The release of Minecraft content in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is just around the corner - SSBU Update 9.0.0 is planned for October 14. We got lots of information about the abilities of Steve and Alex from a big introduction video by Masahiro Sakurai. And now we get some additional (and very exciting) details.
Along with a new playable character Steve (Alex, Zombie, or Enderman - depending on which skin you prefer), Smash Ultimate gets a new stage. It’s quite unusual because the developers took the biome system from Minecraft and prepared six different biomes for the SSBU stage Minecraft World. They are:
- Plains
- Birch Forest
- Savanna
- Taiga
- Snowy Tundra
- Stone Shore
First, we had the information that the game chooses a random biome when you start playing in Minecraft World. But a tweet from the official Japanese account of Super Smash Bros. explained - players can choose a specific biome by pressing various button combinations. Thanks to PushDustIn we have a translation: