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Nightly Minecraft build releases planned

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Minecraft creator Notch and his team spend a lot of time tinkering with effects that never feel the light of day, but if you'd like to see the bug-ridden, wildly experimental, occasionally disastrously game-breaking results, you'll soon be welcome to a daily install of the very lastest build.

According to Notch's blog, he's planning to make regular nightly builds available in the near future. Players can install individual builds alongside their official releases.

The explanation for why the nightly builds are likely to be broken is in the same post; the team have decided to devote 50 percent of development time to the creation and implementation of new features, rather than just ironing out what already exists. Throwing in whole new gameplay mechanics isn't the smoothest process to enact in a single afternoon.

Minecraft is very close to hitting one million sales, and is expected to release this year.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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