Minecraft Beta Update 1.5 to Include Weather Effects

Since everyone knows that Minecraft's raked in a cool $33 million to date, Notch has taken it on himself to in true rock star fashion, make it rain. In a series of Tweets this morning, Notch revealed that Minecraft beta update 1.5 will bring precipitation to the game, which could be a game-changing feature, such as watering crops, setting off fires, filling small holes and moistening wolves. Minecraft servers In addition, "Moistening Wolves" is the exact name of our brand new indie noise-rock band.

Notch included an image of the weather effects that occur at the borders of two game biomes, revealing an imaginary world where distinct snow and rain systems are allowed to be friends and hang out. We contacted our local meteorologist to find out whether this was a phenomenon that could be happening in real life, and he literally was exploding.