![]() The biome can be found in the mountains, in similar places as Meadows.Added a new Cherry Grove biome, with pretty cherry blossom trees.I built a window to watch the rain fall over the desert, and observe the Endermen from afar, but after a few spiders crawled up the walls and into my home, I bricked it up again and sat in a corner, listening to the rain beat down outside. Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson deliberately designed it to cause fear, but not frustration or fatigue, and he's done an incredible job.Īfter retreating back to my hidey-hole for a second night, a thunderstorm began to break in the skies above. It'll continue staring you down until you look away, at which point it runs extremely quickly toward you, teleporting to get past obstacles. It's mostly passive, but if you look directly at one, its head turns to face you and its huge purple eyes stare directly into your soul. The Endermen has a long, spindly body, and spends its time quietly moving blocks around the world, one at a time. Speaking of monsters, one of the headline additions in the Adventure Update is the Endermen, which are perhaps the most unsettling creatures ever to appear in a videogame (if you can think of a better one, leave a comment below). Knocking a zombie back off a cliff or into a pool of lava is enormously satisfying. The addition of both mechanics makes fights far more interesting and tactical, rather than just hammering the attack button. Hitting a monster while sprinting will knock him back. If you hit a monster while you're moving downward, then you'll do double-damage and sparkles will appear. ![]() ![]() Happily, combat doesn't last quite as long as it used to, thanks to the addition of critical hits and knockback. Unfortunately it shifts your field of view slightly, and it's a little too easy to activate in combat, making the process a bit nauseating after a while. By double-tapping the forward button, you'll gain increased movement speed in exchange for faster depletion of your hunger bar. The ocean, too, is now deeper and darker, giving the game's squid more of a home to call their own, but also permitting the construction of vast underwater cities.Īnother useful feature that's been added is the ability to sprint. Deep underground, and very occasionally on the surface, you'll come across a deep scar in the landscape with ledges that you can walk along. Most impressive is the addition of ravines. Deep underground you'll also find abandoned mineshafts, and - very occasionally - a stronghold filled with libraries, prisons, hallways and storage rooms. In a future update, these will be populated with NPCs, but right now they just sit there like ghost towns. As you pick them up they will fill up the bar, but Minecraft's creators haven't yet worked out exactly how they want to implement a levelling system, so for the time being it's purely cosmetic.Įxploring a little further, I found a village with a smithy, a churchlike building, a well and a farm. As you kill monsters, little green orbs will drop to the ground. There's an experience bar too, which currently does nothing.
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