Minecraft 1.1 is out!

Mojang have just released the latest update for Minecraft, bringing us up to Minecraft 1.1!

This update adds new features and makes a few tweaks to existing features, as well as the usual bug fixes.

Amongst the new features are bow enchantments, new recipes for golden apples, language settings, world type options, and for creative mode, spawn eggs.  Tweaks have been made to the biome generator too, meaning smoother transitions between different biomes.. beaches, smoother hills and so on.

Spawn eggs come in different colours to represent different mobs and villagers, and by placing one as you would any other block, this allows you to place mobs and villagers into your world.  Note that you will need to be on a mode other than ‘Peaceful’ for the hostile mobs to appear.

Dragons and Giants

Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim.. I’ve played nothing but this all weekend!

I was going to take a break for some Minecraft, since the new version is out and I wanted to work on my project.. but the CraftBukkit server itself has yet to be upgraded from 1.8.  I really should have checked on this before updating my client.. but I didn’t.. and now I either wait for the update, or go and backdate Minecraft to 1.8 again.. yeah.

Laziness won out this time, and I went back into Skyrim..

I was rather chuffed when my power attack caused my character to climb on the dragon’s head!  For some reason, I get an error from Steam when I try to upload this screenshot.. or the one of me balancing on tiptoes on his head as he dies..

Yesterday’s explorations took me to a Dwemer dungeon.. I loved the look of this place, though to be honest I loved the previous Dwemer ruins and dungeons too 🙂

Various other explorations brought me face-to-face with some giants.  I say face-to-face.. face-to-crotch would be more appropriate!

The one I met on the road didn’t seem to have any interest in attacking me, whether by glitch or design.. but I got into a very tough fight with one later.  At this point I’m finding a nice variation in the strength of enemies, with the Giant being a decent threat, but wolves and bandits being easy meat 🙂

Happy Minecraft Day!

Epic block-building creation / survival game Minecraft is now “finished”!

This is a strange thought, considering that we’ve been playing it for over a year now.. and stranger still when you consider that nothing is really going to change.. according to Notch, the team are still going to be adding to the game over the next year.

Therefore, rather than being excited that the game is “finished”, I’m just looking forward to the next update, with new mobs, breeding, and of course all the new items which I can use in my creative project.. despite not having actually launched the game all week thanks to Skyrim and real-life!