Mojang Studios, developer of Minecraft, is reorganizing the blocky world that was the basis of the game’s “Minecraft” and changing the way the sandbox-game scales for its millions.
The long-awaited update “Caves and Cliffs” will see the engine create deeper caves and higher mountains that players can explore. It will also introduce new species of fauna and flora to the game. Wednesday’s announcement by the company stated that they will release the update on Nov. 30.
monster mcpe uses procedural generator to create forests, rivers and caves across the map when someone creates a new world in “Minecraft”. Over the past 12 years, “Minecraft” has introduced environments like deserts and oceans for players to explore but the developers at Mojang are now expanding the upper and lower limits of the world in order to generate peaks and valleys that previously were not possible in the game.
More than a 100 million people play “Minecraft” every month. The blocky, low-fi game is a decentralized collection of servers players can join and build from. During the covid-19 pandemic, students at UC Berkeley held a virtual graduation ceremony within a “Minecraft” server. The famed Harry Potter castle of Hogwarts has been rebuilt by players. It is difficult to find a well-known building, real or imagined, that does not exist on a “Minecraft” server.
“For a whole generation of kids, that’s kind of where they go,” said Kurt Squire, a professor at University of California Irvine who studies how games can be used to help students learn. It is literally their playground, the sandbox where they grew up.
“Minecraft’s” booming success is due, in part, to the game’s simplicity. There are no tasks or objectives in “Minecraft”. (There is, however, a boss. It is completely optional.) You choose what to build or explore. But with every update, there’s an inherent risk that the game becomes too complicated for first-time players to understand. Agnes Larsson, “Minecraft’s” game director, said this is something about which the team at Mojang Studios spends a lot of time thinking. Although the team is keen to continue developing “Minecraft” over the next “many, many more years”, Larsson stated that they must maintain the foundation principles of the game to keep it “Minecrafty.”
Larsson stated, “We have something amazing.” It’s a beautiful game, but there are many things we could do to improve it.
Larsson is currently working on a creative direction for the game “to really help us evolve,” while protecting the simplistic beauty of “Minecraft.” Larsson often talks about “intrinsic motivation,” encouraging players to build or explore by providing the right setting for their imaginations.
“What are new ways we can inspire our players to be creative in their own ways and come up with their own goals?” Larsson said. “How can we inspire more exploration or more storytelling?”
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In addition to expanding the world height, the “Caves and Cliffs” update is redistributing how ore, like iron, copper and gold, will be generated throughout the game. Spelunkers who love to dig into “Minecraft’s” caves will now find massive, multi-tiered caverns with aquifers, hanging vines and dripping stalactites, depending on where they are on the map. And, Larsson said certain biomes will now combine so a forest or desert could populate on the side of a mountain, for example.
Fans are referring to the update, technically listed as version 1.18 of the game, as “Minecraft 2.0.” Rob Clark, a 35-year-old from Somerset, England, said he’s looking forward to playing the update on the same server with his brother and nephew. Since the outbreak of coronavirus in the United Kingdom, the three have been playing together for over a year.
Clark said that his 9-year old nephew was “quite young” Clark said that he was very content to play with rocks and make little holes in the rock. … But, you know, I’m spending time with my nephew who lives four hours away. It’s a nice time with our family that we wouldn’t have otherwise.”
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Dash Marley, a 27-year-old who lives in Maine, has already tried out an early release of the update to test out the updated terrain generation. Marley, who has been playing “Minecraft”, off and on for more than a decade, stated that it is the most significant, “most sweeping” change “Minecraft has made to the game’s overworld. (Yes, there is an underworld.
Marley stated, “I flew above a dark forest that opened up into a multi-tiered series lush caves.” “In this new world, I can’t travel for more than 10 minutes before I see a place that makes me want to invest hours and hours transforming the place into a new base.”
Larsson stated that Mojang Studios tries to offer something for everyone with each update. Mojang revealed that next year’s update “The Wilds” will add more biomes and animals to the game. This was announced at the 10th annual “Minecraft” Live in Oct.
Larsson stated that they do not want to use too many premade structures and towns. This would limit the possibilities for players to create their own towns and structures. Larsson wants to make sure that the world remains wild for a player to explore.
“We should inspire but we should never dictate. It’s up to the players to craft their own goals,” Larsson said. “When you come up with the goals yourself, it’s super inspiring.”