The Epic Games Store is not very good. This is not a controversial thing to say, I’m fairly certain, as the lack of features available within it feels a bit odd also eight years into the thing existing. Sure, there’s some free games every now and then (like Citizen Sleeper, right now), but there’s a lot of basic things missing. But it seems much of that, including simple things like patch notes, will be coming within the next 12 months.

Over on the EpicGamesPC subreddit, a series of photos from a talk Epic held regarding the storefront’s future shows off the kinds of things you can expect from it over the next year. A roadmap of sorts outlines what you can expect when, with smaller things like pre-registration for free-to-play games, patch notes, a private beta for the next version of the launcher, improved storefront navigation, and whatever the hell “Fortnite Chunked Installation” is (I’m assuming that it lets you download only certain parts of the battle royale) coming up first.

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Speaking of that revamped storefront, a couple images of that were shown off, with some captions explaining that home pages will be personalised per user, highlighting games that match an individual’s “interests and playstyle.” Sounds pretty basic! Game pages will apparently be more detailed too, with again some tailoring done for each user to “show what’s relevant to them based on where they are in the game.”

In the up next section of the roadmap, there’s also a mention of user written reviews, the absence of which is a commonly levied criticism against the storefront, alongside supposed discovery improvements, and the launch of the next version of the storefront. A look at user profiles was also shown off, which shows things like games a person owns, what they’ve been playing recently, achievements. Once again, literally nothing unique to be found here.

It is quite odd that Epic have been taking so long to add such basic elements of a digital storefront. But then, they did lay off over 1000 employees earlier this year, so, it doesn’t really seem like they know how to run a team very well. At least Unreal Engine 6 will incorporate generative AI! I definitely feel good about that! Please, oh god please, read the sarcasm here.

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Valve dropped the Dota 2 7.41d patch, proving once again that even during major competitive tournaments, your favorite digital gladiators are never safe from the balance hammer. The update targets a long list of meta-defining heroes while also giving the game’s couch cushions a thorough shake, altering everything from neutral items to teleportation physics.

The biggest news for cash-strapped support players is a discount on Dagon. Valve shaved 50 gold off the recipe cost, making the burst-damage staff slightly easier to buy when your economy is in the toilet.

On the flip side, Mage Slayer caught a tiny nerf to its bonus damage, dropping from 15 to 12. If you are a fan of pop-up notifications, using Smoke of Deceit now automatically types a message into your allied chat, finally alerting your oblivious teammates that a gank is happening.

Teleporting got weirdly precise too. If you self-cast a Town Portal scroll, your hero will now land slightly closer to the Ancient. More importantly, teleportation animations will now partially track units that can move while channeling, like Phoenix or Storm Spirit, meaning enemies can easily look at your drifting animation and figure out exactly where you are trying to escape.

Hero Balances In Dota 2 Patch 7.41d

In the hero department, Chaos Knight is laughing all the way to the lane. His Phantasm illusion damage got a massive bump in the early and mid-game, letting him hit like a truck much sooner. Ancient Apparition also enjoyed a pleasant update, getting a damage per second increase on Cold Feet and a lower cooldown on Chilling Touch.

The fun had to end somewhere, and Kez took the absolute brunt of the beating. The bird samurai was utterly gutted with cooldown increases and damage reductions across multiple abilities, significantly ruining his ability to look cool in long teamfights. Hoodwink, Invoker, and Ember Spirit were also dragged down a peg, while Snapfire lost her Boomstick interaction and took a hit to her Cookie healing.

Over in the jungle, almost every neutral item received a minor buff, save for Spider Legs, which had its duration reduced. To balance out the jungle love, the Alert and Timeless enchantments received noticeable nerfs to their night vision and attack range bonuses, meaning you can no longer snipe enemies quite as effectively from the comfort of the shadows.

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From the makers of Untitled Goose Game, Big Walk will release for PC, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 on 4th August. It’s…. a little bit different to Goose Game, though.

Big Walk is just a game about going for a nice hike with your friends. It’s a co-op online walking and talking game where you head out into an open world to find challenges, puzzles and make discoveries.

One of the challenges is simply sticking together and not getting lost, needing you to use walkie-talkies to chat over distances, or improvise with megaphones, binoculars and whiteboards, and flares in the case you lose it.

