Coming in July -- Whats in the Next Update?

It's official, 4JStudios has announced that July is "piston" and "shear" month!

As that being said 4JStudios has also announced that there will be a update (1.73) will be adapted from the current version of the PC Minecraft edition.

• Piston Added
• Fixing of Clay Generation
• Flint and Steel or Redstone is required for detonating TNT
• Fences can now be stacked
• Shears Added
• Redstone Wire will now connect to Redstone Repeater
• Sheers can be used to shear sheep without hurting them.
• Sheep ONLY dropped wool when killed unless a shear is being used
• New textures for Cobblestone and Brick blocks.

Fixed clay generation again?

MentalyCryppled:

Fixed clay generation again?

I believe so, there may have been another glitch in the system that could have broken clay generation, or like Piztup said they are making more of it, if you want I can find out more information for you....

I've only found clay in one of my worlds and it was only enough to make a handful of bricks.

If that clay was in the game then I'd delete the game off my hard drive, lol.

I don't think they're fixing clay generation again. That was an old tweet from 4J before the quick fix update. Remember if you want clay you have to create a post-patch world or it wont work.

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Another thing coming in the 1.7.3 update is being able to see the seed on a random generated world.

Also with the update will be a Skin Pack DLC which will contain 40+ skins, no word on the costs of DLC yet. A few of the skins will be free though.

Lighting will also be fixed in the new update, making the game brighter and fixing light not filtering into areas where a block was just mined.

Update coming Mid-July

Mid July now I was under the impression early July

They said early July to start off, but it took some time to get it done and it has to go through Microsoft. So they said they're now looking at Mid-July.

KG x Disarray:

Another thing coming in the 1.7.3 update is being able to see the seed on a random generated world.

Will this work for worlds generated before the update?

Hold on, this last update "fixed" the clay issue? Even just slightly? I thought that wasn't coming until the shears and pistons? I thought the only thing to be excited about was the opacity slider on the item display.

...and naturally I mean "patch" not update.

I haven't even seen any clay yet. whats up with that??

Conquer13:

I haven't even seen any clay yet. whats up with that??

You have to use a world post patch, they can't touch your old maps. Plus clay is usually near water. Looks like regular stone but more smooth/less pixelated.

GeorgeThePirate:

KG x Disarray:

Another thing coming in the 1.7.3 update is being able to see the seed on a random generated world.

Will this work for worlds generated before the update?

Yes!! :) all you have to do is load your world and save it after the update! Then when you choose your map from the main menu it should have the seed somewhere around there.

According to the facebook page update is coming on 4th of july!

In addition to the confirmed release date for 1.7.3, they also confirmed that DLC skins will be included. I haven't seen any confirmation on what the skins are and their cost (if any).

Who's facebook page plz

Will we be able to enchant tools

Enchanting doesn't come until 1.9 so we got a couple more updates to do.

Waylander2802:

According to the facebook page update is coming on 4th of july!

No.

If you go to the actual minecraft page with 4 Million likes, there is only something about the quick fix update we received a few weeks ago. You were looking at a fan made 'Minecraft Xbox 360' page in which some random guy commented that he heard it would be the 4th of July. If you check the 4J Twitter, anytime that they talk about the 1.7.3 update they say Mid-July. Not to say that it couldn't come out a little sooner than that, they could just be covering their *** so people don't get mad when it doesn't come out early in July. But, you are very misinformed by saying the 4th of July, make sure you only like the Official pages for things (Look for the amount of likes).

ok can a xbl person tell me the answer to this? can microsoft let 4J incorparate minecraftskins.com into the game i hate the skins and i bet that the new ones are going to be the same please answer

UsN Blindfire:

ok can a xbl person tell me the answer to this? can microsoft let 4J incorparate minecraftskins.com into the game i hate the skins and i bet that the new ones are going to be the same please answer

I highly doubt that they would. That seems like a little bit harder to do seeing as that site is kinda like a file download then upload it to the game. There's always the possibility, but don't count on it. That goes along the lines of people adding things to the PC version through mods, that would never be able to happen on the Xbox.

At no point in your unnecessary, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.