Minecraft Version 1.1; Brings Grass Eating Sheep, and more

Minecraft, quite possibly the greatest indie game success story ever, has finally reached the 1.1 milestone, bringing with it a slew of changes and improvements.

The game, which was originally more akin to free-building with legos than a traditional game, has slowly morphed into an open world game that rivals many more professional productions.

The game has (favorably) been compared to other open world games such as Skyrim, with Kotaku even going so far as to say that Minecraft feels more real.

Minecraft version 1.1 brings in sheep that eat grass and regrow their wool, support for different world rendering styles, improved biome transitions, about a billion bug fixes and support for more languages. It shows that, despite the game reaching the 1.0, “finished” milestone a few months ago, Minecraft will keep being developed. The game will probably never truly be finished, which is a good thing for its millions of players.

Minecraft has become a sensation. In the past 24 hours, the game has sold over 13,000 copies, with over 4 million people having bought the game in total. most of those sales were from before the game was completed. It has spawned a whole genre of clones, most of which have proven to be quite lucrative in their own right.

Apparently, we’ve been wanting a true Legos video game. Even if the industry hadn’t realized it.

MOJANG