What do you think the Creators of Minecraft should do next?

What do you reckon Notch should add next to Minecraft? What would make it better, more interesting? Comment your ideas below and discuss!

From/ Holly :D

Mining Tips for Beginners (PC Only)

So, you have just got your new Minecraft PC game? And you're struggling to find resources? Well, here is a beginners guide to mining! Hope you find this useful!

• Before starting, collect lots and lots of wood.

It is an easy resource to collect and you can get loads within a few minutes. You will need to is craft sticks - which are useful for making new tools and torches. Make sure you have about 3-4 stacks before you begin mining.

• Turn peaceful mode on

This is advised for new people as the monsters inside the caves can kill you, and for a beginner, it'll be hard to kill them first. To turn peaceful on, press 'esc' and click the button that says either 'Easy', 'Medium' and 'Hard' until is turns to peaceful.

• Go in order of rarity

First, collect some stone, which is the normal grey stuff. Use a crafting table to make a stone pickaxe. Then, search the higher parts of caves for coal (the black stuff in the stone). After gaining about 64 coal, begin with iron (the orangeish stuff). After getting about half a stack, make an iron pickaxe. Now, you can explore deeper into the caves. You can find gold (the yellow stuff), diamond (the light blue stuff), lapis lazuli (the blue stuff) and redstone (the red stuff). With a diamond pickaxe, you can make a super strong pickaxe and mine obsidian.

• Watch out when digging up

Gravel could fall down and suffocate you! So move a little bit away when mining upward.

• Watch out for lava

Be very careful digging down, there is nearly always some lava lurking, especially near the bottom. Lava can kill you, so avoid it. It can be collected in a bucket though. If you escape lava quick enough and hurry into water, you'll probably live, but I wouldn't risk it!

When I think of more tips, I'll add!

Minecraft PC Update 1.6.1 Opinions

My Opinion

I assume that a lot of people like to share their opinions of things online and getting agreements and disagreements here and there. I got bored at home one night so I just decided to share my opinion of the most recent PC update with you guys.

There are good points. The horses are a good, speedy mode of transport and the donkeys are great for carrying supplies as you travel. The horses have clearly encouraged leads, which are very useful and are fun to take dogs on walks with. Also, the name tags are very useful. I thought the idea of sticking a spawn egg in an anvil was inconvenient in some ways because you couldn't name already-spawned animals or animals which were bred to be made. Some other minor features are alright too.

There are also bad points. Animals automatically come off their leads when left too long. Also, placing leads on and off fences can be agitating and sometimes meaning you have to lead all your animals again before they escape. This update can cause lag, requiring you to download an optimizer off the Internet or being forced into switching off most video settings.

In conclusion, the new update is pretty sick.

Your Opinions

Discussion time! Share your opinions about the new update on the comments. The best will be added to this post.

New Minecraft Update Officially Released!

Yey! New Minecraft update! Enjoy your horsies!

New Update (1.6) Information

The Horse Update will be officially released on Monday 1st July 2013. Check out this link from the Mojang website for more excellent information! https://mojang.com/2013/06/minecraft-1-6-pre-release/

Minecraft PC Update Coming Next Week!

As most of you would know, Minecraft PC 1.6 should be coming out any time soon. Wanna know what is in the update? Read on to find out! (All information has been taken from http://www.minecraftwiki.net/   - the best Minecraft wiki online!)

Mooey Stuff

• Resource pack system (replaced the texture pack system)
• New health boost effect command: /effect <playername> 21 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>
• Absorption effect command: /effect <playername> 22 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>
• /spreadplayers command - spread player from a certain point
• New gamerules (check out the Minecraft Wiki for more)
• When riding a mob, the mob's health is on the heads-up display
• Dismounting a mob is now the left shift (sneak key)

Features and Objects (the good stuff)

• Horses, donkeys and mules
• Horse armour
• Horse spawn egg
• Hay bale
• Lead
• Carpets
• Name tags
• Hardened clay
• Stained clay
• Block of coal

Changes

• Charcoal now has an individual texture to coal
• Lapis lazuli blocks retextured
• Saddles can also be used for horses
• Edits to the redstone comparator
• Golden apples require gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft
• Glistering melons now require 8 gold nuggets
• Edits to potions
• Spawn eggs work on water
• Chance that additional zombies will spawn if they are being hit/not looked at
• Zombies can now lock on to a player from a further distance
• Pigs now show their health bar when riding on it
• Villagers have sounds
• Spider have a chance to spawn with potion effects
• Deserts no longer contain water lakes
• Nether fortresses now contain chests

... and a whole lotta bug fixes! Once the update is released between Sunday 23rd June 2013 and Saturday 29th June 2013, I will add images to this blog post. Enjoy!

Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.7.0/0.7.1 Update!

I am sorry this post is a little late, but I will tell people anyway for people who haven't a clue what has happened in the most recent Pocket Edition update.

Features and Items

• Minecraft Realms
• Buckets (water, lava & milk)
• Cow, Sheep, Chicken and Pig Spawn Eggs
• Eggs
• Milk
• Cakes
• Chat
• Fire

Minor Edits

• New lava texture
• The destroying-blocks-circle is smaller
• Connecting players inventory is now saved on the server.
• Revamped menus
• The words 'Pocket Edition' have a slightly new look

Bug Fixes

• Dyes sometimes the wrong colour when held
• No water animation
• Bows aren't destroyed after taking maximum damage
• Can't enter seed on T-Mobile G2
• Incorrect torch placement
• Breaking a door destroys/duplicates it
• Crash when TNT blows up paintings
• Cannot see what seed is being entered
• D-pad too small to play
• Game crashed when signs were destroyed
• Furnace broken
• Messed up fire animation
• No eating animation
• Armour can't be removed
• Creating a Realm Server fails without displaying Error message
• GUI on sub 6 inch 1080p Phones.
• Milking cows in creative leaves a full bucket
• Losing milk buckets when crafting a cake
• You can't obtain water with a bucket with split-touch controls
• When you want to create a new map, it will open another map (that you have) while you slide down or up.

This update information can be found on http://www.minecraftwiki.net/ - the best Miencraft Wiki around!

New update 0.6.0/0.6.1!

New Features

• Signs
• Armour
• Baby animals
• Clouds
• Quartz
• Upside-down stairs
• Falling sand and gravel
• Stonecutter for stone and sand
• Colourful sheep