Those who have played a considerable amount of multiplayer in Minecraft may have noticed that some text can be modified using color and formatting options like bold and italics.

Minecraft's brand new World of Color update is now available for download, Mojang has announced. The update includes quite a number of new colored blocks, colorable items, parrots and more.

The source code library, which is said to be the heart of the world's most popular game " Minecraft ", has been made open source and will be released sequentially.