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This article is about future updates. For previous updates, see Version history.

This page is about features that have been announced by official Mojang employees.

Near future

Version Planned changes Planned release date
Next minor versions
Beta 1.8 "Adventure Update"
  • Adventure update, to flesh out the game a bit and make exploration and combat more rewarding.[1][2] Note that this is not Adventure Mode.[3]
  • New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/new generated areas.[4]
  • Shift+Click on items will work correctly.[10]
  • Labels for items will be added.[11]
  • Multiplayer server list.[12]
    • Improved server join screen: The server join screen will feature a list of servers[13]
  • Spike blocks, Jeb initially considered Spike Pistons, but then decided to make a Spike block that can be pushed by the Sticky Piston [14]
  • Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up.[15]
  • At least one new mob.[16]
  • New improved lighting — day/night cycles will not require chunk updates.[18] Lighting will be updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.[19]
    • Warmer light from torches.[20]
  • Possibly Experience Orbs. Has not been confirmed by Notch, but is a possible explanation for the Twitter clues he's been leaving.
  • Other secret projects.[21]
  • Redstone circuits not working after time set (x) glitch going to be fixed in SMP.[22]
  • NPC Villages[23]
  • New combat Mechanics[23]
  • New texture for Moss Stone[24]
  • Possibly a new farming method/item[25]. This could be the Cocoa Beans tree Jeb was talking about.[23]
  • Different game modes.[26]
    • Limited flying in Creative mode
  • The ability to allow moderators to enter creative mode in SMP.[27]
  • The ability to store multiple food items more efficiently in inventory.[28]
  • Sliders for field of view and gamma in video options.[29][30]
  • New launcher (Possibly).[31]
  • User placed leaf blocks won't decay.[32]
  • Watermelons to be added?(Unconfirmed) http://i53.tinypic.com/21d53j9.png
  • New Sounds and some changes, such as minecart sounds and shear sounds, also change in the sound of rain. [33]
"Will take quite some time to finish" as of June 27th[34]

"As soon as we know, we'll announce it"[35]

Next development phase
"Full version" 1.0 November 11[36] (Template:Releasedate days from now)
(Note: Date may be slipped for MinecraftCon) [1]

Game content

Items/Blocks

Feature Description
Animal Persistence Jeb mentioned on twitter that all animals will be more persistent "soon" [37]
Wool Regrowth on Sheep Jeb mentioned on twitter that once animals are persistant, wool regrowth on sheep will be necessary [37]
Capture the Flag Announced on Notch's Blog.[38]
More Mobs More mobs have been confirmed for addition into Minecraft.[39][40]
Food Meter & Hunger This will add hunger as an optional gameplay aspect. Food will also be stackable after this is added. Announced on Notch's Twitter[41] and referenced by Jeb's Twitter.[42]
Bow Enhancements Announced on Notch's Twitter.[43]
Improvements to Combat Notch replied to a comment on Twitter, saying that combat is currently very "lacking" and needs to be more fun.[44] Jeb stated during his Dreamhack presentation, that critical hits will be added, and such things as doing double damage when attacking from above.[45]
Modding API Official modding support. Agreed on by Notch at Get Satisfaction,[46] This will include full source code, be free [47] and unobfuscated.[48]
Mounting/Controlling Mobs The ability to mount and control mobs. Notch confirmed it was planned but will take time at Get Satisfaction.[49]
Recent SMP Server Connections Menu A menu to be implemented to allow players to see what servers they have connected to recently, so they may reconnect. Notch said "WILCO" meaning "will comply" on Get Satisfaction.[50]
Rain Re-grows Flowers A community member asked if rain would grow flowers back. Jeb said that yes it will and he wants to implement it.[51]
Minecarts as lava boats Notch has suggested making minecarts act like boats when placed in lava.[52]
An In-Game Way to Acquire Apples Jeb mentioned on twitter that he'd like apples to spawn in the game world somehow.[53]
Use for Books Notch has hinted that with the use of location in Maps he might be able to enable writing in Books in the future.[54]
Custom Paintings Notch has said that Custom Paintings may feature in a future update.[55]
Stereoscopic and/or Green/Magenta 3D Notch said he would add more options for the 3D mode.[56]
More Powerful Powered Minecarts Notch indicated on Twitter that he wants to make Powered Minecarts better since Powered Rails made them relatively useless.[57]
Audio Loops Audio loops have not yet been added to the game, but may be played when the player is in a specific location (In caves, woods, sea and beside a waterfall).[citation needed]
Sky / Floating Island Dimension A floating island dimension in the sky that currently "performs well, [but] looks ugly" (The sky dimension's terrain renderer will be improved). However, he said he had to fix the Nether first.[58] Confirmed to be in a future update.[59]
Friends list The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[60][61]
Multithreading The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[60]
Limited maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[60]
Creative mode The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[60]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[60]
Special biomes Jeb stated during his Dreamhack presentation that they were planning on adding more reasons for going to specific biomes.[45]
Stronger tools Jeb stated during his dreamhack presentation that he was working on something stronger than diamond tools. He did however say that this was not a new set of tools, but rather something that could be used to enhance your tools to make them stronger.[45]
More content for The Nether During his dreamhack presentations, Jeb stated that Notch thinks The Nether "isn't interesting enough",

