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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]

The Biome Update[2]

World Generation

Additions

  • New Biomes[2]
    • Mesa Plateau, a weird looking biome with floating land, in snapshot 13w36a try this seed to find it: 5202239451427469735
      • The Mesa and Mesa Plateau Biomes are not fully implemented yet so thats why it looks so derpy right now.
    • Clay Canyon (also known as Mesa) biome, jokingly referred to as "Disco Mountains".[3]
    • Redwood Forest biome.[4]
      • Contains 2x2 Spruce trees.
      • Is shown as Mega Taiga in F3
      • Will have a grass block variant known as Podzol.[5][6]
        • Currently obtained only by the silk touch enchantment.[7]
      • Contains dirt blocks that do not allow grass to grow.
        • They have a data value of 1.
        • Only obtainable with /give because there is no visual difference.[8][9]
      • Moss Stone "boulders" are scattered around in this biome.
      • Dead Bushes, Mushrooms, and Ferns spawn in this biome.
    • Stone Beach Biome.
    • Ice Spikes Biome
      • Also known as Ice Spike Plains
      • Contain giant ice spires similar to upside down icicles made of Packed Ice
    • Cliff technical biome.[10]
      • Main block is stone.
      • Like Steep hills, not completely vertical.
    • Savannah biome.[11]
      • Variant is Savannah Plateau
      • Has a Savannah Mountains variant
      • Curved Acacia-like Trees[12]
    • Roofed Forest Biome (Black Forest biome) which has dark grass and grown mushrooms with 2 by 2 spruce trees.[11]
      • Has extremely dense trees and leaves; dark and dangerous under the canopy even during the day.
      • Monsters will most likely be able to spawn during the day and the night.
    • Birch Forest biome.[11]
  • Possibly new generated structures.[11]
  • Possibly a Skylands-like world type.[13]
    • This is possibly the new AMPLIFIED world generating feature which will make insane hills with bridges and stuff. You will need a relatively powerful machine to load this, but that is already warned when selecting this in the "World Type" option.
      • Mountains in this world type can reach up to Y: 200.
    • Sunflower Plains Biome, Plains Biome with sunflowers in it.
    • Flower Forest Biome, Forest Biome with lots of the new flowers.
    • Deep Ocean Biome, oceans that go down to about Y = 35.
  • Extreme Hills+ Biome
  • Stone Beach Biome

Improvements & Changes

  • Changes to oceans.[14][15][16]
    • Oceans are smaller and take up much less of the map.[2]
    • Contain only gravel on the floor instead of sand, dirt, and gravel
  • Biomes have been put into four main categories.[2]
    • Snow-covered
    • Cold
    • Medium
    • Dry/warm
  • Biomes will attempt to avoid getting placed next to a biome that is too different to itself.[2]
  • Most biomes have uncommon/rare variations.[2]
    • Non-snowy taiga variation.[11]
  • Spruce Trees will generate in Extreme Hills biomes, while it also has more stone in the biome or a variant of them. [17]
  • Snow may now generate depending on Y level, with noise variation.[18]
  • Swamp Biomes now look more like actual swamps by having more pieces of dirt and water along the shore with lilypads between them.
  • Gravel Beaches apear more often.

Gameplay

Improvements & Changes

  • Changes to fishing mechanics.[20][21][22][23][24]
    • Can now find other items other than fish by fishing, including enchanted fishing rods, damaged fishing rods, name tags, Lilypads, or damaged boots.[25]
    • Up to 15 different items can be caught including new fish types.[25]
    • There are 3 piles of rewards: treasure, junk, and fish.[26]
      • New enchantments for Fishing Rods that can change your luck when fishing.
        • Lure
        • Luck of the Sea
      • New fish types.[27]
        • Pufferfish
          • If eaten, you will be given Poison IV for 1 minute, Hunger III and Nausea for 15 seconds.[28]
          • Will be used to brew a water breathing potion.[29]
        • Salmon
          • Can be cooked and eaten
        • Clownfish
          • Usage still unknown
  • New particle effects.
    • Fishing now has many different particle effects. [25]
    • Falling now has particle effects.[30]
  • Redoing the achievements and statistics system.[31]
    • Will be per world/server.[32]
  • New scoreboard functions.[33][34][35][36]
    • Can now use statistics to create objectives; anything that statistics can track can be used as an objective (can also track achievements).
      • This is the reason why statistics/achievements were changed to be stored per world/server.
  • The /give command can now give items to players with custom names and lore [37]
    • It can also give enchanted items.
    • It can also give items with custom NBT tags, such as SkullOwner to obtain the Head of a specific player
      • This removes the necessity to use an NBT editing program to obtain these items.
  • Melons can now be found in Jungle Biomes in patches similar to Pumpkins.
  • Rivers have gravel patches and the Ocean bottom is covered with it.
  • /summon command added. Can be used to summon any entity in the game to the player, including Giants, Ender Crystals, Ender Dragons, and primed TNT.

