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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
1.8?[1]
  • One click broadcasting to Twitch.tv [2]
    • Microphone can be recorded too.
    • Chat integration in the game. [3]
  • Possibly chewing animations as in real life
  • Adding wind
  • Adding stained wood
  • Possibly eating mushrooms
  • Possibly cities
    • It can be a city like Denver
  • Possibly daylight saving time in minecraft
  • Adding dates to the debug screen
  • Possibly snow in the winter

Bug Fixes

  • MC-37106 - All the textures are flipped/mirrored on north/east sides of blocks
Dec 28

Other planned features, items, and blocks

Feature Description
More In-game Music C418 tweeted that more Minecraft in-game music was planned for release in November 2013, including music for The Nether and The End. [4][5]
Transparent Clouds Jeb originally made clouds transparent when looking from underneath it in snapshot 13w06a.[6] However, this change was reverted in 13w10b as Jeb noticed that the fix caused an FPS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."[7]
Cauldron Enhancement Dinnerbone plans to make buckets fillable from cauldrons.[8]
Rendering Engine Rewrite First confirmed for 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.This has partially been added in 1.7[9][10]
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.[11]
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.[12][13] 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. At minecraft 2012 Jeb stated that it would be a large implementation on the server side and will be used for all Mojang games, and that is a big project. [14] [15]
Optional Limited Maps The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[12]
Video Support The Minecraft documentary team of 2 Player Productions filmed a Keynote roadmap, containing these lines.[12] 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".[16]
More Interesting Villagers Jeb mentioned during a Q&A at Minecon 2012 that he would like to expand upon the complexity of Villagers eventually.[17]
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)[18]
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.[19][20]
  • Seasons may include changes in color of tree leaves.
Account System Update[21] 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.
Removing Enchantments Dinnerbone stated that there will be a way to remove enchantments from items.[22]

References


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