Minecraft: Building one block at a time

We are working on growing our fledgling Division into a community for the long term. Progress with numbers is sometimes slow, but we are steadily gaining more members as the quality of our recruits continues to increase. Our fundamental approach and principles are strong though and the wider Minecraft community is ever so slowly starting to notice and recognise our name.

There is a major update to Minecraft in the pipeline and Mojang have just pushed out the first weekly snapshot for version 1.7 - its public release officially kicks off community involvement in the development process that is so fundamental to the future of this already record-breaking game.

The update is as yet unnamed, but likely to be something similar to 'The Biomes Update'. There are huge changes to the terrain generation and environment right around the corner. You can find more information on the first of the snapshots here; https://mojang.com/2013/09/minecraft-snapshot-13w36a/

If you're already familiar with Minecraft and would like to see more of the specific details then there is a community-led page which is bringing together all the changes as they are discovered and discussed, you can find that here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history/Development_versions#Minecraft_1.7_Snapshots_.26_Pre-releases

If video content is more your kind of thing, then there are a number of snapshot videos available on YouTube. If you have 6 minutes and 6 seconds of time you can check out the one I made, with help from other TAWcraft members, which showcases 66 of the changes I'm most excited about, here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNWdIDOq6o

Over the past 4 months we have been able to consolidate our position and strengthen the staff team. Key roles have been filled with strong staff members who share TAW's vision and understand how challenging it is to bring a game that is so different, into the TAW fold. Ffaen has moved to CO, JamiesB to SA and Viperious into the XO position. We are also fortunate to have Dogstar on the team as ST - as his wealth of TAW knowledge and experience often pays us dividends

We run regular special 'snapshot test' events when the game is going through the run up to new versions, as it is currently. We'll be hosting these over the coming weeks on snapshot days - so check out mojang.com if you're interested, and if you see a new snapshot released, drop by TeamSpeak around 8pm BST and see if we're running something that day, we probably will be!

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