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This article is about future updates for the PC and Mac versions. For development versions, see Version history/Development versions. For the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition upcoming features. For Xbox Edition, see Xbox 360 Edition upcoming features. For previous updates, see Version history.



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


Near future

Version Planned Changes Planned Release Date
Account System Update[1]
  • Not a game update (will not modify the game itself and will be applied regardless of the version you're playing).
  • The possibility to change your username and the e-mail address that is associated with your account
    • Global Mojang accounts are already available and can be merged with Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt accounts.
      • Once the synchronization has been made, logging into Mojang games is made by using the e-mail address instead of the username.
    • In-game usernames will be changeable, making them apparently no more unique ; only Mojang accounts have a unique "ID".
    • Currently being worked on by Mollstam.
    • It is unknown how the username change feature will be adapted to server white- and blacklists.
    • It is most probable that the transition to a Mojang account will become obligatory at some point.
Jeb on April 28, 2012 : "I know Mollstam is working on it"[2]
Major versions
1.3

Note : Very few references are provided here since most of this content has been directly released in weekly snapshots 12w15a to .

General

  • Large amount of internal changes.[3]
  • Demo mode playable through non-premium Minecraft.net accounts.[4]
  • Added Adventure Mode but it still needs more work. [5]
  • "Large Biomes" world type.[6]
  • 'Open texturepack folder' button now works for mac.
  • Creative Mode updates
    • Ender Portal Frames added in Creative Mode
    • While in Creative Mode, players can supply a powered minecart with fuel by right clicking it as if they were holding coal.
    • Flying in Creative Mode is no longer affected by water and lava.
    • ⇧ Shift-clicking in Creative improved.
    • Potions will be in the creative inventory screen.[7]
    • Improved creative inventory screen.
      • Category Tabs and Searching
      • Survival Inventory Tab
        • "Backpack" inventory, 2x2 crafting grid, armor, and deletion box.
  • Singleplayer will be a local server.[8]
    • Added a publish button to allow LAN connection.
      • Gamemode and Allow Cheats button.
      • The multi-player menu now scans for LAN servers
  • Optional bonus chests placed close to the player when creating a new Singleplayer world.[4]
  • Hardcore in multiplayer (HMP).[9]
  • Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.

Blocks & Items

  • Added Emerald
  • Added Emerald Ore.
  • Added Block of Emerald[10].
  • Added Ender Chest.
    • Drops 8 obsidian when broken without Silk Touch.
    • Has one inventory per player.
  • Added Sandstone Stairs.
  • Added Cocoa Plants that generate on the sides of jungle trees, which can be harvested for cocoa.
  • Added Tripwire Hooks.[11][12]
    • The hooks are connected (up to 40 blocks)[13] by string, which will be placeable.[14]
    • Tripwires work on all entities.[13]
  • Added Book and Quill and Written Book.
    • Ability to write in Book and Quill (up to 50 pages), save them to edit later, and sign them and title them to finish off the book.
  • Added a new type of Golden Apple[15]. with attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1[16].
  • Added Bottle o' Enchanting to survival mode.
  • Added Chainmail Armor to survival mode.
  • New slabs and stairs of the 3 new plank types.
    • Wood slabs behave as wood, not as stone.
  • Half-slabs can now be placed upside-down when pointing at the upper half of the side of a block. This does not work with stairs.
  • New Gravel texture.
  • New Dispenser features:
    • Dispensers will eject water and lava source blocks (from buckets).
    • Will also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
    • Will be able to place Minecarts on rails and Boats in water.
  • Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually.
  • Specific names for different Wood, Wooden Planks, Leaves, Saplings, Sandstone, Stone Bricks, and Monster Eggs. (e.g. Oak Wood, Birch Plank, Spruce Leaves, Jungle Sapling, Smooth Sandstone, Chiseled Stone Bricks, Stone Monster Egg).[6]
  • Redstone (including repeaters, torches, levers, and pressure plates), Torches and Rails can now be placed on slabs and stairs positioned upside down.
  • Levers can now be attached to the bottom of a block.
  • Wooden Pressure Plates detect arrows.
  • When exposed to rain, Cauldrons have a possibility of slowly filling with water.
  • Removed old Chest texture, causing Locked Chests to appear purple.
  • The player can now see the cracking effect on blocks when other players mine blocks in multiplayer.[17]

Inventory, crafting & smelting

  • Different crafting recipe for books.
  • Easier item manipulation within inventory
    • Brewing Stands allow use of shift clicking to put items in it.
    • ⇧ Shift+clicking can now be used to wear armor.
  • Empty Buckets are now stackable up to 16.[18][19]
  • Wooden tools can be burned in furnaces.

