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Roblox Round-Up: Summer 2025 Edition 🌞⚙️

Roblox’s creator economy is on a tear this season, and you can feel it in every corner of the platform—from big-name IP crossovers to tiny QoL scripts devs sling on GitHub. Here’s everything worth shouting about right now:

An IP Gold Rush Begins
Roblox has flipped the licensing playbook on its head with a self-serve hub that lets brands hand out official adaptation rights. Netflix, Lionsgate, Sega and Kodansha jumped in on day one, so expect “Stranger Things” haunted houses and “Attack on Titan” wall-runs popping up in your Discover tab any minute. Fortnite’s UEFN just got serious competition.

Studio & In-Experience Auto-Setup
The latest beta lets you rig, skin and cage avatars right inside a live game session—no Studio round-trip needed. Pair that with beefier SavePlaceAsync calls, the new docs-site search, and native video captures and you’ve got the smoothest dev loop Roblox has ever shipped.

2025 Creator Roadmap: All-In on AI
Roblox’s spring roadmap teased Server Authority (finally!), Custom Matchmaking, stylesheet-driven UI themes and a revamped revenue dashboard—but the headline is generative everything. Assistant is becoming a code-review copilot, and the new Cube 3D mesh API opens the door to text-to-prop pipelines you’ll actually ship in production.

GDC 2025: Cube 3D & Text Gen API Land in Beta
At Game Developers Conference, Roblox doubled down: Cube 3D went open-source, letting devs spawn meshes from prompts, and a Text Generation API now whips up NPC dialogue on demand. If you weren’t convinced Roblox wants AI to be your in-house junior dev, you are now.

Community Scripts Keep It Human
Not feeling those expressive “dynamic heads”? The open-source DynamicToClassicHead module rolls your avatars back to the classic decal look with one workspace flag. Love that Roblox’s most-used polish often comes from the community itself.

Tennis Zero Takes Over + Fresh Codes
Anime spikes meet topspin in Tennis Zero, the latest charts crusher. New codes (SORRYFORSHUTDOWN, 100KLIKES, and more) are spitting out Flow/Style spins and Yen—grab them before ranked ladders launch and cement your ace record.

That’s your July pulse check. Keep creating, keep scripting, and watch that IP hub—because the next blockbuster Roblox experience might just be yours.

Minecraft Digest: Copper Dreams & Movie Memes 🪓🎵

If you thought summer meant slowing down, Mojang missed the memo. From movie tie-ins to a copper-crazy preview build, here’s the hottest Overworld intel:

Marketplace Pass July 2025 Drop
Nineteen new creations hit Realms Plus/Marketplace Pass, led by “Aquaculture” (snorkels plus 59 fish variants) and “One Slime Block Adventure,” a platformer that turns every bounce into bonkers parkour. Perfect beach-day fodder.

“Lava Chicken” Soars from Screen to Disc
Jack Black’s 34-second screamer from The Minecraft Movie is now an in-game music disc—hyper-remixed by Hyper Potions. Beat a Chicken Jockey (0.25–0.49 % drop) to snag it and own history’s shortest Billboard hit… in block form.

Bedrock Preview 1.21.100.23: Copper Everything
Enable Experiments and you’ll find Copper Tools, Copper Chests, and yes—the fan-elected Copper Golem. It auto-sorts up to 16 stacks at once, basically vanilla’s first legit storage robot. Expect the full 1.21 rollout later this year.

Wax On, Golem On
Mojang’s fresh how-to explains it all: craft a Copper Block + Carved Pumpkin, then wax the golem with honeycomb so he doesn’t oxidize. Farm bees, stash loot, celebrate never clicking those hoppers again.

Hotfix 1.21.94: Tiny Patch, Big Wins
Dropped July 14, the update crushes a slew of Bedrock bugs—Marketplace entities reverting, split-screen inventory glitches, and torch glow that blinded half the player-base. Plus, it formally adds that “Lava Chicken” disc for everyone not on preview builds.

MCC Season 5 Ignites the Esports Scene
Noxcrew’s beloved Minecraft Championship kicked off its fifth season on May 3 with fresh maps and creator rosters. Ten teams, eight mini-games, one Dodgebolt finale—it’s still the grassroots esports template everyone tries to copy. Sapnap fans, place your bets.

Whether you’re jamming to poultry metal or ushering in the copper age, there’s plenty to grind before 1.21 drops in full. See you in the mines—wax brush in hand.