over 90 new block types; new creatures such as Glow Squid , Goats , and Axolotls ; and new tools such as Lightning Rods and Spyglasses. Caves and Cliffs part 2 will fundamentally change terrain generation in Minecraft and populate the deepest levels of the world with all sorts of new resources and oddities. Let's take a look at the highlights of the Minecraft 1. In Minecraft 1. You'll find all sorts of fascinating new cave structures in 1.

The all-new Deep Dark biome was going to be part of the Caves and Cliffs changes, but this biome has been delayed - along with its dangerous denizen, the Warden - to the release of Minecraft 1.

The terrain changes also mean you'll need to start looking elsewhere for Diamonds. Find out more with our guide on how to find Diamonds in Minecraft. Mountains in Minecraft 1. Instead of just having one or two "extreme hills" or "mountain" type biomes, there are now five new sub-biomes which make up the different layers of each mountain:.

Right now, we know that Minecraft 1. Minecraft Live is being hosted this week and this will be the perfect time for the Caves and Cliffs Part 2 release date to be announced. The team will have enough time to detail everything that will be included in Minecraft 1.

Mojang has already confirmed that the event will be filmed live and beamed across the world via the internet and packed with juicy Minecraft news. There will also be contributions from content creators and will include a pre-show and community vote to influence the game. Randomly generated towns will come with 1. The new Mineshafts come with 1. The creepy Endermen creatures drop diamonds, but that may change before the update releases.

New, more stable, lighting code is being implemented. Notch posted a blog entry yesterday, discussing his experience of playing the updated Minecraft version over the weekend and how it resulted in a few new things to implement in the updates: Hunting for food and noticing cows just standing around, waiting to be slaughtered, resulted in new improved AI so animals flee when attacked or when taking environmental damage.

Because of that code change, Notch came across a situation where a wolf was attacking a sheep and the sheep was attempting to run away and this gave rise to the idea of adding more specific and unique mob vs. A random tweet got Notch motivated to play with the the 3D model of the faces of pigs, which now has Notch working to correct how they model and code the mobs to better and easily animate, hopefully fixing visual bugs when it comes to some of the mobs see image up top.

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