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March 12, 2025

LEGO is bringing games development in-house

LEGO is shifting towards developing its own video games, as announced by CEO Niels Christiansen. The company aims to enhance its creative capabilities in the digital space, offering engaging experiences for children in both digital and physical formats. LEGO plans to make strategic investments aligned with its long-term vision, rather than overextending into new areas. Historically, LEGO has worked with external developers like TT Games but is now taking a more hands-on role in game development, while still potentially maintaining some partnerships, such as with Epic Games for LEGO Fortnite.

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February 22, 2025

How to Make Stone Bricks in Minecraft? | Esports News – The Times of India

Minecraft allows players to craft stone bricks using specific materials. The materials required are cobblestone, four regular stone blocks, a furnace, and optionally, a stonecutter. The crafting process involves collecting cobblestone by mining stone, smelting it in a furnace to create stone, and then arranging four stone blocks in a 2x2 square on a crafting table to produce stone bricks. Variations of stone bricks include mossy stone bricks (crafted with vines), cracked stone bricks (produced by smelting stone bricks), and chiseled stone bricks (crafted using stone brick slabs). Stone bricks can be used in various builds such as fortresses, pathways, bridges, and walls. Console commands for obtaining stone bricks include: /give @p stone_bricks # for Java Edition (1.13+), /give @p stonebricks # for Java Edition (1.8-1.12), and /give @p stonebrick # for Bedrock Edition, replacing # with the desired quantity.

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February 21, 2025

RiverDogs release 2025 Promo Schedule, headlined by Drone Light Show, A Minecraft Movie Night

The RiverDogs will begin their 2025 season on April 4th with a 66-game home slate, featuring various promotional events. Highlights include: - Opening Weekend (April 4-6) with giveaways such as a magnet schedule, limited-edition replica jerseys, and a "comeback" yo-yo for children. - Fight Night (April 19) with a Pillow Fight Night and a live boxing match. - Golf Night (May 10) with golf-themed games and a giveaway. - Minecraft Movie Night (May 11) with themed activities for Mother's Day. - TP/Mischief Night (May 31) encouraging playful toilet papering. - Charlie’s Not-So-Spooky Halloween (June 1) for kids' trick-or-treating. - Dino Night (June 14) featuring life-sized dinosaurs. - Carolina Day (June 28) with a drone light show. - Star Wars Night (June 29) with themed activities. - Margaritaville Night (July 12) honoring Jimmy Buffett. - A Knight at The Joe (August 2) with medieval-themed activities. Weekly promotions include: - Dog Day Tuesday - Wild Card Wednesday - Thirsty Thursday - Boeing Red Shirt Friday with post-game fireworks - Saturday Show at The Joe - MUSC Health Family Sunday with family-friendly activities.

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February 16, 2025

5 Beginner Base Building Tips in Minecraft: How to Setup Your Base Easily – The Times of India

- Choose a location for your base that offers easy access to resources like water, stone, and wood, with forests and plains being ideal for beginners. - Organize your base into themed sections for improved navigation and functionality, including a storage room, secure bedroom, enchanting and brewing station, and farming areas. - Build well-designed pathways using a mix of materials to enhance accessibility and aesthetics, and illuminate them to prevent mob spawning. - Add variety and depth to your structures by using different materials, incorporating layers, and including decorative elements like balconies and flower pots. - Implement mob-proofing strategies such as constructing walls and fences, placing lighting around the perimeter, elevating the base, and using bottom slabs and buttons to prevent mob spawning.

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February 12, 2025

Minecraft Bedrock Drops Huge New Update Adding Pig Variants and More

Mojang Studios has released update version 1.21.60 for the Bedrock version of Minecraft, introducing two new pig variants: Warm Pig and Cold Pig, which spawn in specific biomes. The update includes new falling leaf particles for all leaf blocks, changes to crafting recipes for lodestones, accessibility improvements, and various gameplay adjustments. Pale Gardens will generate more frequently, and several bugs have been fixed, including issues with camera movement and mob behavior. The update also refines the world spawn point algorithm, introduces a profanity filter for Windows users, and updates the user interface and achievements. The update is being rolled out incrementally across platforms, excluding Nintendo Switch, where availability may vary.