XP and Enchanting

  • Silk Touch will be able to pick up Ender Chests, Ice, and Glass Panes.[20]
  • The first 16 levels are linear (17XP/level), while levels 17+ require more points per level.
  • Maximum enchantment level reduced from 50 to 30.
  • XP orbs can now be gained through mining ores, and using a furnace for smelting.
  • Enchantment has been reorganized so the higher/stronger level enchantment is on the bottom while the lowest is on the top. (The middle obviously being in the middle of the enchantment table.)

Map, Weather & Structures

Villagers and Mobs

  • Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession.
  • Trading with Villagers.[22]
    • Villagers may remove a trade option after it has been used 3 to 15 times.
  • Pigs now drop 1-3 Porkchops instead of 0-2.
  • Extremely rarely, Nether Portals will spawn Zombie Pigmen.
  • Passive mobs can be easily pushed around by simply walking, most likely intended to help the player navigate through animal farms more easily. Side effect: players cannot push each other in SMP anymore.
  • Baby animals will follow their parents.

Vehicles

  • While sitting inside of a minecart pushing the directional keys will make it move the direction you are pressing. This will only work while the minecart is sitting on rails.
  • Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds.
  • Boats are now easier to control.
  • Boats will now pass through lilypads without breaking the boat ; the lilypad drops as an item instead.

Commands

  • Commands in Singleplayer.[4]
  • The /tp command now allows teleporting to specified coordinates.
    • The syntax for this is /tp [target player] <x> <y> <z>.
    • The other functionality of the /tp command is still there.
  • New /seed command that displays the current world seed.

Bug Fixes

  • Arrows "warping upwards" in multiplayer fixed.
  • All multiplayer sounds have been fixed.[23][24][25][26]
  • Better chunk loading in SMP.[27]
  • Fishing lines are now visible in SMP.[25][28]
  • Fix for glitchy mob prediction in multiplayer.[29][30]
  • Using buckets filled with lava no longer consume the bucket when smelting items.
  • Armor and Tool Enchantments now show on multiplayer.
  • Endermen open their mouth and vibrate on multiplayer
This Summer[31][32][33][34][35]
1.4 Unknown

Planned Features, Items, and Blocks

Feature Description
More sounds and music More gameplay music and sounds by C418.[39]
More Enchantments Jeb liked the idea of having more enchantments added to the game.[40]
More Potions Jeb stated there would be eventually a total of 2653 potions in the game.[41]
Server Portals According to Get Satisfaction, Mojang has marked a player's suggestion of Server Portals as "Planned."[42]
Capture the Flag Announced on Notch's Blog.[43]
Mounting/Controlling Mobs The ability to mount and control mobs (possibly horses). Notch confirmed it was planned but will take time at Get Satisfaction.[44] Also Jeb said on a reddit AMA in April 2012 that he "more or less promised horses to a friend".[45]
Stereoscopic and/or Green/Magenta 3D Notch said he would add more options for the 3D mode.[46]
More Powerful Powered Minecarts Notch indicated on Twitter that he wants to make more powerful Powered Minecarts since Powered Rails made them relatively useless.[47]
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]
Friends list The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[48][49]
Multithreading The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[48] Note: Minecraft is multithreaded.[50]
Limited maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[48]
Video support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[48]
Special biomes Jeb stated during his Dreamhack presentation that they were planning on adding more reasons for going to specific biomes.
Rainbow Crystalline Caves A player's suggestion of Rainbow Crystalline Caves on Get Satisfaction had been marked by Mojang as a "Planned" feature. [51]
Dual-wielding Jeb stated that Notch is working on dual-wielding of items.[52][53]
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.[54]
The ability to name Chests Notch has stated he will add this feature.[55]
Zipline Mod Notch had stated that he is interested in working with the zipline mod creator to implement parts of the mod into vanilla Minecraft following MineCon.[56] As of 5/28/12, Dinnerbone has reported that he has made string place-able, one of the components present in this mod.[57] This, however, ended up being a new redstone component, tripwire.
Red Dragon Notch revealed during the Seecret Friday Updates(#8) that he would add dragons. One being the Ender Dragon, the other being red.[58] Jeb informed redditors on his AMA that he would add red dragons, but was unsure exactly how.[59]
More animals Jon Kagstrom commented on Reddit that he would like to add more animals, such as fish, birds, and tree animals, to make the game seem more 'alive'.[60]

