– Fixed a problem causing some save games not to load. – Fix for attacking enemies at a different level not damaging them. – Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether. – Fix for Netherracks re-appearing after being mined. – Fix to stop players being able to join a game when they are not a friend of any player in the game. – Fix to block players re-entering a level they have been kicked from, until the level is restarted. – Fix for Leaderboard reads taking too long. – Fix for only the host being shown the pop-up when any player attempts to place lava near the spawn point. – Added a few other things for players to discover. When you use a seed, your world will be consistently generated with the same biomes and. When you create a new world in Minecraft, you have the option to create your world by entering a seed that is used by the World Generator.
– Added some sugar cane, cactii and clay to the world. This Minecraft tutorial explains how to use a seed to create a world. – Added a self-building bridge to the castle using Pistons. – Added optional tutorial for Pistons and Redstone. – Added some more Tips & Trivia to the loading/saving screen display. – On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80,Īnd will fade back down to the user opacity setting after 6 seconds of no quickselect bar use. – Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider. – Changed the tooltip display setting to in-game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.
– Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display). – Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends). – Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus. – Added ban list functionality to allow players to self-ban from levels they feel contain offensive content. – Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list. – Added lighting improvements (brought forward from 1.8.2 update) and snow & rain improvements.
– Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from Downloadable Content skin packs.
– New textures for Cobblestone and Brick. – Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater. – TNT needs Flint and Steel or Redstone to detonate. – Added Shears – required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks. Hit the jump for a full list of features and updates included in 1.7.3 along with a glimpse of the new Trials rider skins. Priced at a cool 160 MSP the pack will include 40 skins for players to choose from. These skins join a growing list of characters including Master Chief, ‘Splosion Man, and Jack of Blades.
Banjo is joined by additional characters from the Banjo-Kazooie universe, and more variants of the Trials riders have been revealed. Also detailed recently were a number of new skins for the upcoming Skin Pack 1 downloadable content. Among the new features and fixes are the inclusion of Pistons, a character skin selector, and precautions to keep unwanted players out of your game.
The title update will go live at 2AM UTC. Call in sick to work, because the 1.7.3 update for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition lands tomorrow.