Java Edition upcoming features

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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
1.6 (Horse Update)	1.6: Horse Update General Additions Resource pack system Replaces the texture pack system. A conversion tool which converts texture packs into resource packs was released by Dinnerbone and is available here. Can combine multiple resource packs. Can contain: Textures Fonts Sounds Language file End credit New "missing texture" texture Attribute system Item attributes using NBT tags: Attributes can be additive, subtractive and multiplicative using a set value Some items have default modifiers in place of previously hard-coded attributes Examples of possible changes players could make: A bow that slows the holder, a helm that buffs health, etc. Entity attributes: These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute Entity speed, base health, base attack Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow Splash screens "HURNERJSGER?" "What's up Doc?" Improvements & changes Support for Java 5 and PowerPC users will be dropped If you have a PowerPC based computer and/or Java 5 installed, a warning will be shown at the main menu. Internal chat system Lots of messages should be translated now that were not previously Messages are now better modularized Server messages can be sent by their code-defined name, allowing the client to utilize the correct translation according to their language settings Color can be specifically designated, preventing leakage into further messages Launcher Increases performance and stability Allows LWJGL to be updated, fixing many launcher bugs Supports multiple versions/installs Self updatable. New password storing system More user friendly. A major step towards the Plugin API. Gameplay Additions Status effects Health Boost effect Gives player 4 () base health; extra health vanishes when the effect ends Can be acquired ingame by the command /effect <playername> 21 <duration in seconds> <amplifier> Absorption effect Gives player 4 "absorption" health that cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, but would return every 30 seconds, regardless of the state of the rest of the health bar; extra health vanishes when the effect ends Can be acquired ingame by the command /effect <playername> 22 <duration in seconds> <amplifier> or by eating either tier of Golden Apple Commands /spreadplayers Spreads certain players from an origin point Has a Max Spread and Minimum Distance from player to player Can be used with the teams scoreboard functionality to spread team members to the same location Added /gamerule arguments naturalRegeneration Toggles natural health regeneration doDaylightCycle Toggles the day-night cycle (the sun stops moving and stays where it is) Improvements & changes Riding mounts When riding a mob, its health is on the Heads-up display When riding on an entity, dismounting has changed from right-clicking the entity to using the Sneak key (⇧ Left Shift by default) Boat controls have been changed from the A, S, and D keys to mouse control Respiration enchantment Now also helps seeing underwater Changed the idea of mob difficulty Regional difficulty: The longer you spend in one area, the harder it gets Scales with difficulty - items, enchants or AI improve with difficulty Tooltips Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory, which shows what category a block/item is in Tooltips for swords, pickaxes, shovels, axes, and potions show how much damage the sword/tool does and what effect a potion will give Status effect Balanced to improve gameplay Instant Health nerfed by 33% (heals only 4 health points/2 hearts at level I) Regeneration nerfed by 50% (takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore 1 health point/.5 heart at level I) Invisibility potions now work better with teams Hunger Natural health regeneration now costs hunger points/saturation points Blocks & items Additions Horse Armor Exist in diamond, iron and gold variants Cannot be crafted. Can only be found in most types of generated chests, including in dungeons, Nether Fortresses, Desert Temples, and Jungle Temples Horse Spawn Egg Works like any other spawn egg Just like naturally spawned Horses, these Horses will have one of seven base colours and one of five variations of markings Sometimes a Donkey will be spawned instead Hay Bale Can be placed in all orientations Crafted with wheat in a 3x3 arrangement Lead Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around Right click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the leash back Crafted with 4 string and 1 slimeball, yields 2 leads Carpets Crafted with 2 colors of wool in a horizontal line, yields 3 carpets Can be placed on any block (even translucent ones) Name Tag Found in dungeon chests Name it in an anvil, then right click a mob to name it. Hardened Clay Obtained by smelting a clay block in a furnace Stained Clay Comes in 16 colors, one for each dye. Similar to wool. Made by surrounding any dye with hardened clay Block of Coal Crafted with 3x3 coal. Crafted only with coal, not charcoal. Can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 80 items, more than 9 coal (72 smelted items). Improvements & changes Charcoal Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from coal Lapis Lazuli Block Retextured subtly, it now has a border around it Saddle Are now