Minecraft Live 2020

Minecraft Live 2020 was a live event 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. The live event streamed on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Minecraft.net.

Community Pre-Show
There was a 20-minute Community Pre-Show right before the main event which consisted of content creators expressing about Minecraft.

Update announcement
Like MINECON Live 2019, there was an announcement relating to the next major update, similarly to how the Nether Update was announced at MINECON Live 2019, with other major updates in the years before. Unlike the last years though, the announcement was held at the beginning of the show. The update that was announced was Caves & Cliffs.

Mob Vote
Mobs from and  were voted on to be added to Minecraft. For the second time, watchers were able to vote for a new mob to be added into the game in a future update. The first time this happened was in MINECON Earth 2017.

Each mob received its own video justifying its inclusion.

The mobs that were on the vote were the, and the.


 * Mooblooms would spawn in s and would interact with bees in some way.s would also be added.
 * Iceologers would spawn in and hurl ice clouds at the player.
 * Glow Squids would spawn in the in dark areas, illuminating them. Their texture would glow like an Enderman's eyes, but not actually emit light. They ended up being the winner.

Failing mobs are less likely to be added to the game in the future, but they still do have a chance to be implemented in the future.

Results
Voting took place in two rounds. The losing mob, the Moobloom, was eliminated from consideration in the second round. The winner of the the second and final round was the Glow Squid.

Videos
Videos can be found here.

Mob Vote Controversy
Many fans have pointed out that the mob vote outcome may have been influenced by popular Minecraft content creator Dream, who said in now-deleted tweets that he would follow anyone who proves they voted for the Glow Squid. At the time of the mob vote, Dream had nearly 1 million Twitter followers. This caused a backlash as some of the players felt the outcome of the mob vote was unfair, and that Dream had manipulated fans into voting Glow Squid. This resulted in Helen Zbihlyj making a poll on whether or not to abandon votes in future events.