To row a boat you have to hold down both A and D simultaneously. Movement on a PC is the same as the PC version - W,A,S,D for movement and mouse to look around. They’ve used the PE graphics as well - and obviously if you’re playing on a PC or Win10 tablet then it takes advantage of the greater processing power to turn all the graphics options up to maximum: World creation will be very familiar to anyone who’s played the Pocket Edition:

Presumably these will be Win10-specific Realms? You can play multiplayer with up to 7 other friends locally or via Xbox Live there will be a patch released shortly that will allow you also to play with Pocket Edition players on LAN as well. You have the option to add friends by entering their Xbox Live ID. When you click on play, the world selection page is a little different from Minecraft PE: There are a handful of free skins, but most of them are locked unless you want to pay for them. The description in the Win10 app store says it has in-app purchases - these are the optional skin packs. Once you load it up, it quickly becomes obvious that it’s based off the code for the Minecraft Pocket Edition: If you don’t already have one, it’ll prompt you to create one for free.

The second thing is that before you can play you have to have an Xbox Live ID. The first thing to note is that when you install it, the app description states that your existing PC/Mac saves/worlds won’t be compatible with Win10 Minecraft Beta that’s because it doesn’t use Java. It’s still in Beta at the moment, but owners of Minecraft can install it for free (it’s otherwise £7.49/$10 during the Beta period). Minecraft PC/Mac players will have noticed that Minecraft updated to 1.8.8 this week - and Minecraft for Win10 also came out about the same time.

After humming and hahing over it for a bit and checking reviews to see how well my various games and programs would work under Win10 I opted to go for the upgrade and thus far I’ve had no problems - everything runs just fine. Windows 10 came out at the end of last month Windows 7 and 8 users were offered free upgrades automatically.

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