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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
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

  • Improved overall stability and performance
    • Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage
    • Accelerated chunk loading
  • Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server[1][2]
  • Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds[3]
    • Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
    • Most commands from MP are available
  • Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
    • You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats
  • Added demo mode for non-premium users[3]
    • Lasts 5 game days per world
  • Added chat options
    • Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
    • Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
    • Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
  • Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
  • Improved F3 mode:
    • Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
    • Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left)
    • 3 new values:
      • ws: Walking speed (constant)
      • fs: Flying speed (constant)
      • g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
  • Updated language files
    • Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
    • Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks[4]
    • Localized server commands
    • Added missing commands-related strings
    • Added missing double chest GUI caption
  • Fixed many bugs
    • Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
    • Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
    • Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X

Gameplay

  • Added Adventure mode[5]
    • Only playable using commands
    • Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
    • Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
  • Added trading[6]
    • Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
    • There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
    • As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something
    • After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed
    • Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
  • Improved Creative mode inventory
    • There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks
    • Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
    • Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field
    • Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them
    • Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions[7]
    • Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival
  • Improved experience collection
    • Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items
    • Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now
    • Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
    • Adjusted experience level progression:
      • Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
      • Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
      • Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
  • Improved enchanting
    • The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
    • 15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
    • The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often
    • Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once
    • Adjusted enchantments' to go with the new maximum level
  • Added writing in books
    • New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
    • New item: Book and Quill - Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
    • Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read
    • Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
  • Improved Multiplayer
    • Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks
    • Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
    • Made server commands more descriptive
    • Added reason parameter to /ban
    • Added /seed command to show the map seed
    • Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
    • Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling
    • /kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line
    • Blocks other players are mining now show cracks[8]
    • /tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
    • Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers
    • Server list now scans for LAN servers
    • Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death[9]
  • Added many minor things
    • Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack
    • Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
    • Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
    • Made the stars smaller and brighter[10]
    • Villagers spawned from spawn eggs will get a random profession now
    • Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
    • Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage
    • You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode
    • The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now
  • Improved the Pick Block key
    • You now get the actual block
    • You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
    • Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
    • You can no longer pick portal blocks
  • Fixed many bugs
    • Fixed flying slowly in liquids
    • Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
    • Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
    • Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
    • Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
    • Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
    • Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks[11]
    • Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
    • Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
    • Fixed ender pearls and eyes of ender not being aligned in the inventory
    • Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
    • Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail
    • Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides
    • Fixed TNT dropping as a ressource on creative mode
    • Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game
  • Fixed many Multiplayer bugs
    • Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on
    • Fixed endermen not opening their jaws
    • Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect
    • Fixed many sounds not playing[12][13][14][15]
    • Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
    • Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky
    • Fixed weather not fading in or out
    • Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
    • Fixed explosions not pushing players back
    • Fixed TNT not knocking back players
    • Fixed pistons not pushing back players
    • Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location
    • Fixed glitchy mob prediction[16]
    • Fixed fishing lines not showing[14][17]

World Generation

Blocks & Items

  • Emerald Ore
  • Emerald
  • Block of Emerald[18]
    • Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
  • Ender Chest
    • Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
    • Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
    • Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
    • Explosion-resistant
    • Emits light and purple particles
    • Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian[19]
  • Tripwire Hook[20][21]
  • String
    • Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
  • Furnaces
    • Can be fueled by wooden tools now
    • Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
  • Ice
    • Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears
    • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[24]
  • Glass Panes
    • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[25]
  • Nether portal
    • Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
  • Slabs
    • Added all wood types
    • Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
    • Will now be top slabs when placed on the upper half of a block's side
    • When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
  • Stairs
  • Leaves
    • Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
  • Cauldrons
    • Slowly fill up when it's raining
  • Dispensers
    • Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
    • Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
  • Gravel
    • Changed texture
  • Jungle leaves
    • Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
  • Lever
    • Can be placed on the ceiling now
  • Wooden pressure plates
  • Pistons
    • Now take 0.2 seconds to expand
  • Cocoa beans
    • Retextured item
    • Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
    • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
  • Cookies
    • Give a full hunger point now
  • Nether Warts
    • Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
  • Empty buckets
  • Signs
    • Stack up to 16 now
    • Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
  • Golden Apple[28]
    • Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
    • Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
    • Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
    • Has attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1[29]
  • Spawners
    • Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs
    • Only changeable using map editors or mods
  • Boats
    • Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
    • Are less glitchy and more responsive now
    • Increased maximum speed
    • When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
    • When broken, they drop a boat now
  • Minecarts
    • When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
    • When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart

Mobs

  • Pigs
    • Drop 1-3 meat now
  • Slimes
    • Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
  • Silverfish
    • When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
  • Creepers & Spiders
    • Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now[30][31]
  • Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
    • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative
August 1, 2012[32][33]
1.4

Bug Fixes

  • Fix for "black areas" darkening random spots of maps for no apparent reason.[38][36]
Unknown
Minor versions & Others
1.3 Pre-release(s) All 1.3 features[39] July 25th, 2012[32][33][40]
Account System Update[41]
  • 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.
      • It could be possible that Mojang decide to update the account system simultaneously with the release of Minecraft 1.3, which is on August 1, 2012.
      • They might also choose this moment to implement the long-awaited online synchronization of Achievements and Statistics.[42][43]
    • 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"[44]

Planned Features, Items, and Blocks

Feature Description
More sounds and music More gameplay music and sounds by C418.[45]
More Enchantments Jeb liked the idea of having more enchantments added to the game.[46]
More Potions Jeb stated there would be eventually a total of 2653 potions in the game.[47]
Server Portals According to Get Satisfaction, Mojang has marked a player's suggestion of Server Portals as "Planned."[48]
Capture the Flag Announced on Notch's Blog.[49]
Mounting/Controlling Mobs The ability to mount and control mobs (possibly horses). Notch confirmed it was planned but will take time at Get Satisfaction.[50] Also Jeb said on a reddit AMA in April 2012 that he "more or less promised horses to a friend".[51]
Stereoscopic and/or Green/Magenta 3D Notch said he would add more options for the 3D mode.[52]
More Powerful Powered Minecarts Notch indicated on Twitter that he wants to make more powerful Powered Minecarts since Powered Rails made them relatively useless.[53]
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.[54][55]
Multithreading The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[54] Note: Minecraft is multithreaded.[56]
Limited maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[54]
Video support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, also containing this line.[54]
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. [57]
Dual-wielding Jeb stated that Notch is working on dual-wielding of items.[58][59]
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.[60]
The ability to name Chests Notch has stated he will add this feature.[61]
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.[62] As of 5/28/12, Dinnerbone has reported that he has made string place-able, one of the components present in this mod.[63] 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.[64] Jeb informed redditors on his AMA that he would add red dragons, but was unsure exactly how.[65]
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'.[66]
The Allocator Jeb stated he had considered adding a "funnel block" [67]
Online Sync of Achievements and Statistics Notch's aim was to synchronize Achivements and Statistics online, but issues prevented this to happen. Still, there is no apparent reason for this featured to have been abandoned.[42][43]
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.[68][69] Dinnerbone showed interest in adding spike blocks after adding Tripwire[70]
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.[71]
Minecarts as lava boats Notch has suggested making minecarts act like boats when placed in lava.[72]
snow that piles up it is unknown if this will be added but snow is already able to be at different thicknesses without using a mod. it can be obtained by using a world editor such as wordedit or mcedit

References

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