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Minecraft's New Cushion Is Reinventing Pretty Much Everything
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- Mojang introduced cushions to Minecraft in a recent snapshot, allowing players to sit for the first time in the game’s history.
- Cushions are classified as entities rather than blocks, enabling placement at various heights and leading to innovative designs like gradual staircases and detailed furniture.
- Players discovered that cushions can be used for unique travel methods, effectively allowing teleportation by sitting on cushions lined up horizontally or vertically.
- These cushion-based travel techniques are experimental and may be adjusted or removed in future updates, but cushions also enhance aesthetic options, such as decorating ice boat roads.
- Beyond decoration and travel, cushions have inspired creative building and redstone engineering within the Minecraft community, sparking renewed enthusiasm for design innovation.
