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Yahoo
7 hours ago
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Time of India
12 hours ago
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- Time of India
All new features in Minecraft 1.21.100.23 preview explained
Image via Mojang Minecraft has recently confirmed its new and third game drop, 1.21.100.23, to be added later this year. Currently the developers are in the experimental phase where they have introduced a suite of experimental features, which aim to enhance the mechanics and gameplay experience of the players. The new experimental features include new mobs, recipes, and mechanics focused on copper. The update is currently available only for Bedrock Edition. This article previews all the features to come in Minecraft 1.21.100.23 version. All major features are coming in the Minecraft 1.21.100.23 update . Here are the following experimental features that are confirmed by Minecraft: 1. Copper Golem As copper is the main focus item for this game drop, Minecraft now has introduced Copper Golem, a player-made mob crafted with copper blocks and carved pumpkins. The main function of the Copper Golem is to transport items that players drop in the copper chest into the normal chest (item sorting). Upon killing one Copper Golem, it will drop 1–3 copper ingots. 2. Copper Chest It is a new block that will only appear when a player summons a Copper Golem. When players drop items into a Copper Chest, the Copper Golem automatically picks them up and sorts them in the nearby chest. Copper chests have 2 types of appearance: waxed and oxidized variants. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Honda SP125: Now with More Power & Style Honda Learn More Undo Copper Chests can be crafted using a Chest and Copper Ingots. 3. Copper Tools Minecraft has introduced copper tools, which are a minor update from stone tools. These tools are introduced with the motive to help early-stage players. Players can now craft tools, weapons, and armor from copper. The copper armor is a great choice, as it will help players save iron in the early stage, and it is better than leather armor. Here are all the tools, weapons, and armor that players can craft: Copper Axe Copper Hoe Copper Pickaxe Copper Shovel Copper Sword Copper Armor Copper Helmet Copper Chest plate Copper Leggings Copper Boots 4. Technical and Parity Updates Here are the following technical and bug fix adjustments: Hotbar can always be hit on any touch device. The detection area matches the texture even if you have custom controls enabled. Fixed faces of non-full blocks (e.g., cakes or trapdoors) having an unnatural ambient occlusion applied to them in some neighboring block configurations. Glowing text on signs no longer gets overly bright when looked at directly in Vibrant Visuals. Fixed an issue where custom armor disabled knockback on some platforms. Fixed a bug that caused Happy Ghast to occasionally suffocate when faced against a wall. Boats no longer play step sounds when on the ground. Air friction is now only applied to boats when they are leashed. Boats are still prevented from orbiting the player when leashed. Boats once again retain momentum when moving off ledges. Fixed a bug where the Happy Ghast riding sound would sometimes play in the loading screen. Fixed a bug where both Ghast and Happy Ghast ambient sounds would not be audible further than 16 blocks away from the player Ghast ambient sound is now audible within 80 blocks. Happy Ghast ambient sound is now audible within 64 blocks. Leashed mobs can now be pulled into boats, minecarts, and other rideable entities if the leash is slackened when close to those entities. Leashed mobs will now automatically dismount their vehicle if the leash is stretched far enough. These are all the features under the experimental phase of the Minecraft 1.21.100.23 update. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Time of India
13 hours ago
- Time of India
How to download Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update
(Image via Microsoft) The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update has been made available by Mojang, and it is essentially a new hotfix. With this hotfix, the developers have made minor changes to the previously released Chase the Skies update. The bug fixes will certainly refine the experience a bit, streamlining the overall gameplay across the platforms. Accordingly, you can start downloading it on your different devices and enjoy the sandbox title. Here's a detailed guide on how you can download the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update on all the platforms. Downloading the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update on all platforms Steps to download the new Minecraft Update (Image via Microsoft) Here are the detailed steps that you can follow to download the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update on all the platforms: PlayStation 4/5 Here are the steps for downloading