In the newest snapshot on top of various small things, 2 major things have been added to the game, fireworks and enchantment books. Let’s start with the fireworks.

(and for reasons involving trouble with my computers, the images will have been taken off other sites, sorry :p)

Obviously for decoration, fireworks are made by first making a firework star, this is where you decide what the firework’s colour and shape will be. By combining gunpowder with dye that makes a firework star of a certain colour,

Now as you can see this is a small ball, meaning it will leave a small explosion, but there are a lot of variations to this, these being:

different dyes making different coloured explosions,

adding a diamond adds a ‘trail’ effect

adding glowstone will add a ‘twinkle’ effect

adding a fire charge will give it a large explosion

a gold nugget gives it a star-shaped explosion

a feather gives it a burst explosion

and adding any sort of mob head such as a wither head…. well…. look for yourself

yeah. awesome.

Now to make the firework. Once you have your modified firework star you have to put it in a crafting table with a piece of paper and another gunpowder.

Now the more gunpowder you add the higher it will go into the air, be sure to do this if you are using the fireworks from far away.

These look amazing, soon sound will also be added to the fireworks to make it even better, until then have a merry Christmas or whatever else you may have if you are another religion and until then, make preparations for the end of the wo- i mean the new year, see ya!

woooooooo!

Of all the many adventure maps iv’e seen this is by far one of the best. 

The introduction for the map is:

A great darkness came to the city of Chronotide and struck at the Chrono Crystal. The energy shockwave shattered the surrounding buildings. The earth split and lava spewed to the surface. It caused chaos and devastation for the inhabitants of the city.In an act of preservation, the Chrono Crystal was activated, placing the cities inhabitants in temporal stasis so that they exist between time

For this map the goal is to restore the Chrono Crystal, how do you do this? By finding the 8 reactor cores. If you look around the main crystal you will set that a set of lights is lit up on a certain path, it will only be up for a little while so if you go down that certain path you will find a door had opened up, go down it through a portal and you will find through each portal a different challenge. This map can be played alone or with friends.

Here is a picture of the ruined city:

This map was made by, and therefore all credit goes to Vladimyr, it is a great map which can be downloaded here.

I hope you enjoy it and if you want, tell me about another great map and i will show it, hopefully in much better detail. See ya!

As of the newest update, the beacon block was added, and it is a real pain to get as well, for starters you will need a nether star which is obtained from killing a wither, so go on then.

This should only take an hour or so….

and once obtained you put the nether star in the centre of a crafting table with 5 glass and 3 obsidian, like so:

after that, you will get this odd-looking block

While it by itself does nothing, right-click on it and you will see this:

kind of empty, but the pyramids give a clue, try making a 9X9 base out of iron,emerald,gold or diamond blocks and put the beacon in the middle

Instantly a light will shine upwards and at night will glow brightly, this can be done with any of the four previously mentioned blocks, now lets look at it again

Two powers will have come up, speed and haste, you can activate one of them by putting an iron or gold ingot, emerald or diamond into the slot below and selecting the one you want then pressing the tick button, in dong so you have activate the beacon and from now on while in its radius you will move faster if you have speed or mine faster if you have haste, (the rate of which depends on the item you put in to activate) but see those other abilities? Next to the ones with a bigger pyramid? Yep you guessed it, get building!

The next base does not have to be made of the same material but does have to be exactly 5X5 squares long, and you cant miss a block  but you will get more abilities to choose from: Resistance, which makes you take less damage, and jump boost, which makes you jump higher.

Eventually you will get a 7X7 base

(This gives you the ability to deal more damage)

and finally, at a whopping 9X9 large base, you get this:

This monstrosity gives you access to all the abilities: including the final one, but what awesomeness could the last one possibly hold? Flying? Invincibility? Clones? Constant invisibility!?!?   

…..

What

Regeneration. So lets think about this for a second, a 9X9 block base would take 

729 raw materials, a 7X7, 441 a 5X5 225, and a 3X3 81

so you would need 1476 raw materials of either emerald, gold diamond or iron, to give you an ability only useful in survival mode…… GEE MOJANG HOW CONVENIENT THANK YOU.

But that aside that is all for now and if you want me to post something about minecraft, message me and i will do that soon, until next time, see ya! 

Added a new Anvil block for repairing, merging & naming items

• Three different damage states: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil, and Very Damaged Anvil.

Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings
Contains the old chat settings menu
Option for cape-owners to hide their capes ingame
Tweaks to debugging
F3+H now shows tool and armor durability on damaged items
Now shows which cardinal direction the player is facing on the f value
The pie chart on the F3 overlay is now shown when opening it using shift+F3 instead of vice versa
Mobs no longer forget that they are aggressive against a player in Creative mode after a few seconds anymore
Creepers now can have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags (ExplosionRadius & Fuse)
Effects given by the Beacon will be less intrusive on the screen
Level-up sound now only plays every 5 levels
Gaining experience from breeding animals.

Go here to download it!

New pictures have been surfacing, they show of tools being repaired in a certain way, (even though they can be repaired already) But these pictures show something even better, take a look!

So according to this you will be able to mix enchantments, and repair your tools at the same time!……. how many diamonds is THIS going to cost?????? Well only time will tell, until next time, see ya!

Heeeey sorry i haven’t done anything about redstone in…. a looooong time…. but here it is! More traps!

Trap number one is of my own design, I call it the fake house trap, you will need 2 pistons (be prepared to lose them) 1 block of tnt, a door, torch, 2 pieces of smoothstone and some redstone (it can differ depending on how you wire it though so carry at least 20 for this trap) 

This trap is good if you have lots of nosey people on a server who can’t stay out of you hose, firstly you will need to dig out a 3 block long and 2 wide hole, with another 3 block wide tunnel going left at the seco- you know what just look at the diagram

Now normally this would all be covered, and make sure when you do make it it is covered by a hard substance, (anything but obsidian) next place a pressure plate as shown (just so you know where the redstone will be triggered) and dig out a bit more so you have room for the redstone.

in the end i did have to dig out a bit more, but all you have to do is make sure the pressure plate will trigger both pistons and the same time, the pistons are stacked on each other and will be used to push stone behind the player.

Now at this point it is starting to look quite obvious, but dont worry thats only so i

could show you how to make it, inside you can easily place dirt to hide the redstone, like so.

Don’t forget above the trap either, but don’t go to too much trouble, it’s only going to blow up anyway.

now in front of the two pistons place the two cooked stone, this will make it all look natural….. but does it really? i mean look…. you can see the pressure plate and tnt right? Well that’s where the house part comes in.

Place a door, torch or anything else you want that is cheap and wont trigger the tnt, and voilà!

To you it is a trap, to a greifer it is a raiding opportunity!… or so they think.

So let’s pretend I’m a griefer

Hey hey hey! A house for me to steal from >:D

Hahaha gotta be quick gotta…..

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH TNT! OH CRAP IT’S LIGHTED!

WHERE’ED THE DOOR GO!?!?!!? AAAHHHHHRRRG!

Boom, this trap takes up little space and is quite effective, just make sure you don’t step on the pressure plate in the process.

Trap 2: Lava corridor.

OK so….. This one is going to be quite hard to follow, so sorry about that, but Im going to try my best.

First things first, do you have someone always stealing your ores? Well fret not! this one will put them in their place!

firstly, dig out a corridor, (obviously)

There has to be some ore at the end, you can find some ore and build the trap around it or you can use the silk touch enchantment to pick up some ores, next place a redstone torch behind one of the ores and get it to run along the top edge of the corridor, once again how bit this trap is and how you wire it is all up to you but i still do have the basics in doing it.

Now this sky view shows the gist of it, place a redstone torch on the back of the ore so the miner can’t see it, then hook it up on a system of redstone (I used the other two redstone torches to make the line go longer) Like the previous trap you have to make the both pistons triggered by the same redstone current, but this time they are facing longways, make sure the pistons are always triggered, only become not triggered when the torch is broken.

Next put some stone around the triggered pistons with lava, like this:

Now you can seal up the whole area (be sure not to disconnect the redstone path) and make the corridor look like a corridor again, and make sure your trap is not visible from the top, but when sealing up the corridor make sure there is a two gap space below your pistons outstretched arm that lead a hole to the corridor, but if you can try to make it unseen.

All you have to do is set up the ore and your done.

Thanks for putting up with that, i am hoping to get a special program that will help me do things like this, but it all depends really, anyway so let’s pretend I’m a miner.

Lalalala mining mining……

DIAMONDS!!!!!!!!

DIAMONDS!!!!!…… Wait what was that sound?

Redstone?…… i think i should leave now…..

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Now this trap will burn your victims items and the ores…. but it can be used over and over again! All you have to do is stop the lava flow, replace the redstone torch, repeat.

Well that’s all for now, sorry if this was really hard to follow, I will make it easier to follow next time, if you want me to do a certain trap message me and i will do it, and until then may you diamonds never burn, see ya!

Time for the final instalment of my posts about biomes, with the elusive mushroom biomes and the expansive ocean biomes.

Well, time for the rarest of them all.

Mushroom biomes. 

Yep, these are the one and only mushroom biomes, although really they should just be called islands, as… well… that’s what they really are, and they come in all shapes…

and sizes…

And though these are the rarest biomes, their natural flora are less than spectacular. As you can see there are mushrooms (well no crap) but only in this biome can they spawn large naturally. Also, on these islands is the weird dirt mycelium, this grey-brown dirt has , is you look closely, small spores constantly coming out of the ground.

