Today, for those of you who are not aware, happens to be the birthday of Mr. Dinnerbone, of Mojang and Minecraft-making fame. And that means that we lucky Minecraft PC players get a new snapshot. Because “how birthdays work inside Minecraft” apparently.

The new snapshot is once again another mainly optimisation-based snapshot aimed at squeezing every last FPS out of your computer and the game of Minecraft. “Major optimizations to client rendering. It’s magical!” but also adds a few small things to the game to boot.

The two big game-based changes are the addition of Banners (even if Mojang aren’t going to tell us how they work, we’ll figure it out) and that Creeper, Skeleton and Zombie heads are now available in Survival. Lighting bugs have also been ironed out (which might mean the end to those random dark patches you need to punch to get the lighting to work right) and the final line reads “Crafting cuddles now requires one extra hug in the recipe.”

Pretty sure that last one is a joke. Maybe.

Snapshot post is here: [x]