First Details On Minecraft Beta 1.7 Surface

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Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson is finished with his busy E3 schedule, and has taken to his blog to share some new details about the next Minecraft beta update, 1.7. Dubbed the “adventure update,” Notch said he wanted to keep most of the details a secret so that there’s an element of surprise when the update is released, but still shared a few of them nonetheless.

“We are working on Minecraft Beta 1.7, which I’m referring to as the ‘adventure update’,” he said in his blog post. “We’re keeping the details secret so people can get surprises. The idea with this update is to flesh out the game a bit, making it reward exploration and combat more. Assuming we like them in play testing, pistons are coming in 1.7.”

Update 1.7 will also add some support for modding, but Persson says that it’s going to be kept to a very select group of people for the time being. “We’re starting the modding support on a small scale with 1.7. We’ll be giving the source code out to a very VERY small group of people before the release of 1.7. We’ll use those experiences to work out the final details, then we’ll get the modding api out as soon as possible after 1.7 has been released.”

Finally, Persson briefly mentioned the Xbox 360 and Xperia Play versions of Minecraft, but we already know about those. Making combat and exploration more rewarding with beta 1.7 will probably be a pretty popular feature of the update, considering that either one of those activities can kill you at any moment. All in all, it sounds like 1.7 is going to be an awesome update. What do you think? Are you ready to take on Minecraft’s adventure update?