This Sunday, Minecraft Live was held, the event most anticipated by fans of this saga and brought news for all tastes. The most seasoned fans in this world were undoubtedly vibrating with the details of Minecraft Vanilla update 1.21: it will arrive in mid-2024.
For a more general audience, the arrival of a new Star Wars DLC (which takes players from being a padawan to a Jedi knight) and another for Planet Earth III, also woke them up. Let’s review in detail everything that was announced at this mega event.
Minecraft Vanilla update 1.21: one of the most anticipated announcements
There is no longer any room for doubt: Minecraft Vanilla update 1.21 will arrive in mid-2024 and will add new features, including automated crafting, test chambers, copper light bulbs, a test spawner and the Breeze: a hostile mob newly added to Minecraft.
The craftsman
There is also The Crafter, an automated crafting system that will be of “particular interest to redstone engineers” and we will detail it later in this article. But continuing with the generalities of 1.21, we have news about “the test chambers”.
They will be procedurally generated underground structures and will present new challenges to overcome. In these tests the aforementioned Breeze will appear.
What is The Breeze?
Going into more detail about “this breeze”, it is a hostile mob, as we already mentioned. He is found in the Combat Judgment Halls: a challenge for exploring players. The Breeze move by jumping and shooting wind-powered projectiles that explode. Additionally, they will explode immediately if they collide with a player, extra difficulty.
If it manages to hit a player or entity, it will explode immediately. These explosions cover a radius of several blocks, but deal little damage while also knocking down all entities in the area – pretty crazy stuff.
copper bulb
What exactly? They are new blocks that emit light and are made of copper and like other blocks of the same material, they will oxidize over time. The more oxidized it is, the dimmer its light will be.
What use would you give it?
Let’s go with the DLC announcements!
There is little left. On November 7, the marketplace of Minecraft will host the Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC. If you are a Star Wars fan, you can’t miss it. You will literally be able to play from “Padawan to Jedi Knight” and will display a wide variety of gameplay features, such as lightsaber combat and the use of Force powers. As they pointed out at the event.
On the other hand, Planet Earth III DLC also arrives. It will be released in 2024 by Minecraft Education and BBC Earth. Because? To celebrate the upcoming Planet Earth III series.
Like its Frozen Planet II DLC, this content “will immerse players in the wonders of the natural world with the overall message that everything in nature is connected and therefore we have to take care of our planet so that it can take care of of us,” as they noted in the broadcast.
News in Minecraft Legends: new updates
Craig Leigh, lead design director for Minecraft Legends, shared some exciting updates coming to the game – including new lost legends like Creeper Clash in time for Halloween and Snow vs Snout in December.
The Minecraft Legends December update has also been announced, which will include frogs, a new piglin unit and structure. This is not all, new witch allies who can throw potions are also included.
Vote: won. the Armadillo
Remember that there were votes. The Minecraft community was given the opportunity to choose between an armadillo, a penguin, or a crab for the 2023 mob vote, and the armadillo won with a percentage of 42.3%.
The crab came second with 32.5% and the penguin came last with 25.2%. Honestly, we still had faith in the penguin.
DON’T FORGET: 2024 is Minecraft’s 15th anniversary
Until now, no very relevant information has been given about this, but there is something that has been confirmed: whether the 15th anniversary of Minecraft will be celebrated. So literally: more things are coming.