Minecraft: Console Edition Holiday Update released with mobs, blocks, items, mash-up packs and more

Mojang today released a big update for all console editions of Minecraft. Minecraft: Console Edition Holiday Update features new mobs, blocks, items, mash-up packs, skins, maps and more. They have also revamped The End with End Cities, End Ships and a complete gamechanger known as Elytra.

Here’s the full changelog:

• New mobs: Shulker, Stray Skeleton, Husk Zombie, Skeleton Trap Horses
• New Blocks: Chorus Flower, Chorus Plant, Dragon Head, End Gateway, End Rod, Purpur Block,
• Purpur Pillar, Purpur Stairs, Purpur Slab
• New Items: Chorus Fruit, Chorus Fruit, Dragons’s Breath, Elytra, End Crystal, Lingering Potion, Water Splash Potion, Popped Chorus Fruit, Potion of Luck, Tipped Arrow; Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, and Dark Oak boats
• New Status Effects: Levitation, Luck
• The End: significant changes to The End dimension – End Cities, End Ship
• Crafting: UI updated to allow crafting fireworks, similarly to how Banners are crafted
• Brewing: changed to include a slot for Blaze Powder
• Tutorial: new Tutorial world, including tutorials for Banners and Elytra

You can download the update from the respective stores.