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Minecraft Pocket Edition Best Tips and Tricks

You’ve probably played Minecraft for a while now. It’s understandable if you want to learn new things to do in the game. We’ve written this article to give you some tips regarding this matter.

  1. Place torches on furnaces and tables. For this, you’ll need to handle a short process, but you can do it. Just make sure you have a transparent block placed behind the crafting table before you begin. If you see some solid blocks around the crafting furnace, then you need to get rid of them. If you don’t, then the torches will go towards them, instead of towards the top of the bench.
  2. Place block on the side of a torch. You can do that by hovering over the torch right until you see a grid box. You need to right-click on the side of the torch with a block in your hand and it will put the block on the side of it. This is quite good when it comes to helping crossing lava pools.
  3. Place torches under falling gravel and sand to break the gravel or the sand. This will happen as long as the gravel and sand fall two You need to hold a torch in your hand and then break the lowest sand block. As the sand block starts to break, put your torch under it as fast as you can.
  4. You can put as much weight as you want on a torch. This way, you can create a sandstone-free pyramid and many other designs.
  5. Put signs on the top of each other. You can also line them up for getting great details for your buildings. All the signs have grids, just like any other block in this game.
  6. Wooden slabs cannot be affected by the fire. They also have a stronger blast resistance than wooden planks. In case you’re playing on a server that has the fire-spread option enabled, then you don’t need to worry about this matter, your wooden slabs will not get caught by fire.
  7. Redstone travels through half-slabs. This is what allows you to hide them. You need to keep in mind that all red stones are connected, except for the full blocks placed on either end.
  8. Pressure plates will hold water and lava inside of them, and you won’t see any spilling out there.
  9. Also, ladders and signs can stop the water and the lava. This comes in handy especially if we’re talking about mob spawners and secret underwater rooms.
  10. The ice that’s put under the soul sand will let you walk slower than the soul sand. Keep in mind that the soul sand, in the game, is as a smaller block than the rest. This one is good for traps.
  11. Break boats and minecarts by using a bow and an arrow. This way, you’ll get the same drops as you would normally, if you’d break the boat in the standard way. When it comes to a minecart, you’ll get a minecart (yup, again). It’s the same as always.
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Minecraft Developers Encourages Fans to Demand Oculus GO Version

Oculus Go, the standalone version of the popular Oculus virtual reality headset proved to be a success among users. One of the most important advantages is brought by the fact that you don’t need a computer in order to use it.

The device is missing one popular game that is offered by Gear VR, the main competitor. This game is Minecraft and Oculus doesn’t seem too keen on adding support in the immediate future.

It seems that the Mojang, the developer of Minecraft is encouraging fans to ask for compatibility. A developer has posted several times on Reddit, encouraging fans to ask for Oculus VR support on the official Minecraft subpage. The developer claims that he cannot offer details but keeping the thread on the top of the forum is a big sign that there is demand for an Oculus GO version.

These posts seem to further underline information released earlier by John Carmack, who declared earlier this month that progress is being made on the two apps that headline the most wanted apps on the platform. It is believed that the other app was YouTube and Google’s popular platform has recently received an official app for Oculus Go.

Currently the post has achieved 106 upvotes, a number that is quite low in comparison to other threads on the forum. If people really want the play Minecraft on their Oculus Go they should show their support in order to be noticed by the developer, which is constantly scanning the forums in order to add fan-favorite features to Minecraft.

Since Samsung Galaxy Gear and Oculus Go share the same proprietary hardware owned by Oculus a port could be done without too much effort from Mojang.

While Oculus Go offers native support for Bluetooth controllers Mojang may opt to add support for motion controllers in the future.

It remains to be seen if the fan-favorite game will become available on the Oculus Go in the following months.

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Discover which City Clubs will compete in the Minecraft City Champs Finals

The fourth season of the Minecraft City Champs will soon conclude as the finals are close.  On December 1st four teams will participate in a furious stand-off and only one of them will come out victorious.

Reigning champions Los Angeles Shockwaves were brutally eliminated by the Las Vegas Wildcards as the latter scored an impressive 5-0 against the three-time champions. The Las Vegas Wildcards will represent the West Division and they may keep the Western winning streak on fire.

