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Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What is the Minecraft update for 2025? Ghast lore, capes and a new live event
With the theatrical release of "A Minecraft Movie" right around the corner on April 4, it seems the team over at Mojang Studios are giving players a new update to the game just in time for the film's release. On Sunday, March 23, the 2025 Minecraft Live took place on the Minecraft YouTube channel and game developer Mojang announced never-before-seen game drops, showed exclusive movie content and even had some celebrity appearances including Emma Myers ("Wednesday") from the upcoming live action Minecraft movie. If you didn't catch Sunday's livestream, here's everything you missed about what's coming to Minecraft in 2025. Minecraft isn't just getting one game drop in 2025. It's getting multiple game drops, according to the recap of the live on More features will be released more frequently in the form of game drops throughout the year and because of that there will be another Minecraft Live show later this year to give even more updates. The first game drop of the year is called "Spring to Life" and it releases to all platforms on Tuesday, March 25. This drop will include warm and cold variants for some of the classic mobs, new ambient features like the glittering firefly bush, falling leaves and whispers of sand in hopes of players making their Overworld travels and builds more immersive. A lot was shared in the Minecraft Live event. Here's a recap of all the updates coming to Minecraft in 2025: New mobs: new warm and cold pig variants, along with a new cow variation. Firefly bush: a new plant block that emits glowing firefly particles. Falling leaf particles: all tree types will have falling leaves. Leaf litter: a new decorative block can be found in forests, dark forests and wooded badlands that can also be used as fuel. Wildflowers: a new flower type that grows in the birch forests, old growth birch forests and meadows that can be used as dye or decor. Ambient sounds: new ambient sounds like howling wind and desert sounds. Loadstone crafting: the crafting recipe for loadstone has changed and now players can find them in ruined portal chests. More game drops throughout the year and more updates coming later with a second Minecraft Live event. Emma Myers, one of the stars of the upcoming "A Minecraft Movie," came to the live to share a new in-game Live Event where players will be able to play mini-games inspired by the movie, including saving Midport village from a piglin attack. The Live Event will take place from Tuesday, March 25, until Monday, April 7, 2025, on all Bedrock Edition platforms. Players will need to complete all the challenges to be awarded an exclusive cape that will unlock in both editions of the game. The second game drop from Minecraft this year will include the dried ghast, a new block that can be found in the Nether. These new ghast blocks can be taken to the Overworld to be rehydrated into a ghastling, which can grow to be happy ghasts, a friendlier version of the ghasts of the Nether. Players can put a harness on their happy ghast, mount it and fly around your world. There's no 1.22 Minecraft update this time around. Instead, players will need to look out for the various game drops happening throughout the year, which will include updates to the game. Meredith G. White covers entertainment, art and culture for The Arizona Republic and She writes the latest news about video games, television and best things to do in metro Phoenix. Ready Player 1?: Biggest video games in March 2025 and where Arizonans can play them This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: When is the Minecraft update coming out? Here's what's new
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Minecraft Is Getting A Major Visual Upgrade, Flying Mounts, And My Favorite Quality Of Life Feature In Years
2025 is going to be a neat year for Minecraft. Not only is the survival crafting game moving to more frequent feature drops, it's also getting flying mounts and a big boost to its more than decade-old graphics. Revealed during a special Minecraft Live, Vibrant Visuals will make every pixelated world full of new life and possibilities thanks to the power of better lighting and reflections. The additions to Mojang's 3D sandbox that first officially debuted back in 2011 were on display at March 2025's edition of Minecraft Live, a presentation that will now take place two times a year to match the faster cadence of smaller but more impactful feature drops arriving alongside them. The first of these is Vibrant Visuals, a visual overhaul coming the the Bedrock edition of Minecraft this year on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. The developers say the update adds 'thousands of individually crafted elements while preserving what makes Minecraft unique.' Alongside the tweaked appearance, volumetric lighting is the other key feature of Vibrant Visuals. Instead of the world looking flat, the new lighting will bring more depth and also improve reflections. Water shimmers and cast shadows look more stark. It all makes Minecraft look a lot more appealing, especially at sunset. Happy Ghasts are another big deal. They'll be able to carry small groups of players through the world, making survival mode more accessible. Players will find dried ghasts in the netherworld, bring them back to the overworld, re-hydrate them, and then poof: a cute, cloud-like chariot awaits. My kids are going to love it, until they start fighting over them. What they won't be fighting over is the new Player Locator bar that Mojang also briefly touched on during the event. Announced earlier this month, the new UI feature will make it easier for players to find one another across the map. No more looking around for striking landscape features and going, 'I'm kinda, sorta, maybe 100 yards Northeast of the oak tree by the beach.' Instead, players will appear as color-coded blips on a horizontal bar near the bottom of the screen. This one is gonna save me a ton of time. As with all of the other features, there no specific release date for this, but all of them should be coming in the next few months. Maybe by then we'll also hear about any upgrades coming to a Switch 2 version of Minecraft. The Minecraft Movie is also out April 4, just two days after the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
BBC News
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Minecraft Live: What's coming to the game in 2025?
