Monday, April 1, 2013

It’s finally coming – Minecraft 2.0!


Hopefully releasing within the next two months, this 2-years-in-development game will be bringing blocky simulation games to the next level. Whilst based off the original Minecraft engine, this new version completely overhauls major parts of the game and contains many weeks worth of new content and blocks. Currently in closed beta stage, we have secretly been working with a select few members of the community to participate and trial run some specific features from the new version.



Some of the more prominent features of  Minecraft 2.0 include a new Super Hostile mode which can suddenly populate the world with terrifying monsters, Diamond Chickens that lay diamond eggs, and horses that look rather like cows. Also, animals explode into meat if you feed them. There are seriously dozens of other epic changes designed to make hardcore Minecrafters laugh.

No, it's really not, but in the ridiculous pranking tradition of April Fools Day, Mojang has curated a batch of fan-created trailers for a fictional Minecraft sequel. The videos feature update suggestions from Mojang, including death by chickens, exploding farm animals, floating sheep, horses, a "Hostile" game mode, six new decoration blocks (including Slime) and many more changes, listed here.

Mojang teases that Minecraft 2.0's announcement comes in celebration of the PC series nearing 10 million sales. And no, that one isn't a joke.

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