Update [Thu 6th May, 2021 02:55 BST]: Minecraft Dungeons’ long-awaited cloud save feature is now available. This means that players can now save their progress in the cloud and play their heroes on the following devices: Switch, PS4, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
This update is part of the 1.8.8.0 patch for Minecraft Dungeons. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of the Minecraft website:
Minecraft Dungeons – Version 1.8.8.0 (May 5, 2021)
Cloud Backups:
The long-awaited Cloud Saves feature is now available in Minecraft Dungeons! With this update, you can now save your progress to the cloud, so you can collect and play your heroes on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
While the game prompts show how to upload and download heroes using Cloud Saves, you can check out the support article if you have any questions about the process.
Location:
- Introducing localization support for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese text and voiceovers for all platforms
- Improved font used on platforms already localized in Chinese
Fixes:
- Fixed one of the major crashes that could occur during gameplay
- Fixed a crash that could occur after creating a second lobby in a single session
- Fixed a crash that could occur when standing in Piglin Fungus Thrower clouds
- Fixed objects permanently falling off the edges of some tiles in Ancient Hunts
- Emote wheel is no longer accessible in local co-op
- Fixed players being unable to join online sessions after creating a new character
- Fixed a soft lock that could occur when opening Settings after viewing the Friends List
- Main menu can no longer be inadvertently navigated when using account login prompts
- Fixed text coming out of screen in multiple languages on various menu screens
- The prompt displayed when disconnecting a controller is now fully translated in all supported languages
- Clarified the descriptions of several enchantment effects (New wording in bold):
- Critical Strike
- Given critical hit chance
- Frozen
- Glow
- AX chance to spawn circular area that heals you and all allies inside The area
- Weakening
- Radiance
- AX chance to spawn circular area that heals you and all allies inside The area
- Reload shot
- Chill
- Cooling
- Frantic
- X offensive the rapidity
- As long as you are within X life points, your melee and ranged offensive speeds are increase
- Acrobat
- boss of the beast
- beast wave
- Critical Strike
Please continue to search for bugs you encounter on bugs.mojang.com. These reports are valuable for discovering new problems!
original article [Sat 1st May, 2021 06:55 BST]: Mojang’s dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons will receive a new update next week that will allow players to continue grinding and leveling up on all the devices they own.
Yes, from May 5th there will be ultimately be cloud save support – meaning you can continue playing your same Minecraft Dungeons save on any device that has that game on (including the Nintendo Switch).
This update follows cross-platform play, which was added to Minecraft Dungeons last November. This feature lets you play the game with friends on PlayStation, Xbox, and even Windows.
Is cloud save support something you’ve been waiting for Minecraft Dungeons to add? Leave a comment below.