{"id":12716,"date":"2018-01-20T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgamedev.win\/2018\/01\/20\/this-week-in-minecraft-january-20th\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:39:26","slug":"this-week-in-minecraft-january-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/20\/this-week-in-minecraft-january-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Minecraft \u2014 January 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgamedev.win\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/this-week-in-minecraft-january-20th.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<h2>Minecraft News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft have announced there&#8217;s a new head of Minecraft,\u00a0Helen Chiang, who replaces Matt Booty after he was promoted to head of Microsoft Studios. Helen was previously head of operations for Minecraft, and has said &#8220;Above all else, Chiang wants to ensure that the Minecraft studio is a place where the creative staff can really work their magic.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/news\/New-Microsoft-Minecraft-Head-Helen-Chiang-Interview-44513067\">in this interview with POPSUGAR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft developer\u00a0LadyAgnes\u200f shared a preview of what&#8217;s coming in the Update Aquatic, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_LadyAgnes\/status\/953259234770194433\">Found something&#8230; odd?&#8230; on the beach today!<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 look closely in the water and you might see something else too!<\/li>\n<li>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftforum.net\/news\/60661-minecraft-snapshot-18w03b\">Minecraft: Java Edition 1.13 Snapshot came out this week<\/a>, &#8220;This weeks snapshot brings some performance boosts for data pack loading &amp; command execution.&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 and a new horse model.<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft will be in London in February, &#8220;Wanna hear about the year ahead for Minecraft? Wanna explode robots in exchange for prizes? Then you\u2019ll wanna be <a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.net\/en-us\/article\/were-coming-london-february\">at the UK\u2019s most excellent PC gaming expo on\u00a0<strong>February 17-18th<\/strong>, in London<\/a>! The Big Smoke! [&#8230;]\u00a0Minecraft\u2019s very own Lead Creative Designer,\u00a0Jens\u00a0is giving a talk on Minecraft &#8211; what it takes to add new stuff to it, and what we have planned for the year ahead.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft shared a video on Twitter of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Minecraft\/status\/954383435337957376\">2017&#8217;s best Minecraft features<\/a>, check it out below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Updates make you happy! And when you\u2019re happy, we\u2019re happy. With that in mind, here\u2019s one of our chirpiest videos yet, featuring just some of 2017\u2019s new features. (Not represented: devs drowning in code&#8230; but, er, still very happy! Honest!) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DcggnGAtHE\">pic.twitter.com\/DcggnGAtHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minecraft (@Minecraft) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Minecraft\/status\/954383435337957376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft News Microsoft have announced there&#8217;s a new head of Minecraft,\u00a0Helen Chiang, who replaces Matt Booty after he was promoted to head of Microsoft Studios. 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