You might have a plan for somewhere to go, but you can then easily stumble across a challenge based around soundproof glass and with a little reward to have and to hold.

It’s also just a nice chill game, where you can sit and watch the sun go down.

It’s a tiny little bit friendsloppy, in a similar vein to the viral hit Peak, but with a much more relaxed vibe that’s less about the silly challenge and jank, and more about being together.

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There’s a lot of expectation built up for Exodus, the big new sci-fi RPG coming from some of the key creative minds behind Mass Effect and KOTOR before it. At the Future Game Show, the team at Archetype Entertainment shared a long look at the gameplay, revealing a lot of new details about the game ahead of its planned release in early 2027.

Characters

The game casts players as Jun Aslan, an orphan from a once powerful family who is surviving as a salvager at the start of the game, but who ends up being humanity’s last hope to fight back the Celestials thanks to a genetic gift that lets him interact with ancient technology. To save your homeworld, you’ll have to steal Celestial tech, bring it back to your world, and give yourself a chance to survive.

At the start of the game, you get to pick Jun’s gender as male or female, and with “several options” for visual customisation. You’ll also choose an initial alignment, either as a Virtuous Paladin or Viscious Immortal.

Alongside Jun is his giant talking space wolf, Houston – immediately my favourite – but he soon builds up a broader crew of allies, including mech pilot Elise, and experienced Traveller Tom, who teaches Jun some about the job as one of those. Salt is then an Awakened octopus in a tentacular mech suit – immediately my second new favourite character – and there are other Awakened animals who you can converse with. Later in the video we meet Feydra Nath, a genius technician who suffers from blindness, but has developed new sight using drones.

Periodically, you’ll run into C.C. Orlev, voiced by Matthew McConaughey, who can give you aid in the form of upgrades and other helpers.

Combat

Combat definitely has a lot of the third person with a team style combat of Mass Effect, with Jun taking cover and blasting with guns, calling in attacks from allies, and making use of special abilities like a Scramble cloaking device that allows for closing distance quickly, an energy spear and more.

While an RPG with big ol’ health bars, it has a good bit of punch to it. You can spot and mark enemies while scoping out a mercenary camp with a turret in the middle. Careful not to raise the alarm, Jun’s upgraded Cycler gun for single-hit headshots. The turret was then weakened with a thruster grenade and taken out with further fire.

It’s agile third person combat, making use of grapple points to swing across gaps, using explosive barrels to deal elemental damage and more.

In addition to mercenaries, one of the main enemies you’ll face are the robotic Ghosts.

Celestial Tech

With his ability to tap into Celestial technology, Jun is able to manipulate ancient devices and machinery in various ways. This can play into key decision points, such as when (having already disabled turret defences) being given the choice to open an airlock or not, potentially killing dock workers.

On the planet Sang, you’re able to manipulate the shapeable livestone to cross sulphur lakes and other ancient Celestial formations. This ability to shape the world can also be used in combat, shooting out a rapid growth from the ground.

A lot of this is dependent on Jun’s gauntlet, which was passed down to him and can be upgraded with technology found on the journey, unlocking new abilities, such as the aforementioned Lance, which can pierce and destroy the Bramble, which is a byproduct of the Rot.

The Story

Jun’s homeworld of Lyden is at risk of being consumed by the Rot, a Celestial virus that is able to rewrite and use Celestial tech in its own way. Between missions you’ll return to this world and the main hub city of Persepolis to pick up new missions, meet new people and advance the story. One factor here is that, with Exodus leaning on the theoretical science surrounding galactic space travel, you’re subject to time dilation, so years can pass while you and your team experience days. Your choices can shape this city over time.

You have to travel across the Centauri cluster to find a possible cure for the Rot. You’ll be following in the footsteps of other Travellers that went before you, such as Feydra’s grandfather, Elijah, who disappeared decades ago. Following this plotline eventually leads to a difficult choice that can lead to a key death in your party.

Exodus’ showing looked excellent, and while the morality system is as classically polar as it gets, the story intrigue, the moment-to-moment decisions, the combat and Celestial abilities all look brilliant. We look forward to seeing more as the team close in on their Early 2027 release window.

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When I reach out to the self-proclaimed “open source baddie” CC for an interview, I’m pretty sure she’s emailing me back from a pink mermaid purse.

