1 january 2014 Minecraft Realms Goes Beta Minecraft on Playstation 3 Hypixel Mega Walls interview with rymdnisse Integrated Twitch Broadcasting Minecraft Snapshots Contents Contents 03 Information and more Minecraft NEws 04 Minecraft Realms Goes Beta 05 Minecraft Realms Minecraft Snapshot 14w02 06 Integrated Twitch Broadcasting Update for Pocket Edition 1.7.4 PC Update Minecraft Sales 07 Minecraft on Playstation 3 The Development of minecraft in 2013 Minecraft - Volume Beta Winners of the Holiday Skin Competition Community 08 Hypixel Mega Walls 09 The Hive Updates Mineplex had a Minigame for Christmas 10 Blockholm - Stockholm in Minecraft 11 The Interview - Rymdnisse 2 www.minecraftermag.com The Minecrafter Info Information Contact Information New Issues When a new issue comes out it will be uploaded to the website and a notification will be posted on Twitter and YouTube. Tips If you would like to tips us about something that is going on in Minecraft or the community feel free to contact us via Twitter or E-mail. The Interview We will announce on Twitter and YouTube who we will be interviewing in the next issue so you can write a question to that person and we can ask some of the questions that were asked. Article Suggestions We could need some help finding news for the News part and the Communty part of the magazine. If you know some good and recent ones you can Tweet us or E-mail us about it. If you have any other questions you can E-mail or Tweet us. Website www.minecraftermag.com E-mail [email protected] Twitter @MinecrafterMag YouTube youtube.com/MinecrafterMag Questions and Answers How often will new issues of the magazine be released? – As soon as they are ready. We would guess there will be at least 1 issue every 2 or 3 months. Hopefully they will be released more often but that depends on how much time we have to work on them and also if we find enough information to write articles about. Editor Viktor A. Design and Layout Viktor A. Artwork Viktor A. Minecraft Font MadPixel The Minecrafter www.minecraftermag.com Credits 3 News Minecraft Realms goes Beta Minecraft Realms is now available, in Beta version, in Sweden on PC. It will also be available for those who went to Minecon 2013 and got a Realms pre-paid gift card. Minecraft Realms has been available for quite some time for a selected group of people but now Mojang launched the Beta version. It is available in Sweden. The difference between a normal server and Minecraft Realms is that Realms is the official Minecraft server made by Mojang and requires a minimal set up. It is also easy to manage. Once you have bought a Realm for €10 for 30 days, €26 for 90 days or €46 for 180 days you can invite your friends and start playing. The amount of players that can be online at the same time is 10 but you can invite up to 20 people. The world is backed up sometimes so if something goes wrong with the world or you just want to rewind it you can do so by restoring it from a previous backup. 4 Minecraft Realms will be released in other countries during 2014. The time table for this has not yet been released by Mojang. Hopefully, it will be soon, since it seems like Minecraft Realms is on it’s way to being a complete and simple server service. A Realm has a few finished worlds that you can load in and play on with your friends, a few of those are Spellbound Caves by Vechs, Blocks vs Zombies by SethBling and Dash of Doom by Dragnoz. There is no feature, at the moment to upload worlds to the server, but that would be a cool feature to have. What do the community think of Minecraft Realms? ”I think it’s good, it’s more easy then other servers. It is not that expensive either. m curious to see what will come during the www.minecraftermag.com Beta and after it. A good feature to have would be to be able to upload your own worlds to a Realm. Also, if you know about servers, it would be good if you could have more possibilities to edit the server.” ”It’s good, but it would be cool if you had more options on the server.” ”I like it, but an option to add your own worlds would make it even better”. The Minecrafter News Minecraft Snapshots Snapshot 14w02 A new Minecraft snapshot was released a while ago which contained both Survival- and Adventure mode updates. The very first snapshot of 2014 contains a few new and cool changes. A slime block has been added which, when jumped on, throws you back up in the air until you af- ter a while of jumping puts you safely on the ground. Three new stone blocks have also been added. The enchanting and repairing process has been updated. Doors now stack, villager trading has been updated and you are able to craft mossy stone bricks. It also says that there are some secret features added to the game, it will be interesting to see what those are. Snapshot 14w03 Snapshot 14w04 New commands added! The 14w03 snapshot contains a few new commands. You can now chose how a player should be rotated when teleported. A fill command was added allowing you to fill areas with blocks. The last command that was added was the clone command which allowes you to copy areas of blocks to another area. There were also some bug fixes in this snapshot. The Minecrafter For Adventure mode they added new commands, but they also changed so you are no longer able to destroy or place blocks. But it seems like that can be changes by the creator of the map if they would like a specific block to be able to be placed or destroyed. In the 14w04 snapshot there are a bunch of new survival features added and some new commands. Villager trading and AI has been updated a lot now. Villagers now have different professions such as leatherworker and armorer and there www.minecraftermag.com are different types of trades because of that. Also, a lot of the villager trades are better. Buttons are able to be placed on the ceilling or on the floor, bushes are able to catch fire and more changes were added. 