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This article is about future updates for the PC version. For the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition Upcoming Features. 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 major version
Beta 1.8 "Adventure Update"

Known as the "Adventure Update", meant to flesh out the game a bit and make exploration and combat more rewarding.[1][2] Note that this is not Adventure Mode.[3][4]

Fixes and Changes:

  • Shift+Click on items will work correctly.[5]
  • Labels for items will be added.[6]
  • Redstone circuits not working after /time set x glitch going to be fixed in SMP.[7]
  • User placed leaf blocks won't decay.[8]
  • Clouds won't go through buildings anymore.[9][10]
  • Rain and snow will now render faster.[11]
  • Cloud movement syncs with the time.[12]
  • Ghast attack sounds will be fixed in SMP.[13]
  • Skeletons now hold full-size bows.[14] (found at 7:00)
    • Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes to the bow, instead of above the head.

Features:

Graphics / UI / Audio:

  • New improved lightingday/night cycles will not require chunk updates.[79] Lighting will be updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.[80]
  • Warmer light from torches.[81]
  • Moonlight is blue.[12]
  • New texture for Moss Stone.[82]
  • Sliders for field of view and gamma in video options.[83][84][85]
  • Redesigned HUD, including two new features, food and experience bars.[86]
    • Killing a mob gives you tiny flashing Experience Orbs that add to your experience.[12] (around 19:35)
  • New launcher.[87][88]
    • Possibly a web Applet launcher.[89]
  • A lot of new sounds and some changes, such as minecart sounds and shear sounds, also a change in the sound of rain.[90][91]
  • New particle effects.[93]
    • Performing a critical hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' to fly.[12](around 4:45 in)[40](Around 18:54 in)
    • Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.[20][12](about 21:54 in)
  • The ability to see the world seed when pressing F3.[94]
  • A new main menu background.[12] (around 2:10 minutes in)
  • The version in the main menu will be in the lower left, instead of the current upper left.[12] (around 2:10 minutes in)

Multiplayer:

  • Multiplayer server list.[95][96]
  • Improved server join screen: The server join screen will feature a list of servers.[97]
  • Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up.[98]
  • The ability to allow moderators to enter creative mode in SMP.[99]

Modding:

  • Modding Support.[51]
    • Including easier changing of the max level (map) height.[100]
Soon. In a couple of weeks. May be split into two updates.[101]; still unfinished, according to Notch[102]
Beta 1.9
  • "Nether update"[12] (around 31:00 in)
After Beta 1.8
Nightly Builds
Beta 1.8+
  • Access to nightly builds.[103]
After Beta 1.8
Next development phase
Full version 1.0
  • Full version release date.[104]
November 11[104] (Template:Releasedate days from now)
(Note: Date may be slipped for MinecraftCon)[1]

Game content

Feature Description
Animal Persistence Jeb mentioned on twitter that all animals will be more persistent "soon"[105]
Wool Regrowth on Sheep Jeb mentioned on twitter that once animals are persistant, wool regrowth on sheep will be necessary[105]
Capture the Flag Announced on Notch's Blog.[106]
More Mobs More mobs have been confirmed for addition into Minecraft.[107][108]
Bow Enhancements Announced on Notch's Twitter.[109]
Improvements to Combat Notch replied to a comment on Twitter, saying that combat is currently very "lacking" and needs to be more fun.[110] Jeb stated during his Dreamhack presentation, that critical hits will be added, and such things as doing double damage when attacking from above.[111]
Modding API Official modding support,[112] with full, unobfuscated[113] source code, for free.[114]
Mounting/Controlling Mobs The ability to mount and control mobs. Notch confirmed it was planned but will take time at Get Satisfaction.[115]
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.[116]
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.[117]
Minecarts as lava boats Notch has suggested making minecarts act like boats when placed in lava.[118]
Ingame Way to Acquire Apples Jeb mentioned on twitter that he'd like apples to spawn in the game world somehow.[119]
The ability to write in Books Notch has hinted that with the use of location in Maps he might be able to enable writing in Books in the future.[120]
Custom Paintings Notch has said that Custom Paintings may feature in a future update.[121]
Stereoscopic and/or Green/Magenta 3D Notch said he would add more options for the 3D mode.[122]
More Powerful Powered Minecarts Notch indicated on Twitter that he wants to make Powered Minecarts better since Powered Rails made them relatively useless.[123]
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.[124] Confirmed to be in a future update.[125]
Friends list The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[126][127]
Multithreading The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[126]
Limited maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[126]
Creative mode The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[126]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[126]
Special biomes Jeb stated during his Dreamhack presentation that they were planning on adding more reasons for going to specific biomes.[111]
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.[111]
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.[111][128]

