Minecraft LEGO set in Minecraft PE

Earlier I posted some pictures of my Minecraft LEGO set. I had mentioned at the end of that post that I would be trying to take that LEGO set and build it in Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Well, to the best of my ability, I did. The LEGOs weren't to scale with the actual game, which made it a bit difficult to get everything the right size, but I think it turned out looking okay. On the left will be MCPE and on the right will be the LEGO set.

Minecraft LEGOs

I got a package in the mail yesterday, and it looked a little like this.

That's the box for the Minecraft LEGO set. I pre-ordered it a few weeks ago from J!nx, where you can pre-order a set too. This set came into existence thanks to a LEGO project called Cuusoo and 10,000 enthusiastic Minecraft fans. It's a website where anyone can upload pictures of ideas for LEGO sets, and if 10,000 click a set idea's Support button, it'll be reviewed by a LEGO team and considered for a project. Well, the Minecraft Micro World set not only got 10,000 supports, but was also approved my Mojang. So, it was made into an actual set, and I got one! Also, for pre-ordering, I got a creeper sticker from J!nx (shown to the right), which I thought was pretty neat. The whole idea behind Minecraft is to build whatever you desire. The set did come with some instruction books, which I followed to show off the set, but I plan on rebuilding it into something else, just like Minecraft.

MINECRAFT 1.8.1

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: