First Minecraft 1.20 details revealed at Minecraft Live 2022, including camels and hanging signs
Minecraft 1.20 is all about player expression and representation.
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One of the core tenets of Minecraft is how it expands and evolves over time, and the next year will be no different for the developers at Mojang Studios. At least one major content update is planned for Minecraft, and Mojang Studios has finally revealed part of its plan for delivering fresh content to players on Saturday.
DuringMinecraft Live 2022, Mojang Studios took the wraps of Minecraft 1.20, the currently unnamed content update heading to all vanillaMinecraftplayers at some point in 2023. The focus of this update is player expression, representation, and creativity, with Mojang Studios wanting to add features that allow players to more effectively play how they want, while being whoever they want. According to the creators behind the legendary survival game, this update is all about making Minecraft “Minecraftier.” This time around, though, Mojang Studios is approaching Minecraft’s next content update a little differently.
A major change that Mojang Studios is enacting with the Minecraft 1.20 update is in how it announces features. Both the Caves & Cliffs Update and The Wild Update were mired in controversy due to a number of announced features that were later delayed or canceled, such as archaeology, birch forest improvements, and fireflies. Mojang Studios is responding to community feedback, and now only intends to reveal features and content that are far along in development and have little chance of being delayed or abandoned.
Intentionally avoiding announcing the full plan or even the name for the Minecraft 1.20 update will allow Mojang Studios to work even more closely with the community on its development, while focusing only on features that are nearly in players' hands. This change, however, means that Mojang Studios only showcased a handful of features to come in Minecraft 1.20, with more to be shown in the coming months. Here’s everything from the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 content update that was shown during Minecraft Live 2022:
Mojang Studios also announced that all the features shown off during Minecraft Live 2022 are closer than players expect, an exciting move that goes hand-in-hand with the studio’s new commitment to transparency and increased community involvement. The first snapshots andMinecraft Previewbuilds for Minecraft 1.20 are only a few days away from being released with the update’s first four features, giving players a chance to go hands-on and provide feedback in record time.
Over time, the 1.20 update is likely to expand with new features and content, but only when Mojang Studios is confident the features in store are near completion and practically guaranteed to make it to the finish line. In this way, Mojang Studios hopes to alleviate the frustration of long Minecraft update development times while still adding plenty of new content to one of thebest games from Xbox. Minecraft 1.20 will officially release for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition and Minecraft: Java Edition in 2023.
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
The first details for Minecraft 1.20 have been revealed during Minecraft Live 2022, with Mojang Studios detailing four new features coming in the future update, including camels and hanging signs.
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