The first Minecraft Live of 2025 has just dropped, and it includes lots of updates heading to the game later this year, Mojang, the makers of Minecraft announced that it was changing the way it does Minecraft Lives, splitting it into two shows a year instead of one."We're releasing more features more frequently. These releases are called "Game Drops". And because we're releasing features more often, we're also broadcasting not one, but two Minecraft Live shows per year!" the makers said. But with A Minecraft Movie hitting cinemas soon, what was shared in the update? Take a look below to find out. A Minecraft Movie game collab A Minecraft Movie is almost here, and a new clip was teased during the well as that, actress Emma Myers (who plays Natalie in the film) also talked about a new in-game Live Event coming to Minecraft, where players take part in mini-games inspired by the movie and save Midport village from a piglin attack. The event will be accessible from 25 March until 7 April on all Bedrock Edition platformsIf players complete all of the missions they'll be able to earn a special exclusive cape to wear. Spring to Life update The first game drop, or big update, coming to Minecraft this year is called Spring to new update will introduce a variety of updates to the Overworld that will make biomes "feel more immersive and alive," according to the will feature new warm and cold versions of mobs like cows, pigs, and will also include new ambient features like the glittering firefly bush, falling leaves, and whispers of new update will launch on 25 March. Ghastling - a new mob The second game drop of the year doesn't have a name just yet, but we do know what it will include. This update will feature a new block called the Dried Ghast which can be found around fossils in the Nether, specifically in the Soulsand Valley biome. If players re-hydrate the block by placing it in water it will turn into a Ghastling (a baby ghast).This is different from the fireball shooting Ghasts that players can find elsewhere in the players feed their little Ghastling snowballs it will turn into a flying Happy Ghast, which can be ridden by up to three players, if players craft a harness for it."You can even build from the top of the happy ghast, making tall structures and those awe-inspiring sky builds a little bit more accessible for Survival Mode players." said in this update will be the Player Locator bar, which is a new feature that will help players to find other players in their worlds.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Minecraft Live March 2025: Minecraft Gets an Overhaul with Vibrant Visuals & We Went Hands-On
At today's Minecraft Live, Mojang Studios announced that Minecraft will be getting a major graphics mode update called Vibrant Visuals. Have you ever wondered what it would look like to see a Minecraft world in high resolution? Mojang Studios looked at the 15-year-old game and thought that it could use an update, but they were faced with an important question: How do you upgrade Minecraft without losing what makes it 'Minecrafty.' I was able to visit Mojang in Stockholm, Sweden, to go hands-on with the new Minecraft flying mount and Vibrant Visuals, and I have to say, Vibrant Visuals changes the landscape of Minecraft without the need for mods or shaders. First thing first, this isn't a mandatory graphic upgrade for Minecraft players. Vibrant Visuals will eventually be made available for all platforms with a simple toggle in your game's menu. It was important to the team at Mojang Studios to make Minecraft and the new Vibrant Visuals mode available to as many people as possible without alienating their current player base. The new mode will be completely optional, and you can turn it off at any time. I was able to speak to the team at Mojang Studios, who worked on Vibrant Visuals directly. Vibrant Visuals Producer Dejan Dimic described the update for players who haven't seen it yet, 'It's a visual refresh for the core Minecraft game. So, it is our first step in our vision of what a modern look and feel of the game could look like. We've tried to balance modern rendering technologies with staying true to Minecraft and the art style. So, creating this cool balance while also trying to enable this to as many, many players as possible.' What is exciting, especially for a console player like myself, is that this will bring a brand-new visual style to the Bedrock Edition. That means those who don't have access to shaders or