Minecraft: Wii U Edition – New update coming soon, changelog

Earlier today, 4J Studios announced that a new update for Minecraft: Wii U Edition would be released “soon”. Actually, it’s not clear when the update is releasing, as the official 4J Studios Twitter account says it’s “later this week”, while the patchnotes they link to say it will be later today (July 25th). Confused? No need to worry: we will make sure to update this post when the update is live!

Unfortunately, that update is probably not the most excting ever. While there is new content, such as the Battle Map Pack 2 (with Atlantis, Ruin and Siege), and the Redstone Specialists Skin Pack, most of the changes are fixes for various issues impacting the game, including the Battle Mini Game.

Here’s the full changelog for this new update for Minecraft: Wii U Edition:

• Added Battle Map Pack 2 (Atlantis, Ruin and Siege).
• Added the Redstone Specialists Skin Pack.
• Made changes to some item textures in the City Texture Pack, Fantasy Texture Pack and Greek Mythology Mash-up Pack, so that they are more easily identifiable in Battle mini games.
• Battle Mini Game: Fix to display player names above crouching players when in Showdown mode in a Battle mini game.
• Battle Mini Game: Fix to allow thrown potions to go through non-solid blocks (e.g. Vines, Tall Grass).
• Battle Mini Game: Fix to stop non-solid blocks obstructing player attacks.
• Battle Mini Game: Fixed a couple of holes in the Cove Battle mini game map.
• Battle Mini Game: Fix to remove all Mob heads from the player’s inventory, except any that are currently being worn, when transitioning from the Lobby to a Battle mini game map.
• Battle Mini Game: Fix to automatically replace Mob heads in the armour slot, when a Helmet is collected in a Battle mini game.
• Battle Mini Game: Disabled “Take Everything” in the Lobby.
• Battle Mini Game: Added Select All / Deselect All tooltip(s) to the Select Maps menu.
• Fix for an issue with hills generation.
• Fix for an issue causing some Blazes to not perform their attacks after becoming aggressive towards the player.
• Fix to allow renamed items to be traded with a Villager.
• Fixed a duplication bug.
• Fix to remove the redundant option for creating White Wool within the crafting menu using 1x White Wool to create.
• Fix for an issue where a Pig struck by a lightning turns into a Zombie Pigman without a Golden Sword.
• Fix for an incorrect death message when the player is killed by lightning.
• Fix for some issues with achievements (including Passing The Time achievement).

To download this new update, you have two options:

• let the Wii U do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated. You should have the latest version of Minecraft: Wii U Edition installed the next time you turn on your Wii U;
• if not, you can launch Minecraft: Wii U Edition from the Home Menu (not the Quick Start Menu!) in order to trigger the download manually.

Source: 4J Studios