The subsequent huge Minecraft replace will accomodate gamers who want to abandon our blessed world and totally stay within the Nether hell dimension, builders Mojang introduced over the weekend. The Nether can be expanded with completely different biomes, together with a guts-red forest and blue valleys of fossils, and new lifeforms will transfer in to help your accursed life-style. Who wouldn’t need to feast upon hellhogs? Or attempt to achieve the grudging tolerance of murderous pigfolk by carrying armour cast from the gold these heretics covet? No one good, that’s for certain. If you select to stay in hell, you deserve all of it.
Currently, the Nether’s you’ll be able to’t do rather more than make expeditions into. Reached via Nether portals constructed from obsidian, the dimension has monsters to struggle, fortresses to raid, and a complete lot of lava to see, however not a lot to stay round for. You’re even ejected from the Nether in the event you die there. That will all change with the Nether Update, Mojang revealed throughout their Minecon Live broadcast on the weekend.
“It will still not be easy to live there, but you can,” Mojang’s Agnes Larsson defined. “We want players to be able to have a base there. So for example, you can set your spawn in Nether, you can find food in Nether, but it’s still a really dangerous place.”
The Nether Update will introduce three new Nether biomes: the Soulsand Valley, a barren land of blue fog and large fossils; the Netherwart Forest Red, with meaty bushes and mist; and Netherwart Forest Blue, which might be additionally horrible however appears nicer as a result of it’s blue. Lovely, beautiful blue. Blue of the ocean, the sky, the hellfog.
Helldwellers will have the ability to farm and eat the brand new Piglin Beasts (a reputation to be settled by a poll) and might want to take care of their Piglin masters. This new humanoid NPC species are pig people who find themselves largely hostile however could be placated. They adore gold, see, so in the event you put on gold armour they’ll tolerate your presence and barter with you. Otherwise, effectively, I think about they’ll attempt to homicide you and steal your gold.
You can see all these additions within the archived occasion livestream:
No phrase but on when precisely the Nether Update will launch.
They detailed a couple of different future additions too. A block of honey is coming with those new bees. And a brand new Target Block that can ship a Redstone sign of various power dependant on how shut you hit to the center. I’m certain that’ll discover use in some fiendish machines.
Mojang are additionally returning to the concept of an in-person Minecraft occasion. MineCon began as a bodily occasion in 2010 earlier than changing into a livestreamed presentation from 2017, and now Mojang have introduced Minecraft Festival, a three-day occasion in Orlando which sounds a good bit like ye olde MineCon. Branding, eh?
See the announcement blog post for the complete blastorama.
Disclosure: Several individuals who’ve written for RPS have written for Minecraft’s web site or labored on map packs or issues. I’m now feeling disregarded.