While cool, this dirt is useless as if you do obtain some, it takes over all dirt and you cannot plant trees on them, so this dirt is best left on the island.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that mycelium does have a use, you can plant mushrooms on them even if the light level is high, because if the light level is too high you cannot usually plant mushrooms on anything,

thank you, sanandreasp for pointing that out for me!

But what this  island is best for is the fauna.

Meet the elusive mooshroom, these are terrifyingly awesome cows that have been taken over by mushrooms, however they do much more than just normal cows, as well as dropping beef and leather, if you use shears on them they drop mushrooms,as well as turn back to normal cows

Awesome, who wants steak in a mushroom sauce?

But thats not all, as well as getting milk from them right-clicking on them with an empty wooden bowel you will give you delicious mushroom soup

wait….. so milk comes from the udders… where does the soup come from? o.o

What’s good about this biome: FOOOOOOOOOOOD Seriously these mooshrooms are a one-animal buffet. 

What this biome is not good for: ANYTHING ELSE. These are usually very tiny islands with no trees to make tools from, and seeing that they are in ocean biomes (just wait a minute) there will almost certainly be no trees around for a while.

My overview: Awesome, that is, if you are already prepared, have a normal island near by and can actually find one as they are very hard to find.

My overall rating? 5/10 Now finally…

Ocean biome:

Now if you have never made a new minecraft world, found a river and sailed a boat down it I suggest you try it, because it is very fun, ocean biomes however, are not. You want to know what an ocean biome is? THIS

AND NOTHING ELSE

These biomes are huge and pretty much empty, save for one thing, mushroom biomes, and islands. That’s right you can find your very own survival island :D! Even i have found one once, a small island, grass, one tree and two blocks under a ravine, but the problem is… well… trees, yeaaaah.

Because of the way these biomes are structured there are barely ever any trees, and sometimes you may be sailing for 5 minutes until you find any land at all.

So… What’s this biome good for?

Squids.

yay.

What this biome is not good for: Trees, food, caves, fun. If you can, swim until you find anything else, though it can be quite interesting to try surviving on an island.

Overveiw: This biome is quite bad, just go anywhere at all, seriously…… my overall rating? 1/10                        

…….. that is, anywhere except of course for TAAAAAAAAAIGAAAAAAAS!

Well I hope you enjoyed this little mini-series of posts I was doing, I will do my next post hopefully continuing from my redstone posts on traps, until then, may your boats never crash, see ya!

Two new mobs have been added and can be seen in the newest snapshot.

(you can download the snapshot here)

What does this snapshot have in it? Well, as well as lots of other things, BATS AND WITCHES! :D Why am i so exited? because these to mobs each have something brand-new that has never been seen in minecraft. Let’s start with the bats!

Bats:

Daaaaw look cute widdle bats!

They are so cute but unfortunately do nothing, well, that is unless you count the fact that they are one of the very very very first non-boss mob to fly!

Now you might think that this is not really a big deal after realizing that the ender dragon was the real first mob to fly, but that was its gimmick. The ender dragon was mostly difficult to beat because of the fact that it could fly, but these guys (so far) are passive, and do not harm you……. however….. don’t be fooled by this picture, bats only spawn in caves, and don’t drop anything.

Oh yeah, TOO THE BAT-CAVE >:D

So while that’s all good….. there isn’t much room to fly in a cave, but who knows, their may even be birds later! (no chickens don’t count)

On to the next, more aggressive, mob

Witches:

 Flash-lights off!!!…. well, actually not this time. Witches are cool new enemies that look like evil testificates…. well, because they are.

They laughed at my nose, i laughed at their funerals.

These guys, as well as being evil pack quite a punch. Their main attack it not to charge at you but instead throw potions at you. These potions include poison, weakness, damage and slowness. They themselves are also immune to potions and when low on health, will drink a potion of healing, making for one tough battle!

Killing them may result in them dropping a potion of instant health of fire resistance, however they do not spawn naturally yet and can only be spawned with spawn eggs.

Well that’s all for now, i will make another update VERY soon, as i am on school holidays! FINALLY. So many tests….. but i should be able to post more regularly for the next two weeks, until next time then, see ya! 

Ok sorry this took so long but here is the next part of the update that is soon to come out, along with a lot more about the wither! Firstly though, some decorations…

Flower pots:

Yes that’s right now you can put plants in pots GENIUS!

Well at least there’s another use for clay ;)

After crafting these you can then place them on the ground and put all matter of plants in them, such as flower and cacti.

Well isn’t that just wonderful? Remember to get your wife one next valentines day!

Now you may be wondering what those are in the background, well those awesome things are called  item frames.

After making these you can place them on walls and put any object in them to display them. This can be good for showing off, or showing what is in a chest.

You can even display maps, clocks and compasses in them!

