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n i t f a minecr Minecraft may have celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, but the world of Minecraft keeps getting bigger, with new games, new updates and yet more development on the upcoming movie, so let’s look ahead to Minecraft in 2020!

THE NETHER UPDATE AND BEYOND

The new Netherwart Forest Blue

Announced at Minecon just a few months ago, the Nether Updat is the next big

be released in the second half of 2020. It’s been a long time since the Nether got any attention, and that’s all changing with this future release. So wha can you expect?

NEW BIOMES! There are no fewer tha THREE new biomes being added to the Ne her: Soulsand Valleys, which are strange area generated entirel out of soul sand and filled with blue fog a fossils; Netherwart For st Red, a forest m e entirely of Netherwart ith new mushroo variants to collect; and Netherwart Fores Blue, a Netherwart for st overrun with blu green fungus. Intriguin !

Look out for piglin beasts

NEW MOBS! Populating these new iomes, you’ll fin piglins, which are like nzombified pigme who love gold, are happy to tra e e player, and will attack nyone who isn’t w aring gold armour. here will also iglin ely to be renamed) – boar-li e a a be killed for their me t!

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UPDATED BIOMES! s a result of a public ote at Minecon, you’ll also see the Mountains biome get an update.

At this point, it’s too e rly to say exactly what’s changing, but u can expect it to look more like mountains a d be populated by an entirely new mob: t e cliff-dwelling goat!

Mountains have been an uninterestin biome for too long, and that’s about to change!

NEW BLOCKS! Amongst the new blocks being added in this update, you can expec to see the target block. This new type redstone trigger outputs a redstone sig al based on how close to the centre an arrow hits it. Target practice blocks will be added further down the line too – if nothing else, there are several new Combat is being updated

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NEW COMBAT! Although it s ’t necessarily going o be part of the Neth r Update, the combat ystem is getting a plete overhaul, with eapons normalised d combat techniques fixed and updated to ake things more fun and a little less rando . Finally, skill will matter more than how ickly you can hammer he attack buttons, a the Java and Bedrock Editions will match r s y a y do All in all, ood news for fans of rdplay!

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are the pdates we w are coming o the game generally, but what’s coming to the Java Edition s ecifically?

As e write, versi n 1.15 was just eleased, so e next upd te, due in 20 , 1.16. Here are some confirmed addi ions and cha ges beyond those already listed for e Nether Up ate.

NETHER RESPAWNS It will soon be sible to resp wn in the Nether. How and why – aybe beds will stop exploding? – but one way or a other it will e possible.

Ther ’s some spe it will involve the ysterious cryin ng obsidian bl ck, which was avail ble in a much older version of Minecraft, but this is far from confirmed, and a lock has never returned to Minec aft after being rem ved, so take hat with a pinch of salt!

Fletching tables will be functional soon

Illusioners will join raids

WORKSTATION UPDATES If yo like the loo of smithing and fletc ing tables, as they’re going be updated with new functionality in the next majo . his point, it’s uncl ar what the orkstations will do, ut you can b t that fletching s will improv arrow crafting, an smit ing tables will improve tool crafting.

ILLUSIONERS They’re already in the Java Edition if ou spa n them man ally, but the deadly illusioner will be coming to the game proper as p rt of illager r ids. Get your weapons ready, as these guys don’t mess around. keep your sheep cked up, because they have a weird grudge against them!

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BEDROCK EDITION UPDATES

The drock Edition have its exclusives, bu quite far behind the J are some of the updates you can expect bile devices, to see coming to your gam s consoles and Win ows 10 editions thro ghout 2020.

HARDCORE MODE A ng-time staple of the Java Edition, Hard ore mode – i whic you’re locked out f the orld you started the game in forever – is ing to come to e point. the Bedroc Edition at WORLD SHARING The bility shar world between all Bedr ck Editions ill also be added at some

. pla e world o e and Xbox. ble!

N S ields can’t yet be cu tomised with ture to make its banne s, but expect this way o the Bedrock Edition before too long!

NEW ENGINE The w “RenderDragon” ame engine – which incidentally is what inecraft Earth n – is due to be added to the Bedrock Editio in the future. The p an is that it will give ore graphics option , allowing the game o run on more ev ces, and it will also i prove performance o that it looks better on the devices it alr ady runs on. A win-win situation if you as us!

The Earth engine will power Bedrock one day

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Minecraft Dungeons is due in April!

