Boom! New update is live for the xbox and it is pretty slick! To get the update just fire up the game (with your box connected to the net of course!) and it will ask you to download it :D

If you havent tried it out you can grab it here: https://bit.ly/MinecraftXbox

You can find the whole change list for 360 below!

About Installing Snapshots (for PC only)

I have heard that people get some bugs in the snapshots that we put up on the blog and we think it may have to do with people “installing” it incorrectly. What you should do is just overwrite the whole minecraft.jar file with the snapshot one. To download a snapshot right click on the link and choose “save as”. To find the minecraft.jar file, fire up the launcher and hit Options. There you find the path to your minecraft-folder.

Here is the full changelist for latest Xbox update!

Features:-

Added Pistons & Sticky Pistons.

Added Stackable fences.

Added Shears – required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks.

TNT needs Flint and Steel or Redstone to detonate.

Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater.

New textures for Cobblestone and Brick.

Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from Downloadable Content skin packs.

Added lighting improvements (brought forward from 1.8.2 update) and snow & rain improvements.

Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list.

Added ban list functionality to allow players to self-ban from levels they feel contain offensive content.

Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus.

Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends).

Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display).

Changed the tooltip display setting to in-game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.

Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider.

On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80,

Added some more Tips & Trivia to the loading/saving screen display.

Added optional tutorial for Pistons and Redstone.

Added a self-building bridge to the castle using Pistons.

Added some sugar cane, cactii and clay to the world.

Added a few other things for players to discover.

Fixes:-