Minecraft

Both Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions have received a new update that introduces armadillos, new wolf variations and more.

A Minecraft player accidentally created a neat trash can design with just two items. Minecraft players use the game's resources with immense creativity to build the most impressive bases. This creativity also extends to the inside of Minecraft players' homes, where they regularly invent items that don't officially exist in the game.

Minecraft has long reigned as one of the most popular games available thanks to its nearly endless possibilities, regular updates, and charming vibes. If you’re one of the millions of players who has invested thousands of hours into the game, you’ve almost certainly been rewarded with limitless excitement, laughter, and fun, But what about co-op? Playing with friends is one of the greatest ways to experience Minecraft after all. But in today’s gaming landscape, there is a wide variety of platforms on which people play the game, which may lead you to wonder if you can join in on the fun with pals on other hardware. Below, we’ll tell you what you need to know about cross-platform play in Minecraft.

Blacksmiths play vital roles in villages, offering essential tools, weaponry, and armor crucial for survival in . Since the 1.14 Village & Pillage update in 2019, Blacksmiths are categorized into three roles: Weaponsmiths, Toolsmiths, and Armorers. Each specializes in trading their respective items for Emeralds.

A Minecraft player has impressed the gaming community by crafting a remarkable structure reflecting the soccer arena from the popular game Rocket League. Minecraft is an open-world sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. It allows players to construct and explore virtual landscapes using blocks. With its limitless creativity and vast player base, Minecraft has become a platform for unique creations ranging from elaborate structures to entire virtual worlds.

As you venture through deep, dark biomes in , you may stumble upon an ancient city. These black palaces are full of useful loot and strange Redstone circuitry. Ancient cities were added to the game in Version 1.19 and can offer rare items like diamond horse armor, enchanted golden apples, or enchanted diamond leggings.

A group of creative Minecraft players have built an incredible city on a bridge that includes a castle, cathedral, and more. With Minecraft including ravines and valleys, bridges have always been necessary, but these players have turned one bridge into a city.

Ubisoft and Microsoft appear to be tag-teaming a legal crackdown on people who try to pass off fake versions of Minecraft and Assassin's Creed official merchandise as the real thing.

A Minecraft player has pointed out that bubbles can be used to jump up to four blocks with a Boat. Minecraft Boats are typically used to cross the vast distances of oceans and rivers, but this trick can enable players to climb to great heights as well.

A Minecraft player has created a library dedicated to every Enchantment in the game. The various Minecraft equipment can have lots of different Enchantments applied to them, and this player has an idea to ensure they never run out of power-ups.

The recently releasedMinecraft Java Edition 1.20.5 update has made modding notably easier and more versatile. While the Minecraft Armored Paws update added exciting content to the game, a modder recently discovered that it also introduced technical improvements, marking a significant step forward in the modding scene.

Armadillos, the grumpy pistachio nuts of the animal kingdom, have been added to Minecraft in a recent mob update. You can brush them to harvest "scutes", the boney armour plating of the animal's back, which you can then use to craft armour for pet wolves. Speaking of wolves, this update also sees an explosion in canine diversity, with eight varieties of the wolf now appearing across different biomes. Awoooooo!

A Minecraft player has spent three years collecting a rare armor set in which each piece has the same enchantment: Efficiency I. During their Minecraftadventures, players collect materials to craft tools, weapons, and armor to protect them from danger. But Minecraft players can also come across pieces of armor in other ways.

The latest update for Minecraftis live with a cute new critter, the Armadillo, along with eight wolf skin variations and the new Wolf Armor item. Available for the Java and Bedrock versions of the game, players will be able to find the Armadillo and new wolves as soon as Minecraft is brought up to date.

A creative Minecraft fan has designed custom textures for every spawn egg available in the game. Over the years, Mojang has added a variety of mobs that have made the world of Minecraft progressively richer. While mobs in survival mode are seen in their natural habitats, Minecraft players can spawn multiple mobs via spawn eggs.

is one of the best-selling games of all time, having sold over 300 million copies since its release in 2009. Because of its immense popularity, it has a couple of different versions on many different platforms, allowing it to reach millions. Having been released on all these platforms, one would expect it to be cross-platform, especially since the game has such low system requirements.