and therefore wants to add more content to it. Notch also hinted to this on twitter.[45][62]

Flying The ability to fly.(Confirmed)[63][64]
NPC Villages Notch said in a Tumblr post that NPC Villages could be in a future update.[16]
Official Support for High Resolution Texture Packs Described by Jeb as "on my todo list".[65]
FOV Slider FOV (or Field Of Vision) will be able to be adjusted using a slider in the options screen.[66]
Feature Description
Lanterns Originally planned to be introduced in the Halloween Update. This feature was delayed because of the lack of time and will be implemented in a future update.[67] Lanterns were "on hold,"[68] though Notch may be working on them again.[69]
Food Jeb tweeted that he will add more food, but golems, tents, elevators, emotes, "critters", dragons, class leveling systems, and unicorns are unlikely to be added.[70]
Cobweb blocks These blocks were added in 1.5, but can currently only be obtained through inventory editing.
Display cases/racks Notch has stated several times on Twitter that he intends to add some way to display items such as armor and weapons.[citation needed]
Fence gates Notch has stated he wants to add proper gates for fences.[71]
Additional Music Discs When Beta 1.6 was released, Notch stated that he had added support for over 15 new songs for the Jukebox, but had not yet made the records for them.
The ability to name Chests Notch has stated he will add this feature.[72]
Cocoa Bean plant Jeb Said during his Dreamhack presentation that cocoa trees are pending.[45]

New platforms/releases

  • On the 28th of March, it was announced that work has started on the mobile version of Minecraft.[73] It will be released first on to the Sony Xperia Play, and later to other Android/iOS devices.[74][75]
  • Minecraft mobile was demoed at E3.[76] On the 25th of May 2011 a demonstration video was uploaded on Mojang's YouTube channel
  • The full version of Minecraft is planned to be released on the 11th of November,[36] which is in Template:Releasedate days.
  • On June 6, it was announced that Minecraft is going to be released on the Xbox 360[77][78]