MINECRAFT DUNGEONS

The wait for Minecraft Dungeons after it was announced literally more than tremely tough, but it’s almost ver as it’s due out in April 020!

Dungeons will see you guide new characters throug a set of randomly gener ted dungeons based on Minecraft, with new mobs, new locations and new items. Your g al? To control of the Overworld using the Orb of Dominance! It’s the second new Minecraft pin-off in as many years and one that looks like it’s going to provide hours of fun. Expect to see a tonne of information about it in the next few months and, of rse, the usua se ec on o n s, tips and guides from us!

Realms Plus will overhaul Realms

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In case you’d forgotten, Minecraft Realms is the online component of Minecraft where yo can pay to host a server that es on the nternet so you an yo r r en s can visit it at the same time, regardless of which of ou is online and playing. It’s been a while since anything change on there, but Realms Plus will be a new subscription tier, which, in addition to giv ng you a standard ten-pe son realm, ill allow you to access more n 50 pieces of content available on the Minec aft Marketplace at no extra cost. That may mean skins, miniga es and maps – right now, we’re not % e, but as soon as we hav the details ou’ll e able to read about it re!

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MINECRAFT EARTH

If you’ve been pla ing Minecraft Earth, you’ll have noticed that the game is fairly simple at the moment, features will be added in the future.

You can already see parts of the game waiting for new fea ures, such as the bility to craft and s elt multiple items t once, but even re are coming! ew adventures, tappables, more locks – the plan, e ntually, is to create all of Minecr ft within Minecraft E . ow how long it will take, but one thing is ce tain: Minecraft Earth will receive heap of updates in 2020, so the sooner you get started with the game the better!

Minecraft Earth will continue to expand!

MINECRAFT FESTIVAL

It’s not a game, it s not an update – Minecraft Festival is an event! Held in Florida on 25-27th September 2020, Minecon, which ha been held exclusiv ly online in recent ye rs. It will bring together Minecraft’s develo ers, players, YouTu ers, fanartists and mo – it’s just a shame hat it’s taking place during school time. Still, maybe you can co vince your family go for the weeken ! We’ll do our best o bring you coverag of the event, though, there. And you can bet there will be a oad of cool announcements at the Minec aft community will be talking about for months after!

You can bet Minecraft Earth will be huge at Minecraft Festival

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Minecraft Ear s p i t Minecraft Earth is the cool new mobile game from the makers of Minecraft. So how do you go from beginner to expert?

With our amazing hints, tips and secrets, of course!

PRESERVE YOUR TOOLS EARLY ON

It takes a lot longer to craft tools in Minecraft E rth than in other versions of he game, so if you’re trying to stop your ar -cra te stu m being used up quickly, save the best for hen you really need it.

For example, break stone blocks with a st ne pickaxe, an save your ir n one for w en you fi d some o e! You’ll always have ay more tone than iron.

CRAFT SWORDS TO CLEAR COBWEBS

Like in gular Minecraft, if you’re getting hung up (literally!) on cobwebs while ploughing through your adventures, swords will make fast work of them. ready to slice up some spiders without having to change what you’re holding!

Complete the challenges!

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COMPLETE THE CHALLENGES!

WATCH OUT FOR TAPPABLES

Pay attention to the challenges on offer. The more you finish, the more rubies and rewards o ’ll get, and those in turn make he game more playable and sto you from having to spend actual money in pursuit of better it ms.

Tappables replenish at regular intervals,

LEARN ABOUT EXCLUSIVE BLOCKS

Minecraft Earth alread has some exclusive blocks, and one mud: a semi-transparent bloc that can slow down mobs (and affect pigs – as you’ll find out in below).

You can use a bucket to collect and move mud, and ckets of mud can also be collected as tappables. Beware, though – if you place a mud s urce oc next to water, it wi get washed away forever!

Look out for exclusive mobs like cluckshrooms

sitting at home you can open Minecraft Earth and probably find a few tappables nearby. After all, the more you collect, the more you can craft – and you don’t have to wander around tapping g on stuff for hours at a time to make sure you

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Find diamonds in adventures

LOOK OUT FOR THE RARE MUDDY PIG!

