Minecraft Update 1.41 Out Today on PS4, PS3 & PS Vita

With Minecraft update 1.41 today on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita, developer 4J Studios has added 11 new Trophies for Survival, seven new Trophies for Tumble, and a bunch of fixes.

Here’s the full list of patch notes for today’s Minecraft update, which is out now in Europe and Japan, and will be available later today in North America:

Fix for Horses not jumping to the correct height.

Re-entering a tutorial area while the playing the Tutorial will reset the chests.

Fix for Slab blocks not blocking light.

Fix for Chickens not dropping Cooked Chicken when they die on fire.

Fix for Blazes not dropping Glowstone Dust when they die.

Fixed the drop rate of Gold Nuggets.

Fix for Zombie Pigmen not dropping Gold Ingots when they die.

Fix for tamed Ocelots remaining hostile to anything they were attacking before being tamed.

Fix for crash when spawning too many Shulkers.

Fix for Enderman not taking damage from rain while in a Boat.

Improvements to framerate when throwing a lot of Lingering Potions.

Fix for Wither Skeleton being able to walk through two block high spaces.

Minor changes to Battle Mini Game maps to close off areas that should not be accessible.

Fix for lighting issues when digging down in spawn area.

Fix for rename Record losing its name after being in a Jukebox.

Added chance of Melon, Pumpkin, and Beetroot Seeds, and Jungle Saplings spawning in the Bonus Chest.

Fix for a range of tooltips that would appear when the action was not available.

Fix for Mob Spawner error that occured after using a spawn egg to change what it should spawn.

Fixes to End Gateway generation.

Fix for End spawn location being in the wrong place.

Added a particle effect and sound effect when a mob spawner fails to spawn due to spawn limits.

Fix for crash when placing a Sign on top of Tall Grass.

Stop End Crystals exploding when “TNT Explodes” is disabled.

Fix for Hoppers not collecting items above them.

Fix for save upload failing. (PS3 only)

Added new 11 trophies for Survival.

Added new 7 trophies for Tumble.

The update is live on Xbox One and Xbox 360 as well.

You can see all 18 new Minecraft Trophies over here. Some ask you to use an Elytra to fly through a 1 by 1 gap while moving faster than 40 m/s, stay underwater for 2 minutes, teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an Ender Pearl, hit a single Player with 25 Snowballs in a single public round, and push three Players into Lava using Snowballs in a single public round.

Today also sees the release of The Villains Skin pack, which is priced at $1.99 USD and includes 17 skins, all of which are “inspired by one of the most evil things in Minecraft – cakes, silverfish, trapdoors to name just a few.”

[Source: 4J Studios (Twitter 1, 2, 3), Minecraft Forum (1), (2), (3), Exophase, Minecraft]

Games like Minecraft

PlayStation Games Like Minecraft
7 Days to Die

The Fun Pimps' 7 Days to Die is coming to PlayStation 4 courtesy of Telltale Games. It's basically a realistic Minecraft, as players will have to craft items and build defenses in order to survive in this post-apocalyptic game. The focus is definitely more on survival rather than building, though, so if you just want to create cool buildings then this might not be the right game for you.
Dragon Quest Builders

Dragon Quest Builders is coming to North America later this year, but Japanese players have already had the chance to check out this Dragon Quest spin on Minecraft. It's a pretty straightforward adaptation, as you'll be collecting items like rock, wood, and slime ooze to craft new objects. There's also familiar enemies to deal with.
DayZ

Set to release later this year, DayZ is a survival game based off the ARMA 2 mod of the same name. There's a zombie filled world to roam, and you'll have to determine if other players are friend or foe. While the focus is definitely on survival here, you can also build bases in order to protect your items.
Terraria

Available on PS3, Vita and PS4, Terraria is essentially a 2D version of Minecraft. That description does do it a bit of a disservice (as it adds some cool stuff such as boss fights), but the core gameplay will be familiar to any fan of Mojang's title. There's a lot of depth here, and I'd argue that it's a more focused (and better) game than what inspired it.
Don't Starve

Don't Starve features one of the best crafting systems in any survival game. You'll start off by creating simple objects like a pickaxe, but later on you can create stuff like a staff that shoots fire. It's available on both PlayStation Vita and PS4, and its multiplayer sequel Don't Starve Together is releasing later this year on consoles.
The Forest

Endnight Games' The Forest is a first-person survival game where players crash onto a mysterious island. Oh, and the island is filled with cannibals who took your son. So, yeah. The situation is pretty dire here, and this realistic-looking survival game has received rave reviews on PC. According to the developer, it's set to arrive on PS4 "sometime in 2016."
Fallout 4

Alright, so the main game of Fallout 4 isn't really like Minecraft at all. You can make some awesome settlements, though. Just look at the screenshot, which was made by Redditor RuxConk. It's a fun game in general, and the settlement building has a lot of depth if you want to dive into it.
Starbound

Starbound is very similar to Terraria, but it also has the distinction of being in space. Players are able to use a space shuttle to explore the rest of the galaxy and this futuristic take on the genre is something special. It's already out on PC, and is in development for PS4.
Ark: Survival Evolved

One way Minecraft could be made better is if it had dinosaurs, mainly because everything is better with dinos. Fear not, as Ark: Survival Evolved has plenty of the feathered reptiles (over 60 if you're counting) that want to stomp you out of existence. Thankfully, players can tame wild dinosaurs to use themselves and build bases in order to conquer the game world.
The Tomorrow Children

Q-Games' The Tomorrow Children is one of the most anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusives, and it should be releasing relatively soon. It's a mixture between Minecraft style building, gorgeous graphics that look straight out of an animated film, and a Soviet Union theme. Players won't have to wait too much longer to check out the latest idea to come from Dylan Cuthbert.