A Minecraft player has put their building skills to the test and recreated the Oil Rig, one of Rust's most popular structures. Minecraft players often recreate locations from other famous games using the Mojang game's resources. What gamers see as a result are large constructions to which Minecraft players devote a lot of time and attention, and show how creative the community can be.

A very clever Minecraft player has figured out how to use the floatater block to create an impressive redstone crop farm. While the floatater was only added to Minecraft as an April Fools' Day joke, players are still finding incredible uses for the block.

Since 2011, Minecraft player KurtJMac has been documenting his journey to the sandbox game's legendary glitched outer reaches through an online video series called Far Lands or Bust. This week, KurtJMac achieved the last big milestone before the end, passing through the boundary that marks the final floating point error boundary.

Players continue to push the building limits of Minecraft to the test, including one fan who managed to recreate a playable version of the beloved Balloon Battle game mode from the Mario Kart franchise. Fans have previously made Mario Kart tracks in Minecraft, and this playable battle mode course has once again managed to inspire and impress the Minecraft and Mario communities.

A Minecraft player has created an incredible city inspired by historical Greek locations using the many materials available in the game. Since the game was released, Minecraft fans have shared their unique locations, but this may be among the most memorable.

A Minecraft player has created an incredible mansion in the game. Since sharing their work online, many Minecraft fans have taken notice, complimenting the creator on the massive size of the building project.

Minecraft has released a new Kung Fu Panda DLC, bringing players content based on the popular DreamWorks franchise. Minecraft has a significant history of collaborations with famous pop culture names that got the blocky treatment. The DLC released by Mojang includes Minecraft collaborations with other games and names outside the gaming world.

A Minecraft player has recently stumbled upon a peculiar sight while exploring the legacy version of the game, a village with just one house. This discovery was shared with the Minecraft community, sparking intrigue and speculation about its existence.

Following the Trial Chambers in 1.21, players may now want to acquire the Ominous Trial Key, an enhanced variant of the standard Trial Key. This pursuit promises greater rewards and serves as a gateway to unlock the Ominous Vault, hidden in the depths of the Ominous Trial Chambers. Additionally, obtaining this key signifies progress toward acquiring the powerful Mace melee weapon introduced in the update.

A talented Minecraft player has shared images from their amazing ongoing medieval castle build, which has been created entirely in Survival mode. This means that all the Minecraft materials for this build were collected by hand, making this all the more impressive.

Various seeds used to generate worlds in can enhance its Survival mode, giving you the best circumstances possible as you try to endure new landscapes. From unique biomes to fascinating structures, some seeds will give you resources or obstacles to alter your Survival experience. Whether you are a veteran player or a novice, some of these seeds can present unforgettable challenges.

Every infinite, procedurally generated world in Minecraft offers plenty of curiosities to discover, and one player has recently shared their discovery of a desert temple which partially generated beneath the surface of a river in their world. Though Minecraft's world generation mechanic has seen some substantial tweaks and upgrades over the years, especially in some of the game's more recent updates, many players have proven that it's still far from bug-free.

Live for a few years now, the PS Stars program allows players to accrue points by purchasing and playing games, later exchanging those points for digital goods and, sometimes, full titles. If you regularly use your PlayStation consoles, there’s no reason not to sign up for the free program. Some impressive new rewards were just unveiled, and while they may be pricey, having the option to exchange points instead of cash is always welcome.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition has added five new paintings as part of preview 1.21.0.21, and one of them has a clever reference to a famous real-life painting. Minecraft often releases snapshots for Java players to test upcoming features. But Bedrock players aren't left behind, and Mojang's sandbox rolls out the same features via previews.

is one of the most popular games of all time, and as with any title that earns that kind of accolade, there will always be an audience intrigued by its existence and looking to access it for free. Earlier versions of were free up to version 1.3, but as the game continued to develop and offered more content to a broader audience, it began to have price tags attached to it. However, there are still some ways to play without paying a cent, although some of these free methods of playing are significantly more useful than others.

