New Minecraft Update Finally Allows Players to Sit Down

Minecraft's caller update is getting a batch of praise for adding a simple, long-awaited feature: Players tin present sit.

This crippled has been astir for 20 years and players tin make beauteous homes, heavy mines, and thriving civilizations, but they couldn't beryllium down until now. They tin slumber successful cozy beds, but determination was nary spot to remainder their weary legs aft a hard time of mining for diamonds oregon slaying monsters (with the objection of boats and excavation carts).

The quality was revealed arsenic portion of a heavy dive into the game's upcoming update, which volition besides adhd things similar straw beds, a caller biome, and more. Players volition beryllium capable to beryllium via a caller cushion. The developers said that they tin foresee players utilizing these cushions successful originative ways that apt agelong beyond their ain imagination. The update is expected to get to each players this fall, but players with entree to preview builds of Minecraft tin effort the caller sitting diagnostic today.

Players were beauteous thrilled, arsenic they've been asking for this for 17 years. It's astir apt silly to different people, but Minecraft players emotion to roleplay and this present ensures they don't request to usage mods oregon a flimsy solution to bash thing arsenic elemental arsenic sitting down. "[The] quality to beryllium down without mods feels MASSIVE," 1 instrumentality commented connected the announcement video connected YouTube. "The mode I cheered astatine the announcement of being capable to sit, you’d deliberation Mojang announced an End Drop," said another.

In different Minecraft news, Microsoft began restructuring Xbox earlier this week. As portion of those plans, Minecraft enactment volition present study straight to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who believes the IP has been "massively underinvested" in, contempt the information determination are galore spin-offs, loads of merchandise, and a movie that made conscionable shy of a cardinal dollars astatine the container office.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.