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 the style of a rock star create rain. Notch announced that Minecraft beta update 1.5 will bring rain to the game in a series tweets that he tweeted this morning. This could have potential gameplay implications such as watering crops lighting fires and filling small holes and even moistening wolves. Also, "Moistening Wolves", is the name of our new indie noise-rock group.

Notch included a picture that shows the effects of weather at two biomes bordering each other.  all about minecraft servers and minecraft in general This shows off an imaginary world where two distinct rain systems hang out and be allies. To see if this kind of thing could be replicated in real life, we called our local meteorologist. He literally exploded.