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While few details are currently available, Apple announced during a recent event that Minecraft will - along with a host of other applications - make its debut on Apple TV, according to an announcement by Apple's Tim Cook during their live event. A handful of details are available: it will not be Pocket Edition, but rather a version called Minecraft: Apple TV Edition.

It is not known if this version will differ significantly from other platforms, but there is little reason at this time to believe it will.

Minecraft has, over the course of years, slowly become available on nearly every popular platform in use today, and quite a few obscure ones besides.

This brings up an interesting question: do you play Minecraft on multiple platforms, or just one? Do you have a preferred platform? If so, which one and why?

Time for a new snapshot! Mostly bugfixes, it still brings a few new oddities to the table:

WHAT'S NEW

• Fishing has recieved a major overhaul!

• Vexes can now follow you between dimensions and move in water

• Broken tools will remain broken

BUGFIXES

• [Bug MC-1040] - Tools with unbreaking enchantment break, disappear from slot then reappear
• [Bug MC-2920] - Wrong Fishing Line Calculation
• [Bug MC-6579] - Fishing line does not follow rod when Fov is changed
• [Bug MC-11877] - Fishing bobber floats a block above water
• [Bug MC-47508] - Ridden entities disappear on relogin
• [Bug MC-55851] - Leads not rendering when spawned (attached to mob/fencepost) via command block/structure block
• [Bug MC-79996] - Blocks like crops and rails are solid to Fishing Rods.
• [Bug MC-80500] - Snow layer placed against the side of another snow layer are placed one block too far out, only when there’s a block where snow would go normally
• [Bug MC-87988] - Fishing rod sometimes cannot reel in entities
• [Bug MC-93286] - fishing rod can’t pull mob
• [Bug MC-94169] - Fishing Rod Bobber collision error and into the block
• [Bug MC-94502] - Pasting numbers in customized world generation text fields does not enable “Defaults” button
• [Bug MC-95450] - Some mobs have missing Loot Tables
• [Bug MC-95944] - Fished items doesn’t reach player
• [Bug MC-96205] - boat still does rowing animation while pressing a and d
• [Bug MC-98922] - Fishing hook / bobber cannot kill itself after 1200 ticks and bounces on land
• [Bug MC-98995] - Birch Forest M Biome Generation off
• [Bug MC-99427] - Fishing bobber sticks to entity sometimes only visually
• [Bug MC-100964] - Resseting demo mode dialog cannot be canceled by button
• [Bug MC-103100] - Fishing Rods not always pulling in items
• [Bug MC-103313] - Hitbox of baby mobs / slime / magma cube / llama are offset for some seconds
• [Bug MC-104663] - Fishing particle glitch
• [Bug MC-106082] - Attempting to pull ignited TNT with a Fishing Rod at long distances rarely works
• [Bug MC-106892] - Dragon breath particles aren’t reduced on lower particle settings
• [Bug MC-107149] - maxEntityCramming death message states “suffocated in a wall”
• [Bug MC-107515] - Vex cannot teleport through nether / end portal
• [Bug MC-107818] - Mansion generates with a 4 section room missing
• [Bug MC-107844] - Vex has one accidental red dot on its left arm
• [Bug MC-107846] - Evocation Fangs hurt illagers after reload
• [Bug MC-108095] - Llama caravans refuse to pathfind down hills and around obstacles.
• [Bug MC-108238] - Teleporting away from leashed entity causes leash knot to be near 0 0 0 client side
• [Bug MC-108797] - Vex cannot move in water
• [Bug MC-108897] - Blocks given redstone power do not power nearby redstone until the wire is updated

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, then synths might start replacing villagers!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: Minecraft server jar

Mumbo Jumbo walks us through another clever building tutorial! Today's build offers a clever way to create a bank vault-style doorway, complete with a combination lock. Of course, potential vault-crackers could just bust through the door with a pick-axe, so what to do about them? One could put explosive (or burning) traps inside the vault, but that might destroy everything inside. Instead, a clever alarm system is designed and demonstrated, and works very well! Difficult to detect, but quite obvious when it goes off, it will alert vault owners to any potential break-ins. Neat!

While the vault door is built with banks in mind, one could potentially use this door for other things as well, including post-apocalyptic vaults of a non-specific variety.

As with other Mumbo Jumbo videos, the vault, alarms, and combination lock are fully explained, along with a guide on how to build each. Enjoy!

Halloween is a little under a week away, and you know what that means: loads of spooky content! The Spooky Bundle is 3 goodies packed into one: the Halloween Mash-up, the Halloween Battle Map and the Campfire Tales Skin Pack.

The Halloween Mash-Up comes with a custom-built world for you to explore, seasonally themed and ready for spooking! Of course, what fun would it be to wander around a haunted map without some suitably eerie skins to go with it? The Campfire Tales Skin Pack is a perfect compliment, boasting monstrous skins of many varieties. All of this walks hand-in-hand with a new seasonal map for the Battle mini-game. Neat!

For more Halloween goodies, be sure to keep an eye towards Mojang's livestream on October 31st, where they will demonstrate a number of new critters made with the new MCPE's Add-Ons system. What scary surprises await?