That can be VERY useful if you want a nice way to display the time.

Now you’ve had fences before, but have they ever caught fire? They have for me, and trust me it sure is annoying to not have any fences and you keep getting animals caught in your lava pit, or if you trip, that is also bad.

Well fear no more! Say hello to the cobblestone fence!

using these you can make a fence that will not burn and looks rather nice

Take THAT sheep >:D

And for all you people who want a better more natural look, they also come in tghe mossy variety!

Now as mentioned in a previous post, the wither is an incredibly fearsome mob, but now it has been released how to fight it and what you get from it. Firstly, this amazingly tough boss does not appear for free. You have to build it. No. Really.

You ACTUALLY HAVE TO MAKE IT YOURSELF the most toughest boss in the game. Typical. In order to make it you are going to have to get three wither heads, these are dropped from a new mob the wither skeleton. Oh yeah, and it’s big.

Yikes, well good luck with that.

These skeletons only spawn in nether dungeons and do always have a stone sword and do damage with it, however they also spawn with normal skeletons and do not always drop wither skulls. In fact they only have a 1/40 chance of dropping it, wonderful. Other than that they also drop bones, coal and occasionally their sword. But when you do get three wither heads you will also need 4 soul sand blocks, then you need to arrange them like this:

Then, apart from running away, READY YOUR WEAPONS >:D

After a long, hard battle you will receive a nether star. dun dun dun duuun :)

But what does that do? Well you’ll just have to wait and find out, see you next time and until then may you never sleep in the nether, see ya!

Well time for part 2 of the soon-to-not-be-just-a-new-update update, coming at you with colours and DEATH. Firstly though let’s see the less painful side of things, colouring your armour.

Dying your armour:

Now who doesn’t know leather armour? You can get it at the very start of your minecraft journey, it’s cheap easy and….. pointless…. unfortunately when you get iron armour you will pretty much forget all about leather armour as it is MUCH more durable and efficient, so the wonderful workers at Mojang did what they always do, they gave it another use, colouring it!

Well that’s just fabulous!

What is interesting though, as shown in the picture above, is that unlike dyeing wool you can die you armour with many different dyes to get literally hundreds of different colours, to bad the armour is still very easily breakable. 

Another quick little feature added with the dyeing is that if you have a cauldron that is filled with water you can click on it with your dyed armour to make it normal again.

Ready to fight? Time for the Wither:

First there was the ender dragon, which was an amazing boss, but now there is another? Meet the terrifyingly-oh-my-god-are-those-heads-for-arms-holy-crap new monster, the wither:

 It has three heads and they all want your soul.

The wither is the new boss coming to minecraft, though it cannot currently be fought or even spawned. This is probably one of the most absolutely horrifying creatures in minecraft simply y the way it looks- and fights. Firstly unlike the ender dragon it’s health bar only shows up when you look at it, meaning it could be right behind you and you may not even know it…… maybe. secondly is that it fires these….. errr… head-like exploding balls out of its’ other heads at you.

No it’s not a growth that is a head it’s shooting at you.

But, of course these do not just hit you, they explode upon contact. Like normal heads do. And when you are hit you are inflicted by the ‘wither’. This effect is similar to a potion effect, but what it does is annoying. It turns all your health bars black preventing you from seeing how much health you have left.

Well crap.

Now having 150 hearts would mean that it wouldn’t need to make it hard for you to heal right? Wrong. Say you run away from it (good luck by the way as it hovers and it very fast when in combat) now you need food? To bad as the wither attacks  all passive mobs, cows, pigs, sheep, so try to get close and get some food and you are dead. Secondly, your not stupid are you? Who does close range combat? Just shoot the wither with some arrows and he’ll be fine right? Hehe almost down to half his health and I haven’t taken a scratch, well I guess I’ll just keep doing this and not have to get my hands dirty right? Well that would be a good idea, if it wasn’t for the ….. well….you know, wither armour… OH COME ON!

Nah just keep shootin’ bro i’ll be just waitin’ here… no rush.

That’s right friggen armour, so what’s the good news? Good news: Once it gets the wither armour it can no longer fly, oh cool! So i can go up a hill and snipe i-

bad news: It’s immune to arrows. Of course.

So what now? You give up? Yeah that’s it go back to your home, you’ll be fine. Wait what’s that sound you say? It got in your house? Oh yeah, if your indoors it will eat its was no you. No, really. f***ing really. If needed it will eat out a 3x3 hol eat get to you, so the question isn’t so much as how you would fight this boss as why it is nearly friggen indestructible and will F*** YOU UP. But hey, have fun :D

so that’s all for now, and for the last time, just because I like this joke, have fun dyeing,t hen dying :D See ya!

Bonus:

Get leather armour

add colours

trade with noob

??????

Profit :D

 Noobs beware ;D