
Mojang says the birthday skinpacks from previous years will also be available for download, giving the Minecraft: Xbox One Edition community access to several other costumes as well. This year’s celebratory skinpack includes a handful of creature-themed t-shirts for Steve and Alex to wear, including creep shirts, duck shirts and several more. But it does give players a handful of new wardrobe choices.īeginning on Monday, and continuing through the end of the week, Minecraft: Xbox One Edition players can download the game’s latest birthday skin pack from Xbox Live for free. Unfortunately, the new content being released this week isn’t anywhere as complex or exciting as those past releases. Just this week, Microsoft and Nintendo announced plans to release a Super Mario World mash-up pack for Minecraft: Wii U Edition later this month. We’ve seen Star Wars skin packs, Mass Effect mash-up packs. In fact, while the feature was originally exclusive to the PC version of the game, Microsoft and Mojang have been making a killing in recent years, signing deals with a variety of developers, publishers and console manufacturers to create skins and mash-up content based on other popular video game IP. Skins have been a big part of the Minecraft community for several years now. Just don’t go expecting anything too impressive. This was announced today, and you can see a video and some screenshots here.Minecraft: Xbox One Edition is getting a brand new skin pack this week, that will be available as a free download through this weekend, to celebrate the four-year anniversary of Mojang’s beloved sandbox game. Mash-Up Pack is coming to the Wii U version on May 17. In other news about Minecraft, a Super Mario Bros. Minecraft was released for Xbox One in September 2014. You can queue up your downloads through the links below. Additionally, if you only recently picked up Minecraft, you may be happy to learn that Birthday Skin Packs 1, 2, and 3 are also free. The 4th Birthday Skin Pack, which features new mob-themed t-shirts for Alex and Steve, will be free for one week only, now through May 16. To celebrate the milestone, Microsoft and Mojang have announced they are giving away DLC to everyone who owns Minecraft on Xbox 360 and Xbox One-but only for a limited time. Mojang's hit sandbox game Minecraft made its Xbox debut on Xbox 360 four years ago today.