As well as a tonne of standard mobs, there a few you can only find in this game. The rarest is the Epic-level Muddy Pig, which is covered in mud and as a tulip stuck on its head. T e onl way to find one is to collect from pig tappable, although if yo convi ce a regular pig to enter m d it will turn into a muddy pig, a d late dry out. The only difference betwe n a normal pig and a muddy pig is that they like mud more and ill se rch for it on buildplates!

HOW TO FIND DIAMONDS

At t e moment, the only plac you can find rarer items, incl ding diamonds, is in ad ntures – look for the lar e bea s pointing into the air fro the map screen and he d for those. Make sure to explore the ven ure area comp e ely, as t e diamonds will be hidden dee beneath the surface.

Remember to use your iron tool to harvest them!

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t’s official: t e previously teased bees are now part of the Mine raft world!

The buzzy c eatures were a e o e e us e ore Christmas, if you’re using the Bedrock Edition. Download the latest update, they’ll be awaiting you! As part of their arrival, we also g t honey blocks, hives and nests, lus baby bees.

How’s that for an update wi sting to it?!

PSA4FTERS R C E N I M W HAVE THE NOROCK EDITION BED

I you play Minecraft o the PlayStation 4, up until now your game hasn’t worked wi h Xbox One, Wi dows, Nintendo versions. However,

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This month: emerald blocks!

Emerald Blocks Where to find Emerald Blocks Emerald blocks – also called blocks of

Emerald ore is rare!

– naturally. Instead, you have to craft one u ing nine emeralds.

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mera oc s ave a numb r of uses, though they’re rarely e bes option, sinc emeralds are incredibl rare.

As they’re resource blocks, hey can be used for compact storage and transportation of erald . One invent ry slot can contain 64 emera ds, but if you craft the emeralds into bl cks first, the in 576 emeralds as a stack of 64 emeral bloc s.

They can also be used decoration, having a unique gr en colour an pa ern.

They can be pla ed as art of beacons (more on that opposite!) too.

Finally, in the J a and Bedrock Editions, they can be placed beneath “ ” instrument sound.

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Beacons

Emerald blocks can b used to construct and power eacons.

When you build a bea on, it has to consist of at least nine s s a a ed in a horizontal square, with a beacon block placed on the centre one. This is a onelevel beacon.

Beacons can be furt er expanded into pyrami s of up to four levels. The bas of a four-level beacon is 9 blocks, o owe y a eve on op of that, then a 5x5 lev l, and finally a 3x3 level on e very top. A full-size beacon takes 164 resource blocks to build.

So to build a full-size beacon out of just emeralds, u’d need to collect 1,476 e eralds, ld 164 emerald blocks. Howe er, this is purely an issue of coration – building a beacon out of emeralds doesn’t change how it acts, only how it loo s. You’re free to mix and match emerald, gold, iron and diamon blocks!

Trade emeralds with villagers

rald I you ish to mine an lock, ou should only use an iron or iamond pickaxe, asº usin wooden, tone or ones w reak the lock ithout making it p.

To tu n an emerald block back i to emeralds, you have to craft it n a cr fting grid. You’ll able to remo a stack of nine s from the output slot.

If you earn 1000 emeralds by trading, you get the Master chiev ment (in the Bedro k dition only).

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S G N I H T Y N A An extremely raw chicken

Dear Ask Us nything, I have some uestions for you!

When are bees coming to Bedro k?

When is Minecraft Dungeons coming out?

How can I atch Minecraft Festival?

Why can y u get food poisonin from raw chi ken but nothing els ?

Do you hav to get Bad Omen to witness a rai ? an y u a o nec ft?

Can u fish for crossbows?

Thanks so much, Tom, A e 8 Why would you WANT to see a raid?!

n s or your letter, we really enjoye it! To answer your questions...

They should b available now!

Version 1.14.0 o wards.

In case you’ve missed the announcement elsewhere, you’ll be able to play Dungeons on all supported platf rms from April 2020!

It’s too early t say, but the official Minecraft site will surely point you in the right directi n when it’s time! ’s a e rea e – raw chicken is extremely dangerous, but red meat like be f is (if properly stored!) safe to at uncooked in lots of circumstances.

Unfortunately ou do! Although it’s – captain and give him a taste of you sword (or crossb w).

The people who own Godzilla would probably take issue with that, but maybe there’s a mod out there o . we’ll look into it!

You can’t cat h crossbows when fishing, but if yo want to craft one the recipe is thr e sticks, one iron ingot, two string and a tripwire hook Thanks Tom! Writ a ain soon!

