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Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update adds several new mobs such as witches, bats, zombie villagers, wither skeletons, wearable and placeable heads, a new boss called The Wither, the command block, the anvil, the…

25 October 2012

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update is an adventure developed by Mojang Studios, released 25 October 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update is

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update is an adventure game developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Lightweight Java Game Library.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update adds several new mobs such as witches, bats, zombie villagers, wither skeletons, wearable and placeable heads, a new boss called The Wither, the command block, the anvil, the beacon, new food such as potatoes, carrots, and pumpkin pies), carrots on sticks for controlling pigs and new decoration items such as item frames, flower pots, and cobblestone walls).
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Minecraft series

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update is the fifth of 131 entries we hold in the Minecraft series. The next entry was Minecraft: Redstone Update in 2013.

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What it launched against

Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update launched on 25 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III.

Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.

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When did Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update come out?
Minecraft: Pretty Scary Update was released on 25 October 2012 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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