Minecraft testing eight wolf variations

From battling mobs and crafting armor to exploring new biomes and more, there's a lot of content to explore in Minecraft. One of the more laidback pastimes is starting a farm, as the game lets you breed a variety of animals to bring your idyllic ranch to life. And, oddly enough, the same breeding system that lets you create new animals also works for villagers – giving you a simple way to build a bustling city without much effort.

Mojang has continued to churn out Minecraft updates at a regular pace, allowing its community to thrive for over a decade. Along with Mojang, modders are constantly launching their own updates to the game — the most exciting of which might be shaders.

After starting a new world in Minecraft, one player built an incredibly detailed house next to the water in their Hardcore world. Minecraft players are frequently iterating on house designs to come up with the best possible creations, and this latest home design is among the more cozy ones out there.

A Minecraft player has added a bounce enchantment to the Mace, sharing its impressive results. Minecraft periodically gets new content through snapshots, which give a preview of upcoming features coming to the game. These features range from new biomes to mobs, commands, and weapons, further expanding the already vast world of Mojang's sandbox.

A Minecraft fan has built a massive medieval city in the game that is a great showcase of the game's diverse building mechanics. When it comes to Minecraft, building is at the heart of the game, and this medieval city demonstrates just how detailed players are able to get.

A Minecraft player has demonstrated that the Mace can defeat a Wither with one hit under the right conditions. The Mace is the latest weapon added to the Minecraft Snapshot preview, and fans are exploring its capabilities.

Minecraft has announced the Marketplace Pass for $3.99 per month

You can make Minecraft look incredible with Nvidia RTX cards and ray-tracing resource packs, injecting real-time reflections and hyperrealistic lighting into the game with ease. But it's little more than a fancier version of shaders, something we've been toying around with for years already. Distant Horizons, an early access render distance mod, ups the ante in a new way.

A Minecraft player has crafted a massive scale model of the Munificent-Class Star Frigate, a ship from Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. The dedicated Minecraft and Star Wars fan mapped out, designed, and built the humongous Separatist ship, sharing their impressive creation online. The ship is incredibly large in scale and is a 1:1 representation of the frigate featured in the Star Wars prequels.

If you're a Minecraft fan and haven't updated your game just yet, you may want to either wait a few days or be extremely careful. Earlier today, Mojang warned players not to update their games through the Xbox App on PC, as a pretty catastrophic bug is causing some worlds to be completely wiped, with no way of recovering them again.

Players using the PC Xbox App to play Minecraft may be in danger of losing their worlds without following specific guidelines. In preparation for the full release of Minecraft update 1.21, Mojang has adjusted a handful of things and added to the Marketplace in the latest minor patch, but this one may unfortunately delete worlds.

Minecraft dropped its latest update earlier this week, but those playing on PC may want to avoid downloading it. Mojang is warning that those who update Minecraft via the Xbox app on PC may have their worlds wiped. Mojang recommends running the Gaming Services Repair Tool for PC on the Xbox App before downloading the latest update, but until an actual fix is released, I’d remain wary. For now, automatic updates through the PC Xbox App have been disabled by Mojang as a preventive measure.