Adding the new Tumble Mini Game, support for Battle Map Pack 3, six new Trophies for the Battle Mini Game, and more, Minecraft update 1.33 is now live on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita in Europe and Japan. Expect it to be available later today in North America.
“A frantic competitive clash in which players destroy the very floor beneath their enemies’ feet, sending them plummeting to their doom,” Tumble is the second mini game released for the Console Editions of Minecraft. Inspired by Spleef, Tumble includes two variants: one where you can throw snowballs, the other equipping you with shovels. Each fight is a best of three and takes place on a series of semi-randomized maps, each with several layers of differing materials and hazards.
Here’s the full list of patch notes for today’s Minecraft update on PlayStation platforms:
- Added Tumble Mini Game.
- Added Battle Map Pack 3 (Castle, Invasion & Shipyard).
- Added six new trophies for the Battle mini game.
- Re-enabled the previous Birthday and Minecon skin packs for players who had them.
- Battle Mini Game: Made some changes to chest refilling logic to make things harder for players camping beside chests.
- Battle Mini Game: Made some balancing changes to items spawning in chests.
- Battle Mini Game: Fixed some map issues in Cavern, Siege, Ruin, Lair and Atlantis arenas.
- Introduced a ‘vote to kick’ system for mini games. When there are more than three players in a public game, a player will be kicked from the game when they have received three votes. This scales down when there are less players.
Battle Map Pack 3 is available for free in the Season Pass, or $2.99/€2.99/£2.49 on its own.
An update is also available today for the Xbox versions of Minecraft. The Wii U version, meanwhile, will receive the update later this week.
[Source: 4J Studios (Twitter 1, 2, 3), Minecraft Forum (1), (2), (3), Mojang]
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PlayStation Games Like Minecraft
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7 Days to Die
The Fun Pimps' 7 Days to Die is coming to PlayStation 4 courtesy of Telltale Games. It's basically a realistic Minecraft, as players will have to craft items and build defenses in order to survive in this post-apocalyptic game. The focus is definitely more on survival rather than building, though, so if you just want to create cool buildings then this might not be the right game for you.
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Dragon Quest Builders
Dragon Quest Builders is coming to North America later this year, but Japanese players have already had the chance to check out this Dragon Quest spin on Minecraft. It's a pretty straightforward adaptation, as you'll be collecting items like rock, wood, and slime ooze to craft new objects. There's also familiar enemies to deal with.
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DayZ
Set to release later this year, DayZ is a survival game based off the ARMA 2 mod of the same name. There's a zombie filled world to roam, and you'll have to determine if other players are friend or foe. While the focus is definitely on survival here, you can also build bases in order to protect your items.
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Terraria
Available on PS3, Vita and PS4, Terraria is essentially a 2D version of Minecraft. That description does do it a bit of a disservice (as it adds some cool stuff such as boss fights), but the core gameplay will be familiar to any fan of Mojang's title. There's a lot of depth here, and I'd argue that it's a more focused (and better) game than what inspired it.
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Don't Starve
Don't Starve features one of the best crafting systems in any survival game. You'll start off by creating simple objects like a pickaxe, but later on you can create stuff like a staff that shoots fire. It's available on both PlayStation Vita and PS4, and its multiplayer sequel Don't Starve Together is releasing later this year on consoles.
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The Forest
Endnight Games' The Forest is a first-person survival game where players crash onto a mysterious island. Oh, and the island is filled with cannibals who took your son. So, yeah. The situation is pretty dire here, and this realistic-looking survival game has received rave reviews on PC. According to the developer, it's set to arrive on PS4 "sometime in 2016."
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Fallout 4
Alright, so the main game of Fallout 4 isn't really like Minecraft at all. You can make some awesome settlements, though. Just look at the screenshot, which was made by Redditor RuxConk. It's a fun game in general, and the settlement building has a lot of depth if you want to dive into it.
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Starbound
Starbound is very similar to Terraria, but it also has the distinction of being in space. Players are able to use a space shuttle to explore the rest of the galaxy and this futuristic take on the genre is something special. It's already out on PC, and is in development for PS4.
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Ark: Survival Evolved
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The Tomorrow Children
Q-Games' The Tomorrow Children is one of the most anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusives, and it should be releasing relatively soon. It's a mixture between Minecraft style building, gorgeous graphics that look straight out of an animated film, and a Soviet Union theme. Players won't have to wait too much longer to check out the latest idea to come from Dylan Cuthbert.
