Agnes Larsson

Agnes 'LadyAgnes' Larsson is a Mojang Studios employee who joined the crew working on. She was announced as a new team member on August 3, 2016, working on the Java Edition 1.11 'Exploration Update' and she was announced as the lead gameplay developer eventually in 2021. On March 3, 2021, she was promoted to Minecraft Vanilla Game Director. She aims to expand Java and Bedrock game editions whereas keeping the principles of game's inclusion and simplicity, like the gameplay mechanics of one block at a time, and also serves as a spokesperson for Mojang Studios, like holding Minecraft workshops for children.

Biography and career
Larsson was born in Sweden and comes from Falkenberg, a seaside city located in southwest Sweden. She earned a master's degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering in 2013. She was employed by 2 companies, Configura and Scania Group before joining Mojang Studios. Larsson led designs of new additions to Minecraft, such as icebergs, turtles and llamas. She is known for appearing in the Minecraft Live videos that show her and Jens Bergensten in a 2D type of Minecraft, and her goal is to create as much player happiness as possible using Minecraft updates, encompassing many gameplay styles. Larsson has a child and three cats, named Magnolia, Isacco and Gemina. In Minecraft Dungeons, a painting of her character on a church seems to be fancier than the others and it has a cat besides her. Agnes' Minecraft character also appears in the screenshot of Mojang's blog post about the Java Edition 16w43a snapshot, fishing in a river biome. During Minecraft Live 2020, Nir Vaknin, a Minecraft gameplay developer, tells that Agnes likes to make the roofs of her houses with wool.