5 News Integrated Twitch Broadcasting You are now able to broadcast directly from Minecraft to Twitch on Windows Vista and higher and Mac OS X 10.7 and higher. The only thing you need to do for it to work is to have a Twitch account and connect it to your Mojang account by logging in on Mojangs website with your Minecraft account and then allowing Twitch update for Minecraft Pocket Edition An update for Minecraft Pocket Edition was released in December. The new update has a lot of new changes and stuff added. Such as increased view distance, minecarts, new blocks, new foods, more intelligent mobs and much more. You can find the Pocket Edition of Minecraft on the App Store, Google Play and Amazon. 6 access. When you have done that you can log into Minecraft and click a button to start live streaming to Twitch. You also have an option to pause your stream by the click of a button. When the stream is paused a Twitch icon appears instead of the Minecraft game screen and your microphone is muted, you can then unpause the stream by clicking the same button again. 1.7.4 PC Update The live stream can be stopped any time by pressing the button you started the live stream with. There is also a function available for Twitch partners were you can play ads. Minecraft Sales An update for the PC version was released in Minecraft has now sold December. over 10 million of the Xbox version and over 1 The PC update for Mine- million of the PS3 vercraft includes the integrated sion and over 10 million Twitch Broadcasting featu- of the Pocket Edition and re, fixing the render distan- nearly 14 million of the ces over 8 and also many PC version. bugs have been fixed. So this is mostly a bug fix up- Every day about 20 000 date exept for the Twitch more are buying the PC broadcasting feature which version. will be an incredible feature for people who want to livestream easy and maybe try out livestreaming for the first time. www.minecraftermag.com The Minecrafter News Minecraft on Playstation 3 Minecraft is now available on Playstation 3, it will also be available on Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita soon. Minecraft has been on the Xbox 360 for quite sometime now but it is now out on Playstation 3 too. The price for it is €18.99 or $19.99 or £12.99. If you are not sure if you should buy it or not, you can try it. There is a free trial version you can download and try. There are lots of awesome and cool features in the PS3 version such as split-screen for four players, Creative and Survival mode and also support for 8 players on multiplayer. There are also few trophies that you can get by playing. Holiday Skin Competition The Minecraft Skin Studio app for smartphones had a competition for holiday skins where the winners could win cool prices. For more information about the winners and the skins that they made, go to the Mojang website. Minecraft Volume Beta C418 released a new Minecraft music album called Volume Beta. The album contains 30 songs and has a total running time of 140 minutes. The Development of Minecraft in 2013 During the year of 2013 a lot has happened around Minecraft. Here is a summery of the year 2013 with Minecraft. Some of the big updates that came to Minecraft in 2013 were horses, new biomes, new achievements, name tags, new items and new blocks. A The Minecrafter new launcher was also developed for Minecraft. Now you can have different profiles to log in with and more easily get access to snapshots. To play Minecraft in 2013 has been fun. But now a new year has started and we look forward to another year with awesome events www.minecraftermag.com and cool new stuff in Minecraft. Thanks for an awesome year, and happy new year! 7 Community Hypixel Mega Walls 8 The Walls has been on the Hypixel server for a while now, but now there is a new version of The Walls on a bigger scale and with more players. It’s called Mega Walls. There are currently five classes that you can play as, the classes are Skeleton, Zombie, Creeper, Enderman and Herobrine. But Enderman and Herobrine are only available for VIP players. The objective for Mega Walls is to kill the other teams Withers. When a teams Wither is killed players of that team will not respawn when they die. There are however three classes that are coming soon, thoose are ”Necromancer”, ”Shaman” and ”Arcanist” and behind www.minecraftermag.com all those name it says ”(hero)”. The lobby fits 100 players and there is no lack of resourses such as iron and coal. There are diamonds too, but they are very rare. There is also a few acheivments that you can earn. Hypixel Server Adress: