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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 Generator Update[2]

World Generation

Additions

  • Biomes[2]
    • Mesa (also known as Clay Canyon or "Disco Mountains"[3])
    • Mega Taiga[4]
    • Cold Beach
    • Ice Plains Spikes
      • Contains giant ice spires similar to upside down icicles made of Packed Ice
    • Stone Beach (technical biome)[10]
      • Main block is stone
      • Like Steep hills, not completely vertical
    • Savannah[11]
      • Curved Acacia-like Trees
      • Along with plains, the savannah is one of the two biomes where horses now spawn naturally
      • NPC Villages may generate in savannah biomes
    • Roofed/Black Forest
      • Has dark grass and giant 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
      • This is the first biome aside from the Mushroom Island that naturally spawns with giant mushrooms
      • It appears to have yellow illuminating mushrooms
    • Birch Forest[11]
      • A forest made of birch trees.
    • Sunflower Plains
      • Exactly the same as Plains, but can spawn Sunflowers
    • Flower Forest
      • Forest variant with several of the new flowers, including peonies, orange tulips, white tulips, oxeye daisies, rose bush and allium
    • Deep Ocean
      • Is about ten blocks deeper than normal oceans, the maximum depth is in the low 30s
    • Extreme Hills+
      • Contains spruce trees
    • Extreme Hills
      • Snow at high elevations of over y=95
      • Contain rock and large dirt patches
      • Gravel can replace ground cover
      • Flat plains near sea level
    • Taiga
      • Non-snowy taiga variation. The previous taiga biomes are now cold taiga biomes[11]
  • Biome Variants/Technical Biomes
    • M - Biomes with an M variant are much rarer than any other variant.
      • Extreme Hills M, Taiga M, Roofed Forest M, Extreme Hills+ M, Savanna M Mesa Plateau M and Mesa Plateau F M are more mountainous versions of their normal biome counterpart.
      • Desert M has patches of water unlike normal deserts
      • Birch Forest M has taller birch trees than usual
      • Swampland M, Jungle M, JungleEdge M, Birch Forest Hills M, Cold Taiga M and Savanna Plateau M are other rare technical biome variants
    • Plateau - Biomes with a Plateau variant are like the hills technical biome, but flattened at the top
      • Savanna Plateau and Mesa Plateau are both plateaus
    • Hills - More technical hills biomes are added to fit with the new biomes.
      • Birch Forest Hills, Cold Taiga Hills and Mega Taiga Hills can now be generated
  • World types
    • AMPLIFIED
    • Mountains in this world type can reach up to Y: 256
    • Extremely resource intensive and requires powerful computer to run
    • Ravines here can reach down to bedrock.

Improvements & Changes

  • Categorisation of Biomes
    • Four main categories based on temperature[2]
      • Snow-covered, cold, medium, dry/warm
  • Placement of Biomes
    • Biomes will attempt to avoid getting placed next to a biome that is too different to itself[2]
  • Biomes
    • Plains
      • Now spawns with two of the new flowers - azure bursts and dandelions
    • Ocean[12][13][14]
      • Oceans are smaller and take up much less of the map[2]
      • Contain only gravel on the floor instead of sand, dirt, and gravel
    • Swampland
      • Grass is greener and fluctuates more in color, depending on biome temperature
      • In shallower parts, the coast is covered in staggered dirt block with lilypads between them
    • Jungle
      • Melons can now be found in Jungle Biomes in patches similar to Pumpkins
      • Variants: Jungle M and JungleEdge
    • Extreme Hills
  • Snow
    • Snow may now generate depending on Y level, with noise variation[16]
    • Biome dependent[17]
  • Most biomes have uncommon/rare variations[2]
  • Gravel beaches appear more often

Gameplay

Additions

  • Commands
    • /summon
      • Can be used to summon any entity in the game to the player, including Giants, Ender Crystals, Ender Dragons, and primed TNT
      • can contain NBT data using the dataTag
      • Usage: /summon <EntityName> [x] [y] [z] [dataTag]
  • Particle effects
    • Fishing now has many different particle effects. [18]
      • Bubbles will show up moving towards your bobber just before you have something on your hook. This has the appearance of a fish swimming towards the hook.
    • Falling now has particle effects[19]
      • Particle size depends on distance fell

Improvements & Changes

  • Fishing
  • Achievements and statistics[26]
    • Now ties in with the scoreboard system - added 744 new objective criteria that were previously tracked with statistics and achievements
    • Are now per world/server[27]
    • Achievements screen can now be zoomed in and out using the mouse wheel.
    • Achievements don't appear on the achievements screen if more than five achievements need to be achieved first (i.e. "DIAMONDS!" doesn't appear until "Getting Wood" is achieved).
    • Data for an block, item, or mob doesn't appear in their respective tab in the Statistics screen unless the player has crafted/placed/mined that block, crafted/used/depleted that item, or killed/was killed by that mob.
    • New achievements: Repopulation, Adventuring Time, The Beginning?, The Beginning., and Beaconator
    • New statistics: Distance by Horse, Junk Fished, and Treasure Fished
  • Scoreboard[28][29][30][31]
    • 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
  • Commands
    • /give
      • Can now give items to players with custom names, lore and enchantments [32]
      • Usage: /give <player> <ID> <quantity> <damage value> {display:{Name:"",Lore:["",""]},ench:[0:{id: ,lvl: }]}
      • It can also give items with other custom NBT tags, such as SkullOwner to obtain the Head of a specific player, or even custom mob spawner traits, which removes the necessity to use an NBT editing program to obtain these items.
    • /time set day
      • Now sets the time to 1000 instead of 0
  • Fog
    • Increased fog distance