A Minecraft player has shared what they call a «simple» Dirt tower that includes an impressive amount of crops. Dirt is one of the first resources that Minecraft players will receive, and this may be one of the most effective uses of the resource.

Minecraft players are unleashing their creativity with the introduction of the Floatater, a new block added in the recent April Fools' update. This innovative addition has sparked a wave of excitement among Minecraftfans, who are now discovering and sharing the many possibilities it offers for building and crafting within the game.

One player recreated Disney's Haunted Mansion, and it is impressively accurate. players have boasted some impressive builds since 2011, and players are constantly finding new ways to show off their skills. From Middle Earth to Westeros and even an entire team dedicated to building the Build the Earth project, many hours have been dedicated to getting the perfect design in the game.

For a moment, parts of North America will go dark on April 8 due to a total solar eclipse — when the moon, passing in front of the sun, will block all light. The last time this happened was in 2017, and it won’t happen again until 2044. It’s a moment you won’t want to miss — even if you don’t have the essential and safe eclipse glasses.

Revenue from PC games rose by almost four per cent during 2023.

Tomorrow's the monthly PS Plus Essential game refresh, so you've only got a handful of hours left to redeem what Sony had to offer for the month of March 2024. Since this is the offering of the base tier, you will be able to continue playing the PS5, PS4 games for as long as you sustain a membership to the subscription service. You've got until roughly 9am BST / 1am PT / 4am ET tomorrow to claim the following titles:

The monthly PS Plus Essential update has arrived, granting all members of Sony's subscription service access to three new PS5, PS4 titles. They're available to download now across the UK and Europe, and availability will spread to the USA later on in the day. Here's what can be redeemed between now and Tuesday, 7th May 2024:

Minecraft is hardly realistic, with a world made up entirely of cubes. Even the mobs are made of blocks. But Warner Bros. and Mojang have teamed up to make a live-action movie, leading many to wonder what the hell it'll look like. Will Jack Black, AKA Steve, be a monstrous cube creature? Will it just be a bunch of dudes surviving in otherwise ordinary-looking woods?

Minecraft's annual April Fools gag is upon us once again, and this time it's a celebration of the game's most useless item that offers so many new features it might as well be a proper new update.

Minecraft's highly anticipated April Fools' Day update is here, and the developers have themed it around Poisonous Potatoes. Mojang Studios is known for its funky updates on April 1 every year, and this time around its focus seems to be on an item that is considered to be the most useless in Minecraft.

An inventive Minecraft player has crafted a fully playable Tetris game within their in-game world, using Redstone to power the automated mini-game. The sandbox world of the massively popular game from developer Mojang offers players a wide variety of things to do within its enormous procedurally-generated worlds. Minecraft has regularly added new content to the game, introducing more animals and enemies for players to encounter, new types of biomes, and a variety of new items and objects to find. However, one of the game's mechanics offers a unique kind of creativity.

After digging up some fresh evidence, Minecraft fans are getting excited about what appears to be a proper PS5 port of the sandbox-'em-up.

April's PS Plus Essential games have been officially announced, and as per usual, we're looking at three titles spread across PS5 and PS4. At a glance, however, we're tempted to say that this is one of the weaker months in recent memory.

The PS Plus Essential monthly games lineup for April has now been officially confirmed by Sony, offering up yet another trio of treats for subscribers. The titles on offer will be available to claim from Tuesday 2nd April. Here's what you can look forward to in the latest lineup:

As a game built around the very spirit of creativity, it's not surprising that the Minecraft community frequently shows off some incredible creations, though one project recently shared by a talented fan presents what Minecraft itself might look like if it was a fully 2D side-scrolling game instead of the huge 3D sandbox it's known as. Various fan games inspired by Minecraft in the past have taken the form of such a 2D game, and even some official artwork for the game pays homage to this classic 2D style.

A Minecraft player has shared a bizarre theory about the origin of the villagers, as they claim they are mushrooms. Minecraft is a game whose main target is children, but the sandbox surprises with its surprisingly deep lore. Part of this is due to the theories that Minecraft players have created over the years about characters, items, and objects.

