Nella giornata di ieri Microsoft e Mojang hanno rilasciato il nuovo aggiornamento Better Together dedicato a Minecraft, che spalanca finalmente le porte alla funzionalità cross-platform tra diverse console, presentata per la prima volta all’E3 2017.
Nel dettaglio, il cross-play è stato abilitato tra le versioni Windows 10, Xbox One, Android, iOS e VR, con la versione Switch che dovrebbe ricevere il supporto in tempi brevi. Come già confermato in precedenza, Sony non ha voluto partecipare all’operazione ed è rimasta della sua idea, non accettando l’introduzione di questa feature su PlayStation 3 e PS4, che limiteranno dunque l’uso del multiplayer a una sola piattaforma.
Per l’occasione, Mojang ha rilasciato sul suo canale YouTube un video di presentazione dei nuovi contenuti, che vi proponiamo qui di seguito:
Ecco, infine, le note di rilascio dell’aggiornamento (in lingua inglese):
New Features:
- Stained Glass
- Fireworks (with Elytra boost!)
- Parrots
- Banners
- Armor Stands
- Jukebox and music discs
- Recipe Book
- Book & Quill
- Ravines
- Coarse Dirt
- New world start options: Starting Map; Bonus Chest; Trust Players
- New game rules: Show Coordinates; TNT Explodes; Natural Regeneration
- Added ‘/tickingarea’ command to create areas that still update when no players are there
- Player permissions
- Zombie Villager spawn egg
- In-game host options
- Paper doll viewer
- Outline selection toggle
- In-game player names toggle
- HUD opacity toggle
- Expanded Xbox Live multiplayer world settings
- New loading screens with funny and helpful tips
- How to Play screen
- Remix 3D export functionality (Windows 10 only)
- New achievements
- Server Partners
- Realms invite links
- Mash-up Packs and Texture Packs will now decorate the main menu and in-game HUD
Tweaks:
- Rebalanced most of the game sound effects and music, such as rain being much quieter
- It is now much easier to see underwater after drinking a Potion of Water Breathing and Potion of Night Vision
- Blaze Powder is now needed to fuel brewing stands
- Ice blocks are now transparent
- Maps can now be held off-hand and show the heads of players’ skins
- Locator maps now track the owner’s position, regardless of dimension
- Worlds can now be set to Invite Only, Friends Only, or Friends of Friends
- Various improvements and changes to navigating the user interface
- Redesigned button mapping and added Pick Block for controllers
- Render Clouds and Fancy Leaves can now be toggled in Video Settings
- Skins can now be changed from the pause menu
- Chat messages can now be muted
- Items picked up are now animated on the hotbar
- Stained glass and banners will now spawn on End Cities
- Increased the default player limit on worlds from 5 to 8 on higher-end devices
- Block placement speed now matches the player’s movement speed
- Temperature decreases with height and it can now snow at high elevations
- Observer blocks have updated textures and will now blink red when outputting a redstone pulse
- Adjusted the color that flashes when mobs are attacked
- Brick Blocks, Nether Brick Blocks, and Clay Blocks have been renamed to better differentiate from other items
- Underwater particles
- Jungle leaves are now transparent on higher-end devices when Fancy Leaves are enabled
- Changed the sound effects for Creeper explosions
- Added sound effects for placing Eyes of Ender into portal frames and opening The End portal