Minecraft Java Edition 1.21, officially known as the Tricky Trials update (often colloquially linked to the Armadillo mob), has arrived with significant changes to world generation and map APIs. While ...

Why it matters: Building in Minecraft blends creativity with survival strategy, letting players create spaces that are both functional and visually stunning. What’s trending: Players are enhancing ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...

The Minecraft Chaos Cubed update has just landed on the Java side of the sandbox game, and I'm already eager to see what the wealth of inventive Minecraft creators and modders can do with its ...

Minecraft fans have finally received the update that they have been waiting for. Mojang Studios has released an April Fools’ update, and this one might be more bizarre than what we got last year.

The first Minecraft Live of 2026 is in the bag, and lead designer Minecraft Jens Bergensten and the team at Mojang have plenty of news for us on Tiny Takeover. There's also the reveal of the next ...

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...

The End has been in need of an update for a very long time. It’s arguably the most exciting place in Minecraft, but it’s hardly worth going to. Once you’ve defeated the Ender Dragon, there’s not much ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Minecraft’s copper golems are a sloppy player’s dream. Got a base cluttered with small stacks of ores and tools? Too lazy to store your resources in the appropriate location? This tidy fellow will fix ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'A Minecraft Movie' starring Sebastian Hansen, Jason Momoa and Jack Black, begins streaming this week. (Warner Bros. / Courtesy ...