Eventual Features, Items, and Blocks

Feature Description
A legitimate way to obtain Sponges It has been hinted that sponges would come back as a fully functional and obtainable block in a future update[citation needed]. Although the sponge block has been available in creative mode since Beta 1.8, it is currently purely decorative. It was not added and is still not obtainable in survival mode.
Spikes or spike blocks Jeb hinted a possibility of implementing spikes that would work like pistons but push out Spikes. He later considered making a Spike Block that could be pushed by Sticky Pistons instead.[61][62] Dinnerbone showed interest in adding spike blocks after adding Tripwire[63]
Pigman User Miclee came up with the idea for Pigmen, and Notch originally planned for them to occupy NPC Villages. They are among the list of planned mobs.
Custom Paintings Notch has said that custom paintings may feature in a future update.[64]
Minecarts as lava boats Notch has suggested making minecarts act like boats when placed in lava.[65]

References

  1. http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/486-change-your-minecraft-name-possibly-in-the-future/
  2. https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/196224261923414016
  3. MC 1.3 Requires Major Internal Changes http://twitter.com/dinnerbone/status/181824988221947904
  4. a b c http://www.mojang.com/2012/04/minecraft-snapshot-12w16a/
  5. http://www.mojang.com/2012/05/minecraft-snapshot-week-22/
  6. a b http://www.mojang.com/2012/05/minecraft-snapshot-12w19a/
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  8. http://www.mojang.com/2012/05/minecraft-snapshot-12w18a/
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  13. a b dinnerbonetweet:210403472149975041
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  15. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/tz3ok/jeb_i_decided_to_restore_notchs_old_golden_apple/c4qxo81
  16. jebtweet:204896613557219329
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  29. MC 1.3 SMP Mob Client Prediction Overhaul http://twitter.com/dinnerbone/status/181817339979907072
  30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtsUbejxt7M
  31. https://twitter.com/Marc_IRL/status/218098439630766080
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  42. https://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/server_portals
  43. New features after release: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/121044061/in-the-spirit-of-the-new-economy
  44. Mounting/Controlling Mobs: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/mounts
  45. "Jeb on Reddit AMA" http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/rsrqt/i_am_jens_bergensten_lead_designer_of_minecraft/c48dswo
  46. Stereoscopic 3D: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68577097769168896
  47. Powered Minecarts more powerful: http://twitter.com/notch/status/68718430144053248
  48. a b c d Minecraft Documentary 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8mxU1eFhw#t=340s
  49. Friends List confirmed: http://twitter.com/notch/status/77555436370407424
  50. Media:Multithreading.png
  51. https://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/rainbow_crystalline_caves_and_how
  52. http://minetimes.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/interview-mit-jeb-ihr-konntet-die-fragen-stellen/
  53. http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/make_clouds_collide_with_blocks/
  54. notchtweet:49859193632591872
  55. Ability to Name Chests: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ep8xd/i_tried_to_do_this_but_was_left_disappointed/c
  56. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/l9sj2/i_honestly_feel_we_need_something_like_this_in/
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  64. Custom Paintings: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4988431144/the-maps
  65. Lava Boats: http://twitter.com/notch/status/59722192555999232
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