See everything revealed during Minecraft Live 2023

Minecraft Live has zoomed down the minecart tracks once again! If you missed the live show that aired from 5 pm UTC on Sunday October 15, then fear not! In the space of just a few words, we’re going to recap all the newest news, feature reveals, mob vote winner, and chicken-related incidents in non-visual glory.

KEY 1.21 FEATURES ANNOUNCED

Minecraft Live usually has a few secrets up its sleeves, and this year was no exception! Game director Agnes Larsson and a few Minecraft developers unveiled some of the key features heading to Minecraft as part of next year’s update. And wow did they have an adventure uncovering them! While next year’s update doesn’t have a name yet, Mojang is going to call it “1.21” for now, even though it’ll be coming midway through 2024. Yay, numbers!

Agnes and level designer Matthew “Moesh” Dryden stepped into one of the new structures being developed: the trial chamber! The trial chamber is a sprawling structure of corridors and rooms that are packed with traps, trial spawners, mobs, loot, and more. The trial chamber is procedurally generated, which means you’ll face a new challenge each time you enter! And thanks to the trial spawner, a cunning device which spews out mobs, the challenge level will adjust based on the number of adventurers in your party.

Agnes, game designer Cory Scheviak, and game developer Magnus Puig De La Bellacasa also met a playful (but dangerous) new mob! The breeze is a hostile mob that likes to leap dizzying circles around its opponent, and attack using the power of wind. Agnes and game artist Sarah Boeving also showed us some of the new decorative tuff and copper blocks, as well as copper bulbs, which can be toggled on and off using redstone pulses. We also saw crafters, which use redstone for automated crafting! Because can you ever have too many hanging signs?

STAR WARS RETURNS TO MINECRAFT!

During the show, Vu Bui got a visit from none other than R2D2! Apparently, a spot in the Jedi ranks has opened up, and it has my name on it! Fine, maybe it has yours on it too, but who can truly master the Force we will see on November 7 when the Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC lands on Minecraft Marketplace!

This DLC is set during the Clone Wars and you will train with Grand Master Yoda, Mace Windu, and the other Jedi as a young Padawan. Rise to the rank of Jedi Knight and set out on missions to biomes far, far away. Rumor has it you will battle galactic monsters, explore unchartered planets, and maybe even meet the dark side…! The exact details are for Jedi Knights only, so you will find out more once you learn how to swing your lightsaber.

As if that wasn’t exciting enough, everyone gets their own customizable lightsaber and droid! No doubt I will spend many moons creating my little droid buddy and trying on new Jedi robes too!

All that and plenty more fun can be found in the Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC on November 7. See you in hyperspace, young Padawan!

JOIN THE LEGO MINECRAFT BLOCK & BRICK CHALLENGE!

During Minecraft Live, we also kicked off the new Block & Brick Challenge with LEGO! Minecraft Creator @hannahxxrose and LEGO Master Model Builder Tristan Cain were tasked with building their ultimate Minecraft hideaway from the same prompts – in digital blocks and physical LEGO bricks. A whopping 80 hours, 30,340 LEGO bricks, and countless clever Minecraft tricks later, the seasonal builds were complete! Check out the video to see what they came up with and how similar (or different!) their hideouts turned out.

Create your own The Block & Brick challenges with your friends and continue building IRL with the LEGO Minecraft Pumpkin Farm. If you are in New York City, you can also see Tristain Cain’s full four-foot LEGO structure IRL from October 16 – 31 at the LEGO® Store Fifth Avenue.

PLANET EARTH III DLC

Minecraft Live also revealed that BBC Studios and Minecraft Education are teaming up once again to reimagine Earth’s most intriguing corners (and creatures!) into an explorable, blocky format!

Planet Earth III, created by BBC Earth, is appearing on screens next year, followed by the new DLC coming to both Minecraft Education and Minecraft Marketplace soon after! You’ll be able to play through some of our planet’s most extreme biomes, meet some of the show’s main characters, and delve deeper into the stories of Planet Earth III in the new DLC.

MINECRAFT IS TURNING 15!

It might feel like Minecraft’s blocky biomes have been around since the beginning of time, but Minecraft Live reminded us all that Minecraft is turning 15 next year! Together we’ve been crafting pickaxes (15 million of them!) discovering diamonds (6.7 million!), and slaying 15 million skeletons. Just recently Minecraft also crossed 300 million copies sold, a milestone no-one could have dreamed of when we were all building our first dirt houses!