Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Lego Minecraft update and more!!!!

Hey Everyone. So a while back, I started covering the LEGO cuusoo idea "Lego Minecraft." Well, after this idea hit 10,000 votes on the website, it went into the review stage where a jury would decide on if it would become a reality, and if it did, how to sell it. Well finally after about 3+ weeks of waiting, Lego minecraft has passed through the review stage.

here is what The website posted on their blog today.  -

"Happy New Year! Since the Minecraft™ project reached 10,000 supporters on LEGO® CUUSOO, many of you have been eagerly awaiting our update.  Until now, the project has been in the LEGO Review—a stage before product development begins where a LEGO Jury evaluates the idea’s feasibility as a product and makes a decision.
We're happy to announce that the Minecraft project on LEGO CUUSOO has passed the LEGO review and we are now developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft. We can’t wait to show it to you—but it isn't ready just yet. These things take time, so we appreciate your patience. More details are to come."


I will be getting more into this as time goes on and also, please tell me what you would like to see be made into a minecraft lego set! :)


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There was a brand new minecraft update that now adds the following -


  • Ladders regained their collision box, and vines are climbable when they have a solid block behind them
  • Added jungle biome (requires a new world) with new tree and leaf types
  • Updated language files
  • Dispensers will place mobs instead of releasing the spawner egg
  • Zombies have new path-finding AI
  • Wolves have new AI and can be bred (when tame)



you can find the client .JAR here

and the server .JAR here


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Just something funny as well, My friends Wes Wilson, Eric Fullerton, and Brent Copeland from The Shaft Podcast made a funny minecraft adventure map video on the map "The Quest for Gallell"




Please show your support to those guys and shoot them a like and favorite on that video. Also please subscribe if you like their content at http://www.youtube.com/deadworkersparty :)


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One more thing for today, My other friend Mark Cooper aka Astragali of "The Minecraft Scribe" just released a new blog called "The Digital Quill" a place to share creative, non minecraft stuff.

Just for a notice/warning thing, Astragali said this -

"My other blog, The Minecraft Scribe, is PG-13. However, my postings to The Digital Quill may venture into R-rated territory (for language) from time to time. I think that, should that happen, I’ll place an NSFW (Not Safe For Work) advisory at the start of the post, rather than my original intention, which was to just make a blanket statement here of “Consider yourself warned.”

so please go and check it out. It's just starting out but keep an eye on it, you never know what Astra's gonna write next! :)


that's it for now. As always please stay tuned for more news and updates! :D

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Back on the blog and new minecraft snapshot!

Hey guys, I'm back from my vacation and that means, I am back on here! YAY :)

So today, Mojang released another snapshot called 12W01A.

There is an excellent change list for this snapshot as well. Here it is.


  • New language translations. We changed from using Google Docs to a new system, so these may still contain a lot of errors or missing texts. Please check the Minecraft forums (language section) for more info.

  • Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes

  • Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds

  • Decreased randomness of Enchantment Tables

  • Changed colors of spawning eggs to more represent the mobs they spawn

  • Made biomes slightly more varied (hills in forests and deserts, beaches)

  • Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)

  • Removed collision box from ladders

  • Updated fence gate collision box to align with fences



  • (Change list from The Minecraft Forums)

    you can find the client .jar here.

    You can find the server .jar here.

    Remember, this is the .jar itself, not an installer so you have to install this manually. If you don't know how to do so, please direct your attention to this video here.


    Have fun! :D