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The highly anticipated Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition 1.8.2+ update is now ready to download, Mojang has announced via its blog.
The update is pretty massive, including:
– Full Creative Mode
– Superflat world type
– Hunger
– NPC Villages, Abandoned Mineshafts, Strongholds and Ravines
– 12 Music Discs
– New Combat Mechanics
- Chargeable bows
- Critical hits
- Sprinting
- Players can parry with a sword
– Ability to change the name of your world save
– Chain Armour
– Pressure Plates can now be placed on fences
– New mobs
- Endermen
- Cave spiders
- Silverfish
New Food Items
- Apples
- Raw Chicken
- Cooked Chicken
- Raw Beef
- Steak
- Melons
- Melon seeds
- Rotten Flesh
– Cobwebs
– Fence Gate
– Iron bars
– Glass pane
– Stone Brick
– Stone Brick Stairs
– Stone Brick Slabs
– Brick Stairs
– Brick Slabs
– Pumpkin Seed
– Vines
– Pumpkins and Melons grow from stems much faster, and do not require farmland around the stem to grow on
– Sponges(Creative only)
– New biome
– Swamp biome
– Ocean biome
– Ocean floor now consists of Clay, sand and dirt, this makes clay easier to find
– Mountain biome
– River
– Rivers flow through/in between biomes
– Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as Cows)
– Pig has 3D snout.
– Sugar Cane can now be placed on sand
– Chest has opening and closing animation
– User-placed leaf blocks no longer decay
– Skeletons hold full size bow
– Shears can now collect Tall Grass and Vines
– Exclusive Superflat option for the Nether
– Option to turn clouds off
– Large changes to Xbox 360 tutorial mode
– Bonus chest world option
– Option to turn PVP off
– Option to turn fire spread off
– Option to make TNT not detonate
– Option to trust players (to op players)
Bug fixes
- Fix for duplication glitch.
- Fix for aspect ratio of things in hand when in splitscreen mode.
- Fix for issue with player data not saving (player starting world with no items they had when they saved)
- Fix for redstone tiles burning out when they shouldn’t.
- Fixed issue with Minecart with Furnace not being able to move another Minecart.
- Fixed particle code for flipped 3rd person view.
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- Platform(s): Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, Arcade, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation