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Dear Ask Us An thing, I play Minecraf Bedrock Edition.

I have a lot of q estions to ask ou...

1) How do you g t a command block from the reative menu?

2) How do you get scaffolding?

3) Can you give e a seed that spawns me in t e centre of the End? 4) Can you mak a Herobrine spotting guide?

5) Can you mak a guide for summoning ent ty 303?

6) Can you mak a wither s 7) Can you make a guide fo spotting lapis?

ASK US ANYTHING

Scaffolding is easy to craft

Lapis ore is easy to spot

I really like your magazine.

I've already got three and only started getti g them two months ago.

Thank you and est wishes, Lloyd, Age 7

Hey Lloyd! Always great to hear from a new re der. et’s see w at we can do about y ur questi ns.

1. Command locks are unavailable in most Bedrock Editions, and hey’r never in he creative menu If yo ou open chat console nd t pe “/give p command_block 1” it will give you com and block if por it. the version 2. You can cr ft it ut of six pieces of bamboo nd one piece of string – pla e bamboo e of the craftin

grid, and the string in the top centre squar .

3. Unfortunately, you can’t spawn in the End, so we can’t!

4. & 5. We can’t comment on eithe of these – suffic to say there’s nothing we can tell u that would help u find them. Th y’ll find you!

6. We might ave something on the wither storm next issue…

7. Lapis lazuli is fairly easy to find!

Just go into r asonably deep cav s.

You need to e about 15-20 levels below the surface.

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Bee careful!

Dear Ask Us Anythi g, You might remembe me from e issue 42. ine most recommend game in the world! Keep up he good work and merry Chri tmas! I have a few questions to as : 1. When will be s be added to necra e r c 2. Are there any plans for more enchantments r the sword?

3. What does th enchantment Bane Of Arthro ods do?

4. What is Java dition – can you e i in in s Thank you so much for answering my questions.

From Joseph, Age 9

e Thanks for writing in again! Let us furnish you with some mor answers. a, s s a popular quest on this month! Ju again, so ther ’s no doubt, it’s version 1.14.0.

If you’re playing o s v rs of Bedrock, bees hould therefore e available.

Not right now, b t that doesn’t Arthropods are animals with exoskeletons (e.g. bones) and in necraft that means spiders, endermites, silverfish and be s.

This enchantment akes your weapon to those types of mob!

Java Edition is the original version f Minecraft. You at Minecraft.net and yes it’s playabl on Windows 10, a though it’s separat to the Windows Edition, which is the craft Bedrock.

Cheers Joseph! ope we hear from ou

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ASK US ANYTHING

Dear A k g, Hi, I'm Jack and ' e got a question: I'm still waiting r the Village and Pillage update r PS3. Do you know when if this update will come?

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Frost Walker is great fun

Dear Ask Us A ything, I've got some questions for you.

1. How do you pply Frost Walker to boot ?

2. How do you ye fireworks?

Thanks Oliver, Age 7

Hello Oliver! An we’ve som answers for you.

You can’t! Fro t Walker is a treasure enchantment so you can’t get it on an enchanting table. chests or when fishing, or you an potentially get book with Fr st a ker app ie y tra ing with a villager – then you just apply it to some boots using an anvil.

First, craft a ework star npowder by combining with any dye, n you can add more colours by crafting that star with dye.

Add a star to a firework Update the PS3 you have Edition – or else! a colourful firework!

Thanks for writin in!

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Hey Jack! The sa news is that the PS3 Edition of Minecraft is no longer being pdated – the Update Aquatic was the last set of new featur s to come to t e conso e. you want to ff like Village play the latest and Pillage, you’ll need to get the Bedrock dition on a computer, phone or tablet, or a new console like the Xbox ne or . orry or e disappointment – we wish ey’d ! let us play it on our PS3

As usual, our final pages are reserved for quickfire questions.

Sorry if we didn’t print your – them all!

Do you want to ride this?!

Can you get C rse of Vanishing and Curse of Binding on Bedrock Edition ?– Scarl t

, ’ moment – both urses were added in version 1.2.0 but made inaccessible m version 1.4.0 on ards, o if you alread have t e curses in Bedrock Editio you can t there’s still use them, currently no way to get them in a new world. You used to be abl to get them by tradin with a villager for an nchanted book, so we’ll l t you know if that ability ever comes back.

Can you ride a ravager?

