Minecraft Earth: Plentiful Farm Challenge

A bounty of builds!

With only one guideline for the challenge, our Minecraft Earth builders were free to let their imaginations run wild with any size buildplate or material for their latest challenge – as long as the end product resulted in a bountiful harvest. This tiny yet impressive 8x8 farm by Table Smasher looks completely up to the task.

Have you built a farm yet in Minecraft Earth? If not, why not take a look at these builds for some inspiration?

 

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Minecraft Live: Everything You Need to Know

How, when, and where to watch!

It’s Minecraft Live Eve Eve Eve! No, there isn’t an echo in here, that is just my adorable way of letting you know that the livestream of the decade will take place in three days! It is high time that we get into the best part of any party – the logistics! 

Time

The Pre-Show starts at 11:30 AM ET and the main show starts at 12:00 PM ET. What does that mean for you and your local timezone? Here is a list of times from the image at the top of the page that I stole from the ...

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Magma Mia!

Aderlyon shares their lava-ly layout of the Nether

Do you remember the first time you went to the Nether in Minecraft? When you lit up that purple-black obsidian portal, and stepped through the weird wiggly curtain to be transported to the world below? And then everything was red, scary, and totally on fire? 

Yup, there's nothing like the Nether. From the streams of searing-hot lava to the screams of searing-hot fire blasts being shot out of a Ghast's mouth, it's a very exciting and unfriendly place to be.

But at least you don't actually live there. In ...

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Community Roundup: September

Minecraft around the world!

The world of Minecraft is just teeming with activity – both inside and outside the game. Building projects, Skyblock contests, in-game events – there's just so much to keep up with! Fortunately, you don’t have to scan the web to stay on top of things. In addition to our ...

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Dirt House Deluxe

Get ready to be wowed by dirt blocks!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade – or get mad and throw them back at life. No one tells you what to drink. When Minecraft gives you dirt blocks, build ugly bridges in the Nether. Well, unless you're Robert, a.k.a. ...

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Minecraft Earth: Custom Adventure Challenge

Our Minecraft Earth community took on the challenge of designing their own custom adventure build plates. Each entry showed a unique solution to this creative problem, whether they found themselves in icy depths or the corners of a dark forest or a hot adventure where the floor is literally lava. Do you dare follow these creative adventures built by the community? Fortunately, we’re here to provide some previews, like this decaying tower created by Carcharias!

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Minecraft Dungeons September Update

A tour of the new free game update

Greetings! I’m Måns, Game Director for Minecraft Dungeons. With our new Creeping Winter DLC finally out, we'd like to take the opportunity to talk about some of the free new features we’ve released alongside it. We also want to share some development details and insights into why we’re introducing these features, which include:

• The Lively Village – A market filled with new merchants

• Daily Trials – New mode with exclusive rewards

• Buzzing Bees – New content to help support underused playstyles

T...

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Minecraft Community Fan Art Roundup

The latest in community creations!

Get ready for a brand new community spotlight! During our previous adventures into the world of fan art, we’ve been treated to a delightful array of art ranging from sketches to renders and more. For this collection, we’re keeping it real with some delightful examples of offline creations inspired by Minecraft, starting with this unbeelieveably small felt art by laneofpennies.

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Announcing Minecraft Live!

Join us on October 3rd for our annual Minecraft celebration!

Well, well, well. It’s that time of year again. No, I am not referring to my annual workout. That was last week, and I can assure you that I will be making it a biennial affair from now on. Obviously I can only be talking about one thing: Minecraft Live! Tune in on October 3 at 12 ET on Minecraft.net/live for what the Minecraft Live team are not-so-humbly calling “an event that will happen”!

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New Worlds for RTX Windows 10 Beta!

Get the creator-made maps today!

Have you tried the new RTX Beta maps, the ones we released in partnership with ...

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Minecraft Earth: Spaceship Challenge

It’s out of this world!

Attention explorers! The latest build challenge results are in, proving once again how creative our Minecraft Earth community is. Faced with the task of using any earthbound resources, our community spent the early part of August crafting constructions that are truly stellar. Just like El Brian’s rocket above, get ready to launch your imagination to all new heights.

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Minecraft Earth R26 Patch Notes – September 24, 2020

New Stuff!

• Season 10: Dark Forest is coming soon so put on your brave pants and make sure you bring a glowstone with you for some spooky new challenges and rewards!
• New player experience! We’ve made some changes to help new players out as they start the game. Experienced players…uh, you can ignore this note.

