Mojang focuses on polish with the latest Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot
Making the (Nether) world a better place.
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What you need to know
It’s been a while since we had any new builds forthe Nether UpdateforMinecraft, so there’s a lot of pressure on the latest snapshot for the Java Edition to be awesome and introduce a ton of new features! Yeah, we’re not getting any of that.
As we inch towards arelease datefor the Nether Update, Mojang is hard at work making plenty of refinements and patching every bug they can find to make Minecraft as smooth as possible. This means there’s not anything all that exciting in this snapshot, even if it’s just as important as any other.
The few notable changes in this snapshot includes:
If you’re interested in checking out the full changelog, you can find thathere. Otherwise, you can get to work oninstalling the new snapshotso you can test out the latest build and give feedback to Mojang! For the rest of us, the wait shouldn’t be much longer now before we can finally try this out for ourselves.
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