Blocks & Items

Additions

  • Packed Ice
  • New ground covers
    • Podzol
      • New grass variation
      • Only found in Redwood Forest Biomes
    • Grassless Dirt
      • Grass can not grow on it
      • Only obtainable through /give
  • New trees.[2]
    • Possibly Cherry Trees added by Patrick Geuder.[38][39]
      • They vary "seasonally" by having leaf blocks change color every fourth day for three minutes.[40]
      • Contain pink saplings.[41]
    • Curved Acacia-like Trees.[42]
    • Sugar cane looks darker now.
  • New Flowers
    • Sunflowers[43]
    • Lilac.[45]
      • Two blocks in height.
    • Several colors (Red, Orange, White, and Pink) of Tulips.[46]
    • Poppy Flower
    • Blue Orchid
    • Allium
    • Azure Blue
    • Oxeye Daisy
      • Found in Plains
    • Lilac
      • Two Blocks tall
      • Found in Roofed Forests
    • Pink Paeonias, called Peony
      • Two block tall
    • Rose Bush
      • Two blocks tall
  • Double Tall Grass
    • Two blocks tall
  • Large Fern
    • Two block tall
    • Grow in Non-snowy Taiga


Improvements & Changes

  • Written Books can now be cloned the same way maps can, but by using Book and Quills instead of Empty Maps. [47]
    • Can clone multiple copies of the same Written Book by putting more Book and Quills in the crafting grid.[48]
  • Item Frames
    • Now drop the item inside them when punched, then drop themselves if they are punched when empty. [49]
    • Will display the name of the item they hold (if it is custom named) when looked at up close.[50]

Miscellaneous

Additions

  • Community Feature[51]
  • The ability to select multiple resource packs at once.[52][53]
    • Resource packs at the top take precedence over those below.[54]
    • Allows for non-manual merging of textures from multiple packs, a sound pack and a different texture pack, etc.[55]

Improvements & Changes

  • Water is more blue, impossible to look through except when in the water (wearing a respiration helmet).
  • Several lighting issues fixed.
  • Rewrite of several option screens.[59]
    • A completely new main options menu.[60]
    • A new "Select Resource Pack" menu.[52]
    • Rewrote Key Config.[61]
      • Function and sprint keys can be changed.
      • Smooth mouse, formerly available by pressing F8, will now use F4 by default.
    • The volume of in game music, Jukebox and Note Block music, hostile mobs, passive mobs, players, weather, blocks/environment, and the master volume can now all be modified separately.[62]
  • Changed the display item for the Decoration Blocks tab in the Creative mode inventory from the Rose to the new Paeonia flower.[63]

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.[64]
  • "Make it prettier".[65]
  • Add the possibility to play Indev and versions of Cave Game.[66][67]
Unknown

Other planned features, items, and blocks

Feature Description
Transparent Clouds Jeb originally made clouds transparent when looking from underneath it in snapshot 13w06a.[68] 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."[69]
Cauldron Enhancement Dinnerbone plans to make buckets fillable from cauldrons.[70]
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.[71][72]
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.[73]
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.[74][75] 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.[76]
Limited Maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[77][75]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[78][75] 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".[79]
More Interesting Villagers Jeb mentioned during a Q&A at Minecon 2012 that he would like to expand upon the complexity of Villagers eventually.[80]
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.[81] Jeb informed players on his AMA on Reddit that he would add red dragons, but was unsure exactly how.[82]
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)[83]
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.[84][85]
  • 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[86]
  • Combine multiple resource packs[87]
  • Server-side resource packs[88]
Account System Update[89] 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.

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