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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
1.7[1]

World Generation

Additions

Improvements & Changes

  • Possibly changes to oceans.[12][13][14]
  • Improved biome transition/generation.[14]
  • Spruce Trees will generate in Extreme Hills biomes OR a variant of Extreme Hills (Jeb mentioned adding variants of existing biomes).[15]
  • Snow may now generate depending on Y level, with noise variation.[16]
    • Biome dependent.[17]

Gameplay

Improvements & Changes

Blocks & Items

Additions

Miscellaneous

Additions

  • Community Feature[39]

Improvements & Changes

  • Several lighting issues fixed.
  • Rewrite of several option screens.[43]
    • A completely new main options menu.[44]
    • Rewrote Key Config.[45]
      • Function and sprint keys can be changed.
      • "Cinematic Camera," formerly available by pressing F8, will now use F4 by default.

Bug fixes:

  • MC-2915 - Attempting to tp to an invalid coordinate returns "commands.generic.double.invalid"
  • MC-9547 - Incorrect usage string for `/scoreboard teams empty`
  • MC-10257 - when a pig gets struck by lightning it spawns without a sword
  • MC-11280 - Sometimes Water flows out of newly generated Village Farms
  • MC-11518 - RCON and Scoreboard Command Output Formatting
  • MC-12450 - Missing usage string commands.scoreboard.players.list.usage
  • MC-12452 - Scoreboard team join command fails on invalid team name
  • MC-12454 - Scoreboard option seeFriendlyInvisibles not listed in usage
  • MC-12541 - the letters for the 'off' setting on smooth lighting aren't capitalized
  • MC-16324 - "Reached end of stream" messages in Minecraft server terminal when client pings the server
  • MC-17090 - Invalid teamcolors throw an NPE in the console rather than an error message "invalid color"
  • MC-26608 - /spreadplayers confirmation text is wrong
Unknown
Launcher Updates
  • Multiple Minecraft copies per Mojang account.[46]
  • "Make it prettier".[47]
  • Add the possibility to play Indev and versions of Cave Game.[48][49]
Unknown

Other planned features, items, and blocks

Feature Description
Transparent Clouds Jeb originally made clouds transparent when looking from underneath it in snapshot 13w06a.[50] 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."[51]
Cauldron Enhancement Dinnerbone plans to make buckets fillable from cauldrons.[52]
Expanding on Enchanted Books Enchanted books will be findable with special enchants normally not obtainable.[53] This was partially implemented when the Thorns enchant was added.
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 higher FPS.[54][55]
Indestructible Enchantment Jeb mentioned the possibility to add some kind of Indestructible enchantment for map makers to compensate for the loss of negative data values on armor.[56]
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.[57][58] 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.[59]
Limited Maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[60][58]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[61][58] It has also been mentioned at various points that a program for making videos will be implemented into Minecraft itself.
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".[62]
More Interesting Villagers Jeb mentioned during a Q&A at Minecon 2012 that he would like to expand upon the complexity of Villagers eventually.[63]
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.[64] Jeb informed players on his AMA on Reddit 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. [citation needed]
Workbench (Mod/Plugin API)[66]
Main article: Plugin API
Seasons Dinnerbone mentioned on Twitter that he was experimenting with adding seasons, and varying the length of day and night according to season.[67][68]
  • Seasons may include changes in color of tree leaves.
Resource pack Improvement Texture pack support was replaced by resource packs in 1.6 release, but some of the planned features are not implemented.
  • Custom font support[69]
  • Combine multiple resource packs[70]
  • Server-side resource packs[71]
Account System Update[72] This will include the ability to change your Minecraft username and have multiple copies of Minecraft per account. Bans will be changed to use a new Player ID system.
More possible terrain generation features While experimenting with generation features, Jeb built an extreme hills\floating island biome. Notch Told him to save it just in case they ever use it, so it might turn up in game.[73]

References

  1. https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/351691751305654273
  2. http://i.imgur.com/Wi1Q8mO.jpg
  3. https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/363298862301470720
  4. http://imgur.com/eGjBkZQ
  5. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1jvqc8/twitter_jeb_another_work_in_progress/cbir58d
  6. http://i.imgur.com/17kg7nD.png
  7. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1jvqc8/twitter_jeb_another_work_in_progress/cbir5jo
  8. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1jvqc8/twitter_jeb_another_work_in_progress/cbir6ez
  9. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1jvqc8/twitter_jeb_another_work_in_progress/cbir58d
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  11. https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/369401687938564097
  12. http://www.twitch.tv/dreamarena/b/417292925?t=46h52m45s
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  15. https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/362559336033165312
  16. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1k0pty/jeb_shares_another_terrain_generation_screenshot/cbk66ll
  17. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1k0pty/jeb_shares_another_terrain_generation_screenshot/cbksei9
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  30. https://twitter.com/pgeuder/status/361884775880982529
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  36. a b http://instagram.com/p/dCXkdOpMCi/
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  50. Issue tracker: MC-997
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  57. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdoH3kzg938&t=143s
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  61. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdoH3kzg938&t=143s
  62. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/677984-
  63. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9RNyRhIow
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  67. https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/323870260560293888
  68. https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/336123928181346306
  69. MC-17673
  70. https://gist.github.com/Dinnerbone/5662824
  71. MC-18569
  72. mcfnews:486-
  73. https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/369401687938564097


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