Minecraft Beta 1.6 Out “Next Week”

Notch has today announced on his blog that the update to Beta 1.6 for Minecraft will be “next week”.

Apparently the main aspect that the update will bring comes in the form of maps; although the update will also bring a lot of bug fixes. Notch commented “Oh, and 1.6 is coming next week.”

Notch also spoke about the Nether in multiplayer, which is one of the bigger fixes and he explained that “I can move back and forth from the normal world to the nether in SMP as many times as I want now. :D”

Are you happy another update is so close or would you of liked to wait for more features? Comment below.