New Mobs & Variants:

• Don’t be tricked by their innocent-looking, adorable eyes, the new Bold Striped Rabbit throws caution to the wind and does what they want. The Bold Striped Rabbit is available in a tappable near you.

Bug Fixes:

• Various bug fixes

 

Minecraft Earth R25 Patch Notes – September 17, 2020

New Stuff!

• Season 9: Biomes is here! Explore the driest deserts and the deepest waters with exciting ...

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Minecraft Dungeons: 9 essential artifacts

Terrific talismans to help you triumph!

Are you trying to complete Minecraft Dungeons without using artifacts? No offense, but that’s like trying to play Minecraft without doing any mining. Artifacts are treasures you find in-game, giving you huge game-changing boosts. They can summon wolves, shoot lasers, inf...

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New on Java Realms: Running, Riding, Escaping

Five new maps to get your mind racing!

My mama once said that life is like a box of chocolates. When I realized she had stolen this line from the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, Forrest Gump, I concluded that one must make out what life is on your own (unless you resort to plagiarism, Mom). 

Sometimes, life is also about running, or for those with the necessary mounts – riding. Escaping, from demanding houses and meteorological phenomena, life can be a frenzied flight or a casual stroll down the street depending on how you look at it. Nowhere is this more apparent than...

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Block of the Week: Lodestone

Get a lode of this!

One of the most useful items in Minecraft is the compass – an item we featured about a year ago in our Taking Inventory column. “They serve a single purpose – pointing to the world spawn point,” we wrote. “If you’re planning on wandering off into the wilderness, then it’s highly recommended to take one w...

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Around the Block: Basalt Deltas

You’ll lava trip there

Many of the new biomes featured in the Nether Update are designed to make the old fiery dimension feel more alive. The two forest biomes, Crimson and Warped, add many different kinds of flora and fauna to the Nether, while still fitting right into its gloomy, oppressive aesthetic. 

But what would you get if you made the Nether less alive? You’d get our biome of the week – the Basalt Deltas. Java developer Felix Jones explains its origins:

"I re...

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Minecraft Earth R24 Patch Notes – August 25, 2020

New Stuff!

• Leveling up just got more rewarding. Now you can earn rewards every time you level up!
• A new season is coming and it’s full of goodness. Season 8: Badlands is coming soon!
• Look out for nifty new blocks in Minecraft Earth, the Carved Pumpkin and the Jack o’Lantern.

New Mobs & Variants:

• There’s dough many Cow mobs, but this new mob is a dream crumb true. The Cookie Cow can now be found in tappables near you!

Bug Fixes:

• Various bug fixes

Et Cetera!

• Android 11 Beta users may experience crashes on launch.
• On iOS 14, you may be unable to activate minifigs in the Boosts menu.
• Carved Pumpkins cannot be placed on the sides of other blocks, only on top of them.

 

Minecraft Earth...

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New Dungeons DLC and more on September 8

New DLC, features, and more!

This morning when I woke up and shook my trusted Magic 8-ball, the same answer kept floating to the surface: September 8. I thought that was pretty strange, but then checked the calendar and was utterly blown away by the wisdom of what some would call “a cheap toy that you can’t consult to make all of your major life decisions.” It turns out that September 8 will be an incredible day for fans of Minecraft Dungeons with not one or two, but THREE big events all landing on the same day. Because I’m the kind of person who eats dessert first, I figured I’d start with the bigge...

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What's it like to be a Minecraft mob?

See Minecraft through their eyes. It’s not as fun!

It's all about you, isn't it? The player. Always the center of attention, the hero of the story. But have you ever stopped for a second to think about the (Over)world around you? About the thoughts and feelings of others? Well I have! 

It wasn’t easy, but I’ve spent the last several years of my exhausting life interviewing Minecraft’s most inestimable inhabitants, the mobs, about how they see the world of Minecraft. Why? I can’t remember, but the results are undeniably fascinating!

Today, we’re proud to present unique perspec...

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Minecraft Earth: Three Little Pigs Challenge

Three times the fun!

Looking for a new place to live can either be super fun or super stressful, or both! Inspired by a classic fable, our Minecraft Earth community created these lovely livable locales out of wood, brick, and straw during the last part of June. Saint Mischievous went a step beyond and not only created these homes you see in the above image, they also wrote an ...

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