the update on PlayStation 4 and 5: Locate Minecraft on the console's homepage or find it in your library Tap on the Options button and click on the 'Check for Updates' button. After it is found, the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update will be added to your queue and installed. Switch/Switch 2 The following are the steps to download the update on Nintendo Switch: Boot up Minecraft on your Nintendo Switch. You will find a notification regarding a new update. Tap on the pop-up to get redirected to the eShop, where you can add it to the queue. Alternatively, you can manually install the update. For the same, open the options window and select the 'Software Update' option. Xbox One and Series X/S Listed below is the procedure that you can follow to get the update on your Xbox console: Navigate to the 'My Games & Apps' section on the console's library Next, select Minecraft from the list of games and tap on the 'Manage Game & Add-Ons' option. Finally, select 'Updates' to start the download for the 1.21.94 update. Android/iOS Here are the steps to get the latest version on your mobile devices: Look up Minecraft on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store After opening the game's page, you will have to click on the 'Update' button. The download process for the Minecraft 1.21.94 update will commence. Windows 10/11 PCs Follow the steps below to download the update on your PCs: If you haven't previously played Minecraft Bedrock on your PC, you can head over to the official page and download the launcher. Install the launcher and log in using your Microsoft account. Select Minecraft Bedrock from the sidebar and select the Latest Release option. Wait for the files to get downloaded to enjoy the 1.21.94 update. This is all you need to know about the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.94 update on your devices. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Daily Mirror
18 hours ago
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- Daily Mirror
Sneaky trick to find buried treasure in Bedrock that Minecraft doesn't tell you
When it comes to finding buried treasure in Minecraft, one game player and forum fan has a key piece of advice for Bedrock players - read on for the full lowdown Minecraft is a simple, block-based world that offers never-ending play. A staggering 204 million people reportedly play the addictive game every month, with obsessed youngsters and grown-ups alike gaining skills in problem-solving, creativity even team work. Minecraft 's virtual landscape sees people dig holes to collect blocks from which they can create anything from a simple hut to a complex city. And while the game, which is available on every mobile device and video game console, is easy to pick up, it's full of secrets. Thankfully, there are loads of handy tips and tricks online to help gamers in their individual quests. One Redditor posted a PSA or Public Service Announcement for Bedrock players, meaning those who have a multi-platform version of Minecraft rather than the original Java Edition, who are struggling to find buried treasure... READ MORE: Minecraft Movie on brink of box office history as Warner Bros bosses confirm sequel is coming 'imminently' "As you may have heard from Java players or the Wiki, buried treasure always spawns at 'chunk coordinate 9 on both the X and Z axes'," the forum user explained. "For those of us who play Bedrock and therefore don't have access to all that handy debug info, that basically means an odd multiple of 8 (chunks are 16 blocks wide, and chunk coordinates start at 1 instead of 0). "Stated in mathematical language, {X,Z} mod 16 = {8,8}. You can calculate this easily in a web browser by typing X % 16 or Z % 16, where % is the modulo operator; e.g. 152 % 16 = 8, -56 % 16 = 8, etc." The helpful Redditor explained it was also possible for the chest to spawn underneath stone-type blocks, urging Bedrock players to trust the coordinates. "Go to the X on the map, do the modulo math, and dig straight down, and you'll find the chest every time," they said. And the Minecraft advice-giver had one final note for people looking to enhance their game. "ALWAYS BREAK THE CHEST," they said. "Bedrock tends to have issues with multiple maps pointing to the same chest, even if there's another one closer to where the map was found." Earlier this year, with the help of the Mirror revealed 18 secrets Minecraft doesn't tell you. They included: Llamas can be handy to have around if you find you keep running out of inventory space. If you click on a llama while holding a chest, that chest becomes the animal's inventory space. When you break a block, the breaking pattern always appears on its north side. This can come in handy if you need to quickly orientate yourself. In earlier versions of Minecraft, diamonds were most likely to appear between five and 12 levels down. Now, they appear between 15 and 63 levels down - and the deeper you dig, the more likely you are to find them.