“I’m just having so much fun,” she tells me about her seashell cyberdeck. “It’s a Tamagotchi. It’s also an e-reader. It’s networked to my vault and my servers, so it has access to all of my server data, which has all my PDFs, and books, and notes, and everything… It’s also connected to my local AI setup at home.”

CC has no background in software engineering or computer science, but she’s gotten good enough at building unconventional cyberdecks — small DIY computers — that she documents the process on her blog Bimbo Tech so that other women can follow her lead, even if they don’t yet know what RAM is.

The idea of the cyberdeck originated in William Gibson’s 1984 sci-fi novel “Neuromancer,” and when credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi came on the market in the 2010s, hardware enthusiasts began building and sharing their own cyberdecks in niche online communities. But over the last few months, these communities have exploded in popularity thanks to women on social media who are teaching each other to build artistic, hyper-feminine computers by documenting their building processes.

“I have a running joke that there’s this underlying misogyny in tech — because whenever they release a pro model, or an elite model… I’m always like, let me guess, it’s black or silver,” CC said. “It’s never going to come in pink.” 

The process of customizing and designing a cyberdeck has become an art form in itself. On Instagram and TikTok, you can find a cyberdeck made of wood and moss that runs Game Boy Color games; a desert-inspired MP3 player built inside a 3D-printed fossil; a Barbie dollhouse that opens up to reveal a functional mini-computer; or a duck figurine that can be used to record voice notes.

“I don’t want Meta AI glasses. I want to pirate books in a tiny embellished shell,” said the creator Sarahbelle Kim on TikTok. “No one can surveil you there. You can get some basic parts at the thrift store or eBay and just customize it.”

There’s obviously an aesthetic motivation to the rise of girly cyberdecks — why not use a Hello Kitty purse to check your email? It’s fun for the sake of fun. But the women building these over-the-top, bedazzled cyberdecks aren’t in it for the glitter alone. This trend is reaching its peak at a time when people feel powerless against the omnipresent homogeneity of big tech.

“I think that’s such a refreshing thing for people who were sold these devices that are like Apple’s… If you try to jailbreak it, if you try to do anything to this phone that you paid $1,000 for, that you own, it’s out of warranty,” CC said. “So I just love seeing people taking the power back into their hands, taking the control back into their hands, which obviously always means creativity when people are given the means to go outside of the black box.”

Maro Vardanyan doesn’t work with hardware as a blockchain developer, but she’s always enjoyed collecting and tinkering with old computer parts.

“A few months ago, I just started as a hobby making art and jewelry pieces and purses with recycled or upcycled old computers I had,” she said. “When I saw everyone doing cyberdecks, I was like, wait, why am I just doing recycled and upcycled ones when I can actually preserve the pieces on something that’s wearable, that’s movable?” 

Vardanyan has taken a different approach to building cyberdecks, opting instead to emphasize the historic relationship between fiber art and technology. Vardanyan refers to her work as “crocheting with computers” or “macrame motherboards,” deliberately nodding to the role of weaving — a practice often viewed as domestic, women’s labor — in the history of early computing.

Before silicon processors, some early computers ran on magnetic-core memory, made up of copper wiring that was precisely threaded to encode the 1s and 0s of binary code. In order for NASA to build the Apollo Guidance Computer, for example, expert women textile workers were tasked with meticulously weaving wires in painstakingly complex patterns, which powered the spacecraft that landed the first man on the moon.

“The original processor was handwoven by seamstresses, not by engineers or anybody else,” she said. “I feel like the hand weaving, and even the fashion-meets-technology… It’s so full circle.”

Vardanyan started weaving pink Raspberry Pis to make purses and corsets, then posted photos of her works-in-progress on X.

“Of course, when the macrame went viral, all of the men are like, ‘This is such a waste of the Raspberry Pi,’ … or, ‘what about the rain?’” she said. “And then I have to be like, ‘Actually, it’s preserved in an acrylic shell.’ And then they’re like, ‘This is so performative, and the GPIO is gonna lose energy!’ And I’m like, ‘Actually, I’m using a conductive thread, so it actually will move and be fully functioning.’”

