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May 29, 2025

How to Get Tears Music Disc in Minecraft

In the upcoming Minecraft Summer Drop 2025, six new music tracks will be added, including the Tears music disc, which players can obtain by completing the Return to Sender challenge. This challenge requires players to locate and defeat a ghast in the Nether dimension using its own fireballs. Players must gather Obsidian blocks and Flint and Steel to ignite a Ruined Portal and prepare with a sword, shield, and iron armor. Ghasts can be found in the Soul Sand Valley, Basalt Delta, and Nether Waste biomes. To defeat a ghast, players should block its fireballs with a shield and deflect them back using a sword. After defeating the ghast, the Tears music disc will drop, along with a ghast tear or gunpowder. Players can then use the disc with a Minecraft Jukebox to listen to the music track.

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May 24, 2025

Minecraft Is Getting A D&D-Style Tabletop RPG – Preorder The Adventure Book

Minecraft is expanding into tabletop gaming with the release of "Minecraft: Roll for Adventure - The Temple of the Charged Creeper" on July 8. The gamebook, priced with a 20% preorder discount, features a 224-page adventure where players track down Illagers in the Overworld. It includes rules, a bestiary, a removable character sheet, and four dice. The author, Matt Forbeck, has experience with titles like Dungeons & Dragons and Halo. The game is recommended for ages 10 and up. Additionally, a Junior edition of "Minecraft: Builders and Biomes" will be released on August 1 for players aged 5 and up. Other Minecraft-themed games include "Portal Dash," the Mattel Minecraft Card Game, and the Minecraft Explorers card game. Various Minecraft book box sets, graphic novels, and novels are also available, including "The Island" by Max Brooks. Upcoming releases include "A Minecraft Movie: From Block to Big Screen" and the "Minecraft Official Blocks Guide," with the film adaptation set to release on June 24 in multiple formats.

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May 22, 2025

Turn-Based Tactical RPG Critical Shift Announced For PC & Consoles

Indie game developer Rhinotales Studio has announced their new game, Critical Shift, a hardcore turn-based tactical RPG set in an Antarctic research station. Players lead a squad of elite agents to investigate a distress call from ICE-1 Station, where communications have ceased. The game features a tactical combat system that emphasizes positioning and weapon range, allowing players to adapt their strategies in real-time. It includes over 30 levels with unique challenges, a story-driven narrative crafted by writer Guilty Three, and will be available on PC via Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation, though a release date has not been announced.

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May 21, 2025

A Super Mario 64 ROM Hacker Is Recreating Minecraft Inside The N64 Classic

A modder named Arthurtilly has created a voxel engine similar to Minecraft within the Super Mario 64 engine, which operates on an authentic Nintendo 64 console. This project showcases modern modding techniques applied to vintage hardware. Arthurtilly, known for previous ROM hacks, collaborated with rovertronic to develop the Mario Builder 64 tool. His latest hack features an infinite world, multiple block types, diverse biomes, initial fluid dynamics support, and enhanced graphics. Future plans for the engine include a dynamic day/night cycle, flowing lava and water, world saving and loading functionality, integration of trees and vegetation, and an inventory system.

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May 21, 2025

Developer Made Minecraft Run On Nintendo 64

Arthurtilly has developed a Minecraft-style voxel engine within the Super Mario 64 engine, functioning on authentic Nintendo 64 hardware. The engine utilizes advanced multithreading techniques for efficient terrain and mesh generation, providing smooth performance. It features an infinite world with various block types, diverse biomes, and early elements like fluids and sophisticated lighting effects. Future updates will enhance the engine with flowing water and lava, an improved lighting system with a dynamic day/night cycle, full support for saving and loading worlds, terrain features like trees and vegetation, and an inventory system. A demonstration of the engine is available on a genuine Nintendo 64 console.

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May 20, 2025

Subnautica 2: All the key details on the survival-crafting sequel’s dive into the abyss

Subnautica 2 is set to be released in early access later this year, following its initial teaser in 2022. The game will feature a multiplayer mode for up to four players, addressing fan requests for co-op functionality. Players will explore a new alien world with a narrative involving a ship's AI that continues its mission despite dangers. Key features include co-op and single-player adventures, an overhauled building system, new vehicles and craftables, various Leviathans, and new creatures and biomes to explore.

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May 14, 2025

It took 15 YEARS for Minecraft to let us craft this item, but it’s finally coming (plus new music and more)

Minecraft is introducing the ability to craft saddles, a feature currently being tested by select insiders and expected to be unveiled at Minecraft Live in March 2025. Players have traditionally acquired saddles through scavenging, trading, or defeating enemies. The upcoming update will also include five new music tracks for various biomes and a collectible music disc titled "Tears," obtainable by defeating a Ghast with its own fireball. Additionally, two new friendly Ghast mob variants will be introduced, allowing players to ride them. Early builds for testing are available, while the official game drop will bring these new features to the broader community.

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May 14, 2025

Minecraft snapshot 25w20a explained: New features and updates – The Times of India

Minecraft snapshot 25w20a introduces the ability to craft saddles using three pieces of leather and one iron ingot. It also features a new music disc titled “Tears,” composed by Amos Roddy, along with five ambient tracks for various biomes. Players can now use shears to remove saddles, horse armor, harnesses, and carpets from animals, but not if the mob has a rider or if the player is crouching. Saddles will no longer be found as loot in structures, replaced by leather. Visual updates include fog effects on 3D HUD elements and reduced fog density during thunderstorms and rain. Additionally, players using Minecraft Realms will see new region indicators on the loading screen.

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May 14, 2025

How to find Pandas in Minecraft | Esports News – The Times of India

Pandas can be found exclusively in bamboo jungles or jungle biomes, spawning on grass blocks with at least two bamboo blocks nearby. They typically appear in pairs or small groups. To breed pandas, players need to place at least eight bamboo blocks within a five-block radius and feed both pandas to trigger their love mode, resulting in a baby panda. Players can lead pandas using bamboo and should enclose them within a fence for protection. Pandas have distinct personalities: they can be lazy, playful, worried, aggressive, or weak.

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May 14, 2025

5 Rarest Music Discs in Minecraft – The Times of India

- The rarest music disc in Minecraft is "Creator (Music Box)," introduced in version 1.21, with a 1.4% chance of discovery near decorated pots within trial chambers. - The "Otherside" disc can be found in stronghold altar chests, with a drop rate of 2.4% in Bedrock Edition and 2.5% in Java Edition. - "Precipice," also introduced in version 1.21, has a drop rate of 4.2% and can be acquired from vaults within trial chambers. - "Pigstep" has a drop rate of 5.6% and requires players to confront aggressive Piglins and navigate lava-filled corridors. - The "Relic" disc can be unearthed by brushing suspicious gravel in trail ruins, with an 8.3% drop rate, making it relatively rare yet more accessible than other discs.