Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Update "Leaked"

Mojang said Minecraft 1.8, the long-awaited Adventure Update, would possibly be ready for prime time by today, and, in a backwards kind of way, it is. The officially leaked Adventure Update is a download away.

Minecraft designer Jens Bergensten has been providing tentative updates about the Adventure Update's launch via Twitter, and it appears he grew sick of speculating when 1.8 would be ready and decided to take matters into his own hands. With Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's blessing, the Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Update "leak" is now available.

See what you'll be getting in the official trailer below:

Here's a rundown on some of the features the Adventure Update will be packing:

-- NPC villages
-- Randomly generated dungeons
-- New biome code
-- Fully working Creative Mode (and individual admins can enter Creative Mode on a Survival Mode server if they choose)
-- Critical hits
-- Sprinting and sprint jump
-- More farming options
-- Improved sunsets
-- Vines
-- New pig models
-- More dynamic mob-to-mob interactions
-- Animals will flee when attacked
-- Hunger Bar to manage how food heals
-- New lighting
-- Mineshafts and cobwebs
-- Experience orbs (earned when monsters are defeated)
-- Rivers and oceans
-- New mob: Endermen

(Thanks Joystiq)