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Exclusive: 'Minecraft' Luminary Jens Bergensten Talks About the Game's Future

TIME - Tech

Minecraft's mysterious woodland mansions are sprawling timber and cobblestone compounds visible from hundreds of blocks away. They erupt from banks of fairy tale oaks punctuated by giant speckled mushrooms, orthogonal aberrations beckoning like inscrutable mausoleums. Inside lies treasure guarded by grumbling gray beings that can summon winged imps, crowds of snapping teeth, or chase you with hatchets down long carpeted halls. There's even a variant of the latter nicknamed "Johnny." It's available now for the Java edition, and includes other curious novelties, like llamas (they'll schlep your stuff around and spit on command), shulker boxes (they retain what's inside even when broken) and village cartographers who'll sell you exploration maps, so you can find your way to the new mansions, as well as the older ocean monuments.