When you fire up Minecraft's latest snapshot, you'll be treated to a new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game's main menu. It's a big, wide open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: ...

As I clicked my way onto Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten's latest blog post on biomes, I mused idly about Minecraft's viney jungles, the last drastically new environment I remember being added to the game.

Mojang is working on world generator changes for Minecraft, and to keep from having to change the generator again in the future, the firm is nwo doing "as many changes now as possible." This means ...