Minecraft: PS3 Edition receives patch version 1.06

Minecraft: PS3 Edition receives a massive upgrade, including downloadable content and plenty of patches for voice chat, graphical issues, and technical glitches.

Minecraft Forum has an official change log for the 1.06 patch. They noted that the following DLC packs are now available: Candy Texture Pack, Natural Texture Pack, Skin Pack 2, and Battle and Beasts Skin Pack 2. Here's the entire list of fixes from the forum post:

- More voice chat fixes.
- Fix for players going invisible after death (on respawning).
- Fix for players going invisible when two players go through a nether gate at the same time.
- Fix for players sometimes being invisible after teleporting until either they move, or the player that sees them as invisible moves.
- Fix for Noteblock pitch being wrong – more noticeable when chords are played.
- Fix for Mobs dying in walls (happens for baby mobs after they become adults).
- Fix for chunks not loading in maps - tends to be specific seeds.
- Fixed streaming music not playing after a playing CD has been ejected from a jukebox
- Fix for player being able to attach Signs to the Chest with a block placed above it.
- Fix for player being able to breed wild Ocelots.
- Fix for player being able to breed Ocelot with Cat.
- Fix for tame wolves being removed if no players were near them when they were angry.
- Fix for Potion of Night Vision corrupts the game's UI while player is falling into the Void in the End.
- Fix for the damage decals flickering and/or not present if players are not close to each other in Survival Mode in a local splitscreen game.
- Fix for damage decals not displaying in splitscreen if the secondary player is 30 + blocks away from the primary player
- Fixed lava drip particles being too dark/black
- Fix for sitting wolves (or stationary entities) not being immediately visible if a remote player spawns next to them, or spawns far away and quickly heads towards them
- Fix for Leather Armour not displaying the enchantment glow.
- Fix for Enchanted item in hand effect being wrong.
- Fix for blocks placed at Y 128 being black on top.

The announcement was made early yesterday that the pack was available, via developer 4J Studios. There's a lot of great stuff in "Skin Pack 2," especially with photos released of Journey and The Last of Us.

Minecraft sold over one million copies on PlayStation 3

Minecraft has been out on the PlayStation 3 console for less than two months, and the creators have announced that it has already sold over one million copies.


Daniel Kaplan of Mojang posted on their home page Friday that the Sony console edition reached over a million sales since its release on December 17th.

Just wanted to let you know that Minecraft on PS3 recently sold over 1 million copies (that has to be some kind of record on PSN, no?). It is crazy considering the game was released just before Christmas last year. We are super grateful for the support and we are very thankful for your dedication and I hope you will like the future updates we have planned for you (more on that in a later blog post).

It may not be a record, but it debuted as the number one seller for the PS3 in the PlayStation Store in the United States and Europe for the month of December. Considering the sales have already reached over one million, it wouldn't be surprised to see them near the top if not at the top for another month.

This edition may never reach the lofty numbers on PC or Xbox 360 (14 and 10 million sold roughly, respectively), but the game is proving that it will sell on any platform. Don't be surprised to see an edition released on the PS4 and Vita in the future that will contain the same $19.99 price tag - and remote play.

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