Going off the scary rails for a minute, there's something a bit more normal for building enthusiasts: the Builder's Pack! Geared for Console Edition, the Builder's Pack is actually six packs in one - the Biome Settlers Skin Pack 1, Candy Texture Pack, Cartoon Texture Pack, Pattern Texture Pack, Plastic Texture Pack and Greek Mythology Mash-up!

Pocket Edition's most recent update, 0.16, is out in the world now, and brings with it a ton of new features. New bosses - the Wither, the Elder Guardian - new buildings, commands, and so much more.

Of particular interest is the new add-ons system: how does it work? How can you make add-ons of your own, right this very minute? As luck would have it, Jared and Jason have come up with a quick demonstration of messing about with add-ons, by doing a step-by-step of turning a villager into a skeleton-like bodyguard for the player. Neat!

This is only one tiny part of what is possible with the new add-ons system. What will you try to create next?

Curious what else comes with 0.16? Read on!

Did you want to try out Minecraft: Story Mode, but weren't sure if it would be fun? Does the idea of demoing a game before spending hard-earned money on it have appeal? As luck would have it, Story Mode is following this very path, by releasing Episode 1 completely free!

This isn't a limited offer, or with any catch: download Episode 1, play it as much as you like, and pay absolutely nothing. If you enjoy it and want other chapters, you can pick those up as well, at cost. 

For those not familiar, Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. The five-episode game follows the episodic format that Telltale Games used for its titles The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones. The game centers around a new character, named Jesse, who can be either male or female, as they and their allies attempt to save their world by defeating the Wither Storm.

You can pick up your copy by clicking here. Enjoy!

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Looking for Minecraft costume ideas for Halloween? Check this out!

Civilization 6 releases this week! Click here to check out Civ 6 Wiki on Gamepedia

 It's snapshot time again! As before, this version focuses heavily on bugfixes and other oddities, paving the way for a smooth release. Like previous snapshots, every bug reported is a bug squashed, so be sure to mention any you find!

FEATURES

• Replaced Beds with Herobrine
• Replaced Llamas with Herobrine
• Replaced Carrots with Herobrine
• Removed Beds, Llamas, and Carrots
• Replaced Beds, Llamas, and Carrots with non-haunted original versions

BUGFIXES

• [Bug MC-46345] - Maps stop updating after going through nether portal / Map update packets ignored by client
• [Bug MC-88089] - Two players going down a ladder at the same time makes them stuck or go up
• [Bug MC-95735] - (Splash) harming and healing potion still applys effect even if it’s specified not to.
• [Bug MC-97692] - Boat riding on an entity riding on an entity
• [Bug MC-99763] - help command not suggesting tab completion when executed from other entity
• [Bug MC-100260] - Explosion impulse on non-living entities is not attenuated by power, distance, or obstructions
• [Bug MC-102986] - Can place Grass Path at “invalid” locations
• [Bug MC-105845] - Memory usage graph of server GUI not drawing
• [Bug MC-107138] - Shot arrow loses its critical state after reloading
• [Bug MC-108081] - Item name shown in /give command feedback has no hoverEvent
• [Bug MC-108351] - No play placed sound and subtitles, when placing blocks on cake
• [Bug MC-108664] - Witches that spawn in witch huts don’t have PersistenceRequired set to 1
• [Bug MC-108676] - Skeletons and wither skeletons can spawn anywhere in the Nether
• [Bug MC-108685] - The corners of the offhand hotbar slot have transparent textures
• [Bug MC-108718] - Illagers and Vexes not randomly looking at player when not aggressed
• [Bug MC-108727] - Thorns enchantment has no effect on Vexes
• [Bug MC-108729] - When giving yourself items with negative durability, the game crashes.
• [Bug MC-108748] - Can’t trade with villagers while holding a spawn egg
• [Bug MC-108752] - Elder Guardians spawned from spawn egg / command do not have full health

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, then how will anyone know if corn is a grass?

To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: Minecraft server jar

Civilization 6 releases this week! Click here to check out Civ 6 Wiki on Gamepedia

Due to unforeseen mishaps with creepers, there is a bit of a delay with the highly anticipated Boss Update, version 0.16.0. While unfortunate, this does give the team some time to iron out as many issues as possible, clearing the way to launch as smoothly as possible. Not all bad!

The Boss Update has all kinds of goodies, including underwater temples (and their resident Guardians), the Wither, commands, key customization, and quite a lot more besides.

One interesting thing about Pocket Edition is how people play it: desktop versions are (unsurprisingly) played behind a desk, and console versions are usually played either online or local co-op on the couch. However, Pocket Edition offers infinitely more freedom than either version, which begs the question: where do you usually play it? At school? At work? At the park? Do you usually play alone, or with friends?

Civilization 6 releases this week! Click here to check out Civ 6 Wiki on Gamepedia

The Observer Block received some significant changes in the most recent snapshot, some of them breaking or improving various things that could be done with the block. Xisumavoid goes over some of these changes, demonstrating the more relevant changes as they relate to many crazy creations made since the Observer Block debuted some snapshots back.

16w41a brought with it a few other changes of note, which Xisumavoid also goes over. Mainly fixes, they nonetheless are noteworthy.