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Evokers are sort of bosses too!

You can’t, and I can’t, but illagers can. It ight be possible to spawn a tamed ravager or find some wa using a consol command, but rcumstances it’s unfortunately r fortunately, depending on ow long you want to stay alive) not possible.

They DO have and one of the only ways you can uarantee that you get a saddle in Mine raft is to make some ravagers appear in a raid

and kill them. We’ll ke our hances trading, frankly. osses, ther than the ender ragon, ither and elder guar dam

Right now, there are ’t any plans, but as our ca chphrase – ’ ean it will never happen. If you’re looking for a challe ge, the voker is technically the boss f a mansion!

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ASK US ANYTHING How do you make a lightnin bolt hit a mooshro m - Noah

It’s not simpl ! The only way you can real y do it without cheating is by getting a trident, ap lying the Channelling nchantment (which you c n get from an enchantment table), then throwin it close to a mooshroom while it’s raining. nn s w summ n bolt and, if happens right, transform it and/or nearby mooshrooms nto brown mooshrooms!

Monuments are the best source of prismarine

used? – S Merrcer

Spider eyes an be eaten fo a small hunger boost, but they’ll also poison you. ou can filter them into an awkward potion to ke a Potion of ison, and you an craft them h a brown mush oom and sugar to make a ferment d spider eye, which can be filt red into multiple otions to create new ones. Give it a try and see w a comes out!

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The onl real way to g t prismarine is to mine it rom an an monument – and BOY re those aces deadly!

If you can, y to build ourself a safe underw ter base n top of some prisma ine, dry it ut, then mine it from abov . You’ll want to stay y of guar ians, and if out of e you’re not in the water hey can’t hurt you, so keeping dr s e #1 priority!

A brown mooshroom!

Thanks agai everyone! See you next month!

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS

We’re kicking things off with a stone cold classic: a TARDIS adventure map that pays tribute to series 7’s Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS! Take on the role of the Eleventh Doctor or Clara and travel down vast corridors into the corrupted console room and beyond until you find an exploding star caught in the act of becoming a black hole. Use Time Lord engineering to rip the star from its orbit and sustain it in a state of decay – or are you up for the challenge of finding a “big friendly button”?

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GIANT DALEKS

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Here we have some pretty accurate Dalek sculptures, and it’s lovely to see a twist on the Daleks we’ve previously seen in Minecraft, as while these are 3D, they aren’t your typical Dalek mod-based creations. While the Daleks yell “Exterminate!” you can yell “Create!” and be the Doctor of your choice, ready to rid history of one of its greatest enemies once and for all. Since these Daleks are massive, you’ll have your work cut out for you.

How about building a giant flight of stairs, standing at the top and blowing a raspberry?

TARDIS adventure map magic!

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THE SUPERIOR

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Whovians, we’ve got another chance for you to shine with this celebratory 50th anniversary map, The Superior. In the 30-minute adventure, you’ll have to travel across space and time to gather the four pieces of the missing TARDIS console.

Avoid Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans, and rescue some Oods along the way!

You’ll first find the TARDIS waiting for you in a cave, and things will get seriously difficult as the adventure gets under way.

Will you make a clean mission of it, or die and regenerate along the way? Only time will tell.

This thing is enormous!

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SONIC SCREWDRIVER

Time for an adventure!

It’s the Tenth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver!

Useful though it was for David Tennant’s fan favourite Time Lord, this handy tool is certainly a little different – it’s big enough that you can venture inside to take a look around, for starters! Though we suppose if this was the Eleventh Doctor’s sonic screwdriver instead, it would be even bigger. We’ve been trying to think of something cooler than living inside a big sonic screwdriver, but have only come up with a rival idea in the form of living inside the TARDIS itself. Speaking of which... tinyurl.com/MCW61TopTen7

BIG TARDIS

Alas, you can’t climb into this huge version of the Doctor’s time-travelling spaceship, but it still looks dead brilliant. You’ll ha e to use your imagination to picture the inside containing an infinite number of rooms, corridors and storage spaces, but there’s nothing to stop you putting yo r own stamp on the outside and creatin a brand-new version of the classic police box to match your own Doctor Who adventure. Download, invite some pals, and enjoy with a hot mug of cinnamon tea.

