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Sep 08, 2011 - 11:13 am

Minecraft: Trailer for 1.8 Update highlights adventure

Minecraft, the rabidly popular world exploration and building and mining game has a new content update (the 1.8 version) coming soon and there’s a new trailer for it. The video highlights the difference between Minecraft as it currently stands and what the 1.8 update brings to the Minecraft experience. The video starts with the standard Minecraft activities – exploring game worlds, living in the game world, gathering resources, and building homes. At the end of that status quo sequence, the Lego-block looking character puts on a helmet and armor, goes on to wield a sword, and go on an adventure. That’s why it is called an Adventure update, which will allow you to experience a little bit of fantasy adventure elements.

The game also highlights the different terrains and biomes that available in the game. It is a diverse experience to see the world is in a different view where there are nice-looking cloud and sky views. There are also engaging sword plays, desert environments, and so many things going on with the 1.8 update for Minecraft dubbed the “Adventure” update.

The video even has quite an ominous teasing ending where it says, “Just don’t look.” Then there’s the mysterious black Enderman that assaults the players at the end. Nice tease there. Overall, this trailer highlights the big difference between this major 1.8 adventure update and the Minecraft as it currently exists. According to the previous statement of the game’s creator, Notch, they packed so much content to this update that they were tempted to releasing the update in two batches. That’s a lot of content. Based on the trailer, it definitely shows that they are expanding the content base of this title.

 

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Comments

  • JOSHUA

    Nice hopefully it comes out the 12th of september!

  • Will

    I heard its comin out on monday.. which is the 12.
    hopefully it doesn’t get postponed again D:

  • sam

    man i wanted to get

  • sam

    the update today i am so excited

  • bum

    i herd 8th but it was delayed :(

  • Argo

    Ive been hearing it was going to be released sept 8? when is the actual release date supposed to be?
    thnx

    • shane

      its monday the 18th and i also heard 1.9 is coming out a few weeks after 1.8

  • haha

    yeah…. and not delayed again (eye roll)

  • Jason

    this looks nice. and that creepier creeper at the end looks delicious

    • Ilovepop

      um, its not a creeper. it is a whole new mob called the ender man

  • Ilovepop

    notch is doing his best to piss everyone off. if what all my friends say is true, then notch doesn’t even do PART of the work. it is all up to Jeb, who seams to think that every time there is a breakthrough, he announces an update! i am a loyal fan of minecraft. (in this account i only own classic, but i have two accounts). what i think they should do is keep their mouths shut, until they know a date for sure.

    • chowa

      they are

  • Ilovepop

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • chowa

    well he is not going to make a date 4 shore cause u all pissed notch&jeb off saying boo and annoying them so i got 1.8 pre-release its awesome

  • chowa

    and also i say shame on u

  • iloveminecraft

    i hope u like hurting notches feelings

  • chowa

    notch is awesome dnt pay him out u crule people

  • christainjames

    i love minecrift