Minecraft

Crossposted from https://lemmus.org/post/22350379

Super exciting snapshot today!

They're introducing a friends list for Java Edition that allows you to play peer-to-peer with your friends on local worlds, similar to LAN play! No more need for a dedicated server or a Realms subscription just to play Minecraft with a friend!

They've also added new music tracks, a new music disc, and finally what we've all been asking for, the ability to trigger geysers manually! By placing lava instead of a magma block under the potent sulfur, you can create indefinite geysers and toggle them at will!

There's some more, so check out the linked changelog.

Running the Pi Edition on modern systems?

#Minecraft #RaspberryPi

Microsoft still hosts the now abandoned Pi Edition. However, given it is an aging program for an aging system for an aging hardware, even if they keep it up for download, native accessibility to it grows ever smaller.

Also, on a personal level, I like playing outdated builds of games, which makes me want to play this version too.

Given those, I ask, is there some way to run the Pi Edition on modern systems, be them either ARM, x86, or the sort?

I have seen that apparently QEMU can run the Legacy 32-bit build of Raspberrian / Raspberry Pi OS, but given size constraints, reads "I'm running out of space", I can't test it myself rn. T-T

I also have seen there is apparently a project to run it natively on modern systems, but given it allegedly modifies some elements of the game, I'd rather avoid it.

Or, within the scope of the question, is there some emulator, translation layer, etc., which could be used to run it similar to how it'd be natively?

And tangential, but to those also interested, the Pi Edition is available here, at the bottom left of "Other versions & platforms": https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download#alternate-versions

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(Image alt: 3D rendering of one of the new spring variants. It is much shallower and wider than the previous designs, featuring a water pool around 8 blocks in diameter, surrounded by a sulfur and granite ring. It also extends down into the ground with tuff and granite.)

Of course, the one pictured is only one of many variants, you can see a full list here:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Sulfur_Spring#Structure

I personally think it's a good step in the right direction. It's obviously a response to all the negative player feedback as of late regarding the original spring designs and I feel like it addresses it well.

Here's what they added, summarised by yours truly:

• Three new languages (Gallo, Uzbek, Vȯro)!
• Geysers can now be detected by skulk sensors, both at the beginning and end of eruption.
• Two new sulfur cube archetypes: Slow Bouncy (buoyant, but slow speed, high bounciness, medium friction and medium air drag) for stone blocks and Hot (same as bouncy but damages entities) for magma blocks.
• Sulfur springs (the overworld features) have been redesigned completely, probably due to all the negative player feedback about the original designs!
• Sulfur caves now no longer have tuff and granite strips in them, and they're less likely to generate below oceans, hills and mountains.
• New advancement: "Uh oh", achievable by having a sulfur cube absorb TNT.

I left out all of the technical changes, datapack updates and bugfixes for better readability, but they're included in the changelogs linked if you would like to read about them.

Here's the official Minecraft wiki article about the snapshot:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_26.2_Snapshot_6

Hope this helps! I would really like this community to be a bit more active, so I'm going to post news like this regularly and try to contribute to a lively environment. :)

What do you think about the snapshot?

There is a thing about the way Minecraft does its closed captions that frustrates me a bit.

It does not differentiate between different footstep events. For example, while the game's audio clearly distinguishes between the stompy shuffling of a cow and the human-like footsteps of a zombie, the subtitles read 'footsteps' for both.

It also makes no sense that your own footsteps, as in the ones caused by the player, are captioned the same way as other mobs'. People with auditory access to the game audio can clearly tell whether there are multiple entities' footsteps around or whether it's their own movement causing the sounds, and so can everyone in real life (including deaf and hard of hearing folks) because we have direct sensory knowledge of our bodies and movements.

In the game's captioning however, there is no way to tell whether you're hearing your own lone footsteps echoing in a cave, or whether you're followed by an entire herd worth of sheep, because it's all one line: "footsteps".

Is there a mod that addresses these issues?

For example, what would help tremendously is a "direction" indicator that instead of a left or right arrow shows an icon indicating that a sound originates from the player themselves. Logically, we should know whether it's a sound we made ourselves or something external.