Lovingly recreated TARDIS

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FIRST NIGHT

Imagine our joy when we discovered this lovely tribute to the First Doctor! Can you remember Ian and Barbara following Susan back to 76 Totter’s Lane, discovering the old police box and forcing their way inside, only to be overwhelmed by the magnificent surprise of the deceptive TARDIS? We’ve seen so many companions have a similar experience to that of Ian and Barbara over the years, and it brings a tear to the eye to see it recreated in Minecraft. tinyurl.com/MCW61TopTen5

Well worth a visit!

DOCTOR WHO MUSEUM

Fantastic tribute to the First Doctor

A downloadable Doctor Who museum for Minecraft? Don’t mind if we do! This is a collection of sweet pixel and 3D art, where you can take a walk through a “Whoseum” to check out the exhibits.

There’s a pack of sonic screwdrivers, props from Doctor Who, a TARDIS interior, and a nice batch of monsters and aliens. We’d like to add some bits and bobs from Jodie Whittaker’s current run as the Doctor – how about a Kerblam! box to start with? tinyurl.com/MCW61TopTen4

DOCTOR YOU

Awesome multiplayer map

Well now. This is something special!

A multiplayer map that aims to put you squarely in the shoes of the Doctor as you travel through space and time in the TARDIS to fight Daleks and Cybermen, and to complete some awesome quests along the way. This map took two years to complete, and the obvious enormity of the project certainly lends credence to that. Download this bad boy, and you can travel to over 20 locations. There are also secrets hidden everywhere. tinyurl.com/MCW61TopTen3

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BOWIE BASE ONE

Tribute to one of our favourite episodes

The Waters Of Mars is one of our favourite Doctor Who episodes! Seventeen months into a Mars mission that was set to discover if humans could survive on the red planet, the Tenth Doctor arrives at Bowie Base One and is captured by Captain Adelaide Brooke, who is heading up the project.

Unfortunately, certain crew members at the site have been infected with a virus, and the whole place has to be destroyed. Now, Bowie Base One is back, and this time it’s a bit blockier, thanks to the intrepid architect behind this faithful build. tinyurl.com/MCW61TopTen2

TARDIS INTERIOR

There’s a huge amount of love for David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in the Minecraft community, and we’ve seen a tonne of terrific projects that bring the TARDIS to life, but this feels like the cream of the crop. The architect has gone above and beyond not only to intricately recreate the TARDIS interior, but has also built life-size versions of the Tenth

We just love this epic recreation of the TARDIS

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Doctor and Rose Tyler using a bespoke GhincoCraft texture pack, MCEdit, Single Player Commands and OptiFine.

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Our address is: incoming@everythingm . m We look forward to hearing from you! Here’s the late t collection of letters...

TOBIAS’S STRONGHOLD

My name is Tobias, I’m 6 and from Bristol. I love Minecraft and I love Minecraft World magazine. I wanted to show you that I found my first stronghold! I’m really happy about it (and a tiny bit scared!).

This is a picture of me with my stronghold.

Tobias That’s a terrific find, Tobias! Don’t be scared, though – we reckon you can make your way through there no problem!

Stay brilliant.

ETHAN’S DRAWING

Hello, please find a dra ing by my son Ethan Birlet (age 5) , of an enderman. He also dre sed up as an enderman for Ha loween!

Thank you, Seb Wow, Ethan! You’re o e of the youngest people we’ ever publi hed in , r work.

That’s one excellent Halloween co tume too.

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BEN’S MANSION

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My name is Ben, and I’ e built a mansion!

Ben A very good mansion it is too, Ben! Than you for sending it our way, and we look forward to your next build!

TOBY’S HOUSE

I love your mags and ok forward to them every month. learn new things from them eac time. This is n my world. It has a basement, an ou door area and the main part. Please ut this letter in the mag.

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THOMAS’S COLLECTION

That looks like a very osy house, c tulations to you on it. There’s lots of room in there for a good number of s to all play Minecraft! Stay brillia t, and we hope to hear from you agai .

I’m Minecraft mad and I m writing this because it’s nearly my 7 h birthday. I have lots of Minecraft b oks, T-shirts, pyjamas and posters. I ve doing survival worlds.

Thomas We hope you have an amazing birthday, Thomas, and we love your collection – not just because you have lots of our magaz nes n it! Enjoy your Minecrafting – we suspect you will!

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JONATHAN’S CAKE

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My name is Jonathan and I love Minecraft!

I’ve built so many thi gs including games for my family to play and rollercoasters, and my dad made this enderman cake for my birthday!

