{"id":63575,"date":"2014-04-23T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T06:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63575"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T06:48:22","slug":"minecraft-update-lets-you-get-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63575-minecraft-update-lets-you-get-creative","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft update lets you get creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft Update 1.8, set to be released in May, will let players take world customisation to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>There are now\u00a016 sliders which dictate the terrain that can be generated, in addition to options for enabling and disabling features like lava oceans and water lakes.<\/p>\n<p>You can also type in specific values for many of these aspects, and Mojang will provide 7 pre-set terrains for you to test.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-sets, shown in the video below, give some sense of what&#8217;s possible using these new options: One turns nearly every bit of land into an enormous mountain; one submerges the entire world under water; and another scatters floating islands (which are making a comeback in this update) throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at what your Minecraft world could soon look like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2rdgMwJyE6w?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/minecraft-update-expands-world-customization-floating-islands-return\/1100-6419145\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63434-world-of-warcraft-expansion-will-you-need-to-upgrade-your-hardware.html\">World of Warcraft expansion \u2013 will you need to upgrade your hardware?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63398-36-9-of-steam-games-never-get-played.html\">36.9% of Steam games never get played<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63377-star-citizen-crowdfunding-reaches-42-million.html\">Star Citizen crowdfunding reaches $42 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 1.8 gives you control of lava oceans, water lakes, and floating islands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":46752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,333,12335],"class_list":["post-63575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-minecraft","tag-minecraft-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63575","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63581,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63575\/revisions\/63581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}