mc.hypixel.net The Minecrafter Community The Hive updates The Hive recently released a new minigame and two more are coming soon. The Hive server has been updated a lot during December. With the removal of the ”silent hub” and the adding of hubs for players without premium. The minigame Cranked was released a while ago. But in the end of December a new mini game Cowboys and Indians was launched. The goal in the minigame is to capture the leader of the other team. Two other minigames seems to be coming in a near future. It currently says ”coming soon” on both Scavenger and Frostbite. The minigame Scavenger looks like it will have something to do with soldiers, and probably warfare since it says ”Your time has come, soldier”. To figure out what Frostbite will be about is more difficult, it only says is ”Brace Yourselves.” Hopefully Frostbite and Scavanger will be released soon. New shops have been opened too, and also a wardrobe. However, the wardrobe is only available for premium players. The Hive Server Adress: play.hivemc.com Mineplex had a MiniGame for Christmas The Mineplex server had a minigame called Santa Claus: Christmas chaos were the objective was to defend Santa from all sorts of different dangers and collect presents. smaller Zombies, which can be quite annoying. blocks and trying not to fall down. There was also a boss at the end, the ”Pumpkin King” appears and you need to defeat him while jumping on the right Unfortunately the mini game has been removed now, but it was fun as long at is was available. The game started with that you needed to dig out a wall for Santa to be able to continue, then do parkour to find presents, then kill a giant Zombie while being attacked by a lot of The Minecrafter Mineplex Server Adress: eu.mineplex.com us.mineplex.com www.minecraftermag.com 9 Community Blockholm Stockholm in Minecraft A project called Blockholm started a few months ago. There people could re-build Stockholm in Minecraft. 10 of the builds would be displayed in Minecraft blocks in real life. The project has now ended and winners are being chosen. The way the map of Blockholm was created was that the world itself is generated from the exact land data of Stockholm. So the plots that people can build on actually exists in real life, but all the buildings are gone. There were around 100 000 plots that players were able to build on. Anyone could participate in the project, the only thing you needed was a Minecraft account and 10 then it was just to log in to the server and start building. The way that Blockholm worked was that you got a plot the first time you logged in to the server and you could build on it. When you had finished building your build you could register it on the Blockholm website. By doing so your build could have a chance of being displayed on a big scale in real life. www.minecraftermag.com They launched different parts of Blockholm at different times, so when the first part was finished, Old Town, a new part was release and so on. People who had built there got new plots in a new part of Blockholm. From the March 6th, the builds of 10 winners will be dispalyed, in real life, on a scale of 1:5 at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm. The Minecrafter Interview Rymdnisse We have interviewed Rymdnisse who creates Minecraft animations and uploads them to his YouTube channel where he has more then 6 800 subscribers. The questions we asked him is about his YouTube channel and animations, but also some Minecraft releated questions. How did you get started with YouTube and animations? – I first got started with YouTube with some of my friends when we made let’s plays of Minecraft and uploaded them to YouTube, that was not on my current channel though. I later got started with animations when I saw the Minecraft parody ”Revenge” by CaptainSparklez and got inspired to create my own animations. So I downloaded a animation software called Blender and started to learn how to do animations.. What software do you use to animate? – The software I use to animate is called Blender. The Minecrafter What do you think is the best part about animating Minecraft? – For me the animating process is a really fun part and then when see the result that I have spent hours of work on creating. Which one of your videos do you think is the best? – It will always be the most recent one. It’s a part of creating videos, you see how you become better and learn as new videos are being created. Do you have any tips for people starting to animate? – The first thing you need to is to do is to get a good animating software, just because it doesn’t cost money does not mean it is a bad software. www.minecraftermag.com Blender is a good and free software for animating, that is the software that I would recommend. But it doesn’t really matter what software you get as long as it’s working for you. If you were to add one thing into Minecraft, what would it be? – Cutscenes would be cool thing. That would be really good and useful for custom maps. Do you have any plans on creating more Minecraft parodies? – Yes, I will probably start working on a new one in a few weeks. Rymdnisse’s YouTube Channel: youtube.com/rymdnisse 11 www.minecraftermag.com
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