@gazi.ai

grass cyberdeck (allat to play pokemon yellow ). thoughts ↓ cyberdecks were never about making the “best” computer. they came out of Neuromancer (yes, i wrote my senior essay on it) as messy, personal machines. now it’s a whole maker subculture, but the core’s the same: control + identity + a quiet resistance to how polished tech has become. this one’s a grass cyberdeck, wood + moss + exposed parts. something that feels a little alive, a little off. built on a Raspberry Pi, nothing fancy. honestly a simple build, just wanted to show how easy it is to make something like this in your bedroom (i post my pc a lot, but this is just as cool). it’s not trying to compete with a GeForce RTX 4090 or be practical. it’s more about rejecting the “black box” (our everyday sealed, untouchable devices) and leaning into radical ownership, something you can open, understand, and actually call yours. more optimization soon #cyberdeck #pokemonyellow #reelsinstagram #hardware

♬ original sound – Gazi Jarin

CC has also encountered condescending men on the internet who balk at the idea that someone would use a Raspberry Pi on something as frivolous as a seashell purse computer during a RAM shortage.

“This guy on Reddit was like, ‘You built your first computer a month ago, calm the f— down.’ Mind you, I’ve been building PCs for years,” CC said. “So, long story short, he ends up apologizing and buying me the circuit board for my next cyberdeck.”

From CC’s mermaid purse computer to Vardanyan’s Raspberry Pi corset, these cyberdecks are a direct rejection of Silicon Valley culture, and not just in their egregious embrace of the color pink. They’re impractical and inefficient on purpose, which seems sacrilegious in a culture so obsessed with optimization that unregulated Chinese peptide injections are trendy. It’s a radical act to opt for hacky, DIY tech experiences in order to forge a closer relationship with the devices that feel so abstract despite their ubiquity.

“Ten years ago, I would walk into a conference, there would be three girls, and people would literally just be like, ‘Were you hired for the marketing team?’” Vardanyan said. “I can’t even tell you how amazing it is seeing so many girls all over my social media and Instagram being into hardware, being into software, and then educating [each other], and that’s definitely the energy that we’re missing on every level in society.”

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Gambling interest groups are spending big in campaigns ahead of the Pennsylvania primaries this month. 

The Super PAC Win for America, which is funded by sportsbooks FanDuel, DraftKings, and Fanatics, has now given over $5 million to Win for Pennsylvania. 

The money is largely used to back incumbents’ campaigns after gambling groups successfully lobbied to prevent increases in the state’s sports betting tax. Pennsylvania takes 36% of sportsbook revenue in taxes. 

The Win for America PAC primarily supports Republican candidates. Money has been used in Pennsylvania to back the campaigns of Sens. Lisa Baker, Camera Bartolotta, and Chris Gebhard, according to a report from Spotlight PA. 

Sportsbooks Thankful For No Tax Increase

Primarily, gambling companies are backing the candidates who declined to raise taxes on the industry in last year’s budget. 

After the budget passed with no increase, the Sports Betting Alliance (SBA) ran ads thanking Gebhard and Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman for “standing with PA sports fans and against raising taxes.”

The SBA, which includes the three sportsbooks funding Win for Pennsylvania, as well as bet365 and BetMGM, argues that increasing sports betting taxes would “force the companies to pass on the costs to consumers.”

Companies largely passed on the costs to consumers when hit with a new per-bet tax in Illinois last year. The SBA has sued the city of Chicago after it added another levy on top of the new betting surcharge. 

Esports Betting Push Could Be Renewed

Republican politicians have also introduced legislation to expand legal betting in Pennsylvania, including allowing esports gambling. 

Rep. Ed Neilson introduced HB1636 last year, which would legalize esports betting and give the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board the power to authorize other events as it sees fit. 

The legislation was referred to the House Gaming Committee in June last year, but has not made any progress since. 

If the gambling-backed incumbents win re-election, it could help renew the push for esports gambling to be authorized. 

Pennsylvania Proposes Regulating Esports Prediction Markets

In the meantime, residents can wager on esports prediction markets, but the state has also introduced legislation to regulate this. 

A group of Democrats introduced HB2497 last week. The bill proposes charging prediction market platforms a $1 million license fee and imposing a 20% tax on revenue. 

The legislation would also allow the Board to restrict certain markets relating to “sensitive matters,” including elections, military conflicts, judicial rulings, and natural disasters.

It would not, however, restrict esports or other markets on sporting events. 