Flying The ability to fly.(Confirmed)[129][130]
NPC Villages First stated in a Tumblr post by Notch, since then confirmed to be released in Beta 1.8.[31]
Official Support for High Resolution Texture Packs Described by Jeb as "on my to-do list".[131]
FOV Slider FOV (or Field Of Vision) will be able to be adjusted using a slider in the options screen.[132]
Dual-wielding Jeb stated that Notch is working on dual-wielding of items.[9]
Stronghold Bosses Jeb said that stronghold bosses were a possibility.[133]

Items/Blocks

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.[134] Lanterns were "on hold,"[135] though Notch may be working on them again.[136]
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.[137]
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.[138]
Fence gates Notch has stated he wants to add proper gates for fences.[139]
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.[140]
Cocoa Bean plant Jeb Said during his Dreamhack presentation that cocoa trees are pending.[111]

Upcoming platforms/releases

  • On the 28th of March, it was announced that work has started on the mobile version of Minecraft.[141] It was released first on the Sony Xperia Play, and will arrive later to other Android/iOS devices.[142][143]
  • The full version of Minecraft is planned to be released on the 11th (maybe 18th) of November,[104] which is in Template:Releasedate days.
  • On June 6, it was announced that Minecraft is going to be released on the Xbox 360.[144][145]

