Minecraft beta update 1.5 to include weather effects
by Griffin McElroy 
on Apr 7th 2011 11:30AM
Since everyone knows that
Minecraft's raked in
a cool $33 million to date, Notch has taken it upon himself to, in true rock star fashion, make it rain. In a
series of Tweets this morning, Notch revealed that Minecraft beta update 1.5 will add precipitation to the game, which could possibly have gameplay implications like watering crops, putting out fires, filling small holes and moistening wolves. By the way, "Moistening Wolves" is totally the name of our new, indie noise-rock band.
Notch included
an image of the weather effects at the border of two in-game biomes, showing off some sort of fantasy world where distinct rain and snow systems are allowed to hang out and be buddies. We called up our local meteorologist to see if this was a phenomenon that could occur in real life, and he
literally exploded.
