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Hello future (and past) MINECONners!We have excellent news for you all: tickets are going on sale on May 6 and May 7! We’re selling them in two batches to give people in different time-zones a fair chance - you can check out the countdown to each sale time at https://minecon.minecraft.net...

Earlier this year, we announced Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft designed to help kids learn real good and make better brain-words about stuff. We’re pleased to say a Beta program will launch this May, involving over 100 schools from 30 countries all around the world...

Hi everyone,We get lots of requests here at Mojang. And, though we don’t share your love of toilets and guns, we do agree that Minecraft Realms is a great thing that should be spread across the world, and to all editions of Minecraft.For that reason, I’m happy to announce that we’re working...

While we have started working on it, there won’t be any snapshots for Minecraft 1.10 for at least another 2-3 weeks. This snapshot is for Minecraft 1.9.x and will eventually lead to a 1.9.3 pre-release.TL;DR: this snapshot is for 1.9.x and not for 1.10Notable changes:Introduces some new...

While we have started working on it, there won’t be any snapshots for Minecraft 1.10 for at least another 2-3 weeks. This snapshot is for Minecraft 1.9.x and will eventually lead to a 1.9.3 pre-release.TL;DR: this snapshot is for 1.9.x and not for 1.10Notable changes:Introduces some new...

To celebrate the dramatic conclusion of Story Mode’s first season, we’re releasing a skin pack so you can strut your stuff in the shape of Jesse, Olivia, Axel, Petra and many other characters from Telltale’s adventure series. There are 27 different skins in total and they’re all free for the...

Woho! It’s already time for a pre-release of the next Minecraft version: 1.RV, The Trendy Update! This must have been the speediest update we’ve ever been able to push out, only a few days after 1.9.2.With the Trendy Update we thought; why should we bring Minecraft to modern technology when...

Update: Minecraft 1.9.2 is now available and fixed the issue that some players could not connect to some servers or their realms.1.9.1 notes:Woooosh. That’s the sound of the elytra and the main feature of the 1.9.1 release of Minecraft. The second notable change is a new property (toughness)...

The adventure didn’t end with the Wither Storm, you know. Jesse and his chums now find themselves on a new journey to Sky City - mysterious, beautiful and very, very keen on rules. (Well, except gravity.)And you can join Jesse and the gang in Story Mode Episode 5 right now!Check out the...

Elytra sounds are now ready, so we bundled them with a few bug fixes and decided to make a Minecraft 1.9.1 pre-release available for everyone to test these changes.Most of us are going to San Francisco next week to attend GDC, so we will release Minecraft 1.9.1 in two weeks.Notable changes...

The arrow struck the shield with a impactful “thud!”. Steve peeked around the shield’s edge and saw the arrow was wrapped in a note! Steve excitedly pulled it loose to see what it said…“You’re happy you had that shield, aren’t you?”And yes, Steve was pretty happy.Minecraft has been...

Hey hey!We’re happy to let you know that the first update of the year for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Beta Edition is now out! So what cool things are there? Let’s take a closer look!Like previously talked about we got some nice additions for you Redstone builders and...

It is time to stop waiting and start playing. A pre-release of Minecraft 1.9 is now available. We are very excited to enter the final stage before the new version is released.First the answer to the most asked question: We are currently planning to release the final version of Minecraft 1.9...

Hello!When you play Minecraft, you never know what you’re going to find when you break past those next few blocks, and that feeling of anticipation can be quite exciting, yes?Well, we wanted to bring that same sense of discovery and creativity, but with cool monthly shipments of Minecraft...

A snapshot on a Monday? How is that possible? We could just pretend it’s Wednesday, or explain what’s going on. So, here we go:It’s actually Wednesday, so all is good……just kidding. It’s not Wednesday and here’s the real reason:As we get closer to the first pre-release for Minecraft 1.9...

Hello cube heads! :)I hope you’re as excited as we’re, because we’ve been really looking forward to this!So let’s get to the juicy bits! Here’s the super awesome exciting change log! 0.14.0 is a bit focused on redstone pieces, but also other things.Repeaters, comparators, dispensers...

Some bugs in the game are more annoying than others. So we decided to take care of some of the bugs that were good candidates for winning a “most popular bugs” contest. We are very sorry for closing tickets with a large fan base. These issues will be missed, but we are relatively sure that their...

Hello!We’ve made even more skins for you players of Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition Beta.In celebration of Year of The Monkey, we’ve created a pack based on Journey to the West - an ancient Chinese novel by Wu Cheng’en. You might not have heard of that, but you probably know...

It’s been some time since we last checked in on new maps for Minecraft Realms, so let’s get into it! Here are a bevy of new adventure maps, survival starters, and minigames ready for you to play right now!Half Heart Race by Team WoolooSince the 2015 Minecon speedruns, it seems there’s been...

Hello!Some time this year we’re planning on launching a new, upgraded, Minecraft.net. It will include fancy features, community content, and extra special secret stuff that we don’t want to share quite yet. It’s going to be spectacular.But that’s some time in the future. For now, we’re...