Our Marketplace Picks: February 2018

It’s rare we hear the argument that Minecraft has too many pixels - but this texture pack makes the best case for it yet, quartering the number of pixels per texture, and creating a world of bold, simple shapes and vibrant colours, and promising to “make your world feel bigger, even on the smallest of screens”.

The lower pixel-count makes the wide-eyed mobs even cuter, but, more impressive is the way that Noxcrew’s art wizards have used contrast and colour to make each texture so easily readable, despite having way less detail to play with.

Here’s what the Content Team had to say about it!

Bad news, Captain: your starship has been boarded by bipedal alien ponies. Oh, and it’s about to crash. There’s just enough time to swipe a few supplies, turn a few ponies into space lasagne, and dive into an escape pod.

But the interstellar peril doesn’t end there - you’ll have to traverse an alien world, scavenge scattered parts, mine for materials, rebuild and escape! And, while you’re doing all that you may find time to ride alien arachnids, zap baddies with lasers, zip about on space-buggies and spot the occasional UFO.

So! What did the Content Team think?

75 minigames in one map - is that a record? This challenge map sees 1-8 players compete to complete 10 minigames in the shortest amount of time. But which ten you’ll face changes each time, making this one of the most replayable multiplayer showdowns we’ve seen.

The challenges test all kinds of skills from rapid redstone engineering and speed-brewing to pixel-perfect parkour and brilliant bowmanship.

Here’s what the Content Team had to say about it!