We're starting a new series to highlight various helpful submissions made by the community, called Helpful Hints!  Our first segment was submitted by TheWaffleGalaxy, who gives us a detailed breakdown of the basics of redstone.  Simple constructions, mining times, duration, distance and more are covered in this video, with more to come in the future.  If you're relatively new to (or a bit overwhelmed by) redstone mechanics, this is a good place to start!


Helpful Hints is a periodic segment aimed at highlighting useful tutorials, walkthroughs and hints submitted by the community, whether in video, image or other formats.  Do you know of a particularly helpful hint, video or other interesting piece?  Let us know about it, and it may get spotlighted! Back to Top

Today's Digital Diamond is brought to us by Forgant: a humorous "Looney Tunes"-esque skit!  Follow the zany misadventures of a heroic...chicken?  Check it out!


Digital Diamonds is an ongoing look at Minecraft-related videos that have been submitted to the Minecraft forum video section. We'll be selecting memorable videos and those resonating with the community to share with everyone on the front page. Back to Top

Some time ago, we covered CorruptCarnage's "Real Life Minecraft" video.  Today, we have the second installment in the series!  In this episode, he gathers fruit, water and more raw supplies for his continuing journey in this incredibly high-res texture pack world.  Enjoy! Back to Top

It would appear that Bethesda - developer of numerous popular titles, including the "Elder Scrolls" series of games - is suing Mojang for use of the word "Scrolls" in one of their upcoming projects.

UPDATE NOTE

There seems to be some (understandable) confusion in regards to where the lawsuit is coming from.  To clarify, "Bethesda Softworks" (publisher and developer of game titles) and "Bethesda Game Studios" (Creators of games like Oblivion, Skyrim etc.) are not the same entity.  BGS is an in-house game-making team led by Todd Howard which is one part of Bethesda Softworks, and has no direct connection to the lawsuit in progress by Bethesda Softworks.  Unless further specified by the acronym "BGS", any references to Bethesda in the following article assume "Bethesda Softworks".  Sorry about the confusion!

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Minecraft has surpassed 3 million sales!  Congratulations to the hard-working team at Mojang for all of their creativity and diligence!

UPDATE
It appears that Mojang has been asked by Bethesda - developer of the Elder Scrolls series of games, among others - to cease usage of the word "Scrolls" for an upcoming Mojang project.

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UPDATE: And we've found him! Everyone give Dook a warm welcome as our new Video Moderator.
We need a video moderator to moderate the videos that are submitted to the video section.

The job would include watching the submitted videos and selecting whether they pass our approval requirements.


We need someone who is 18+, lives in the US (or is able to be online during US business hours), and has the ability to communicate over VoIP (specifically Mumble).

Please submit your qualifications in this thread, and we'll send you a PM if we'd like to talk with you more. Back to Top

Today's Digital Diamond is brought to us by SomethingCubedVideos: a humorous "tutorial" video which imparts such valuable lessons as "how to dig a ceiling" and...well, you just have to see it for yourself!  High quality production and clever script-writing make this a memorable viewing experience, with a witty script, innovative camera usage and the hilarious misadventures of Sam, the video's guide.  Enjoy! Back to Top

Minecon is coming up fast!  It is set to be held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on November 18th and 19th, to celebrate the full launch of Minecraft.  Registration and ticket purchase will be available next week - be sure to get yours fast when they do!  Notch made it a point to emphasize that this will NOT be the end of development for the game, stating:

“We’ll just go back home and keep working on Minecraft directly after MineCon, but it does represent a huge milestone where the game finally leaves beta, something we’d never been able to do without our fans, so it feels natural to celebrate it with them.”

In addition to Mojang, a number of the staff from the forums will be in attendance as well!  Will you be attending Minecon?  Check out our poll! Back to Top

A new image of the new creature - commonly referred to as "Endermen" - was released recently (enhanced here, for light levels).  This image is much more up-close-and-personal than the first, giving us a good look at the new creatures.  It would seem that wearing a pumpkin prevents the new mob from seeing you, although this is unconfirmed at present.

Additionally, Notch mentioned a possible name-change for the newly minted mob, "Farlander" being suggested and, apparently, already in heavy use.

We have a poll for the creature's name,  check it out!  Response to the poll was so overwhelming that it actually overflowed what the poll was capable of storing!  We have fixed the poll - however, any previous votes will have to be re-cast.  We apologize for the inconvenience! Back to Top

Those of you familiar with the first episode of Bashcraft will be pleased to know that Episode 2 is now out!  Hobo continues on his adventure, trying to get home and put all this "being on fire" nonsense behind him, and hilarity ensues.  Take a look! Back to Top