{"id":103220,"date":"2019-11-06T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/minecraft-earth-early-access\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:37:29","slug":"minecraft-earth-early-access-available-in-nine-countries-now-includes-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/minecraft-earth-early-access-available-in-nine-countries-now-includes-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Earth Early Access Available in Nine Countries, now includes the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">06 Nov 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p>People of the UK, your time has come! The&nbsp;Early Access for&nbsp;<em>Minecraft Earth&nbsp;<\/em>has finally landed upon the beaches of the British Isles. It is the ninth country to get access to the open beta, joining South Korea, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, New Zealand and Iceland. No word yet on when the US is going to be given the green-light, but it shouldn&#8217;t be too much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, you could only have played&nbsp;<em>Minecraft Earth&nbsp;<\/em>if you lived in or around London and had signed up for the Closed Beta, which only had limited functionality. If you were playing around with the CBT you can still log into the game &#8211; the client will just need to download some additional files and you&#8217;ll be good to go. As far as we can tell your progress will also be saved, so there&#8217;s been no reset this time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"leftAlone\" title src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/minecraft-earth-early-access-available-in-nine-countries-now-includes-the-uk.jpg\" alt=\"minecraft earth early access uk\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\"><\/p>\n<p>The Early Access has more and is closer to what the final game will look like, with the new features such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adventures<\/strong> \u2013 small slices of procedurally generated, limited-time <em>Minecraft<\/em> worlds that you play in augmented reality in life size and are just one of the experiences that are optimized for social multiplayer<\/li>\n<li><strong>New mob variants, smelting and crafting<\/strong> \u2013 like the *adorable* Muddy Pig, Moobloom, Jumbo Rabbit and Cluckshroom, we\u2019ll have new friendly and hostile mobs for you to meet. Through smelting, you\u2019ll be able to work ores into ingots and with crafting you\u2019ll get to create items you need (if you have the right materials of course), instead of having to collect the items outright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2019\/09\/28\/minecon-live-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official blog post from MineCon<\/a> the end of September that goes into more details regarding the Early Access build, otherwise go to either the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/en-us\/article\/minecraft-earth-early-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftearth&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play<\/a> store to get started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Story:&nbsp;<\/strong>The <em>Minecraft Earth<\/em> Closed Beta Test has been trundling along now for a couple of months now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/minecraft-earth-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finally releasing on Android at the start of September<\/a>. It\u2019s only been available in a few cities\u2026 although I wonder how loose they\u2019ve been with the geography restrictions. I live about an hour outside of London, for example, yet I was given access not long after it hit Android.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the main question on everyone\u2019s mind is &#8211; when is it going to be out for realsies? The answer is soon! Sort of! At this year\u2019s Minecon event that was held in Nashville, Mojang revealed that the <em>Pokemon GO<\/em>-like augmented reality game would be rolling out in October\u2026 into Early Access.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not quite what \u2018released\u2019 means, and since Early Access is practically a Beta still, I guess you could say <em>Minecraft Earth<\/em> is transitioning from a Closed Beta to an Open Beta this October. Yay? The Early Access build is supposed to have more features than the current beta version, but we don\u2019t know the specifics yet. A final release date of Spring 2020 has been bandied about, but I expect that to change as the game gets into the hands of more players.<\/p>\n<p>What we do know is that this Early Access program is going to be a global roll-out, eventually. Smaller markets will get the game first to act as testing grounds (as is traditional), and Mojang will reportedly be adding in new territories every week or so. The entire world should have access to the game by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"leftAlone\" title src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/minecraft-earth-early-access-available-in-nine-countries-now-includes-the-uk-1.jpg\" alt=\"MC Earth Sample2\" width=\"706\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure what this will mean to users already in the CBT in the \u2018Famous Five\u2019 cities currently with access &#8211; we\u2019ll have to get back to you on that.<\/p>\n<p><em>As before, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/minecraft\/id479516143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftearth&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> users can re-register now via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/en-us\/earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>, or via the app stores, if you haven\u2019t already.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 06 Nov 2019 People of the UK, your time has come! The&nbsp;Early Access for&nbsp;Minecraft Earth&nbsp;has finally landed upon the beaches of the British Isles. It is the ninth country to get access to the open beta, joining South Korea, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, New Zealand and Iceland. No word yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}