It seems that a native PlayStation 5 version of Minecraft is releasing sometime soon, after a popular Twitter account that investigates the backend of Sony's digital store claimed as much.Minecraft's full release on the PS5 has long been awaited by fans, as Xbox users await a similar launch.

A few days ago, Kotaku published a report suggesting Grand Theft Auto 6 may be delayed to late 2025 or even 2026. We didn't report on it because it seemed ephemeral rather than substantial, which Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (formerly of Kotaku himself) has now confirmed.

Minecraft might finally be getting a native release on the PS5 soon. The game, currently only available on current-gen platforms through the use of backwards compatibility for the PS4 and Xbox versions, hasn’t seen a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S release.

It looks like Minecraft could finally be getting a native PS5 release, as several files have been spotted on the PlayStation Store's backend that indicate a current-gen version is coming soon.

Minecraft: Java Edition has released a new snapshot, and thanks to it, players can now enchant the Mace. Since last year, Mojang has been revealing some of the content that Minecraft players will see in the sandbox's next major update. Some celebrated additions have been the addition of the armor trims and the wolf variants, the latter of which many players have been wanting for years. But the addition that has Minecraft players talking the most in recent days is the Mace, growing the list of weapons players can get in the game.

Sony outlined all the new offerings PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers can expect in April; surprisingly, Microsoft is the company behind two of this month’s four offerings, Minecraft Legends, and the Overwatch 2 Mega Bundle.

You can now explore one of Ukraine’s most iconic natural landmarks - and the largest salt mine in Europe - in Minecraft. The virtual replica of the Soledar salt mines and their surrounding town, occupied by Russia troops for the past year in real life, has been led by the wartorn country’s government in an effort to help rebuild a school destroyed during the conflict.

Sony has unveiled the PlayStation Plus games for April 2024, revealing three new additions players can check out on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 next month.

PlayStation Plus subscribers’ free Essential games for the month of April are Immortals of Aveum, Minecraft Legends, and Skul: The Hero Slayer, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday. Players can download the trio of games beginning Tuesday, April 2.

Blast magic, embark on a (blocky) fantasy adventure and free your demon brethren with April’s Monthly Games lineup for PlayStation Plus. Immortals of Aveum, Minecraft Legends, Skul: The Hero Slayer will be available to play for PlayStation Plus members* from Tuesday, April 2 until Monday May 6. 

From battling mobs and crafting armor to exploring new biomes and more, there's a lot of content to explore in Minecraft. One of the more laidback pastimes is starting a farm, as the game lets you breed a variety of animals to bring your idyllic ranch to life. And, oddly enough, the same breeding system that lets you create new animals also works for villagers – giving you a simple way to build a bustling city without much effort.

I wake up in an empty field as an alien vessel with glowing eyes. With nothing but a set of tools, I follow the tutorial to build my first plot of land and, eventually, pack together a bundle of supplies to contribute to someone else’s.

Mojang has continued to churn out Minecraft updates at a regular pace, allowing its community to thrive for over a decade. Along with Mojang, modders are constantly launching their own updates to the game — the most exciting of which might be shaders.

After starting a new world in Minecraft, one player built an incredibly detailed house next to the water in their Hardcore world. Minecraft players are frequently iterating on house designs to come up with the best possible creations, and this latest home design is among the more cozy ones out there.

If you're an average PC gamer like me, you've spent most of your time playing games with a mouse and keyboard. While there's nothing wrong with that, maybe it's time you gave controllers a chance. I did, and the experience was eye-opening.

A Minecraft player has added a bounce enchantment to the Mace, sharing its impressive results. Minecraft periodically gets new content through snapshots, which give a preview of upcoming features coming to the game. These features range from new biomes to mobs, commands, and weapons, further expanding the already vast world of Mojang's sandbox.

Epic Games is launching a set of tools for Unreal Editor for Fortnite that’ll let players create their own Lego Fortnite islands. Epic and Lego announced the tools during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

A Minecraft fan has built a massive medieval city in the game that is a great showcase of the game's diverse building mechanics. When it comes to Minecraft, building is at the heart of the game, and this medieval city demonstrates just how detailed players are able to get.

