14 DAY TRIAL // Mojang, Microsoft, and 4J Studios have just released another update for Minecraft on the Xbox 360 console, designed to fix all sorts of crashes, problems, and issues encountered by players of the popular indie game.
Minecraft became a phenomenon on the PC platform during its alpha stage and its popularity quickly grew through the beta and the final versions of the game.
The experience finally arrived on the Xbox 360 earlier this year and it once again proved its popularity by breaking sales records and becoming the best-selling title ever to be released on the Xbox Live Arcade service.
Since its launch, developer 4J Studios has released quite a few updates designed to resolve various issues and add plenty of new features, some already present in the PC version of the game.
The next patch, Title Update 4, has now been made available on the XBLA for Minecraft. You can check out the variety of things included in the update below.
Fix for a crash with pistons at the edge of the world Fix for a crash due to a thread safety issue usually caused by pistons Fix for issue with operating pistons on chunk boundaries Fix for a rendering flicker with active pistons Fix for rendering slowdown due to lighting issues Fix for rain going through blocks (raining indoors) Fix for Marketplace not launching when unlocking skin pack after selecting a locked skin in the trial version of the skin pack Fix for bug allowing locked skins to be selected if they are beside a free skin Fix for misaligned player scores when viewed under the "My Score" leaderboard filter Fix for the constant button press sounds when rotating a character in the skin select screen Fix for the constant sound effect played on the sign text entry Fix for thunder not being audible Fix for third person front view not displaying fire. The update will be automatically downloaded the next time you start Minecraft for Xbox 360 and are connected to Xbox Live.