Business Insider
a day ago
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- Business Insider
The Minecraft generation is cashing in
Colin McDonald was 13 when he became hooked on the world-building computer game Minecraft. He never imagined his childhood hobby would become a viable career. Now 25, McDonald runs Moonsworth, a software development company that operates a popular Minecraft modpack and employs around 50 people — some of them fellow Minecraft devotees." Almost every single person who's ended up being a really good hire has been someone who was a kid playing Minecraft and wanted to teach themself how to program," McDonald says — rather than someone with a traditional computer science education. "It's just other kids who grew up and kept their passion for creating." Minecraft has been a cultural phenomenon since its release in 2011. It's sold more than 350 million copies, making it the best-selling video game of all time. The game's fan base helped rocket " A Minecraft Movie" to be a $950 million juggernaut when it was released this spring. Now, as the Minecraft Generation comes of age, the game's legions of Gen Z and Gen Alpha fans are cashing in, launching businesses — both inside and outside the Minecraft universe — and hiring peers with a similar background and skill set. Minecraft servers, which allow for multi-player gaming, and YouTube channels dedicated to the game have turned into lucrative businesses. The Minecraft Partner Program, which was set up in 2017, also allows selected creators to sell in-game features like skins, maps, and texture packs on the Minecraft Marketplace. As of 2022, the creator community has generated more than $500 million in revenue, while 43 of nearly 300 partners have earned over $1 million in payouts, a spokesman says. Other Minecraft enthusiasts are building companies that are unrelated to the Minecraft universe, while still benefiting from the creative problem-solving, technical skills, and entrepreneurial zeal they developed over hours in the game's sandbox. "Minecraft has the perfect set of factors to find young creatives, motivate them to teach themselves technical and entrepreneurial skills, and provide monetization options when they're ready to turn it into a career." Colin McDonald, Moonsworth In an era when aspiring founders are being counseled to ditch college, when climbing the corporate ladder is becoming ever-more precarious, and when many of the richest Zoomers are self-made, young people are looking for a competitive advantage wherever they can find one. For some, Minecraft is the hot new credential to take into a chaotic job market that rewards creativity and hustle. "The surge of Minecraft entrepreneurs tells us something profound: the new economy doesn't reward rigid credentials. We're moving from a degree-based economy to a skills-based, portfolio-driven one," says Jessica Lindl, the author of "The Career Game Loop: Learn to Earn in the New Economy," who has witnessed the surge of Minecraft founders firsthand. "For young professionals, that means building, sharing, and iterating your way into opportunity — just like in your favorite sandbox game." Grand Theft Auto or Tetris. Open-ended and highly customizable, it offers an unlimited number of virtual worlds to build and explore. The key difference, however, is that digital games can be scaled, and real-time collaboration and sharing can yield real profits. Anyone can create a Minecraft server, whether it's a private hangout designed for a small group of friends or a public server that can host thousands of players. With modpacks, users can also add features and customize how the game looks. Moreover, the oft-made criticism that video games encourage isolation can betray an outdated view of how games like Minecraft work. "When you look at how people are playing video games today, they're very community-centered," explains Lindl. "The whole trope of some kid in their basement is actually not what it's like at all." You fail a lot in Minecraft, but you keep trying and improving. That mindset is huge when building a business from the ground up. Lauri Lifljandski, WiseHosting Lauri Lifljandski, who's 25, credits Minecraft with encouraging his passion for programming and making him more entrepreneurial. "Minecraft is basically a crash course in problem solving and creativity," says Lifljandski, who lives in Spain and whose company, WiseHosting, employs a dozen people. "You learn to adapt and think outside the box." Like McDonald, Lifljandski was introduced to Minecraft as a kid in the game's early days. As his play became more sophisticated, Lifljandski picked up ideas and improved his programming skills by watching tutorials on