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Mojang Studios, developer of Minecraft, is reorganizing the blocky world that was the basis of the game's "Minecraft" and changing the way the sandbox-game scales for its millions.

In a long-awaited update, appropriately entitled "Caves and Cliffs," the game's engine will begin to form deeper caves, higher mountains for players to explore, and introduce more variations of flora and fauna to encounter. Wednesday's announcement by the company stated that they will release the update on Nov. 30.

The game uses procedural generator to create forests, rivers and caves across the map when someone creates a new world in "Minecraft". Over the past 12 years, "Minecraft" has introduced environments like deserts and oceans for players to explore but the developers at Mojang are now expanding the upper and lower limits of the world in order to generate peaks and valleys that previously were not possible in the game.

Every month, more than 100 million players play "Minecraft". This low-fi, blocky game features a network of servers that players can connect to and build on. During the covid-19 pandemic, students at UC Berkeley held a virtual graduation ceremony within a "Minecraft” server. The famed Harry Potter castle of Hogwarts has been rebuilt by players. It's hard to find a well-known building -- real life or fictional -- that doesn't exist somewhere on some "Minecraft" server.

Kurt Squire, an instructor at University of California Irvine, said that "for a whole generation of children, that's kind of what they go to." He studies how games can help students learn. It is literally their playground, the sandbox where they grew up.

"Minecraft's" booming success is due, in part, to the game's simplicity. There are no objectives or tasks in "Minecraft." (There is a final boss, but it is totally optional.) You choose what to build or explore. There's a risk that the game will become too difficult for new players. Agnes Larsson is "Minecraft"'s game director. She said that this is something the Mojang Studios team spends a lot time thinking about. The team wants to continue to develop "Minecraft" for "many, many years" but Larsson said they need to maintain the bedrock principles of the game -- to keep it "Minecraft-y," so to speak.

"We have something that's amazing," Larsson said. It's a beautiful game, but there are many things we could do to improve it.


monster mcpe is currently working on a creative direction for the game "to really help us evolve," while protecting the simplistic beauty of "Minecraft." Larsson often talks about "intrinsic motivation," encouraging players to build or explore by providing the right setting for their imaginations.

Larsson stated, "What new ways can we inspire our players be creative in their own way and come up with goals of their own?" Larsson said, "How can we encourage more exploration and more storytelling?"

Many long-time players make a living building for 'Minecraft.'

In addition to expanding the world height, the "Caves and Cliffs" update is redistributing how ore, like iron, copper and gold, will be generated throughout the game. Spelunkers who love to dig into "Minecraft's" caves will now find massive, multi-tiered caverns with aquifers, hanging vines and dripping stalactites, depending on where they are on the map. Larsson also said that certain biomes can now be combined so that a desert or forest could grow on the side of a mountain.

Fans refer to the update, which technically is version 1.18 of the game as "Minecraft 2.0" Rob Clark, a 35 year-old Somerset man, said that he was looking forward to playing the update with his nephew and brother. Since the outbreak of coronavirus in the United Kingdom, the three have been playing together for over a year.


"He's quite young," Clark said, referring to his 9-year-old nephew. "He's very happy just to mess around with villages and dig little holes through a rock. ... But, you know what? I'm spending four hours with my nephew. It's a nice time with our family that we wouldn't have otherwise."

The future of the brand is in 'Minecraft Dungeons', a Diablo clone that's family-friendly.

Dash Marley, a 27-year-old who lives in Maine, has already tried out an early release of the update to test out the updated terrain generation. Marley, who's played "Minecraft" off-and-on with friends for over a decade now, said it's the most dramatic, "most sweeping change" that "Minecraft" has ever made to the game's overworld. (Yes, there's also an underworld.)

Marley stated, "I flew above a dark forest that opened up into a multi-tiered series lush caves." "In this new world, I can't travel for more than 10 minutes before I see a place that makes me want to invest hours and hours transforming the place into a new base."

Larsson stated that Mojang Studios tries to offer something for everyone with each update. Mojang revealed that next year's update "The Wilds" will add more biomes and animals to the game. This was announced at the 10th annual "Minecraft” Live in Oct.

But, Larsson said they don't want to introduce too many premade towns and structures. Doing so would take away from what the players could create on their own. Larsson wants to ensure that the world is open for exploration by all players.

"We should inspire but we should never dictate. It's up to the players to craft their own goals," Larsson said. "When you come up with the goals yourself, it's super inspiring."


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