(Sorry it's taken so long to post this) 1.7 is out! It has been dubbed "The update that changed the world" and you will soon see why.

*Many new biomes have been added! (not kidding, alot)

With these new biomes, new blocks and plants have been added. There are now 2 new wood types, Acacia and Old Wood. As well as these they have added Podzol (a strange type of dirt), red sand, packed ice (a less transparent version of ice), two block high grass and ferns, and new flowers, alot of them. They also removed the rose flower (NOOO!!!) and replaced it with a poppy flower.

*Fishing Rods and the fishing mechanic itself has been revamped. There are now 3 more fish you can get, salmon, pufferfish and clownfish. Don't eat the pufferfish!!! It will give you hunger and poison and will make you feel awful. However they do have a use. Add them to a awkward potion and you get a potion of water breathing! As well as getting fish from fishing, you can get random loot such as rotten flesh and tripwire hooks. If you're lucky you might be able to get something like a enchantment book or a saddle! You can also get 2 new enchants for you're fishing rods, lure, which increases you're catch rate, and luck of the sea, which improves you're chance of getting rare loot.

*Achievements are now world-specific.

*Added Command Block Minecart

*Nether Portals can be different dimensions (has to be bigger than original 5x4)

*/Summon Command. It basically spawns the mob you chose in a particular quantity.

*Super secret settings (OMG SUPER AMAZING RAINBOW SWIRLY SHADER!!!!) Umm yeah... look it up, its amazing...

*New Amplified game mode. It makes the world into a beautiful place with high mountains and shallow gorges.

*Psst... Preparations have been made to offer name change in the future (ITS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!)

*Yeah... they removed Herobrine... again...

New fish in Minecraft.

Example of portals using 1.7

(Photo: Mojang.com) Yay! 1.6 is out (well, kinda, it's the snapshot, officially due July 1st). In order to try out the snapshot, all you have to do is download the new launcher and run it. To get back to 1.5.2, just run the old launcher. I downloaded the launcher, it's the easiest pre-release I've ever downloaded, I even told my friend how to do it over the phone! We've been doing some testing and checking out the new update and I gotta say it's awesome. Here's what's in the update:

*Added horses (biggest part of the update!) There are 7 base colours
and 5 marking variations, all up there are 35 combinations, WOW! Not to
mention you can suit them up in badass horse armor! (can only be found in dungeon chests.)     

(previous picture minecraftwiki.net)

*If you thought horses and horse armor where enough, there are also donkeys and mules (donkey and horse cross breed)! Even though they are not as fast or have as much health, if you right-click them with a chest, you can use them to store extra stuff on your expeditions!

* Speaking of dungeon chests, they can now be found in nether fortresses, yay!


*Added leads, which means you can bring your wolf (or any animal for that matter) on a lead or leash and then connect that to a fence.

*Speaking of animals, now you can name that wolf (or any animal) anything you want with name tags. If you find one in a dungeon chest, you rename it with an anvil and then right click with an animal and BAM, name that horse the most badass name ever!

*Hay Bales, nuff said.

*Carpets, slim pieces of wool that fit on your floor.

*Blocks of coal (bout damn time!) They smelt 72 blocks (how much 9 coal would smelt on their own.)

*Harded Clay and Stained Clay, think of it almost as a new wool. Finally a reason to get this brick-making beauty!

*Weird food upgrade thing I don't understand.

*Lava goes away much quicker (again, bout damn time!)

*Texture packs are leaving (NOOOOOO!!!!!1!!!) in it's place, resource packs. Basically this means not only can you add textures, but custom sounds as well, so all you 1D fans can listen to them while playing minecraft (*facepalm*)

*Oh yeah, they removed herobrine.

Sorry for the long post, I was so exited!  

1.6 is getting closer with 13w21a. Not much has been added, mainly just some UI added and upgraded for horses and some bug fixes.

In other news, Jeb got married, YAY! Congrats Jeb!