Earlier this month, Minecraft mastermind Notch announced that the next update, beta 1.7, would be an "adventure update" that will "flesh out the game a bit, making it reward exploration and combat more." That's not happening anymore.

Notch today revealed on his blog that only pistons and "probably a couple of bug fixes" will be included in 1.7 instead. The good news is that since it now comes with less features, update 1.7 will be released "soon". The adventure update will be released as beta 1.8, but Notch doesn't have a timeframe for that one yet.

"Me and Jens have been independently working on stuff for the adventure update, and it’s been growing in scope as we’ve been working on it," the dev explains. "That means it will take quite some time to finish, but that it will hopefully change the game a lot to the better. To prevent going too far between updates, we’ve decided to release Pistons early."

After 1.8 arrives, players can look forward to Minecraft's full release sometime after the week of November 11th.

Via [Notch]

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