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History of Minecraft Festival
 * 1) On MINECON Live 2019, it was announced to be hosted on Sep 25-27, 2020
 * 2) On March 5th, 2020, it was announced to be postponed to an unspecified date, with consistancy, it would most likely be 2021, it also said that in replacement, there would be a Minecraft Live 2020
 * 3) On September 3rd, 2020, it was announced to talk place in 2021, contrary to speculation.

1.17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! User:Humiebee/Java Edition 1.17

1.17, the first release of an unknown update, is a major update to with no set release date. It revamps mountains and fixes bugs related to lag spikes.

Gameplay
''Note:In this section, this assumes that Combat would be updated in 1.17, it is likely that it may be added in an update such as 1.18.
 * Attributes
 * Enchantments
 * Cleaving.
 * Shields
 * New shield indicator.
 * Sneaking, by default, automatically activates the shield.
 * Sneaking, by default, automatically activates the shield.

Blocks and Items

 * Snowier Snow
 * Players can sometimes sink into the block.
 * Snowy Stone
 * Snow on top of stone gives the stone a different texture, like the Grass Block.
 * New Stone Variants?
 * Looking closely at the video and you see 3 stone textures, the original, the one at the surface, also the snowy stone texture, texture similar to gravel and the final one, a deepstone, texture similar to blackstone.

Mobs

 * Goats
 * Spawn in mountain biomes.
 * Flee from players.
 * Even More Mobs??
 * In Minecraft Live 2020, there will be a mob vote, similar to the MINECON Earth 2017 biome vote. Since this event is taking place in October 3rd, 2020, the new mob may be added to this update

Gameplay

 * Combat?
 * Revamped.
 * As these tests are currently at the end of Phase 1 and there will be Phase 2 only, it may be added in 1.17/1.18.

Biomes

 * Mountains
 * Revamped.
 * Inhabited by Goats.
 * Contains snowier snow and snowy stone.
 * May contain new stone variants.

World Generation

 * Mountains
 * Looks more realistic.
 * Have sharper and more jagged peaks.
 * Improved terrain generation.

Blocks and Items

 * Snow
 * If on top of stone, it becomes snowy stone.
 * Stone
 * If snow falls on top of stone, it becomes snowy stone.

Mobs

 * Hoglins
 * Improved pathfinding.
 * Piglins
 * Improved pathfinding.
 * Piglin Brutes
 * Improved pathfinding.
 * Zoglins
 * Improved pathfinding.
 * Villagers
 * Unlocking a trade no longer freezes/crashes the server.

Announcement
1.17 will most likely not be announced until a snapshot releases (similar to 1.15), it is however, possible for 1.17 to be announced at Minecraft Live 2020. Interestingly, certain devices in are going to be discontinued in October 2020 but this may or may not have anything to to with 1.17.