Less than 24 hours before the next big Minecraft patch was scheduled for release, Mojang has decided to push back the update by a couple of days. Thankfully, it doesn’t sound like we’ll be waiting all that much longer for the debut of Minecraft Update 1.9.
On Tuesday, Mojang formally announced the delay of Minecraft 1.9, updating last week’s blog post to reflect the studio’s new release schedule. Rather than publish the next big Minecraft patch on Thursday, Feb. 25, Mojang has pushed the launch of Minecraft 1.9 back to the end of the month. There’s no word on what lead the studio to make such a decision but, barring any further delays, fans can now expect the game’s next patch to emerge on Monday, February 29.
In the interim, the Mojang has published Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 2, the latest in stream of preview builds dating back to July 2015. Pre-Release 2 includes fixes for more than half a dozen additional bugs, discovered after last week’s release of Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 1, along with a change to the way Minecraft handles pack spawning. Our latest glimpse of Minecraft Update 1.9 also corrects a bug that caused portals not to place players at the proper coordinates.
As always, it’s important to remember that new snapshots and pre-release builds are more than capable of corrupting your existing worlds. So any players planning to boot up one of their favorite worlds, once they’ve finished downloading Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 2, might want to back-up their save(s) before diving into Mojang’s latest preview of the game’s next patch.
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