Check out this latest video from the guys at IGN where they check out the U.S.S. Enterprise from the orginal Star Trek.

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Notch gives his reasons why MineCraft and Steam are not meant for each other. He stated:

"Being on Steam limits a lot of what we're allowed to do with the game, and how we're allowed to talk to our users," he writes. "We (probably) wouldn't be able to, say, sell capes or have a map market place on minecraft.net that works with steam customers in a way that keeps Valve happy. It would effectively split the Minecraft community into two parts, where only some of the players can access all of the weird content we want to add to the game."

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The mob is now named Enderman, kudos to a Reddit poster for pointing out the 'Slender man' resemblance and thusly giving Notch the idea of naming this creepy addition 'Enderman'

Enderman loves to teleport... but only when you aren't looking directly at it.⁽¹⁾

It can carry blocks.... we've still no idea if that is a good thing or not though!

You are helping figure out what Enderman is going to do and what purpose it will serve with your speculation! That's right, speculate away and you just might turn out magically correct, because......

So tell us, what do you think the Enderman should do? Think this teleporting shadow man is going to follow you home from the nether as some Redditors believe? Or perhaps he'll be an ally of sorts, perhaps even building and altering the envornment itself. Notch could go in all kinds of directions with this beasty, speculate away and give him some solid ideas!

+ Added pistons
+ Fire or redstone is now required to trigger TNT
+ Fences can be stacked
+ Added shears
+ Shears can be used to pick up leaf blocks
+ Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them
* Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched
- Removed Herobrine

After 1.8, we’ll have to start crunching for the full release in November. That includes finishing up the mod api, improving stability and performance, adding supporting features like friends lists and a proper server browser, integrating singleplayer and multiplayer, and most importantly fleshing out the gameplay.



Since 1.8 is still a significant time away, we’re going to have to stop being as secretive about it as we have. We’ll provide information about it as we go, but we’ll keep actual details secret. So, for example, we could say “added two new colors” without saying which ones, or “testing experience and leveling to see if it’s fun” without giving details on exactly how it works.

The update is pretty big, and will change a lot of how Minecraft is played, focusing on making exploration and combat much more rewarding, and bringing in a bigger sense of adventure to the game.

Already implemented are new complex terrain features, at least one new mob, some interesting new combat mechanics, a new lighting engine, and some experimental new gameplay ideas. To come is more interesting farming, bigger incentives to explore, and npc villages.

Unless there are any emergency things to fix, I won’t do any more updates before 1.7. Going to E3 on Saturday.

I will be bringing my laptop to do some development, but I won’t be able to do much testing.

ONWARDS TO THE ADVENTURE UPDATE! *holds up sword, poses dramatically* - Notch

1.6.6:

+ Added a new use for bonemeal
* Changed the material of glowstone from “glass” to “stone”. This means you need a pickaxe to get resources from it
* Made glowstone drop more loot
* Made the recipe sizes for creating cloth blocks and glowstone blocks smaller (2x2 instead of 3x3)
* Re-introduced unlimited FPS, renamed the option again
* Fixed beds not working very well at all in SMP
* Fixed destroying a boat spawning the player too low, causing them to sometimes fall through the ground
* Boats float up to the surface quicker
* Boats falling down into water lose their vertical momentum very fast
* Removed Herobrine