Why is minecraft 1.3 not out

Indie super hit Minecraft continues to bring in dough, quickly hitting 7-digit unit sales figures for its release on the Xbox , while continuing to grow via new features LAN support! And all of this comes around the same time the studio prepares to launch their next big title Scrolls and while Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson is hard at work on their upcoming space-based MMO, the oddly titled 0x10c.

As for Minecraft specifically, if you've not been diligently following the weekly snapshot updates, there are a ton of new features, new items and changes coming with the full Minecraft 1. According to Jens "Jeb" Bergensten, the man now in charge of Minecraft development, the plan is to get Minecraft 1. It's been a bit of a wait since the last Minecraft update, but Mojang say that's because they've been making some significant structural changes to Minecraft's engine, they've "kicked out single-player, and made it a shell on top of multi-player," which brings us one step closer to mod support, and will ensure that any tweaks to multiplayer will work in single-player as well.

According to the Mojang website 1. According to Mojang "When playing single-player, the game needs to be able to both simulate and emulate the world, which take many more CPU cycles.

And the modding API will launch at a later date. A summary of the changes is on Reddit. Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our policy. Jump to comments Editor wyp Wesley is Eurogamer's editor. He likes news, interviews, and more news.

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