Minecraft Snapshot 13w16a NEW LAUNCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tour of the Mojang Offices

The Mojang team give us viewers/fans a tour of their HQ.

It looks so epic!

It's the sort of thing many people would dream about...

que epic music................................................................................................................................................

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Minecraft reaches 10 million paid accounts and april fools joke!

Minecraft has reached 10 million paid registered accounts as of the beginning of April.
So the Mojang team thought they'd treat us to an update...
Minecraft V2.0. It would feature super hostile creatures where chickens could deal 2 hearts of damage and all animals were aggressive. A lot of people actually fell for this and thought minecraft was turning into a super hostile game. Even thinking about quitting it cause it it! Since this update came out on April the 1st (April fool's day) A lot of people got suspicious and worked it out. 
The following things were added to V2.0:
Gameplay:

• Added new Super Hostile game mode, for a much more challenging Survival experience.
• Difficulty setting is now per-world and may never be changed once set.
• Added new graphics setting “Ultra Realistic” with new patent-pending experimental 4D-rendering.
• Added new chase-style 3D camera perspective

Animals: 

• Added new realistic hunger/food system to animals.
• Overfeeding may have negative effect on gameplay
• New animal "Horse" with two different types of breeds.
• Rare breed of chicken called "Diamond Chicken"

- Chicken may lay diamonds or lapis instead of eggs.

- May also blow up from too much pressure. Handle with care.

• Added new friendly Pink Wither, which is the complete opposite of a wither, It shoots out love which heals nearby land and grows crops faster.
• All animals can be fed Golden Apples to unleash their hidden magical properties.

Monsters

• Chickens do not appreciate being looked at and may get upset.
• Attacking a lone chicken may summon additional chickens to its defense.
• Zombie Pigmen now spawn with battlesigns and no longer use swords.
• Fixed a bug causing Skeletons to miss their targets on occasion.
• Added new Redstone Bug monster.

Blocks

• Furnaces have a new “heat” mechanic.
• Heat needs to be regulated in furnaces or they will blow up.
• Torches now burn out after a period of time, but may be relit with flint and steel.
• Added new TNT slab, known as an Etho Slab.
• Renamed Droppers to floppers, by popular community demand.
  • Droppers were deemed too powerful and go against our original vision of the game.
  • Floppers now turn everything that passes through them into raw fish (see Fishing section).
• Added six (6) new decoration blocks:
  • Mud.
  • Hay bales.
  • Lapis Lazuli.
  • Slime blocks.
• Added new compressed storage blocks for commonly mined ores:
  • Coal Block.
  • Lapis Lazuli Block.
  • Redstone Block Block.
• Lapis may now be used for new Lapis furniture.
• Added dyed glass.
• Walking over many blocks will gradually wear them down, creating many new block variants such as Cracked Stone and Muddy Grass.

Redstone (Doesn't effect me i hate redstone :P )

• Removed all BUD behaviour, and added safeguards so that it may never come back.
• Made redstone bugs spawn actual Redstone Bugs to assist with debugging.
• Added new Quantum Entangled redstone, obtained by mixing 1 redstone, 1 diamond and 3 lapis.
  • One entangled redstone dust will connect to another pair elsewhere.
  • No current way of specifying the connection, may in fact connect to another player’s world.
• Added new BUD blocks.

Magic

• Added new Magic and Luck levels per player.
• Finding a Rainbow after rain passes will be the primary way of obtaining Magic.
• Finding a green-tinted horse will be the primary way of obtaining Luck.
• Added new spell system, costing magic to perform a spell.
• Spells may backfire, depending on Luck.
• Examples of new spells include:
• Turn any item into Fish.
• Turn current biome into another biome (bug: currently only turns into ocean).
• Ability to remove gravity from other creatures/players in the world.

As well as many other updates including Fishing & combat, which you can see here.

This here is a video by Sir PaulsoaresJr showing off the update with fellow mindcrackers. Enjoy :)