{"id":14558,"date":"2011-10-08T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mythic-beasts-descend-on-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14558-mythic-beasts-descend-on-minecraft","title":{"rendered":"Mythic beasts descend on Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big part of indie smash-hit Minecraft&rsquo;s success is the constant updating by creator Markus &ldquo;Notch&rdquo; Persson, which keeps the experience as dynamic as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Well known for being very interactive with the community and relatively open about upcoming plans, the good-natured programmer has now tweeted that he is &ldquo;developing epicness&rdquo; for Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The internet was obviously not going to let that go without a fight, and after the inevitable interrogation from his Twitter followers, Notch has caved and revealed that the Minecraft universe will be getting dragons. <\/p>\n<p>While he admits the dragons are from being finished, the provided picture is unmistakably dragon-esque, if a bit dull and gray for now.&nbsp; He has not as of yet provided much information on how the dragons will actually behave.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s always good to see a passionate developer continue to update and tweak their game long after release, and the Minecraft universe is open-ended enough that almost anything is possible. No doubt we&rsquo;ll be seeing plenty more of the weird and wonderful in coming months.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, check out the half-finished dragon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/minecraft_dragons_601757046.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/10\/07\/notch-adding-epic-dragons-to-minecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PC Gamer\">PCGamer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thar be dragons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}