4J has announced that Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.7.3's much-demanded bug fix patch could arrive before 9th August, though it's still waiting on Microsoft for the go-code.
"We're hoping sooner than a week, but it's not in our control - we have to wait along with everyone else," the studio Tweeted last night. Minecraft developer Stuart Ross also revealed that 4J may combine material from Minecraft PC beta 1.8.2 and 1.9 in a forthcoming update. "There is an awful lot of stuff with the two. We may bring some things forward but not all of it."
Question for the thread: would you like us to put together a feature on the subject of certification procedures? They're clearly a vital component of any digital content platform, but they've been the cause of much fan ire.
Second, less chin-strokey question for the thread: are you still playing Minecraft, or has one of its Xbox Live Indie clones seduced you away?
7 comments so far...
STE MO on 2 Aug '12 said:
Minecraft is still number one in my house. Kids live it the wife loves it but I'm getting bored with it now, I want to shoot something or have a high octane experience. Might go back and play CoD MW or MW2
STE MO on 2 Aug '12 said:
Minecraft is still number one in my house. Kids live it the wife loves it but I'm getting bored with it now, I want to shoot something or have a high octane experience. Might go back and play CoD MW or MW2
Clanger67 on 2 Aug '12 said:
Good news indeed even more so if they can cram some extras in there.
Plus yeah the bloody cert. process seems to be getting worse.I thought 4J had been able to kick MS up the arse about that.Plus all the time for the Cold stream dlc for L4D2 how much of that is down to MS and not Valve.Fair enough you want any updates etc. to be ok and not cause any more probs. etc. but surely it seems to be getting slower.The last Minecraft one was eight hours late.
Bezza89 on 2 Aug '12 said:
The only problem with the certification process is getting a date set for release, it's annoying when Valve give you a date and then go 'whoops we didn't do the update' but we'd be ok if they said, cold stream has gone for certification, and then announced the date when they had one. That would be nice.
Jobe wan kenobi on 2 Aug '12 said:
By 1.9 do they mean 1.1.1? Because I for one don't remember there being a 1.9 update for PC.
Found some evidence on the Wiki for Minecraft development history.
Considered the "Lost Update",a full version under the name "Beta 1.9" never came. Instead, Mojang opted to delay the release of this update until MineCon 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Versi ... sions#Beta
Strike Z3R0 on 3 Aug '12 said:
I hope they don't patch the dispenser glitch or construction on my world will halt. All I've got until creative mode to build
Clanger67 on 4 Aug '12 said:
I hope they have sorted the bug that has cropped up since the last one where you can't mine from walls.The walls are there but it is like they aren't when you try to mine from them,lol.Plus i am not holding my breath for the ninth after the Cold Stream debacle.Bloody MS.