Broadcasting from our super expensive state-of-the-art satellite that was recently eaten by a giant piranha plant to your computer or mobile device this is minecraft news hello and welcome to minecraft news it is monday september 3rd and i’m steve fillion for adam aka swingbird who is on location covering the rampant skin Server outages let’s get down to the news now first off dinner bone has announced that chickens will now be bred with seeds instead of wheat which is a minor change but seems a bit more fitting to the chickens another bit of news is that the mobs the skeletons zombies And zombie pigmen that would pick up your items and gear will now all drop all of them when they get killed so if you die near a zombie and he takes your armor and your sword if you kill him he will drop all of that again and all the Gear that they pick up so no need to worry about somebody stealing your well a monster stealing your gear and putting it on and not being able to get it back there’s a ton of news from pax there’s no snapshot this week or last week Because of pax but we did get a ton of news from a minecraft panel at pax where the developers talked about some of the things that they had planned for the future now first off the mob heads that jeb designed these decorations are going to actually be a Very rare drop from mobs it’s not just from skeletons as we’ve seen in the picture but it seems like every mob or most of them are going to drop their head as a very rare drop now this is going to be a cool decoration one thing i suggested to dinner bone on twitter Was that because uh this is going to be a halloween themed update mainly that the mob heads should be worn as masks and players could play pranks on one another by sneaking around and having these mob heads on so i think that would be really cool but right now they look like They’re just decorative blocks but you can still put them on item frames most likely so you can mount a mob head above your fireplace so another detail that was uh released at pax was that if you take three of these skeleton heads together these rare Drops and you’ll have to do some type of ritual or put them together in some way but this is going to be how you summon the wither which is also the official name of the new boss it is called the wither so you can summon the wither Pretty much anywhere or as many times as you like but you’re going to need three skeleton heads and whatever else they decide you’re going to have to do to summon it but it’s going to be the player summoning it instead of having to go to a certain location to find it Now the 1.4 update it was announced at the panel officially and dinnerbone pitched it there even that it’s going to be called the pretty scary update because first they were adding a lot of pretty things like decorative blocks and stuff but then they started adding some scary stuff because of the halloween Release that’s planned so it will be called the pretty scary update some news about minecraft on the xbox they plan that they’re going to diverge with their updates because the xbox version is always going to be about six months behind they say from the the Normal one that we’ve got on pc and mac so they’re going to try to diverge with their updates to have some different stuff so that people don’t always feel like they’re behind in them in the xbox one and maybe if those xbox updates work good they’ll Bring them over to the main game too so we’ll see but the development is going to split here soon it looks like now jeb did announce at the panel as well that there are no plans for any new dimension or terrain as of now such as the nether the end or the jungle Biome that we saw a lot of this is because adding a new dimension is very taxing to the game having the end and the nether in there already you know does enough to the performance and they also want to improve the nether in the end they’ve Said in the past so i think they’re going to focus on that before they would think about adding a new one but also jeb said there’s a lot of backlash whenever he adds one of these sorts of terrain changes because servers always have difficulties with them if They have an older map like you have to go out to a certain point to find jungles on older maps and there’s always a cut off and stuff so he thinks that the backlash and the the fact that it taxes the game is not worth adding the new stuff at least right now Now the mob the mod api which stands for application programming interface is being worked on now this is what allows mods to communicate with minecraft to actually work so this is something that’s been in in the works for a while but right now the plans are out of jeb and dinnerbones Hands because they’re being worked on by another minecraft developer named uh eric broes or grum is his uh his handle but he’s been working on that for a while and it’s going to take i think he said at least a month and a half more to Get that that done so in the meantime jeff and jinderbone have been working on new features but the mod api is in the works and isn’t that far off so soon we’re going to have a lot easier mod support and there’s some awesome mods out there so this is great news because Mods can do a lot to add to the game and if it’s easier for people to install it more people get to play this stuff some other news the adventure mode update is still a few months off right now the adventure mode is in the game but you Have to use like a command to change it and it’s very limited but they are planning more of an update for it it’s going to be different from the adventure update if you remember i believe that was 1.8 back in the past but the adventure mode update is going to allow The new game mode that you use for adventure maps where you can’t break blocks and such like that but they’re still working on that and that’s a few months off though and one last bit of news carrots and potatoes jeb has uh he brought this up when he was talking About new terrain now he added carrots and potatoes but he doesn’t know where they should they should be brought in because right now there’s no terrain that he would generate them in it would have to be you have to go out looking for new terrain to have them generated and Currently they’re only dropped by zombies but he plans on making the carrots and potatoes most likely farmed by villagers so if you go find a village instead of wheat they might be planting carrots and potatoes that is a good way to get them but still you’d Have to go off and find a new village to do this so this is what he was bringing up as an example of why it’s tough to add new features that alter the terrain and make players have to go explore more more stuff to find it although i find Exploration fun so who knows it might be better off in the long run alright so that’s all the news for today thanks for watching and if you found this informative and helpful please leave a like it helps me out very much next week hopefully or next time We will uh have a snapshot most likely and adam will be back so thanks for watching guys this is steve signing off goodbye you Video Information
This video, titled ‘Minecraft News: Pretty Scary Halloween Update, Wither Summoning, Mob Heads, & More in 1.4!’, was uploaded by Swimming Bird on 2012-09-03 23:05:47. It has garnered 35848 views and 460 likes. The duration of the video is 00:07:14 or 434 seconds.
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