Swimming Bird – Minecraft News: 1.7 Sky Cliffs, Biome Changes, New Trees, Fishing Overhaul, PS3/PS4 Release

Broadcasting from our new news studio with state-of-the-art piranha plant protection to your computer or mobile device this is minecraft news hello and welcome to minecraft news bringing you the most news for your views i’m adam EK swim bird filling in for frank farter and here is the news now we’ve got a ton

Of 1.7 news to talk about including a huge blog post from Jeb today concerning the biome update but I will get to that in a minute we’re gonna go sequentially here so first up Jeb tweeted this big question before heading to Game Developers Conference Europe GDC Europe should I

Separate flowers from flowering plants that means the Rose would get moved to replace and he clarified with this by saying for example all roses magically turn into red poppies and a new rose bushes at it this is because when he was talking to people on reddit he he

Mentioned that he doesn’t like how the rose is singular it should be a bush so he might change the red flower from rose to another flower and then we would get a separate rosebush item so that is possible that that could happen in the future now someone asked him about the

Pink flowers and the other plants coming in this update can we farm them using the example of lily pads as something that we can get naturally but we can’t actually farm them now JEP responded by saying I haven’t decided a hundred percent on this yet but I think I’ll use

The current system I you use bone meal and grass with the exception that the produced flowers will be fiim specific we’ll see so possibly if you use a bone meal and a certain biome you’ll get a biome specific plant to pop up now dinner bone was recently on the mind

Crack podcast and he talked about his fishing changes that he implemented so now we’re getting some specifics on these and these are really interesting he he mentioned that this isn’t something that you’ll want to do 24/7 but it’s not something you will avoid now like the current version of fishing

There will be 10 to 15 different items that you can pull up through fishing with tons and tons of possible variations he said the amount of variations on these is a huge number that he couldn’t even like fathom basically but some new types of fish are

Going to be added he did mention that they’re not yet but they will be added some other stuff you can get such as a garbage like boots of course that’s a fishing staple nametags they would be super rare but he said this will help with servers who

It’s very hard to get a name tag on a server because dungeons are quickly cleared out now you can also get fishing rods of different durability x’ like used old ones new ones and even enchanted ones that increase your success rate for fishing and also the

Time to get a nibble has changed he also mentioned lots of particles he’s not specific about this but maybe when you’re reeling it in the water will splash everywhere really cool that’s what I’m hoping and he doesn’t want to add sharks when one of the other the

People there at mentioned sharks but he said he maybe would like to add a Kraken so hopefully we get that in the ocean biome or something that’s been something that a lot of people have been wanting for a long time like a boss mob to spice spice up the oceans now dinnerbone

Tweeted this a super exciting screenshot at the options screen in 1.7 so far that I mentioned exciting also super and exciting now this is a you can’t get much from the screenshot other than the question mark meter there and a spoilers tag but this is also a possible feature

That I’m going to mention in a little bit I think we figured out what it is now this is a really cool screenshot here Jeb tweeted that he was testing level generator stuff probably testing the snow levels as you can see the snow is spawning because this is a very high

Kind of like sky floating almost looks like something from Avatar floating cliffs here and when Jeb made this notch actually asked him to keep this as an option as a way to generate our worlds and he says it’s really resource heavy though but the word has come down from notch so hopefully we

Will see this notch is not very involved with the direct development of Minecraft day more so it’s interesting that he had his own opinion about this now when Jeb got back to the office he said in case you missed it minecraft has been confirmed for ps3 and ps4 so this is big

News it’s not just gonna be on on computer and Xbox Live and notch also added and the PS Vita although I’m not actually sure the contacts are not their contracts are done so we’ll see how that goes but basically all the Sony system seems to be getting minecraft so that’s

Good news for people who are those consoles now Dinnerbone also tweeted this the new 1.7 select a resource pack screen now this is I think the feature they use hinting at earlier you can have multiple resource packs now and the top overrides the bottom easy to