The D.C. Conspirators dueled with the Tampa Day Dungeoneers for the Southeast Division. The Tampa Bay Dungeoneers won the spot after a furious tiebreaker. Another tiebreaker awarded the spot for the Central Division to Dallas Dynamite after they defeated the rival Phoenix Blaze team.

The representative of the Northeast Division was decided in an all-in match and the New York Fury beat the Boston Revolt. They claimed the last spot for the Minecraft City Champs Finals.

If you have a child that loves Minecraft and is quite skilled the Super League Monthly allows him to earn prizes while having fun.

Super League Monthly is composed of a series of events that take place in Minecraft. Each month features different theme and new maps that can be explored. The theme of December is Build Competition and it challenges participants to build and create while playing with friends. The best designs will receive awards and there is no entrance free.

Your child will be able to meet new friends, learn to work and a team and cooperate with his peers and win great prizes while playing a game that encourages creativity and imagination. The program is open to everyone but challenges require some skills in order to be successfully completed.

One of the advantages of the Super League Monthly is the fact that participants are able to join the adventure from any device that supports Minecraft. Access the official site for sing-up and additional information.

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Minecraft: Village and Pillage Update  – What We Know So Far About the New Update

The game Minecraft, which is Mojang’s best game whatsoever (and you cannot argue with us), keeps pleasing its fans with new updates that are going to welcome the next year flawlessly.

It has a series of tweaks, like those in Update Aquatic, called Village and Pillage, that will take the community by surprise with lots of new features which are going to be so good.

So..what new things are we going to see with this update?

We must talk about the introduction of Pillagers. They will have crossbows and Illager Beasts – this will show the rivalry between players, as they will lay siege on the villages all across the world.

So these villages will get new features, but we cannot leave aside the buildings. Players will also get a 14 new stair and slab blocks, and 12 new wall textures. Also, scaffolding, which will allow the players to climb and scale the obstacles or the building they’re working on.

They will add two new animals and forest fruits to enjoy

The new update, the Village and Pillage update wants to improve the natural environment of the game, that – to be honest – is already a bit perfect, with its diversity and colors. This also talks about two new animals: foxes (that can be found in Taiga biomes) and pandas (which you can find in Jungles). Also, edible berries will make their appearance, together with bamboo and new dyes.

When is the update going to be released?

They’re supposed to release the Village and Pillage update in 2019, so make sure you stay tuned for announcements. We’re so excited about it, and we bet you are, too.

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“Minecraft” Combines With “Diablo” in the Upcoming Mojang Creation, “Minecraft: Dungeons”

Minecraft, developed by Mojang, remains one of the most appreciated and popular games in the world, years after its initial release. With tons of mods, editions, and patches Mojang released over the time, Minecraft is still offering a very nice gaming experience. Now, the upcoming Minecraft: Dungeons is practically Minecraft combined with Diablo.

The new game is dungeon crawler that reminds us of the renowned Diablo, the famous RPG released by Blizzard, to some extent. Of course, it boasts the blocky characters, buildings, and creatures of the original Minecraft universe. The game, set to hit the shelves in 2019, will be a coop game in which up to four players can participate.

“This was a passion project from a small dedicated team at Mojang. It lets players live the experience of spelunking, mining, and cave exploring in the sense of a classic dungeon crawler game,” said Jens Bergensten, the leading developer of the studio.

“Minecraft: Dungeons” is an exciting combination of Minecraft and Diablo

According to Bergensten, Minecraft: Dungeons would feature the famous constructions of the original Minecraft game but also new characters, items, and bosses.

“It’s a distilled version of ‘Minecraft. We wanted to focus on making the dungeon crawler part of the game as good as possible. We talked about adding building a lot, but we were concerned it would distract from what the game is meant to be about,” said Jens Bergensten.

Also, Bergensten disclosed that the new Minecraft: Dungeons, which is practically Minecraft combined with Diablo, which would be an adventure game set in the original Minecraft universe, will have a storyline and would be built with Unreal Engine.

The full version of the game is set to hit shelves in 2019, but Mojang also plans to launch a Beta which would be available only for a small group of people.

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