Skill Gaming Industry Spending On Rival Campaigns

Another key gambling interest in the elections is coming from the skill gaming industry. Sen. Bartolotta, who has been backed by the sportsbooks, said skill games proponents are “trying to take the Senate of Pennsylvania hostage” through campaign spending.

Citizens Alliance, a conservative political group funded almost entirely by skill game developer Pace-O-Matic, has spent millions of dollars in campaigns against Bartoletta, Baker, and Gebhard. 

Gebhard introduced a bill that would restrict and tax skill games across the state. Cliff Maloney, CEO of Citizens Alliance, said the group is  “working to hold Senate Republicans accountable that proposed a new tax on certain small businesses.”

Like Bartolotta, Gebhard spoke out against the campaign against him. He stated, “Seeing the sheer power of third-party money, we probably should be having a conversation on: ‘Is this a positive for the system and the people of Pennsylvania?’”

The primaries on Tuesday will give an indication of which group has spent its money wisely.

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When I reach out to the self-proclaimed “open source baddie” CC for an interview, I’m pretty sure she’s emailing me back from a pink mermaid purse.

“I’m just having so much fun,” she tells me about her seashell cyberdeck. “It’s a Tamagotchi. It’s also an e-reader. It’s networked to my vault and my servers, so it has access to all of my server data, which has all my PDFs, and books, and notes, and everything… It’s also connected to my local AI setup at home.”

CC has no background in software engineering or computer science, but she’s gotten good enough at building unconventional cyberdecks – small DIY computers – that she documents the process on her blog Bimbo Tech so that other women can follow her lead, even if they don’t yet know what RAM is.

The idea of the cyberdeck originated in William Gibson’s 1984 sci-fi novel “Neuromancer,” and when credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi came on the market in the 2010s, hardware enthusiasts began building and sharing their own cyberdecks in niche online communities. But over the last few months, these communities have exploded in popularity thanks to women on social media who are teaching each other to build artistic, hyper-feminine computers by documenting their building processes.

“I have a running joke that there’s this underlying misogyny in tech – because whenever they release a pro model, or an elite model… I’m always like, let me guess, it’s black or silver,” CC said. “It’s never going to come in pink.” 

The process of customizing and designing a cyberdeck has become an art form in itself. On Instagram and TikTok, you can find a cyberdeck made of wood and moss that runs Game Boy Color games; a desert-inspired MP3 player built inside of a 3D-printed fossil; a Barbie dollhouse that opens up to reveal a functional mini-computer; or a duck figurine that can be used to record voice notes.

“I don’t want Meta AI glasses. I want to pirate books in a tiny embellished shell,” said the creator Sarahbelle Kim on TikTok. “No one can surveil you there. You can get some basic parts at the thrift or eBay and just customize it.”

There’s obviously an aesthetic motivation to the rise of girly cyberdecks — why not use a Hello Kitty purse to check your email? It’s fun for the sake of fun. But the women building these over-the-top, bedazzled cyberdecks aren’t in it for the glitter alone. This trend is reaching its peak at a time when people feel powerless against the omnipresent homogeneity of big tech.

“I think that’s such a refreshing thing for people who were sold these devices that are like Apple’s… If you try to jailbreak it, if you try to do anything to this phone that you paid $1,000 for, that you own, it’s out of warranty,” CC said. “So I just love seeing people taking the power back into their hands, taking the control back into their hands, which obviously always means creativity when people are given the means to go outside of the black box.”

Maro Vandanyan doesn’t work with hardware as a blockchain developer, but she’s always enjoyed collecting and tinkering with old computer parts.

“A few months ago, I just started as a hobby making art and jewelry pieces and purses with recycled or upcycled old computers I had,” she said. “When I saw everyone doing cyberdecks, I was like, wait, why am I just doing recycled and upcycled ones when I can actually preserve the pieces on something that’s wearable, that’s movable?” 

Vandanyan has taken a different approach to building cyberdecks, opting instead to emphasize the historic relationship between fiber art and technology. Vandanyan refers to her work as “crocheting with computers” or “macrame motherboards,” deliberately nodding to the role of weaving — a practice often viewed as domestic, women’s labor — in the history of early computing.

Before silicon processors, some early computers ran on magnetic-core memory, made up of copper wiring that was precisely threaded to encode the 1s and 0s of binary code. In order for NASA to build the Apollo Guidance Computer, for example, expert women textile workers were tasked with meticulously weaving wires in painstakingly complex patterns, which powered the spacecraft that landed the first man on the moon.