YouTube. When he was 19, Lifljandski and his friend Robin Kase, then 18, launched their own channel for Minecraft tutorials. Lifljandski would get off of his warehouse job at 5pm, and then spend the next seven hours grinding out YouTube videos. "I was living like that for half a year, and it was really exhausting," he says. At first, he wasn't thinking of the channel as a career possibility; he just wanted people to watch his videos. But once they gained momentum, he quit to focus on it full time. Six years later, Lifljandski and Kase have uploaded over 400 videos to their channel, Shulkercraft, and brought in 2.3 million subscribers. As the channel grew, an even bigger idea came to them. Increasingly frustrated by the server they were using, they saw an opportunity to build something better. "It wasn't like we were looking for a product to make," Lifljandski says. "It was more like the product came to us." Lifljandski and Kase hired two people to build a hosting provider from scratch and launched WiseHosting in April 2023. "We had hundreds of customers on the first day," he says. "Within three months, we were profitable." By the end of the year, they had made over $280,000, Lifljandski says. McDonald's opportunity to make money from Minecraft came just a few years after he started playing. As a freshman in high school, he scored a part-time job programming for a Minecraft server. The work took up all his free time, but paid him around $500 a month. "For a freshman in high school, that was fantastic," he says. Unlike some other successful Minecraft entrepreneurs, McDonald went to college, majoring in computer science. While there, he and two former coworkers started their own Minecraft server. For the first two years, they made no money. Then the pandemic hit, the gaming industry saw a surge in popularity, and things took off. When he graduated in 2022, McDonald says he turned down two "really, really good offers" and decided to work on Moonsworth full time. " I, of course, did the crazy thing," he says. "I was like, 'No, I'm gonna keep working on Minecraft stuff.'" The gambit appears to have been worth it for McDonald, who runs Moonsworth with his cofounders. Moonsworth's Lunar Client, which has a premium subscription service called Lunar+, is one of Minecraft's most popular mod packs with over 2 million monthly users. Moonsworth has also launched successful partnerships with content creators. Amir Davies, an 18-year-old in France, is another Minecraft superfan who embraced the game's entrepreneurial aspect early on. In fact, to the parents fretting about the number of hours their kids seem to be losing to Minecraft, Davies offers his own story as reassurance. His mother's decision to buy the game for Davies, when he was around 11, "was probably one of the best decisions she ever made." "When you're young and want to express yourself, it's a magnificent game," he says. "I've always been someone who wanted to create things, and Minecraft provided the perfect environment for that." Like other superfans, Davies used YouTube tutorials to learn the programming language Java so he could build custom plugins for his own server. By the time he was 15, Davies was especially focused on building hype around his server in order to boost its popularity. To grow the server's Discord community, he hosted invite contests with cash prizes and paid YouTubers to promote it. "I learned that word of mouth is the most powerful marketing channel," he says. Within three weeks, he had brought in thousands of users for under $600. Some players volunteered to help moderate Davies' servers, and at one point, he found himself managing 15 people. "At 15 years old, that felt really special," he tells me. Today, Davies has transformed the skills he learned from Minecraft into two software businesses: one helps teachers grade students and identify learning gaps, and the other is an AI-powered virtual employee for automating communication, sales, and support. "At 18, I'm learning everything I need through hands-on experience and self-teaching," Davies says. "The tech industry, especially AI, evolves so quickly that I find real-world practice more valuable than classroom theory right now." At least for now, he says he plans to skip college and focus on growing his businesses. That decision is in line with advice that McDonald has also been doling out. "Minecraft has the perfect set of factors to find young creatives, motivate them to teach themselves technical and entrepreneurial skills, and provide monetization options when they're ready to turn it into a career," McDonald says. As it turns out, spending hours playing Minecraft might be just the ticket to landing gainful employment.
