Minecraft Just Dropped Big News—Here's Everything You Should Know - Kotaku

Mojang unrecorded streamed its yearly Minecraft Live update lawsuit connected October 15. With it came a bevy of details for what the sandbox game’s developers person truthful acold lone identified arsenic the 1.20 update.

1.20 won’t beryllium afloat released until an unspecified day successful 2023, and its developers haven’t mentioned a imaginable sanction oregon taxable for it similar they person with past updates. They did establish, though, successful a benignant of heartening Home Goods fashion, that it was important the update allowed players to “express themselves successful their ain unique, beauteous ways.”

Or, “We privation to marque Minecraft Minecraft-ier,” developer Agnes Larsson said.

Though immoderate aspects of the creativity-focused update are inactive a mystery, 1.20’s beta volition rotation retired successful “a fewer days.” To prepare, I’ll speech you done what we cognize truthful far, and look implicit the fewer intriguing extras Mojang threw into its livestream, too, similar different Minecraft Dungeon taxable and a bat-shaped DLC.

Let’s speech camel

But first, camel. Out of each the announced update aspects, it seems similar radical are astir looking guardant to worshiping the upcoming, pie-faced camels and cherishing their gangly bodies..

Camel mobs, similar horses, volition service arsenic proscription for players, but they person a fewer unsocial features:

• Two players tin thrust astatine the aforesaid time
• Camels volition mostly determination slower than horses
• A caveat: camels tin dash crossed level surfaces to wide ravines oregon rivers, oregon sprint to debar enemies
• To breed them, you provender them prickly cacti

They are remarkably adorable, but they aren’t the lone notable update aspect. Mojang besides announced:

• Seven caller default skins — describing it arsenic portion of their absorption connected subordinate creativity and expression, Minecraft’s developers announced additional default skins. These skins adhd antithetic tegument tones, hairsbreadth colors, though mostly the aforesaid blocky features (it’s a artifact game) to players’ starting options.
• Real bookshelves you tin interact with
• Bamboo — this worldly tin beryllium utilized to make buildings oregon rafts for cruising bodies of water
• Hanging signs for showing disconnected businesses (or immoderate you want)

Minecraft Dungeons goes Halloween

Outside of the 1.20 update, Minecraft developers disclosed that the flagship game’s dungeon crawler sibling Minecraft Dungeon, archetypal released successful 2020, would summation a fewer Halloween-y additions. This includes immoderate spooky outfits, similar the Hungriest Horror Armor set, the (free) Cloaked Armor Set, and a Minecraft Dungeons Heroes Skin Pack for playing mundane formal up in.

Additionally, the game’s 3rd seasonal escapade themed event, Fauna Faire, volition start connected October 19. It has a quality theme, and it’ll adhd immoderate tree-hugging escaped contented and cosmetics, arsenic good arsenic a creepy Phantom Familiar pet, to the game.

Gotham Knights ticker out—Minecraft present has a Batman DLC

Minecraft’s Batman DLC volition fto you instrumentality down fan-favorite villains similar Harley Quinn, the Joker, and the Riddler with puzzle-solving and combat. It besides presents a sprawling Gotham City arsenic it’s ne'er been seen before, arsenic a bid of towering cubes. We should demolish each pre-war buildings and compact them into cubes.

The DLC volition go disposable connected October 18, but a Batman Cap is already disposable for escaped successful the quality creator.

Minecraft Legends is launching successful 2023

Finally, Minecraft developers provided an in-depth look astatine and demo of Minecraft Legends, a strategy crippled spinoff antecedently announced this summer.

The pleasantly pastoral crippled volition see a four-player co-op and merchandise successful outpouring 2023

What announcement are you astir excited about?