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February 9, 2025

Exploring Minecraft Villager Jobs: What Each Role Offers and How to Use Them

Villagers in Minecraft have 15 distinct jobs, each associated with a specific job site block and offering unique trades. 1. Armorer: Uses a blast furnace to trade iron, armor, and chainmail, including enchanted diamond armor. 2. Butcher: Uses a smoker to trade cooked meats and rabbit stew. 3. Cartographer: Uses a cartography table to trade maps, frames, and banners, including treasure maps. 4. Cleric: Uses a brewing stand to trade magical items, Redstone dust, and Bottle o’ Enchanting. 5. Farmer: Uses a composter to trade food items and ingredients, including bread and golden carrots. 6. Fisherman: Uses a barrel to trade cooked seafood and enchanted fishing rods. 7. Fletcher: Uses a fletching table to trade arrows, bows, and crossbows. 8. Leatherworker: Uses a cauldron to trade leather armor, horse armor, and saddles. 9. Librarian: Uses a lectern to trade enchanted books, compasses, and clocks. 10. Mason: Uses a stonecutter to trade various stones, bricks, and quartz. 11. Nitwit: Has no job or trading function, existing only for aesthetic purposes. 12. Shepherd: Uses a loom to trade decorative items like wool and carpets. 13. Toolsmith: Uses a smithing table to trade tools like pickaxes and shovels. 14. Unemployed: Can take up any job when assigned a job site block. 15. Weaponsmith: Uses a grindstone to trade enchanted weapons and minerals. Wandering traders, while not classified as villagers, trade random items and arrive with trader llamas. Villagers acquire jobs based on the proximity of job site blocks, and unemployed villagers can be assigned jobs by placing the appropriate block nearby. If the block is removed, they revert to unemployment.

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December 21, 2024

How to Make Resin Armor Trim in Minecraft

The introduction of Resin in Minecraft allows players to craft various blocks, including brick blocks and stairs. To create Resin Armor Trim, players need Armor Templates, Resin Bricks, Armor Pieces, and a Smithing Table. Armor Trims can be found in loot chests in structures like Ancient City and Trial Chambers. To obtain Resin bricks, players gather resin clumps from the Pale Garden biome. A Smithing Table is made using wooden planks and iron ingots. The crafting process involves placing the Armor trim pattern in the left box, the Armor piece in the middle box, and the resin brick in the right box at the Smithing Table, resulting in an armor piece with an orange pattern.

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December 16, 2024

Minecraft Has Added The Garden Awakens Game Drop

Mojang has introduced a new update for Minecraft called The Garden Awakens, featuring a unique biome known as the pale garden. This biome includes pale oak wood and resin, which can be used to craft various items. Players will encounter a new hostile mob called the creaking, which is tree-like and adds surprise to explorations. The creaking heart block generates pale oaks and controls the creakings at night. The pale garden also offers decorative elements like eyeblossoms, which close during the day and reveal an orange center at night, and pale moss, which includes carpet and hanging moss. Players can create a comprehensive set of items from pale oak trees, including boats, fences, and doors. Resin can be harvested from pale oak trees and crafted into bricks and blocks.

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December 5, 2024

How to Make Resin Bricks in Minecraft

The latest winter update for Minecraft has introduced a new resource called Resin, which can be crafted into Resin bricks, blocks, and unique armor patterns. To make Resin bricks, players must gather Resin clumps from the Pale Garden biome at night by defeating the Creaking monster, which leads them to Pale Oak trees with resin clumps. Players can then craft Resin bricks by placing the clumps in a furnace with a fuel source. Alternatively, Resin bricks can be found in Woodland Mansions, with a 44% chance in the Java edition and 16% in the Bedrock edition. Resin bricks can be used to craft Resin brick blocks by arranging four bricks in a 2x2 grid on a Crafting Table, and they can also be used as a Smithing ingredient to create armor with an orange pattern.

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November 17, 2024

Best Minecraft House Ideas for 2025

Minecraft allows players to build various types of homes, from simple shelters to elaborate structures. The game features a blocky aesthetic that encourages creativity, with recent updates introducing new materials like tuff and copper grates. Common house styles include basic wooden huts, cobblestone cottages, medieval houses with stone bricks and high-pitched roofs, modern houses using concrete and glass, underwater homes with glass walls and airlocks, treehouses built in large trees, and hidden houses concealed in mountains or cliffs. Tips for building include planning designs, gathering materials, experimenting with styles, and adding personal touches.