Now available in Europe and Japan, with North America getting them later today, Minecraft updates 1.38 and 1.39 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita add Elytra, a new Tutorial World, support for today’s Fallout Mash-Up Pack, and more.
First up, here’s what was included in Minecraft update 1.38 (patch notes apply to all PlayStation platforms, unless otherwise noted):
- Added new blocks: Chorus Flower, Chorus Plant, Dragon Head, End Gateway, End Rod, Purpur Block, Purpur Pillar, Purpur Stairs, Purpur Slab.
- Added new items: Chorus Fruit, Popped Chorus Fruit, Dragon’s Breath, Elytra, End Crystal, Lingering Potion, Water Splash Potion, Potion of Luck, Tipped Arrow, Boats made from Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, and Dark Oak.
- Added new mobs: Shulker, Stray, Husk, and Skeleton Trap Horses.
- Added new Tutorial world.
- Added Elytra, which let you glide around the world when you are wearing them. Jump while falling to start gliding.
- Boats are now controlled differently and can have multiple passengers.
- Brewing now requires Blaze Powder as fuel for the Brewing Stand.
- Updated crafting interface to allow crafting Firework Stars and Fireworks.
- Villages now generate naturally in the Taiga biome.
- Added Amplified Terrain option. (PS4)
- Added Fallout Mashup Pack trial.
Updates to terrain generation:
- The End has changed when generating a new world, and can also be updated for old worlds.
- To get the new End in an old world, select “Reset End” in the “More Options” menu when loading the world.
- After killing the Ender Dragon in the new End, an End Gateway will spawn nearby. Throwing an Ender Pearl into this will teleport you to a new area in The End with an End City and End Ship.
- Within the End City and End Ship you can find Shulkers, Elytra, and a Dragon Head.
Update 1.39, meanwhile, fixes some issues introduced in 1.38:
- Minor updates to Tutorial world.
- Fix for issue using Elytra in splitscreen.
- Fix crash when firing snowballs from a Dispenser.
- Fix crash when crafting fireworks with renamed items.
- Fix for End Crystals sometimes being invulnerable.
Update 1.38 is also available for Xbox One and Xbox 360, with the Wii U version arriving tonight/tomorrow.
To celebrate the 3rd birthday of Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, 4J Studios has released a free skin pack on the PlayStation Store that includes the personal skins of the original Minecraft developers. It’s live in Europe and will go up in North America later today.
[Source: 4J Studios (Twitter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Minecraft Forum (1), (2), (3)]
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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.
