{"id":69965,"date":"2019-08-31T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/minecraft-earth-closed-beta-goes-live-on-android-in-five-cities\/"},"modified":"2019-08-31T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:07:28","slug":"minecraft-earth-closed-beta-goes-live-on-android-in-five-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/minecraft-earth-closed-beta-goes-live-on-android-in-five-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Earth closed beta goes live on Android in five cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the beta for Minecraft Earth (think the building concepts of Minecraft mashed up with the real-world wandering\/augmented reality\/collecting concepts of Pok\u00e9mon GO) first went live back in July<\/a>, it did so with a catch or two: it only worked on iOS, and only players in Seattle or London were actually able to play.<\/p>\n

The beta pool is expanding dramatically this morning, with players on Android finally being invited to jump in. Meanwhile, the region locks have expanded over the past few weeks to include Tokyo, Stockholm and Mexico City (along with Seattle and London).<\/p>\n

Curiously, those new Android users will immediately get access to a fledgling feature that iOS players haven\u2019t: the in-game currency, rubies. Rubies can be earned or bought, and allow players to buy more build plates upon which they can piece together their blocky creations. In a blog post<\/a> on the beta expansion, the company promises that any rubies acquired during the beta will follow the player into the eventual public release, and that iOS support for rubies is coming \u201cvery soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, you can\u2019t just hop in the Google Play store, hit download and get to building. It\u2019s still a closed beta, so you\u2019ll have to sign up and be invited in<\/a> before you\u2019ll be able to start.<\/p>\n

We went hands-on with an early build of Minecraft Earth right after it was announced \u2014 check out our early impressions here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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When the beta for Minecraft Earth (think the building concepts of Minecraft mashed up with the real-world wandering\/augmented reality\/collecting concepts of Pok\u00e9mon GO) first went live back in July, it did so with a catch or two: it only worked on iOS, and only players in Seattle or London were actually able to play. The… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t