A Minecraft player has demonstrated that the Mace can defeat a Wither with one hit under the right conditions. The Mace is the latest weapon added to the Minecraft Snapshot preview, and fans are exploring its capabilities.

Minecraft has announced the Marketplace Pass for $3.99 per month

You can make Minecraft look incredible with Nvidia RTX cards and ray-tracing resource packs, injecting real-time reflections and hyperrealistic lighting into the game with ease. But it's little more than a fancier version of shaders, something we've been toying around with for years already. Distant Horizons, an early access render distance mod, ups the ante in a new way.

A Minecraft player has crafted a massive scale model of the Munificent-Class Star Frigate, a ship from Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. The dedicated Minecraft and Star Wars fan mapped out, designed, and built the humongous Separatist ship, sharing their impressive creation online. The ship is incredibly large in scale and is a 1:1 representation of the frigate featured in the Star Wars prequels.

If you're a Minecraft fan and haven't updated your game just yet, you may want to either wait a few days or be extremely careful. Earlier today, Mojang warned players not to update their games through the Xbox App on PC, as a pretty catastrophic bug is causing some worlds to be completely wiped, with no way of recovering them again.

Players using the PC Xbox App to play Minecraft may be in danger of losing their worlds without following specific guidelines. In preparation for the full release of Minecraft update 1.21, Mojang has adjusted a handful of things and added to the Marketplace in the latest minor patch, but this one may unfortunately delete worlds.

Minecraft dropped its latest update earlier this week, but those playing on PC may want to avoid downloading it. Mojang is warning that those who update Minecraft via the Xbox app on PC may have their worlds wiped. Mojang recommends running the Gaming Services Repair Tool for PC on the Xbox App before downloading the latest update, but until an actual fix is released, I’d remain wary. For now, automatic updates through the PC Xbox App have been disabled by Mojang as a preventive measure.

Halo Infinite’s regular seasonal updates have come to an end, but 343 Industries aren’t abandoning the game, and in fact next week will see the launch of a fairly significant update. This patch will offer a full networking overhaul – rather than trying to patch problems in Halo Infinite’s original networking model, they’ve decided to completely change the underlying tech. At the same time, Easy Anti-Cheat is being added to the game.

Minecraft has officially released a new monthly subscription service for their game that is very simliar to a Game Pass, but instead they are calling this the Marketplace Pass. This was recently revealed on the Minecraft website that this new subscription would cost $3.99 a month, and this would give users access to more items and content. The catalog is said to feature 150 different pieces of content that will be renewed every month.

Minecraft developer Mojang has warned players not to update the game through the official Xbox app on PC because it may delete their worlds.

Microsoft is warning players against downloading the latest update through the Xbox app on PC as doing so can delete worlds. The publisher has offered a workaround that players need to do before installing the update. This will help them to avoid the update error, along with the loss of all of their hard work.

Mojang have announced a new Minecraft subscription service, the Marketplace Pass, which grants access to a catalogue of "150+" community-created Minecraft thingy-ma-bobs. Skins, adventure worlds, survival spawns, mashups, bizarre textures - with a Marketplace Pass, the wider monetisable universe of Minecraft is your (rented) oyster, except that this being Minecraft, the oyster looks like a weird underwater trapdoor. Here's a trailer.

If you’re a Minecraft player on PC, don’t update your game using the Xbox app, Microsoft warned Friday. If you do, you risk losing your Minecraft world. You can use the Xbox app to manage updates for your Windows PC and console, and sometimes it can auto-update if you don’t adjust the settings. Several people responding to the Microsoft message have reported already losing their Minecraft worlds thanks to the update.

Mojang has announced a monthly subscription for Minecraft called Marketplace Pass, which gives payers access to «150+ different content packs» from the in-game Marketplace.

Developer Mojang has warned anyone playing Minecraft through the Xbox app on PC not to download its latest update as it could cause their worlds to disappear.