My name is Daniel and I’ve justt turned d 8. I’d r ally like my picture to go i to your magazine.

I drew this picture for Halloween – Steve vs Skeleton Steve (I forgot to add some weapons!). I love playing Minecraft so your magazines are really cool!

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Yum! We hope you had a brilliant birthday, Jonathan, and your dad makes amazing cakes. Good on you too for building games for your family to play.

P.S. I also like playing Roblox and I’m working on a drawing of Minec aft vs Roblox (Minecraft ins, obviously!)

JACK’S PUMPKIN! I would like to wish y u all at Minecraft World a very happy Halloween!

Jack Byrne Thanks Jack! We’ve had one or two brilliant letters like yours that missed our Halloween deadlines, but we lo e your work so much we’re printing them anyway!

LIAM’S HOUSE

Hi Minecraft World. Here e is a picture of my new house I made. I hope you like it!

Liam Chamberlain, Age 10 Like it? We want to mov ve in! That looks amazing – and if we’re not mistaken, you’ve put an epic swim mming pool in there too! We like your brain, and we like your house!

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We hope you had an excellent birthday, Daniel, and we love your work.

We can’t wait to see what the Minecraft vs Robl x picture looks like!

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DANILA’S PUMPKIN

THE AMAZING ERIC

Hi, my name is D nila. I love your mag and get every single issu . I know I haven’t written o you for some time, b t I just wanted to show ou a picture of a Mine raft pumpkin I carved. His name is Creepy Pumps (geddit - creeper + pumpkin!) and if nyone refuses to give me a treat he s ares them off!

We just want to tell you about a brilliant young Minecrafter by the name of Eric! He’s just four yea old, and he’s a huge fan o Minecraft. What’s more, he wrote an epic Minecraf story for a story writing ompetition at hi school, whi h he s ent lots of nigh working on. He drew pictur s and wrote lots of pages and won the competition!

Danila, Age 9 Thanks for sendi g that to us, Danila – that’s terrific carving, and yo ’re giving us ideas for next Halloween alre dy! Thank you too for buyi g the magazi e and we’re thrilled yo like it.

BEDWARS TIPS

Sadly, we don t have space to print Eric’s amaz ng s ory, but we do wan to say a huge congratulations to him – and thank you to our helper who sent us this picture of Eric th his prize. You ke p being brilliant, ic!

I’m Joe (AKA greenos rich27) and I have ideas for everyone who’s reading this. I have a feeling th t a lot of people play Bedwars.

Well, here are four tip !

ALWAYS stock up ender pearls.

You never know when you might need them.

MILO’S COLLECTION

ALWAYS stay in tou h with your partner if .

NEVER attack another person’s bed directly. Try digging der someone’s bed and mining it from un erneath.

I’m Milo and I really want to show you my Minecraft collection. is is my first time

Try to craft your O N bed! Mine some wood, buy some wool, and have a spare bed

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I also wanted to sho you my Minecraft ice village that me and my friend are working on.

main one!

I hope these tips help ut anyone who struggles with Bedwar .

Milo, Age 9 That’s epic work there Milo! You also included details of r friend – GRD – who helped you build it, t we searched for em as you an ou n n em Send us their details a d we’ll make sure they get a well done i a future issue too.

You’re both brilliant.

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m a eu an ve your magaz ne an I hope you like my pic ure. I hope you put my picture in your brilliant magazine. Thank you if you put it in the magazine and if you don’t, I don’t mind be ause I don’t really like my picture though.

NOAH’S CASTLE

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I’m Noah. I just wanted o show you my castle.

I made it on my Xbox, a d I hope you like it

We’re sorry you don’t like your picture, Mathieu, because we eally love it. You keep drawing, you p making things, and have belief in just ho good you are. nk you so much for sending your picture to us, and the very best to you.

Noah Haden, Age 8 Our absolute pleasure, oah. That looks a very well defended cas le too, and thank you for sending it to us. Looking forward to whatever you build nex !

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Hi I like the game Min craft and the game rossy oa so ec e o ma e a g house in Minecraft!

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Evan, Age 7 How good is that?! A azing work there, Evan.

It’s HUGE! What othe games do you like? We can’t wait to see your future builds.

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Want to make your builds look professional enough to beat even the best YouTubers?

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hold in water source b ocks, so you can use them to create a sim compact water holder, like a bathtub or horse trough.

