Minecraft 1.5 Update Released
The Minecraft 1.5 update is now officially released. To update to the latest version simply open the Minecraft launcher and accept the update.
The Minecraft 1.5 update is now officially released. To update to the latest version simply open the Minecraft launcher and accept the update.

A new documentary following the ever so successful story of Minecraft is now available for purchasing and viewing. Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a film about Notch’s big success story.
Today’s world is one in which we are constantly connected. Photographs would once sit in a dusty old album to be gazed upon every so often. Although, social media sites and the internet have changed that drastically.

Minecraft 1.3.1 is now live. The update should be deployed to your client next time you login, meaning that you will have access to all of the new features that we described in our previous post about the 1.3 release.
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The first commit to official Minecraft API (named ‘Workbench’) has been made to the official github repository which will house the code. Whilst there isn’t much there at the minute, this is the first milestone of hopefully many in the development of the API.

Mojang posted to their blog that Minecraft 1.3 would be released on August 1, 2012.
A week before the official release, a release candidate should be shared which will be a very similar version to what you will be able to see in the next version.
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Last week we wrote about the new features to share your single player world with friends over LAN. In the latest snapshot (12w25a) there has been an addition of a GUI with some more configuration options.
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A new feature in the latest snapshot allows you to share your single player world with other players over LAN. There is no knowledge on how to configure a server required - just the ability to run “/publish”.

In the last few snapshots of Minecraft there has been a feature included called ‘Cheat Mode’. This mode allows you to access the chat console that you would normally have access to on an online server and use commands that you can normally use as a server op.

Previously, the only way to pause the state of your Minecraft world on single player would be to save and exit your game but a feature introduced in the Week 22 Snapshot may become the solution to this.