Tech Lead for
@Minecraft
Java Core at
@Mojang
. Twitch Partner. YouTuber with 100k subs. Previously: Dev on Battlefields, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Budget Cuts
Rest In Peace, Technoblade.
Such an incredible loss for the Minecraft community - you will be dearly missed. May your memory always be a shining star in our Minecraft skies.
A critical security issue has been found that affects Minecraft. If you have the game running, please shut down all running instances of the game and Launcher and restart - your Launcher will automatically download the fix.
So today we did a thing.
COVID makes everything different, of course, and we couldnβt have any guests, not even kiddo. There will be a time for celebrations down the line... for now, an βI doβ is more than enough.
PSA: Just because an account has a Minecraft-related name with "News" or something in it doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. Be careful of who you follow and trust.
By the way, I work with the Minecraft Tech Platform, not the gameplay contents. You can keep yelling at me about the gameplay contents of updates in unrelated threads if you want, but it's not going to help much.
What the hell,
@TeamYouTube
? I tried this out in a private window - it's true.
Searching for my my channel and an *exact match* term for this video's title, tags and hashtag, it comes up as result 6. Instead you get 2 year old videos. No wonder my new videos are doing so poorly!
It is now time for a Release Candidate for Minecraft 1.18. If no further critical issues are found, no further changes will be made before the release:
We're now releasing Minecraft Snapshot 21w38a, adding Strongholds π We heard you really wanted them! It's also full of performance improvements, tweaks and bug fixes. Check it out!
There will not be a snapshot this week. In time before the holidays we're taking a moment's break from work on the Caves & Cliffs update to game jam - who knows what amazing ideas for future improvements could come up? There *might* be a snapshot next week.
We're now releasing Snapshot 23w07a with the Sniffer, Cherry Groves, Archaeology as well as Horse Breeding updates, new Jukebox functionality, Interaction entities and more!
So instead I mentioned that weβre busy with something unrelated. Now thereβs instead huge speculation about some big announcement to come. Geez folks.
*Weβre just busy*
We couldn't quite decide whether to make a 'b' snapshot this week, but he had a bunch of ideas so I guess you can choose for yourselves if you want it. Minecraft Snapshot 23w13a_or_b is now available in the Launcher!
Heads up: We're aiming to have this week's snapshot out on Thursday rather than Wednesday, since the team is busy with an unrelated event on Wednesday.
Happy release day everyone! I'll be busy at work, so there are already a number of release videos scheduled throughout the day. I hope you'll enjoy them!
Today looks like an unfroggy day I'm afraid - we ran into some technical issues with this weeks snapshot, so we'll take another day to solve them. Keep your eyes out tomorrow!
Further words of caution: We're still tracking this issue and further mitigations will come. For now, assume only Minecraft 1.17+ is verified as fixed with the patch that rolled out on the Launcher. Modded versions may still be vulnerable.
Heads up: We have some other things to attend to on Wednesday this week, so if all goes according to plan, we'll be treating you to an early snapshot tomorrow.
I keep nagging about reporting bugs on the bug tracker rather than on twitter - this isn't because I love being pedantic... why is it so important? Let me take a thread here to explain.