“The original processor was handwoven by seamstresses, not by engineers or anybody else,” she said. “I feel like the hand weaving, and even the fashion-meets-technology… It’s so full circle.”

Vandanyan started weaving pink Raspberry Pis to make purses and corsets, then posted photos of her works-in-progress on X.

“Of course, when the macrame went viral, all of the men are like, ‘This is such a waste of the Raspberry Pi,’ … or, ‘what about the rain?’” she said. “And then I have to be like, ‘Actually, it’s preserved in an acrylic shell.’ And then they’re like, ‘This is so performative, and the GPIO is gonna lose energy!’ And I’m like, ‘Actually, I’m using a conductive thread, so it actually will move and be fully functioning.’”

@gazi.ai

grass cyberdeck (allat to play pokemon yellow ). thoughts ↓ cyberdecks were never about making the “best” computer. they came out of Neuromancer (yes, i wrote my senior essay on it) as messy, personal machines. now it’s a whole maker subculture, but the core’s the same: control + identity + a quiet resistance to how polished tech has become. this one’s a grass cyberdeck, wood + moss + exposed parts. something that feels a little alive, a little off. built on a Raspberry Pi, nothing fancy. honestly a simple build, just wanted to show how easy it is to make something like this in your bedroom (i post my pc a lot, but this is just as cool). it’s not trying to compete with a GeForce RTX 4090 or be practical. it’s more about rejecting the “black box” (our everyday sealed, untouchable devices) and leaning into radical ownership, something you can open, understand, and actually call yours. more optimization soon #cyberdeck #pokemonyellow #reelsinstagram #hardware

♬ original sound – Gazi Jarin

CC has also encountered condescending men on the internet who balk at the idea that someone would use a Raspberry Pi on something as frivolous as a seashell purse computer during a RAM shortage.

“This guy on Reddit was like, ‘You built your first computer a month ago, calm the f— down.’ Mind you, I’ve been building PCs for years,” CC said. “So, long story short, he ends up apologizing and buying me the circuit board for my next cyberdeck.”

From CC’s mermaid purse computer to Vandanyan’s Raspberry Pi corset, these cyberdecks are a direct rejection of Silicon Valley culture, and not just in their egregious embrace of the color pink. They’re impractical and inefficient on purpose, which seems sacrilegious in a culture so obsessed with optimization that unregulated Chinese peptide injections are trendy. It’s a radical act to opt for hacky, DIY tech experiences in order to forge a closer relationship with the devices that feel so abstract despite their ubiquity.

“Ten years ago, I would walk into a conference, there would be three girls, and people would literally just be like, ‘Were you hired for the marketing team?’” Vandanyan said. “I can’t even tell you how amazing it is seeing so many girls all over my social media and Instagram being into hardware, being into software, and then educating [each other], and that’s definitely the energy that we’re missing on every level in society.”

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Minecraft developer Mojang is gearing up for this year’s big 1.20 release, and following on from last week’s revelation it’ll finally introduce the game’s long-delayed archaeology system, the studio has now confirmed it’ll also usher in a new cherry blossom biome and sniffer mob.

The sniffer, you might recall, came out top among Minecraft players during last year’s Minecraft Live mob vote, beating out two other options: the Rascal and Tuff Golem. Once 1.20 arrives, players will want to use their new archaeology tools to explore suspicious sand in search of sniffer eggs. Hatching these will eventually produce a fully grown sniffer, able to sniff out seeds long thought lost to time, but that when planted, will grow into unique blooms.

And talk of blooms brings us nicely to Minecraft 1.20’s other freshly announced addition: the aforementioned cherry blossom biome. As detailed in Mojang’s blog, the large, fluffy trees that grow here attract the likes of pigs, sheep, and bees, causing them to spawn in the area.

Additionally, the trees can be felled to create a full, pink-hued wood set that includes the new hanging sign object, and those that want to bring a splash of pink to areas outside the cherry blossoms’ natural habitat can plant cherry tree saplings elsewhere in the world.

Minecraft’s 1.20 update – which was previously confirmed to also include the likes of camels and bamboo rafts – doesn’t yet have an ETA beyond a vague “2023”, but those that want to sample its new features early can do so as soon as its relevant snapshots, betas, and previews release.

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