Minecraft Update 1.56 on PS4, PS3 & PS Vita Is Live

Become legend with the MYTHS Glide Track Pack! Buzz the sun in Icarus, slice the skies in Excalibur or ride with the Kelpies in Celts! pic.twitter.com/u04atQi6xA

— Minecraft (@Minecraft) August 29, 2017

With the new Minecraft update today on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita, 4J Studios has added support for the Glide Myths Track Pack and Strangers: Biome Settlers 3 Skin Pack. The update is out now in Europe/Japan and will be coming to North America later today.

“Stretch your wings in this legendary Minecraft Glide Track Pack. Drift through the clouds of Icarus, dive into conflict in Excalibur and ride with the Kelpies in Celts,” the PlayStation Store says of Glide Myths, which is £2.49. The Skin Pack is £1.69 and the description says, “Get this pack and make your home in distant lands or ocean depths!”

Here’s the full patch notes for Minecraft update 1.56:

Additions

Added Glide Myths Track Pack; Drift through the clouds of Icarus, dive into conflict in Excalibur, and ride with the Kelpies in Celts.

Added “Strangers – Biome Settlers 3” Skin Pack.

General

Endermen and Endermites should always be hostile to each other.

Polar Bears should not attack the player when in peaceful mode.

Wither Skeletons no longer fear daylight, and will attack anything that lives.

Skeleton Horses can now be tamed and leashed.

Zombie Horses can now be leashed

Skeletons shouldn’t attack Village Golems.

Strays now flee from Wolves.

Wolves should not become hostile against mobs that they can’t directly see.

Crafting any kind of Boat now requires a Wooden Shovel.

String can now be crafted from Web.

Purpur Stairs and Slabs can now be crafted from both Purpur Blocks and Pillars.

Stone Slabs, Redstone Repeaters, and Redstone Comparators can now be crafted from Stone, Granite, Andesite, Diorite, and their Polished variants.

Observers should register changes to Item Frames.

Observers should register changes to Doors.

Observers should register changes to Flower Pots.

Observers should not output extra signals for fire block state changes.

Observers should not output multiple signals when lava or water is place in front of them.

Pistons can now push Daylight Sensors.

Potion durations have changed.

Fixes

Fixed slow moving mobs in water.

Fix for Farmer Villagers not planting seeds often enough.

Fixed area in the Mini Game Lobby that caused players to become invulnerable in the Mini Game if they were in this location when the round started.

Fix for MCCE-5523 – Pick Block in Creative

Fix for MCCE-5549 – Hotbar is not centered in splitscreen battle (PS4, PS3 only)

Fix for MCCE-2000 – Zombies get stuck in water

Fix for MCCE-2868 – Levitation effect all in Capitals

The Xbox One/Xbox 360 version of this update is out, and the Wii U/Switch version of this update will be out today or tomorrow.

As a reminder, the Better Together update for Minecraft isn’t planned for PS4, but Mojang is still in talks with Sony about it.

[Source: Minecraft Forum (1), (2), (3), PlayStation Store (1), (2), 4J Studios (1), (2), (3)]

Games like Minecraft

PlayStation Games Like Minecraft
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.