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One of the most significant ways of enhancing your Minecraft house design and giving it a painterly effect is using gradients and textures through a variety of building blocks. For example ...

Explore 5 stunning purple OptiFine cape designs that bring vibrant color and unique style to your Minecraft character.

Minecraft’s 2025 second game drop is bringing an unexpected new addition to the Nether, the dried ghast block/mob. This strange new discovery can be found exclusively in soul sand valleys among ...

The second game drop will introduce the dried ghast block, which can be rehydrated into a rideable happy ghast. With the theatrical release of "A Minecraft Movie" right around the corner on April ...

As well as the attention to mobs, Minecraft's blocks are becoming more diverse. Bushes will generate in the Plains, Windswept Hills, River and Frozen River, and all Forest biomes. They are tinted ...

Mojang has added plenty of new blocks to enhance the aesthetics and ambiance of various Overworld biomes, such as plains, deserts, rivers, swamps, and more. The Minecraft 1.21.5 update has also ...

“A Minecraft Movie” scored a massive $80 million in its second weekend of release and remained at No. 1 at the box office as five new movies opened in theaters. Ticket sales for “A Minecraft ...

Jason Momoa and Adria Arjona attended the premiere for "A Minecraft Movie" together in London on Sunday wearing well-coordinated purple ensembles rounded out by classy footwear. Momoa's mother Coni ...

In vanilla Minecraft, you can freeze and take damage when stuck in deep powder snow blocks. Thermite essentially takes that idea and stretches it across the whole game: proximity to torches and ...

Purple Day 2025: The day is marked by people wearing purple. World Purple Day 2025: World Purple Day is observed annually on March 26 to raise awareness about epilepsy, a neurological disorder ...

You’ve heard rumors, whispers of a mythical piece of cloth that adorns the shoulders of the most elite Minecraft players. Word on the block (sigh ... for players: the Purple Heart Cape and ...