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If you want to make self-lighting la pposts, you can p ace a daylight sensor direct onto a redstone lamp and u’ll never have to switch it on or off manually again.

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Banners hung t either side of a large window will look like rtains – they’ll even sway gently in the breeze!

Stick two End rods on top of one an ther, then place a ant pot on top an it will look like you have a stylish, modern floor lamp.

A into an item frame makes for an excellent w ll clock, so you can see of day just by glancing over at the wall. Homely!

The patterns n glazed terracotta ’ ely can abstract – use them for lots of ings.

Magenta has arrows uilt into it, for example! Experiment with the options available and remember they an be rotated to face any way.

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Placing block of colou ed glass in the beam of a beacon ill make it change to the colo r of the glass block.

You can u e stairs p ace up ide down or sideways to smooth out the joins where block meet, giving your buildings an extra level of detail and finish that they would otherwis lack.

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Carpet ca be used to e underfloo lighting. It won’t block the ght that gl wstone emits, for example, t it will stop people being e to see the blocks!

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Surround a sea lantern r any light-em ting block) wi h trapdoors then place a fence post beneath it, and ou’ll create a snazzy desk amp.

Place two beds of the same colour side by si e and you’ll effectively create a double bed – it can !

Dragon h ads can be found n the bow of End ships (or in the reative mode inventory!), and if you connect one to a reds one power source, you ca make s a ose.

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Place blank signs on the es of stair blocks to create small armchairs – the blan signs will look like armrest .

The new campfire block makes a great ice for filling a fireplace, not least because it akes smoke that actually rises out of any chimney you stall!

If you ed to keep mobs in a spe ific area, e a fence. They won’t be able to jump over it, just like a ’, make sure there’s no way ey can climb over it either!

Dark pris arine looks like ceramic tiling in a way most blo ks don’t – look out for usual decorations that would allow you to repurpose the . an area look well tro den and po ular?

Flatten grass with a ovel to create rass paths.

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You can place lots of s uff in an item frame, but s look the coolest – if the maps are the same scale, ou can place several next to each .

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You can grow crops in a large radius ound just a gle w t r l k n’t orry too much about having lots of water in the farm.

If you’re on a stre a road, building slightly from the pave – s s a space for exterior and makes it look After all, most houses open onto a road.

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If you w nt to disguise a window in the na ural e, cover it with vines and/or u e dark glass – that way, you an see out but no one can see in.

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We’ve decorated the exterior walls of our tavern with white concret wood to give it an aged, edieval look. You could make yours more odern if you like: instead of a cosy old place, you could make a sleek new one!

A bell for last orders ad s some realism – pubs would ring the bell to signify no more drinks could be ord red and that the establishment would be losin soon.

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WHAT TO DO NEXT!

What else can ou do in a tavern other than have a party? Bring over some frie ends, put on some musi ... Just try not to sta t any bar fights!

If you want a fun way to expand your tavern, why not add a wine cellar? Con truct it out of stone bric s, add steps down, aybe even a trapdoor, t en fill it with barrels!

Finally, remember the golden rule: a s s a sa s e imaginative, so in a few notices: a od and drinks menu, ome signs showing th he employee-only areas, and maybe a list f rules! It won’t take much to transform i into somewhere ve and interesting!

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MINECRAFT CREATION OF THE MONTH

Each month, we take a look at some of the amazing things people are creating in Minecraft so that you can try them out yourselves or use them as inspiration for whatever you build next!

PUZZLE MAP: FEED THE PYRAMID

Feed the Pyramid, created by player ExpandedReality, is a “C Complete the Monument” map, where e the end goal is to finiish h a seriies off intterllinkked d ch halllenges and d the only opponent is your ow wn mind!

This map is huge and inventive with some obsidian-hard puzzles, and you’ll have to be a seasoned Minecraft pla ayer to figure it out.

In fact, it might be worth h getting a couple of you together to solve it as a team. Watch out for the custom craft recipes and the super difficult tasks! You can play as a four-p player team or gather around to solve it toge ether.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Pressure plates that teleport you around Books that contain all you u need to know Light sources that indicate e where to go!

Glazed terracotta. Are tho ose arrows?

WHERE TO GET IT

PC users can download the map p from: tinyurl.com/mw-feedpyram mid (click “D Download Minecraft Map”).

Remember to ask an adult to o help you install it!

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