Minecraft Live 2020

Minecraft Live 2020 is an upcoming live event set to be held on October 3, 2020, from 16:00 UTC. Originally, it was planned that Minecraft Festival, a real-world event similar to the original MINECON events, would occur; however, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Minecraft Festival was pushed back to 2022.

Mob vote
For the first time since MINECON Earth 2017, watchers will able to vote for a new mob to be added into the game in a future update.

1.18 announcement
It is expected that a new major version of the game, 1.18 will be announced. The version preceding this is 1.16.2.