References

  1. a b Post E3 Info Dump: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/6385865216/post-e3-information-dump
  2. 1.7 should be the adventure update: http://twitter.com/notch/status/74910025411330048
  3. 1.7 not Adventure Mode: http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/81798155326341120
  4. New chunk object(s): http://twitter.com/notch/status/75480150162157568
  5. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/83453735799504896
  6. http://thebohage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=144&start=0
  7. http://i.imgur.com/qvAsa.jpg
  8. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ie7j5/notch_shares_a_new_18_photo_via_google/c23116p
  9. http://i.imgur.com/pqYck.jpg
  10. Shift+Click Fix: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77322104554524672
  11. Clay bug fixed/Labels for Items: http://twitter.com/notch/status/76571168567595008
  12. Multiplayer server list: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77324026405584896
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/i49go/notch_wants_a_picture_and_a_couple_of_words_for/c20s6t2
  14. http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/78554788094160896
  15. http://twitter.com/notch/status/77554421596295168
  16. a b Trickled info about 1.8: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7009276212/trickling-information-about-the-adventure-update
  17. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/File:Silverfish.png
  18. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/79526884454567936
  19. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/79527641824231424
  20. Colored lights?: http://twitter.com/notch/status/79644664902324224
  21. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/80963675770458112
  22. http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/81387002087485440
  23. a b c Adventure Update Information on Blog: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7009276212/trickling-information-about-the-adventure-update
  24. Moss stone update in 1.8 http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/111-18-updates-textures-more/
  25. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/87954577445486593
  26. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/85801912754118658
  27. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/85802201267707904
  28. http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/85807386228563968
  29. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/86087721147314176
  30. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/86091621116026880
  31. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/86500995181449216
  32. https://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/86780517617385472
  33. http://twitter.com/#!/C418/status/87958172047912962
  34. Some Words on 1.7 and 1.8: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/6969771554/back-in-the-office-and-some-words-on-1-7-and-1-8
  35. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ib927/new_blog_post_about_18_by_notch/c22d2pt
  36. a b c Full version: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4423138657/11-11-11
  37. a b Animal Persistence: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/76647002317930496
  38. New features after release: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/121044061/in-the-spirit-of-the-new-economy
  39. Jeb Interested in New Mobs: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77323508891385856
  40. Possibly More Interactive Mobs: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77324091174035456
  41. Food Meter: http://twitter.com/notch/status/39722654491611136
  42. Hunger: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/47281587301265409
  43. Bow Confirmation: http://twitter.com/notch/status/56012923809705984
  44. Improvements to Combat: http://twitter.com/notch/status/67532780568969217
  45. a b c d e Jeb's Dreamhack presentation http://www.justin.tv/citricsquid/b/288355296
  46. Modding API: Modding API
  47. The cost of the mod API: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4955682775/the-cost-of-the-mod-api
  48. Jeb about obfuscation: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hvkmo/attribution_of_the_piston_mod_in_vanilla_minecraft/c1yvc32
  49. Mounting/Controlling Mobs: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/mounts
  50. Recent SMP Server Connections Menu: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/menu_for_recently_connected_smp_servers
  51. Rain re-grows flowers: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/58429890424352768
  52. Lava Boats: http://twitter.com/notch/status/59722192555999232
  53. Apples Should Spawn Somehow: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77323689200336896
  54. Books: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4988431144/the-maps
  55. Custom Paintings: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4988431144/the-maps
  56. Stereoscopic 3D: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68577097769168896
  57. Powered Minecarts more powerful: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68718430144053248
  58. Floating Island Dimension: http://twitter.com/notch/status/70938915862884352
  59. Sky Dimension confirmed: http://twitter.com/notch/status/71249283520802817
  60. a b c d e Minecraft Documentary 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8mxU1eFhw#t=340s
  61. Friends List confirmed: http://twitter.com/notch/status/77555436370407424
  62. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/77555800532463616
  63. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/84361767962161152
  64. http://i.imgur.com/KuPO5.png
  65. http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/85807514939179008
  66. http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/86087721147314176 FOV Slider: http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/86087721147314176]
  67. Lantern: http://twitter.com/notch/status/22743846228070400
  68. http://twitter.com/notch/status/77550862813233152
  69. Lantern Lighting Idea: http://twitter.com/notch/status/79798069356527616
  70. More food: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/55529081508347905
  71. Gates for fences: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/gates_for_fences
  72. Ability to Name Chests: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ep8xd/i_tried_to_do_this_but_was_left_disappointed/c19v72
  73. Mobile Version: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4159257708/full-steam-ahead-captain
  74. Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34788/Android_Minecraft_Coming_To_Xperia_Play_First.php
  75. Image of Mobile Minecraft Played on an Xperia: http://twitpic.com/529isk
  76. Demo at E3 Announced: http://mojang.com/2011/05/25/minecraft-pocket-edition/
  77. Minecraft for XBox 360!: http://twitter.com/notch/status/77815610360348672
  78. Minecraft coming to Xbox 360: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEK12osJE_0
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