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. 46 lines of new features: http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/8NVbPL2T6qA
  5. Shift+Click Fix: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77322104554524672
  6. Clay bug fixed/Labels for Items: http://twitter.com/notch/status/76571168567595008
  7. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/81387002087485440
  8. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/86780517617385472
  9. a b http://minetimes.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/interview-mit-jeb-ihr-konntet-die-fragen-stellen/
  10. http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/make_clouds_collide_with_blocks/
  11. http://twitter.com/notch/status/98754886522511360
  12. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa http://www.justin.tv/fdoke/b/293539704
  13. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/105545861811019776
  14. a b http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/08/27/pax-minecraft-new-updates-commentary
  15. Now 160 recipes: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/103445622052503552
  16. a b http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/0/02/BrickStoneBrickSlabs.png
  17. a b http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/a/af/BrickStoneBrickStairs.png
  18. a b http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/106850957891076097
  19. http://twitter.com/notch/status/85801912754118658
  20. a b c d e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI4ZBrvkCZw
  21. http://media.minecraftforum.net/content/images/PAX/cre1.png
  22. a b Trickled info about 1.8: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7009276212/trickling-information-about-the-adventure-update
  23. http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-a8C2clU8L8Y/Ti7odj_JD9I/AAAAAAAAB5U/l6X-GWdbZrk/s1024/2011-07-26_18.14.06.png
  24. http://twitter.com/notch/status/97216060708753408
  25. http://twitter.com/Protato_/status/107634936869175296
  26. http://twitpic.com/6cbsul
  27. Fixed zombie drops: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/102785103595454465
  28. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/106854096794943488
  29. New chunk object(s): http://twitter.com/notch/status/75480150162157568
  30. Villages optional: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/102386320797745152
  31. a b c d Adventure Update Information on Blog: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7009276212/trickling-information-about-the-adventure-update
  32. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/89439399422603265
  33. Town borders: http://twitter.com/notch/status/95835440287973378
  34. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/101919683153903616
  35. http://twitter.com/notch/status/99119471221944320
  36. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/101211332061302784
  37. http://twitpic.com/6butu5
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  39. http://thebohage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=144&start=0
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  41. http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/FPEM1if7vAF
  42. http://i.imgur.com/qvAsa.jpg
  43. Fractal-based biomes: http://twitter.com/notch/status/104077871160639488
  44. http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/125-18-updates-new-logo-more-info/
  45. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ie7j5/notch_shares_a_new_18_photo_via_google/c23116p
  46. http://i.imgur.com/pqYck.jpg
  47. Rivers: http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/UH2NKMy1ACo
  48. http://twitter.com/notch/status/104239917911117825
  49. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/88333149611892736
  50. http://twitter.com/notch/statuses/89414265441763328
  51. a b c http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7276719413/coming-soon
  52. http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859#116872576248355504859/posts/EvmRkVDthvs
  53. http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/QEPPxAej76k
  54. http://twitter.com/notch/status/87954577445486593
  55. The Future of Minecraft http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1182014p2.html
  56. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ik8yv/baby_animals_mod_may_be_added_to_vanilla_game/c24fic9?context=3
  57. a b c d Jeb on Reddit on Hunger & Food
  58. a b http://twitter.com/notch/status/39722654491611136
  59. [1]
  60. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/85807386228563968
  61. a b c new food images: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/103408168356421632
  62. a b Eating animations: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/93343610677895168
  63. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/93302599230562304
  64. http://i.imgur.com/UDuv0.png
  65. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/93336918938492928
  66. Eating Cows: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/93336415395524608
  67. "Raw beef" and "steak": http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/103422660180066305
  68. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_jJJTROkJ0
  69. Notch on Twitter: "I did add an achievement for killing a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters. Not easy."
  70. Notch on Twitter: "With the new bow shooting code, I'm getting an urge to add an achievement for shooting the moon. I keep trying to."
  71. a b http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/i8NKiBJbRZ6
  72. http://twitter.com/notch/status/95850815276843008
  73. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/93618013537972224
  74. http://twitter.com/Protato_
  75. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/78554788094160896
  76. "Sure, I will add that!" reddit post by notch with another enderman screenshot
  77. Fence gates in 1.8: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/104659656399536128/
  78. http://twitpic.com/6c3q24
  79. http://twitter.com/notch/status/79526884454567936
  80. http://twitter.com/notch/status/79527641824231424
  81. Colored lights?: http://twitter.com/notch/status/79644664902324224
  82. Moss stone update in 1.8 http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/111-18-updates-textures-more/
  83. http://twitter.com/notch/status/86087721147314176
  84. http://twitter.com/notch/status/86091621116026880
  85. http://twitter.com/notch/status/88364022612758528
  86. New HUD (in picture): http://twitter.com/notch/status/93305042941132801
  87. http://twitter.com/notch/statuses/86500995181449216
  88. 1.8 should have new launcher features: http://twitter.com/notch/status/92994287016484864
  89. Applet Launcher Test: http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/23Z5VpT4ahp
  90. http://twitter.com/C418/status/87958172047912962
  91. http://twitter.com/notch/status/89309230632402945
  92. http://twitter.com/C418/statuses/88290232482537472
  93. http://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/bjTQ3SUdzhH
  94. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/104489674160095232
  95. Multiplayer server list: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77324026405584896
  96. http://i.imgur.com/xKCrT.png
  97. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/i49go/notch_wants_a_picture_and_a_couple_of_words_for/c20s6t2
  98. http://twitter.com/notch/status/77554421596295168
  99. http://twitter.com/notch/status/85802201267707904
  100. Easier level height Modding: http://twitter.com/notch/status/93295073374113792
  101. http://pc.ign.com/articles/119/1190990p1.html
  102. http://www.justin.tv/oldfoxy/b/293551819
  103. http://twitter.com/notch/status/95900141797650432
  104. a b c Full version: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4423138657/11-11-11
  105. a b Animal Persistence: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/76647002317930496
  106. New features after release: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/121044061/in-the-spirit-of-the-new-economy
  107. Jeb Interested in New Mobs: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77323508891385856
  108. Possibly More Interactive Mobs: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77324091174035456
  109. Bow Confirmation: http://twitter.com/notch/status/56012923809705984
  110. Improvements to Combat: http://twitter.com/notch/status/67532780568969217
  111. a b c d e Jeb's Dreamhack presentation http://www.justin.tv/citricsquid/b/288355296
  112. Modding API: Modding API
  113. Jeb about obfuscation: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hvkmo/attribution_of_the_piston_mod_in_vanilla_minecraft/c1yvc32
  114. The cost of the mod API: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4955682775/the-cost-of-the-mod-api
  115. Mounting/Controlling Mobs: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/mounts
  116. Recent SMP Server Connections Menu: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/menu_for_recently_connected_smp_servers
  117. Rain re-grows flowers: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/58429890424352768
  118. Lava Boats: http://twitter.com/notch/status/59722192555999232
  119. Apples Should Spawn Somehow: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/77323689200336896
  120. Books: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4988431144/the-maps
  121. Custom Paintings: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4988431144/the-maps
  122. Stereoscopic 3D: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68577097769168896
  123. Powered Minecarts more powerful: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68718430144053248
  124. Floating Island Dimension: http://twitter.com/notch/status/70938915862884352
  125. Sky Dimension confirmed: http://twitter.com/notch/status/71249283520802817
  126. a b c d e Minecraft Documentary 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8mxU1eFhw#t=340s
  127. Friends List confirmed: http://twitter.com/notch/status/77555436370407424
  128. http://twitter.com/notch/status/77555800532463616
  129. http://twitter.com/notch/status/84361767962161152
  130. http://i.imgur.com/KuPO5.png
  131. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/85807514939179008
  132. FOV Slider: http://twitter.com/notch/status/86087721147314176
  133. http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/106850508131672064
  134. Lantern: http://twitter.com/notch/status/22743846228070400
  135. http://twitter.com/notch/status/77550862813233152
  136. Lantern Lighting Idea: http://twitter.com/notch/status/79798069356527616
  137. More food: http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/55529081508347905
  138. http://twitter.com/notch/status/49859193632591872
  139. Gates for fences: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/gates_for_fences
  140. Ability to Name Chests: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ep8xd/i_tried_to_do_this_but_was_left_disappointed/c19v72
  141. Mobile Version: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4159257708/full-steam-ahead-captain
  142. Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34788/Android_Minecraft_Coming_To_Xperia_Play_First.php
  143. Image of Mobile Minecraft Played on an Xperia: http://twitpic.com/529isk
  144. Minecraft for XBox 360!: http://twitter.com/notch/status/77815610360348672
  145. Minecraft coming to Xbox 360: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEK12osJE_0
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