I've been setting up a barter farm all day and suddenly found out that piglins will swap out armour if they get a better option. Not a problem usually but my bartering farm has powdered snow and the piglins use leather boots.

I now need to rebuild a spawning platform and get a shulker of curse of binding boots so they don't fall through the damn snow.

I personally think they are really cool and made this whole drop quite a bit more interesting! They introduce new decorative elements for animated builds like fountains and steampunk pipes and stuff, and they can be used in entity transport of all kinds.

My only disappointment with them so far is that they're so random to trigger, I wish we had a way to trigger them manually somehow. Perhaps the first time they're formed, they could immediately spit out a geyser? That would make them piston-activatable.

Hello!

I'm about to host a LAN with a few friends. Do you guys have recommendations for good maps for 6 players? Any gamemodes, PvP PvE...

What open-source Minecraft server and client should I use to ensure zero telemetry, with modding support?

And it had lava on the side of it and burnt to the fucking ground lol..right near spawn too

I built this ranch cabin on a modded 1.20.1 server around a year ago. Still living in it to this day.

sauce: https://www.tumblr.com/moonibinbon/770033911650795520/the-artist-is-thomas-deininger

Quick context: a recent fan snapshot still places Minecraft in the top tier among best-selling games. Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/4030

Build a one-chunk mini zoo that a younger player can finish in under 30 minutes. Rules: • max 1 chunk footprint • peaceful or easy • any resource is fine, screenshots welcome Tip: light Fabric stack is okay if it keeps 1.21 smooth.

A recent fan snapshot places Minecraft at the very top tier among best-selling video games.

Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/4030

For 2025 play, what actually keeps you coming back — version control, mod support, or community servers? If you’re on 1.21, which lightweight setup are you using right now (Fabric or Forge) and what’s your go-to minimal pack?

Aspie brother and sister in their late 50s, active vanilla Bedrock players, seek active players to join realm.

Are you looking for a friendly, safe community to play vanilla Minecraft Bedrock Edition with? We might be what you're looking for. We are playing co-op survival, moving from area to area and setting up then moving again when we think we're ready to build somewhere new. We have just moved and have a vanguard base mostly setup.

We are a safe realm for women, young or older, and we are LGBTQ+ friendly. The realm is owned by a 20 year old woman (my, the brother's, daughter.) We are neurodivergent and are neurodivergent friendly.

We have a Discord server that we use for game chat and to talk about life and work and cats and food and everything else that strikes our fancy.

If you're looking for an active, friendly, safe realm to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition send me a DM.

We are based in Canada near Ottawa. You can be from anywhere.

Fascists need not apply.

A recent fan-ranked snapshot on Rankiwiki shows Minecraft tied at #1 among best-selling video games, alongside GTA V, Red Dead Redemption II, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (each shown at 25% in that snapshot).

Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/4030

For players here: • If you re-rank the top 4, does Minecraft stay #1? Why? • What single feature keeps new players coming back in 2025?

I really like making small addons and resource packs, mostly small things for personal use, but as of now, I have no platform for that. I used to use the MAM Addons Maker app until very recently, when it became so ad-riddled that it's completely unusable. I'm not good at coding things, so that limits my options a lot.

Hello guys I posted about my modpack a few weeks ago and its finally released currently I am struggling on which issue tracker to use currently users can use my matrix community to suggest things but I feel there might be a better way to do it

Background: As everyone here knows, I have been making a MC 1.8.9 guide. Today, I was gifted a lot of ranks in Hypixel, going from VIP to MVP++. The latter allows me to host private games, giving me the opportunity to coach using Bed Wars 1v1 matches. Furthermore, I notice consistent improvements in my gameplay, giving me more confidence, and a much better playstyle to teach. The question is, should I? If I would, I'd let people apply for it in my Revolt server. Additionally, I have been given positive feedback & results from teaching people a couple of things, similar to how I'd coach if I would make it through the previously mentioned way.

No limits, what do you want to be added in Minecraft?