The next Minecraft Xbox 360 update lands tomorrow at 2am UTC / 3am GMT, bringing the console port up to speed with Minecraft PC beta version 1.7.3. You know what this means - shears! Also, new cobblestone textures, pistons, stackable fences, ban functionality and improved lighting.
Here's the final release sheet - give it a once-over, and let us know how you're planning to make use of the additions. Don't forget, the best is yet to come. A Minecraft DLC skins pack is also down for release in the wake of update 1.7.3, costing 160 MP.
Thanks, PlayXBLA.
- Added Pistons & Sticky Pistons.
- Added Stackable fences.
- Added Shears - required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks.
- TNT needs Flint and Steel or Redstone to detonate.
- Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater.
- New textures for Cobblestone and Brick.
- Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from Downloadable Content skin packs.
- Added lighting improvements (brought forward from 1.8.2 update) and snow & rain improvements.
- Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list.
- Added ban list functionality to allow players to self-ban from levels they feel contain offensive content.
- Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus.
- Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends).
- Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display).
- Changed the tooltip display setting to in-game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.
- Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider.
- On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80,
and will fade back down to the user opacity setting after 6 seconds of no quickselect bar use.
- Added some more Tips & Trivia to the loading/saving screen display.
Tutorial World changes & additions:-
- Added optional tutorial for Pistons and Redstone.
- Added a self-building bridge to the castle using Pistons.
- Added some sugar cane, cactii and clay to the world.
- Added a few other things for players to discover.
Fixes:-
- Fix for only the host being shown the pop-up when any player attempts to place lava near the spawn point.
- Fixed tooltip for Flint and Steel.
- Fix for Note blocks not showing notes.
- Fix for Leaderboard reads taking too long.
- Fix to block players re-entering a level they have been kicked from, until the level is restarted.
- Fix to stop players being able to join a game when they are not a friend of any player in the game.
- Fix for Netherracks re-appearing after being mined.
- Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether.
- Fix for attacking enemies at a different level not damaging them.
- Fixed a problem causing some save games not to load.
- Removed Herobrine.
36 comments so far...
Clanger67 on 12 Jul '12 said:
Fantastic at last,was only moaning about this the other day.The walls have ears.
Either going to carry on with my sandstone fortress and vast mine underneath it.Or upscale from my snow house and build one out of bricks.Also haven't got any wolves yet.
Redreno on 12 Jul '12 said:
Great news! Think the time is wrong though edwin. Should be 3AM GMT / 2AM UTC
OXM ETboy on 12 Jul '12 said:
Thanks - edited.
Clanger67 on 12 Jul '12 said:
Is that right then 3am,looks like a late night for me then.
Detonation on 12 Jul '12 said:
FINALLY! I've been waiting forever! So clay will be fixed now?
Haha at the bottom it says it removed herobrine
Detonation on 12 Jul '12 said:
FINALLY! I've been waiting forever! So clay is fixed now?
Haha at the bottom it says it removed herobrine
STE MO on 12 Jul '12 said:
Is it to soon to ask for abandoned mines and villages
can't wait for tomorrow night now, have to get familiar with pistons on YouTube .
Worthies on 12 Jul '12 said:
Thank GOD that they have fixed the nether crash bug!
My character is stuck, getting mauled by Ghasts and Pigmen, with no hope of escape from the hell he made the unfortunate mistake of trying to colonize.
But seriously, it now means that my world is now not going to be lost forever, and I can finish my attempt at Dragonsreach!
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
so its past 3AM and no update =( buuut im guessing it should come soon and itll be worth the wait =)
Tehquo on 13 Jul '12 said:
30 Mins Late......
Gr8alexander on 13 Jul '12 said:
Hm. I though it was supposed to come around 10 here if I did the math right and it's only 9:34. Must have done the math wrong I guess.
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
well im in england and last i heard it was due for 3AM but as of yet there is nothing "/ sad times!!
Tehquo on 13 Jul '12 said:
This isn't really acceptable. I stayed awake for this.... IM MAD BRO!?!
Clanger67 on 13 Jul '12 said:
Wow have you never had an update before,they are never on time.It's Microsoft time we are talking about now,lol.
The first Skyrim one was about 1 to two hours late.
Tehquo on 13 Jul '12 said:
Nope.
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
haha well yeah fair point it is a little annoying though i mean if they know they wont be able to do it at that time why not just release a date? well it's an hour over now so im gunna try again =)
Clanger67 on 13 Jul '12 said:
Because it is Microsoft and they don't care what anyone thinks it's not like you are going to sue them is it,lol.
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
well yeah good point that would be a fuuny case though getting into the court " THEY MADE ME WAIT FOR MY MINECRAFT UPDATE!!!!" lol
FaLLeNxHonoR on 13 Jul '12 said:
one HOUR and a half late... I'm soooooo not happy right now
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
two hours.....
Gr8alexander on 13 Jul '12 said:
I'm just gonna take a guess and say it isn't happening today.
bradley2k12 on 13 Jul '12 said:
same here i guess its not coming out and everyone was looking forward to this update cause of the pistons
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
well an american friend of mine claims she already has it but i have just checked and i still don't "/
D3rpyKush420 on 13 Jul '12 said:
Well maybe its 3 AM, July 13th.... its friday the 13th.. ugh
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
well its now 3 and a half hours late sooo im gunna give it till 7 then play something else lol bored of waiting now "/
nastynate on 13 Jul '12 said:
you guys realize this article was written july 12, and it said "tommarow" at 2-3am. so quit you're bitching about it being three hours late lol. you're a day off friends. well as of now it should update in an hour or two for me. seeing as how its now july 13.
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
yeah i know when it was written and my posts were done from 3 am this morning (which is the 13th) so as i said its late lol
Tehquo on 13 Jul '12 said:
5 Hours?!? Really, this is absolute HorseCrap!
Joshuacknight94 on 13 Jul '12 said:
If I have to suck some dick... I might not do it...
btw where is this update?!?!
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
yeah it is a bit stupid to be honest
creations on 13 Jul '12 said:
Guy calm down, just take a nap for a few hours and you'll have the update when you wake up jeez.
Raveenix on 13 Jul '12 said:
lol in all honesty it's annoyed me but not to the point of making a difference I'm just impatient XD
kaineffs on 13 Jul '12 said:
update is now live as of 9am uk.
EdDeRs1 on 13 Jul '12 said:
oh i so need to get into OXM land now, the place needs Star Destroyers, or at least the Tower of Barad-Dur, my tag is EdDeRs1
lazercut123 on 13 Jul '12 said:
how pleasant
btw i'm sure that oxm mentioned something about creative mode
unusualGuy on 13 Jul '12 said:
- Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether.
I'M..... FREE?!?! I CAN FINALLY LEAVE THE NETHER??? MY FRIENDS MUST KNOW! SPREAD THE WORD! TELL EVERYONE I'M COMING BACK TO MY TREEHOUSE FOREST! 
