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Minecraft update 1.21 focuses on “combat and tinkering” with maze-like Trial Chambers and automatic craftingArmadillo wins mob vote as player rebellion reaches 500,000 signatories
Armadillo wins mob vote as player rebellion reaches 500,000 signatories
Image credit:Mojang
Image credit:Mojang
The headline addition is an underground structure called the Trial Chamber, a procedurally generated cluster of traps and treasure rooms, fashioned from copper and tuff blocks and arranged around a central hallway. From the Minecraft Live footage this weekend, Trial Chambers look like an evolution of the game’s old buried fortresses, with some nifty new flourishes in the shape of copper bulb blocks that slowly give off less and less light, and new Trial Spawners, which generate a certain number of hostile mobs based on things like the number of players in your party.
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Minecraft Live 2023: Update Highlights
You’ll also have to worry about a new mob, the Breeze, which hovers about like a Ghast, but shoots wind bullets instead of exploding fireballs. These projectiles do a bit of area damage while also knocking back characters and activating things like redstone contraptions. You can see how they’d be a nuisance in rooms full of traps.
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More interested in building than plundering dungeons? Fear not. New structures aside, the update introduces crafter blocks, which as the name suggests, can be set to automatically craft certain recipes and will surely lead to ever-more terrifying feats of Minecraft industrialisation. The user interface appears pretty simple from the footage: you just pick the recipe and drop the ingredients into the crafter inventory. Or better, set up redstone circuits, dispensers and so on to seamlessly ferry raw materials to the crafter while you gad about murdering Breezes. It’s the kind of thing Minecraft players have hitherto had to rely onMinecraft modsto provide.
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The big question is, will all this smooth the ruffled feathers ofthose players who took up arms against theMinecraft Mob Votelast week, berating Mojang for not adding enough to the game? The associatedpetitionnow has half-a-million signatories, but the Mob Vote - an annual ceremony in which Mojang asks players to choose which of three mobs they’ll add to the game next - went ahead as scheduled, with the Armadillo emerging supreme over the Penguin and the Crab.
Mojang made no mention of the uproar during the Minecraft Live 2023 stream, but chief content officer Vu Bui did hint that the losing mobs might eventually appear in Minecraft. “Remember, our little Frog friends didn’t win the vote either, but they still managed to hop their way into the game,” he said, referring to the Biome Vote of 2018.
There’s a ripe old tradition of hand-crafting mazes in Minecraft, many of them featured onthe maze subreddit, and those wily mod-makers have, of course, put together some maze generators of their own. One that catches my eye is MightyOne’sTangled Maze generator, which can be used to generate mazes across hilly terrain and pick between roofed or open-air mazes, amongst other things. Here are shots of a couple of Minecraft maps the creator has made with it. Cor!
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