mods will be able to do this for the first time. Senior Product Manager on Vibrant Visuals Maddie Psenka noted that this is something players really seem to want, 'We want to get it out to as many players as possible. Right now, especially on consoles, it's hard to mod and update your game. A lot of players like to play with visual mods, and we see it in the community a lot, so doing this will allow us to bring it easily to those players. It'll be a toggle in the menu so players will be able to access Vibrant Visuals.' She went on to explain how easy it will be to use, too, 'This is a built-in new graphics mode, so it'll include a bunch of new textures that work with this new mode to highlight a lot of the interesting physical properties of blocks and items and entities in the game. So there's no need to sideload anything or download anything. It'll just be on the simple toggle.' One thing that the Vibrant Visuals team was adamant about was that Minecraft's new mode was available to as many people as possible. Psenka ensured us that it would be across multiple platforms, thanks to being available on Minecraft's Bedrock edition, 'We want it to be available to as many devices as possible. We don't have a full spec for devices yet, but we are targeting mobile devices, consoles and PC, of course, so we want to make it as available to as many players as possible.' During my playthrough, I was able to check out Vibrant Visuals on a couple of different maps at varying times of day. The team had set up a simple one-button toggle so I could turn Minecraft's Vibrant Visuals on and off, really amplifying the subtle yet somehow significant graphic differences. It's odd how little, yet how much, Vibrant Visuals changes things. Occasionally, I would leave it on or off and be unsure what mode I was in, only to press the toggle and see just how obvious it was. During sunrise, I was able to spot my pixelated shadow cast over the ladder I was climbing. Mobs cast shadows now, too, and it wasn't anything I had ever noticed was missing until I saw it turned off. Reflections on the water are absolutely beautiful, but still keep that pixelated style Minecraft is known for. Underwater is also more realistic. Now, water feels murky and hard to spot creatures clearly, where as before, it was like it wasn't there at all. Of course, Vibrant Visuals wouldn't be going live without testing, and Art Director Jasper Boerstra gave us some insight on what players have said so far, and it sort of reiterates what I saw, too, 'I felt like we got a lot of validation of our goals. They were like, 'Oh, it's not too overpowering,' 'Oh, it still looks so much like Minecraft.' You know, all of these kind of things that we set out to do. They were reacting that way. They were like, 'Wow, this just looks like Minecraft, but enhanced,' that stuff. So, I'm very, very confident that players will like this.' Walking away from my visit to Sweden, I couldn't help but just feel good about what Mojang Studios is creating. This team has been working on Vibrant Visuals for ages, but when asked what they thought the ratio would be for users who toggle it on versus 'Vanilla Minecraft' or if it would be a letdown if everyone didn't swap over, the consensus was the same. 'We want people to experience Minecraft the way they want to,' said Executive Producer Ingela Garneji. I had one last question for the Minecraft Vibrant Visuals team, 'What is your favourite part of Vibrant Visuals?' I thought I knew the answer because, for me, it is the absolutely stunning reflections on the water. However, the team fought for who would get to say Pixelated Shadows. 'I have to explain why I say Pixelated Shadows, but it's because it's so Minecraft. I mean, shadows in Minecraft, of course they're pixelated!' said Garneji. Vibrant Visuals is really something you have to toggle on in Minecraft to truly understand what it is. High-rez Minecraft is the best way I can't describe it, but it still holds onto its boxy, pixelated style. Though I don't have an exact date yet, Minecraft's Vibrant Visuals mode will first release on the Bedrock Edition, with plans to bring it to the Java Edition in the future. With the A Minecraft Movie releasing soon, we are sure to talk more about Minecraft soon!
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Minecraft Live Announced for March 22nd
Eurogamer reports that Mojang has confirmed a new Minecraft Live event set for March 22nd at 6 PM UK time, teasing 'new game drops.'
