This week in Minecraft — July 8th

Minecraft News

  • "A month ago we launched Marketplace on Pocket and Windows 10 - for the first time it offers a way to browse, buy, download and play community content from within the game itself [...] Today we’re putting up three new items: Summer Mini Games Festival by Noxcrew, Wisteria Grove by Imagiverse and The Kingdom of Torchwall by Imagiverse." — find a full preview of all this content on Minecraft.net.

  • Even more new content! "QwertyuiopThePie is a name legendary among Minecraft creators, having authored a number of much-loved adventure maps and minigames, each built upon intricate redstone workings, and, more recently, command blocks. Qwerty, as he is more pronounceably known, has appeared on these pages before for his amazing team Capture The Flag map, Valley of Kings. Now he’s back, bringing another elaborate team deathmatch map to Pocket and Windows 10: Space Battle Simulator." — read his interview on Minecraft.net here.
  • Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 is coming soon, the next season of the Choose Your Own Adventure set in the Minecraft universe launches on July 11, and this week Mojang released the trailer. Click here to watch the trailer.
  • Last month at E3 the Better Together update was announced, bringing with it unification of Minecraft across multiple platforms. On June 19th Minecraft Developer Jason Major tweeted out "I plan to show a Better Together feature each day until I run out." covering his work towards bringing the Better Together Update to the mobile versions of the game. Click here for a round-up of everything he's shared.
  • The Adventure Time Pack, previously released for console editions of Minecraft, is now available for Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition.

Watch below the Minecraft Marketplace Spotlight Livestream featuring the new Marketplace content, including mini-golf on Summer Mini Games Festival: