Minecraft 1.8 Update Leaked...

[Quietlyawesome94]

Minecraft's massive Adventure Update 1.8 has been leaked -- by Mojang right-hand man, Jens Bergensten, or Jeb. Minecraft creator Markus Persson is content with the leak, as shown through his subtle use of a winking emoticon in this tweet, and the following message, which says, "(I am fine with you using it. Make sure you get it from the leaked url we are hosting, though)."

Jeb affirmed his part in the leak with yet another emoticon, in the long-eyed equals-sign style, on a Reddit post. Jeb had previously tweeted he would upload the jar file for "expert users," which is exactly what he did nine hours later. If you're an expert Minecrafter, download the file here and get your adventure started.

When a developer leaks its own game a few days early, we think that should just be called a release. But hey, what do we know?

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[chyyran]

This reminds me of that employee smuggling a 3DS.
Is it a PR scheme?

Also, replacing "minecraft_server.jar" in the url with just "minecraft.jar" works

Trying it out now

Man, it looks so cool

 

[Deleted_171835]

It's extremely buggy as it isn't a proper release, though.

I would suggest waiting until the official one is released unless you're desperate to try out Adventure Mode.

 

[Quietlyawesome94]

This reminds me of that employee smuggling a 3DS.
Is it a PR scheme?

Of course it is. It was leaked by one of the developers!

EDIT: Added a download link.

 

[raulpica]

Good bye again, social life.

(at least till I grow bored with the new additions)

 

[Joe88]

It's extremely buggy

how is that different from regular updates

 

[chyyran]

It seems like the world generator algorithm was changed. I tried gargamel, and it wasn't the same..

 

[Deleted_171835]

It's extremely buggy

how is that different from regular updates

Well, we are "beta testers".

 

[raulpica]

Great, I can't even open the inventory with TAB, as it just doesn't work :C

EDIT: Found a village and... IT'S EMPTY

I'll probably just barge into an house and claim it as my own. Cheap refugee for the night

 

[Nikolay]

Great, I can't even open the inventory with TAB, as it just doesn't work :C

Go to your controls and change the players list to something else, I had the same issue.

 

[lukecop80]

My favourite bug is that sheeps change colours. XD

 

[chyyran]

The new lighting's kinda weird..

Spoiler

 

[Heran Bago]

Now modders can try getting things working with 1.8 by the time of its release. Neato.

 

[BrightNeko]

God I love this dev team they are so nice and awesome :3 thank you for the news!

 

[Forstride]

God I love this dev team they are so nice and awesome :3 thank you for the news!

Except the prerelease is insanely buggy. You can't even use furnaces without the game crashing, not to mention, tundra biomes are completely gone.

But hey, it's a prerelease for testing, so I can't really complain.

 

[Quietlyawesome94]

God I love this dev team they are so nice and awesome :3 thank you for the news!

No problem

Just keep checking Joystiq and Engadget every 15 minutes and you'll be in the know!

 

[DarkStriker]

New algorithm ehh.. Hope its more focused on flat land as thouse mountain terrains require some hardcore mining/digging if you want to make town like me.

 

[Maplemage]

I wanna find a fortress, or something, but isnt the game already in Beta? That would be Minecraft Beta 1.8 Beta.

 

[Fluto]

OH NO!
when holding the right mouse button you cant continually place blocks

 

[Celice]

I like this, because for all the players who started throwing fantrums at the date getting pushed back, here's what they can have instead :3

Though it would have been nice to have the update yesterday :/ I could have got some game in with my brother before leaving for uni.