used for both horse and pig Redstone Comparator Now give out a signal for Cauldrons and End Portal frames depending on their state Cauldrons give from zero signal (empty) to three signal strength (full) depending on water inside End Portal frame varies between zero and fifteen signal strength, depending on if an Eye of Ender is present Golden Apple Golden apples now require gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft Golden apples now give Regeneration II for 10 seconds and both tiers give Absorption for 1 min 30 seconds Glistering Melon Glistering melons now require 8 gold nuggets Spawn Eggs Spawn eggs work on water Mobs Additions Horses Must be tamed before use Ridable by right-clicking them with a saddle - Hold the jump key to fill up their jump bar, release it to jump accordingly, steer them by using the usual movement keys - maximum movement speed and jump height differ between horses Have various amounts of maximum health - Regenerates naturally, but wheat can be used to speed it up When killed they drop leather, as well as any equipment that they were wearing Can be bred using wheat - Baby horses can be grown using apples, golden apples and wheat Creation assisted by DrZhark Donkeys Like horses, but smaller and grey, and can carry chests on their saddles that can be opened if sneaking and then right-clicking the donkey or mule. The chest has 15 inventory slots. Mules Similar to donkeys, just brown and taller than a normal donkey Obtained by breeding a horse and a donkey Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules Skeleton and Zombie Horses Introduced as the code of the normal Horse, although require third-party modifications to be used in the game. There is no current use at this time. Improvements & changes Zombies Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at Able to lock onto the player from much further away. Mobbing zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from player. Villagers Now have sounds. Spiders Now have a chance to spawn with potion effects World Generation Additions Improvements & changes Deserts No longer contain water lakes The Nether Added chest generation in Nether Fortresses Bug fixes Fixed 78 Bugs: MC-73 - Green arrow bug on maps in frames MC-137 - Ping packet doesn't include host information MC-188 - 'doFiretick' makes fire to not extinguish. Lighting makes fire all over the place! MC-483 - Keyboard Unresponsive on OS X MC-507 - Teleporting to Large Numbers Creates a Broken Error MC-552 - Command block choosing wrong people / Selecting players cross-dimensional MC-590 - Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space MC-607 - Running at a high resolution causes large portions of the screen to be UNCLICKABLE MC-671 - Minecarts with Furnace consume coal in creative mode MC-820 - Death messages in english regardless of the selected language (Multiplayer) MC-1038 - Beacon Block Incorrect Texture When Surrounded by Blocks MC-1124 - Mouse "Back" and "Forward" open menu in windowed mode. MC-1126 - Server Command "/whitelist list" doesn't display the full list of players MC-1202 - Mobs spawn and then quickly despawn in peaceful. Looks like the "ender-porting-out-of-water" effect. MC-1320 - Dogs wont stop snarling after punched by someone else MC-1497 - Damaged Anvils do not show damage in inventory or item frame MC-1903 - Console Command and Set Console for Block in Command Block merges when in windowed mode MC-1980 - Zombie villagers are able to despawn during curing process MC-2097 - You can't get "The End?" achievement MC-2200 - Sleeping while in a Minecart produces a graphical glitch MC-2419 - Persistence Required Tag Freezes Mobs MC-2453 - Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated MC-2559 - Squids taking damage while in water MC-2692 - Hard to spawn Squids MC-3008 - Regular skeleton's melee damage is unaffected by the sword type MC-3090 - Unable to play game unless LWJGL is manually replaced MC-3304 - Infinite Looting Sword bug MC-3695 - Boats/Minecarts and Ender Pearls don't mix MC-3737 - Placing Water Source into some blocks yields no drops MC-3798 - 3D Anaglyph Biome Colour Corruption MC-3960 - After the last use of a bow you get a glitch bow that when dropped and picked up again duplicates MC-4266 - Death counter does not update MC-4631 - Lava decay fails to schedule block update MC-4822 - Skeletons attacking like zombies when hit in creative MC-6721 - Ctrl + Alt + Esc crashes minecraft MC-6828 - Brewing stand feet's sides are transparent when placed against a wall MC-7134 - Silverfish breaking blocks when "mobGriefing" is set to false MC-8073 - Switching from windowed to fullscreen and back moves the point of view MC-8220 - Water/Lava from Bucket replacing Ladder MC-9026 - Splash potions particles are incorrect MC-9317 - /scoreboard syntax missing (/help scoreboard) MC-9355 - Argument "team" do not work with "!" for other players MC-9584 - Cactus texture error when near a wall MC-9917 - In multiplayer screen holding shift and pressing "down" without selecting any server crashes the game MC-10601 - Cant use scroll wheel in crash reports MC-10976 - Single player: "java.io.IOException: Stream Closed" when quitting game MC-11033 - Item count / numbers randomly flickering in item bar, inventory, workbench MC-11199 - Eye of Ender does not always lead to the nearest Stronghold MC-11385 - Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles" MC-11439 - Memory leak switching texture packs MC-11595 - 1.5 HD Texture pack stitched images greater than 2048 resolution result in massive performance drop. MC-11605 - Certain death message will print "null" as the player/mob name that caused the death MC-11765 - Command Blocks breaking easily in survival MC-12017 - Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal MC-12241 - Minecart collision boxes are briefly positioned wrong MC-12526 - Minecarts off track float MC-12569 - Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be MC-12733 - Minecart hit box too large MC-13177 - New Client and Server Outputs Increase Loading Time MC-13276 - Zombies with increased health don't deal damage MC-13559 - Pick block from inventory in creative doesn't preserve size of stacks MC-14218 - Minecraft can't handle 4096x4096 or larger cloud textures MC-14757 - Stacked Entity Spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities MC-14926 - Cannot use resolution clock and compass textures with resolutions higher than 16x16 MC-15145 - Receiving very high amount of damage at once creates ghost mode in multiplayer MC-15732 - Achievement "We Need to Go Deeper" rewarded for going through an End Portal MC-16075 - Entities other than the player can't leave the end MC-16530 - When under resistance effects above 5, /kill command does not work. MC-16554 - lang files for en_US is gramaticly incorrect at death.fell.finish.item MC-17037 - No error report when minecraft crashes MC-17280 - Freezes When Moving MC-17701 - Fire Animation Jumps and skips frames. MC-18088 - Sticky and unregistering keys during normal Minecraft play only, AMD processor driver conflict? MC-18324 - Text misplaced on Direct connect, Rename World screen MC-18483 - Shift clicking on the destroy item button in multiplayer doesn't work. MC-18640 - Crash when language file of currently selected language is missing MC-18713 - If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work MC-19029 - Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message	July 1, 2013
1.7	1.7 1.7 is going to be the next Minecraft Computer Edition Update.	Unknown
Other features
Account System Update	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 will be added. In-game usernames will be changeable, but all usernames on Minecraft accounts have to be unique (doesn't matter if it's a legacy Minecraft account or a Mojang Account). It is unknown how the username change feature will be adapted to server whitelists and blacklists. Possible implementation of the long-awaited online synchronization of achievements and statistics.	Unknown (Currently being worked on by Tobias Möllstam)

Other planned features, items, and blocks

Feature	Description
Transparent Clouds	Jeb originally made clouds transparent when looking from underneath it in snapshot 13w06a. However, this change was reverted in 13w10b as Jeb noticed that the fix caused an FPS drop. He stated "In the future we can fix this again, but with more specific cloud options in the video settings menu."
Cauldron Enhancement	Dinnerbone plans to make buckets fillable from cauldrons.
Expanding on Enchanted Books	Enchanted books will be findable with special enchants normally not obtainable.
Rendering Engine Rewrite	First confirmed to 1.5, but not added yet. The features will require a higher OpenGL feature-set and include some sort of fallback for older hardware. The rewritten engine will allow for much faster overall rendering, resulting in more Frames per Second.
Indestructible Enchantment	Jeb mentioned the possibility to add some kind of Indestructible enchantment to compensate for the loss of negative data values on armor.
Audio loops	Audio loops have not yet been added to the game, but may be implemented to play when the player is in a specific location (In caves, forests, oceans, and beside a waterfall). This has been partially added in 1.4 with the addition of lava and water ambient sounds.
Friends List	The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines. Kristoffer mentioned on Twitter that he is currently working on friends lists for Scrolls, then for other Mojang games. These will be available for players with Mojang accounts.
Limited Maps, Video Support	The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.
Rewriting the Skin System	Dinnerbone displayed interest towards looking into switching the skin system to edit right and left player limbs separately, once they're done rewriting the "rendering stuffs".
More Interesting Villagers	Jeb mentioned during a Q&A at Minecon 2012 that he would like to expand upon the complexity of Villagers eventually.
Red Dragon	Notch revealed during the 8th Seecret Friday Update that he would add dragons, one being the Ender Dragon, the other being red tameable dragons. Jeb informed players on his AMA on Reddit that he would add red dragons, but was unsure exactly how.
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. Later, Jeb stated in a tweet that new mobs are planned for the 1.6 major update. Horses are already confirmed (and added) by Jeb.
Plugin API	Main article: Plugin API
New Fishing Content	Dinnerbone has stated on Twitter that he has plans for new fishing content, stating that fishing isn't fun at the moment.
Seasons	Dinnerbone mentioned on Twitter that he was experimenting with adding seasons, and varying the length of day and night according to season.