Swedish game developer Mojang has released Patch 1.9.4 to the open-world video game “Minecraft” which came on the heels of Patch 1.9.3.
The latest patch actually removes the incorrect snapshot warning gamers when they load the world from the previous “Minecraft” update, Patch 1.9.3, details Mojang in its website.
Patch 1.9.4 brings about improved overall performance of the game and also reduces the memory usage while playing the game, especially when it is being played on servers.
Mojang enumerated the other improvements that Patch 1.9.4 brought to “Minecraft” including improvement in the performance of the chunk cache improved, less memory for biome caching, severe tweaks to the AI, tweaks to the realm, adds stop sound command, and removes the herob.
‘Minecraft’ doing well on the Wii U
The recent partnership of Microsoft with Nintendo has enabled “Minecraft” to come to the Nintendo Wii U.
Phil Spencer, Xbox boss, has posted on Twitter recently to say that working with Nintendo has been great and he is happy to see “Minecraft” doing so well on the Wii U, reports Gamespot.
Microsoft bought “Minecraft” from Mojang back in 2014 for a whopping price of $2.5 billion.
When Mojang was in charge, “Minecraft” was also available in both the Microsoft and Sony gaming consoles so everybody was thinking that the game might be limited or made exclusive to the Microsoft gaming consoles.
But Microsoft did not take such route and instead, open up an avenue for the game to be played in one of Nintendo’s popular gaming consoles, the Wii U.
The free Super Mario Mash-Up Pack comes to the Wii U version of “Minecraft” on May 17 featuring 40 themed skins for characters like Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach as well as bad guys like Bowser, Wario, and all of the Koopalings.
‘Minecraft’ playable on VR-compatible smartphones
Late last month, “Minecraft” arrived on the Samsung Gear VR on April 27 and as such, the game is now playable to the VR-compatible smartphones of the Korean tech giant including the Galaxy S7, the Galaxy S7 Edge, the Galaxy Note 5, the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 Edge.
“Minecraft” can be played on the Samsung smartphones simply by slotting the handsets into the Samsung Gear VR headset and it would display one whole Minecraft world to each of the gamer’s eyes.
It was previously reported that the VR edition of “Minecraft” would come out first on the Oculus Rift but it seems that the Samsung Gear VR has beaten it to the draw.
However, to make things easier and simpler for gamers, Mojang also released a separate version on the Oculus Store just for use with the Samsung Gear VR. It has all the features of Pocket Edition of “Minecraft” and it costs the same and has cross-platform play with regular Pocket and Windows 10 editions.
It can be noted that the Samsung Gear VR edition of “Minecraft” can only be played on Samsung smartphones and devices that were released last year and this year because gadgets older than 2015 can no longer support the game.
However, the VR mode of the game can be played without any cable tethering to a PC.
It was during the Games Development Conference (GDC) 2016 held in San Francisco, California recently when Microsoft unveiled its plans to release “Minecraft” for Gear VR.
On April 27, it was actually Oculus who made the announcement that the game is now available on Samsung’s virtual reality headset.
The game is officially called “Minecraft: Gear VR Edition” and it shall be supporting the same features as the Pocket Edition including its creative, survival and multiplayer modes, as well as the character skins that gamers have been familiar with.