Blocks & Items

Additions

  • Fish
    • Pufferfish
      • Restores 🍗
      • If eaten, you will be given Poison IV for 1 minute, Hunger III and Nausea II for 15 seconds.[33]
      • Used to brew a water breathing potion.[34]
    • Salmon
      • Can be cooked and eaten
      • Uncooked: Restores 🍗
      • Cooked: Restores 🍗🍗🍗
    • Clownfish
      • Usage still unknown besides being eaten
      • Restores 🍗
  • Packed Ice
    • When broken, does not turn to water like normal ice blocks do
    • Does not melt
    • Opaque, rather than translucent like normal ice
  • Podzol
    • New grass variation
    • Only found in Redwood Forest Biomes
  • Grassless Dirt
    • Grass can not grow on it
    • Only obtainable through /give
  • Trees[2]
    • Curved jungle trees with oak leaves. Found in savannas.[35]
    • Thick Spruce Trees (2x2)
  • Flowers
    • Red, Orange, White and Pink Tulips.[36]
      • Can be crafted to Red, Orange, Light Gray, and Pink Dyes, respectively
    • Blue Orchid
      • Can be crafted to Light Blue Dye
    • Allium
      • Can be crafted to Magenta Dye
    • Azure Bluet
      • Can be crafted to Light Gray Dye
    • Oxeye Daisy
      • Can be crafted to Light Gray Dye
    • Poppy replaced Rose
    • All flowers can burn
  • Two blocks tall Flowers
    • Applying bonemeal to them causes them to dispense a flower item that can be collected. Therefore, all two blocks tall flowers are renewable.
    • Sunflowers[37]
    • Pink Peonies, called Peony.[36]
      • Can be crafted into 2 Pink Dye
    • Rose bush
      • Can be crafted into 2 Red Dye
    • Lilac[39]
      • Can be crafted into 2 Magenta Dye
  • Two block tall grass.[39][40][41]
    • Double Tallgrass
      • Can be made by applying Bonemeal to Tallgrass.
    • Large Fern

Improvements & Changes

  • Written Books
    • Can now be cloned the same way maps can, but by using Book and Quills instead of Empty Maps. [42]
    • Can clone multiple copies of the same Written Book by putting more Book and Quills in the crafting grid.[43]
    • Can now be stacked (up to 16 per stack)
  • Item Frames
    • Now drop the item inside them when punched, then drop themselves if they are punched when empty. [44]
    • Will display the name of the item they hold (if it is custom named) when looked at up close.[45]
  • Weighted Pressure Plates
    • Now output a signal relative to the amount of entities on them, always starting at 1 signal strength if any entities are present
    • For Light Weighted Pressure Plates, every entity adds 1 strength to the signal
    • For Heavy Weighted Pressure Plates, starting at 1, every 10 entities adds 1 strength to the signal (Example: 11 entities increases signal strength to 2)
  • Sugar Cane
    • Color/shade is now affected by the biome color (similar to leaves, grass, vines, etc.)
  • Flint and Steel
  • Dead Bushes
    • Can now be placed on Hardened Clay and Stained Clay.
  • Command Blocks
    • Now show what command it ran recently.
  • Water & Ice
    • No longer translucent on Fast graphics

General

Additions

  • Resource packs
  • The ability to select multiple resource packs at once.[46][47]
    • Resource packs at the top take precedence over those below.[48]
    • Allows for non-manual merging of textures from multiple packs, a sound pack and a different texture pack, etc.[49]

Improvements & Changes

  • Lighting
  • Several lighting issues fixed.
  • Options
    • A completely new main options menu. [53]
      • Called "Super Secret Settings" ingame
      • As of snapshot 13w36a, after clicking this, a random sound will be played at a low pitch.
    • A new "Select Resource Pack" menu.[46]
    • Rewrote Key Config.[54]
      • Function and sprint keys can be changed.
        • By default, sprinting can be activated by holding down the left control key
        • The original sprinting controls (double-tap forward or double-tap backward while holding down forward) still function.
      • 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.[55]
  • Creative mode inventory
    • Changed the display item for the Decoration Blocks tab from the Rose to the new Paeonia flower.[56]

Mobs

Improvements & Changes

Bug Fixes

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.[57]
  • "Make it prettier".[58]
  • Add the possibility to play Indev and versions of Cave Game.[59][60]
Unknown

Other planned features, items, and blocks

Feature Description
Transparent Clouds Jeb originally made clouds transparent when looking from underneath it in snapshot 13w06a.[61] 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."[62]
Cauldron Enhancement Dinnerbone plans to make buckets fillable from cauldrons.[63]
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.[64][65]
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.[66]
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.[67][68] 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.[69]
Limited Maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[70][68]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[71][68] 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".[72]
More Interesting Villagers Jeb mentioned during a Q&A at Minecon 2012 that he would like to expand upon the complexity of Villagers eventually.[73]
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.[74] Jeb informed players on his AMA on Reddit that he would add red dragons, but was unsure exactly how.[75]
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)[76]
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.[77][78]
  • Seasons may include changes in color of tree leaves.
Account System Update[79] 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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