Have both the Sam pack and a texture pack and to clarify this he showed this little gift here which shows how you can reorder the different resource packs now you should have one that you can use for texture you could either use one for everything or you could have one for

Just textures one for sound mix and match your resource packs as you want and someone also asked him with the with a little ordering here with these arrows could we get that for the server selection screen and he said well ok I’ll look into it but no promises

Because that little that thing would make it a lot easier to order your servers around in a bit of Minecraft Pocket Edition news before we get into the big biome news of today Jeb tweeted that Pocket Edition zero point seven point four has been submitted he hasn’t done anything with

It so you should think Johann Bernhard s’en and Tommaso chechi those are the Pocket Edition developers now I believe since Jeb kind of stepped down from messing with that one of the exclusive features that’s in Pocket Edition that is pretty interesting the hook gets added to the computer version is if you

Like creepers with a flint and steel it’ll cause them to explode which is kind of cool now on to Jeb’s mondo blog post accompanying this he had two images one showing biomes and one point six and then another showing the new biomes in 1.7 so you’d be able to see these as I

Go through here now these these images are also scaled sixteen thousand by twelve thousand or so blocks so you can see they’re way zoomed out so don’t be alarmed when you see the abrupt changes now here’s the highlights of Jeb’s blog post he said first there’s going to be

Huge changes to biome generation in the last time they’ve they’ve done this was going to be was the jungle biome in March 2012 now in order to avoid needing to change the world generator again in the near future we try to do as many changes now as possible so this is going

To be a major update three problems that they wanted to address with this update the oceans were too large the there was too much uneven random bio placement or bio emplacement sorry and not enough variation those were the major complaints that they got so here are their solutions now they’re gonna

Tweak to add more islands and checks to avoid huge oceans and if you see in the 1.7 image it does look very different a lot of these oceans now remember that the scale is super zoomed out but the oceans are way smaller than than 1.6 a lot of people were already complaining

Saying the oceans might be too small but as I mentioned like the the scale is huge so Jeb already responded to the same that a lot of these are still more than three thousand blocks wide so they will be big ocean still it’s just going to be less obnoxious ones but hopefully

We’ll still get some more ocean updates past this now the other tweaks he said for Maine biome categories he mentioned this before there’s gonna be biomes grouped by category so that same like you know biomes are gonna be close to each other and the four categories are

Snow covered cold medium and dry warm so we’ll probably see you know all the snowy biomes together we’ll see the calm or temperate ones and then the hotter like desert and probably Canyon biomes maybe even like volcanoes we’ll see that type of thing you might notice the little pink splotches on this picture

That’s just the mushroom biome now biomes will avoid getting placed next to a biome that’s too different from itself sometimes this still happens but it’s very rare now and not all over the place chip says and the last tweak here to fix some stuff we’ve added a whole bunch of

New biomes that most biomes and most volumes have uncommon rare variations that you may run into Plus we’ve also added a bunch of new terrain features such as new flowers and trees so this confirms that we’re getting new trees that might have been what Jeb was covering up in that sunflower picture if

You remember so maybe we’ll see the cherry blossom trees that were hinted before and some tweets button from the developers and this is just cool because instead of having all biomes be very similar we’re gonna have these weird uncommon rare variations that will make you want to explore and find all these

Weird little versions of biomes that have different quirks they also added that they’re not done yet so there’s a lot more to go we haven’t even gotten a snapshot so maybe one soon hopefully Dinnerbone did say they’re gonna try to put one out pretty soon and the last

Thing here is a little bit of news from dinnerbone an attempt to help alleviate a common request yes we have already re-implemented server–side server-side resource packs from 1.7 so don’t panic and the maximum size of the resource pack has also been increased to 50 megabytes so that should help people

Making custom resource packs and also it’ll make it a little easier if your server decides to use one so thank you guys for watching I know that was a ton of news this week but I’m very excited for 1.7 and it’s cool that we’re getting some clarification and some concrete

Stuff about what exactly is gonna be added even more so thanks for watching guys leave a like if you enjoyed this and I’ll see you next time for more minecraft news good bye