Mojang and Microsoft have launched a pause menu to Minecraft: Bedrock Version, which signifies that for those who’re taking part in the sport by yourself, you not have to fret about being unceremoniously murdered if that you must go and reply the door.
Per a brand new submit on the official Minecraft web site, now you can pause Bedrock Version when opening the menu or switching home windows on PC. The pause operate was already a function of Bedrock Version’s sibling Java Version, so this replace is basically simply bringing the previous as much as parity.
After all, you will have to be taking part in in single-player mode to pause Minecraft: Bedrock Version; opening the pause menu in multiplayer nonetheless will not freeze the sport for apparent causes.
Moreover, in case your recreation is paused and a good friend joins when you’re within the pause menu, it’s going to mechanically unpause, so be sure to know who’s hopping into your recreation and when or the results to your stock may very well be catastrophic.
In addition to the brand new pause operate, Mojang has additionally launched two main new social options to Minecraft: Bedrock Version on this replace. The primary is a profile web page that exhibits your achievements, in-game stats, and extra.
This web page can be seen to your mates, so everybody can see what number of occasions you have misplaced your stock to attacking Creepers. Yikes.
The second new function launched as a part of this replace is the power to show 4 of your favourite screenshots as a part of your profile web page, and to facilitate that, new screenshot hotkeys have additionally been launched.
Minecraft in all probability wants no introduction; it’s, in spite of everything, the only best-selling online game of all time. It is spawned an upcoming film and a Netflix TV present, in addition to various different spinoffs and ancillary media initiatives.
Unique creator Markus “Notch” Persson hasn’t been concerned with the sport for a while; he departed Mojang after its sale to Microsoft in 2014, and subsequent feedback he made noticed Mojang distance itself from him within the years to comply with.
He’s, nevertheless, apparently at the moment engaged on a non secular successor to Minecraft which he is known as “mainly…Minecraft 2”, though it stays to be seen whether or not Notch’s mission can choose up the traction Minecraft has managed to take care of.
