{"id":41307,"date":"2012-07-13T15:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41307"},"modified":"2012-07-13T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:22:23","slug":"minecraft-xbox-update-drops-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41307-minecraft-xbox-update-drops-today","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Xbox update drops today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather forecasts for this weekend are &#8220;STAY IN UNDER A BLANKET AND PLAY VIDEO GAMES&#8221;, so there&#8217;s really no better timing for a Minecraft update on Xbox, which should be live by the time you read this.<\/p>\n<p>Although the 1.7.3 update won&#8217;t be including NPCs or the much-wanted Adventure mode (those are coming later, apparently), it does add stackable fences and sheep shears so maybe consider building a giant wool wall for when those things finally get here. Remember, first impressions are everything, and when those NPCs arrive, you&#8217;ll want them to know you&#8217;re&#8230; into giant wool walls. Crazy is the new formidable.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of new features and fixes includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added Pistons &amp; Sticky Pistons.<\/li>\n<li>Added Stackable fences.<\/li>\n<li>Added Shears \u2013 required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks.<\/li>\n<li>TNT needs Flint and Steel or Redstone to detonate.<\/li>\n<li>Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater.<\/li>\n<li>New textures for Cobblestone and Brick.<\/li>\n<li>Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from Downloadable Content skin packs.<\/li>\n<li>Added lighting improvements (brought forward from 1.8.2 update) and snow &amp; rain improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list.<\/li>\n<li>Added ban list functionality to allow players to self-ban from levels they feel contain offensive content.<\/li>\n<li>Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus.<\/li>\n<li>Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends).<\/li>\n<li>Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display).<\/li>\n<li>Changed the tooltip display setting to in-game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.<\/li>\n<li>Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider.<\/li>\n<li>On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80,<\/li>\n<li>and will fade back down to the user opacity setting after 6 seconds of no quickselect bar use.<\/li>\n<li>Added some more Tips &amp; Trivia to the loading\/saving screen display.<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial World changes &amp; additions:-<\/li>\n<li>Added optional tutorial for Pistons and Redstone.<\/li>\n<li>Added a self-building bridge to the castle using Pistons.<\/li>\n<li>Added some sugar cane, cactii and clay to the world.<\/li>\n<li>Added a few other things for players to discover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix for only the host being shown the pop-up when any player attempts to place lava near the spawn point.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed tooltip for Flint and Steel.<\/li>\n<li>Fix for Note blocks not showing notes.<\/li>\n<li>Fix for Leaderboard reads taking too long.<\/li>\n<li>Fix to block players re-entering a level they have been kicked from, until the level is restarted.<\/li>\n<li>Fix to stop players being able to join a game when they are not a friend of any player in the game.<\/li>\n<li>Fix for Netherracks re-appearing after being mined.<\/li>\n<li>Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether.<\/li>\n<li>Fix for attacking enemies at a different level not damaging them.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem causing some save games not to load.<\/li>\n<li>Removed Herobrine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/playxbla.com\/you-can-haz-it-minecraft-xbox-360-edition-update-happens-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlayXBLA<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Minecraft Xbox DLC revealed, update in the works\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40784-minecraft-xbox-dlc-revealed-update-in-the-works.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minecraft Xbox DLC revealed, update in the works<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40107-minecraft-troll-sends-police-to-moderators-house.html\">Minecraft troll sends police to moderator\u2019s house<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39056-minecraft-xbox-360-edition-sells-2-million.html\">Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition sells 2 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adds new things and fixes broken things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":25841,"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":[2,4],"tags":[31,4042,435,847],"class_list":["post-41307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-minecraft-xbox","tag-update","tag-xbla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41307","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41333,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41307\/revisions\/41333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}