Jens Bergensten has today announced that the Minecraft Beta 1.8 update will be delayed, so will not be released on September the 8^th as previously publicized.

Jens revealed the news alongside a new estimated release date on the social networking website Twitter. He commented that o The new good guess for a Beta 1.8 release date is 12th of September (this monday) =( *takes cover*o

To try to calm fans Jens added o a delayed patch is eventually good, a bad patch is bad foreo until the next patcho . Will such a short delay really effect the update? Comment your opinions below.