Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but it's also green in shoot and branch. I live in terror of the trees, readers. Some welcome the way they replenish overnight, sparing you the risk of long overland trips in search of new building materials, but me? I find it sinister. Sure, I've got an axe. Sure, I can punch almost anything to spinning cubes. But I feel my arsenal needs a tune-up nonetheless. My arsenal needs shears.
And shears are what we'll get, among other things, in Minecraft Xbox 360's 1.7.3. update, which goes into Microsoft certification testing today. The process will take no longer than ten days, reports the official 4J Twitter, and then, then I'll have implements to wield against the encroaching darkness. Also, I'll be able to make my house's chimney pop up and down like in old Disney cartoons.
- Added pistons.
- Fixed clay generation.
- Flint and Steel or redstone is now required to trigger TNT.
- Fences can be stacked.
- Added Shears.
- Redstone wire now will connect to a repeater.
- Shears can be used to pick up leaf blocks.
- Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them
- Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched, only from being killed when they are unsheared.
- New textures for Cobblestone and Brick blocks.
- Silverfish skin was added (for Beta 1.8).
9 comments so far...
Thos. on 3 Jul '12 said:
Admittedly they've got code to base their updates on, but this is still incredibly fast work.
mowls on 3 Jul '12 said:
That piglet is going to make my wife love minecraft.
baby animals, especially sloths, are her addiction.
cheers Notch!
GHOSTY05 on 3 Jul '12 said:
Sounds good. although i'm still getting used to this version!!
lazercut123 on 3 Jul '12 said:
iii love minecraft, wiithout these updates though, ii fear that i wouldi become
bored
STE MO on 3 Jul '12 said:
Just hope they don't patch the furnace duplication glitch before my nephew and me blow out a big enough hole for his city that he wants. It's great fun stinging 60 odd TNT blocks together and watching the impending destruction
Dr Owo on 3 Jul '12 said:
I just hope it doesn't become 100% similar to the pc version
Grummy on 4 Jul '12 said:
What does it mean by fences now stack? As in stack in the inventory or stack on top of each other when you place them in game?
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure fences stacked up to 64 in your inventory like everything else. As for stacking in game, I never had trouble with it, You just build them from the top down instead. The first row needs a pillar of mud or something to be built against, then subsequent rows can be placed against that first row without problems.
STE MO on 4 Jul '12 said:
I think it means you can stack they upwards, cause it is a bit of a faf to child them down.
dazmc1888360 on 6 Jul '12 said:
i have 3 wolves on minecraft
