The latest update to Minecraft was released earlier this week: Minecraft Beta 1.8.1, or the “Adventure Update.” It’s called that because everything added is meant to increase the desire to go out and actually explore and do combat; it’s promoting adventuring, basically. Of those additions include a food bar, and sprinting. When you sprint, your food bar depletes. To replenish your food bar, just eat a variety of foods (old and newly added). Also, when the food bar is full, your health is regained over time. Some new food that was added would be watermelons, raw & cooked chicken (from killing a chicken), raw & cooked beef (from killing a cow), and raw flesh (zombies drop it). I wouldn’t eat the last one, though, because it ends up poisoning you and nearly emptying your food bar. Something else that’s new that makes getting some of that new food harder is that passive mobs, like cows and sheep, run away from you when you attack them. Actual combat has been improved: swords can now block by holding down right-click, bows & arrows charge up before firing, critical hits are scored if you hit something while descending from a jump, and mobs drop experience orbs that are collected to fill up an exp. bar. There’s no real use for it for now, says Mojang. Other neat things that were added were iron bars and window panes, vines (in jungle biomes), giant mushrooms, abandoned mines, strongholds, and randomly generated villages. The changed stuff includes lighting (not only from torches, but the day/night transition is much smoother) and how large biomes have to be (so you don’t find a 12x12 desert in the middle of a forest). I can’t play this update on my netbook because it’s too wimpy, but I have been playing at school and have brought back some screenshots:
In that one, you can see the new chest (it swings open when opened), a raw chicken in my hotbar, the faintest tinting of the new torch lighting, the exp. and food bar, and myself almost dead. This is a little hut I made in the side of the hill to survive night 1.
In this one, you can see a new mob, the Endermen. They’re very creepy, standing 3 blocks tall and emitting purple particles. They’re passive until you look directly at them. Then, they go nuts trying to kill you: teleporting, opening their scary jaw at you, it’s just scary. Off in the distance, you can see also a skeleton riding a spider, along with a few lone spiders.
There, you can slightly see another skeleton riding a spider, flanked by a creeper. That was an epic duel.
This is basically a better photo of the one above.
There you have it: 1.8.1! I’ll take some more screenshots of the village I’ve fortified, and whatever else I can find that is cool.
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