I just started playing 1.8 pre-release. It's quite buggy and hogs up your computer's resources, but it's fun to test out. Link to official forum thread: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/214-want-to-play-18-early-heres-how/ How to get 1.8: 1) Back up your .minecraft folder 2) Download a vanilla 1.7.3 .minecraft 3) locate your .minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar and delete it 4) Download the 1.8 pre-release minecraft.jar 5) place the 1.8 minecraft.jar in the .minecraft/bin folder Enjoy! Post interesting screenshots here!