Out in Europe and Japan, and coming later today in North America, Minecraft update 1.37 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita adds support for all of the newly released DLC and fixes some issues.
For £1.69, the Halloween Battle Map offers a new Battle Mini Game map built with the Halloween texture set. Also £1.69, the Campfire Tales Skin Pack packs in 16 spooky skins, from mythical monsters to other strange sightings. Then, for £2.49, there’s Battle Map Pack 4, which includes three new maps: “Creep through the deserted, snowbound Dig, slog it out amid the over-sized furniture of Shrunk and hoedown before you showdown in the dusty Frontier.”
If you prefer DLC bundles, you can now pick up the Spooky Bundle for £5.79 to get the Halloween Mash-up, Halloween Battle Map, and Campfire Tales Skin Pack. If you want to spend £13.99 on the Builder’s Pack, you’ll receive these six packs: Biome Settlers Skin Pack 1, Candy Texture Pack, Cartoon Texture Pack, Pattern Texture Pack, Plastic Texture Pack, and Greek Mythology Mash-up.
Here’s the full list of patch notes for Minecraft update 1.37 on PlayStation:
- Added Halloween Battle Map.
- Added Campfire Tales Skin Pack.
- Added Battle Map Pack 4.
- Fixes for missing/incorrect tooltips when looking at various blocks and entities.
- Fix for Endermen not becoming hostile when a player makes eye contact with them.
- Fix for only one of eight Fossil variants generating per world.
- Fix for igniting TNT blocks while one is already lit causing them to disappear.
- Fix for crash that may occur if the Ender Dragon attacks a group of Zombies.
- Stop faster healing due to food saturation in Battle mini game
- Updated Battle maps to remove some areas where players could get stuck.
- Fix for MCCE 2521 – Shears don’t break web blocks into Web block drop.
- Fix for MCCE 2505 – Knocking a Guardian off a height great enough to kill it on falling would cause a crash.
- Fix for MCCE-2478 – Oak and Iron Doors Items have the wrong texture in the Inventory.
- Fix for MCCE-2420: Sub Account Content Restriction. (PS4 only)
The new update is also available on Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Wii U.
Expect all of the DLC to be available in North America following the update.
[Source: Minecraft Forum (1), (2), (3), Mojang, 4J Studios (Twitter 1, 2, 3), PlayStation Store]
Games like Minecraft
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PlayStation Games Like Minecraft
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7 Days to Die
The Fun Pimps' 7 Days to Die is coming to PlayStation 4 courtesy of Telltale Games. It's basically a realistic Minecraft, as players will have to craft items and build defenses in order to survive in this post-apocalyptic game. The focus is definitely more on survival rather than building, though, so if you just want to create cool buildings then this might not be the right game for you.
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Dragon Quest Builders
Dragon Quest Builders is coming to North America later this year, but Japanese players have already had the chance to check out this Dragon Quest spin on Minecraft. It's a pretty straightforward adaptation, as you'll be collecting items like rock, wood, and slime ooze to craft new objects. There's also familiar enemies to deal with.
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DayZ
Set to release later this year, DayZ is a survival game based off the ARMA 2 mod of the same name. There's a zombie filled world to roam, and you'll have to determine if other players are friend or foe. While the focus is definitely on survival here, you can also build bases in order to protect your items.
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Terraria
Available on PS3, Vita and PS4, Terraria is essentially a 2D version of Minecraft. That description does do it a bit of a disservice (as it adds some cool stuff such as boss fights), but the core gameplay will be familiar to any fan of Mojang's title. There's a lot of depth here, and I'd argue that it's a more focused (and better) game than what inspired it.
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Don't Starve
Don't Starve features one of the best crafting systems in any survival game. You'll start off by creating simple objects like a pickaxe, but later on you can create stuff like a staff that shoots fire. It's available on both PlayStation Vita and PS4, and its multiplayer sequel Don't Starve Together is releasing later this year on consoles.
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The Forest
Endnight Games' The Forest is a first-person survival game where players crash onto a mysterious island. Oh, and the island is filled with cannibals who took your son. So, yeah. The situation is pretty dire here, and this realistic-looking survival game has received rave reviews on PC. According to the developer, it's set to arrive on PS4 "sometime in 2016."
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Fallout 4
Alright, so the main game of Fallout 4 isn't really like Minecraft at all. You can make some awesome settlements, though. Just look at the screenshot, which was made by Redditor RuxConk. It's a fun game in general, and the settlement building has a lot of depth if you want to dive into it.
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Starbound
Starbound is very similar to Terraria, but it also has the distinction of being in space. Players are able to use a space shuttle to explore the rest of the galaxy and this futuristic take on the genre is something special. It's already out on PC, and is in development for PS4.
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Ark: Survival Evolved
One way Minecraft could be made better is if it had dinosaurs, mainly because everything is better with dinos. Fear not, as Ark: Survival Evolved has plenty of the feathered reptiles (over 60 if you're counting) that want to stomp you out of existence. Thankfully, players can tame wild dinosaurs to use themselves and build bases in order to conquer the game world.
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The Tomorrow Children
Q-Games' The Tomorrow Children is one of the most anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusives, and it should be releasing relatively soon. It's a mixture between Minecraft style building, gorgeous graphics that look straight out of an animated film, and a Soviet Union theme. Players won't have to wait too much longer to check out the latest idea to come from Dylan Cuthbert.
