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Minecraft Live 2021: Everything You Need to Know

2021-10-16T20:26:00Z

This year's annual Minecraft show, Minecraft Live, has concluded, with a host of news and announcements, including which mob has been chosen by the community to be added to the game.

Minecraft Live 2021, hopefully the last year without in-person events, was a two-hour long show made by Mojang featuring all things Minecraft.

The pre-show featured many community members from around the world, including Mumbo Jumbo, Smajor, and Jazzghost.

Mob vote

This year's mob vote gave the community three options to choose from:

the glare, which helps you find which areas are dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn by becoming grumpy when it's too dark;
the allay, which when given an item goes and collects any more of that item it can find nearby and drops them off at a music box;
and the copper golem, which can be built by a player and likes to press buttons, and can freeze into a statue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s58orudNZ94

The glare came in last, receiving only 11.2% in the first round of voting and was eliminated.

The copper golem came second, receiving 37.8% of the vote in the first round and then 45.7% in the second round.

And the community has spoken: in first place is the allay, with 51% in the first round and 54.3% in the second, becoming the next community mob to be added to the game.

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1449428016778682369

Update news

The first segment gave a recap of the soon-to-be-released 1.18 Caves & Cliffs Part II update, which revamps both underground caves and aboveground mountains.

But the update players were waiting to hear about was the following major update, version 1.19.

At the end of the show Mojang announced the Wild Update, focusing on nature above the ground and creepyness below the ground. The update is set to release on all platforms next year.

Note that all footage shown for upcoming updates is still a work in progress and may be subject to change.

Deep dark

The Wild Update includes some features previously set to be added in Caves & Cliffs Part II, specifically the underground 'deep dark' biome. This can be found at the bottom of the world and give you spooky challenges to try and overcome.

The deep dark contains sculk catalysts, which detect when a mob has died nearby and spreads sculk blocks to nearby rock. It also contains the sculk shreaker, which detects movement and creates a loud wailing noise and gives a pulsating Darkness status effect to anyone nearby.

In the deep dark generates the deep dark city, a spooky green- and gray-themed structure where the warden may patrol. The warden pops out of the ground if you make too much noise and can kill in two hits. It can also detect if you get too close too it.

Mangrove swamp

The swamp biome will receive an a new variant, the mangrove swamp, adding mangroves, mud, frogs and fireflies. The swamp came second in the biome vote of Minecon Live 2019.

Mangroves start from a small shoot and grow into a medium-sized tree with vines and thick roots. The addition of mangroves adds a new tree and wood type along with a new variant of all related wooden blocks.

A new method of transporting items will also be implemented, allowing you to place boats in chests to transfer many items across a large area more quickly. Doing so currently has remained a pain for over a decade now.

The mud block generates naturally in the mangrove swamp but can also be created by pouring a water bottle onto dirt. Mud, when placed above a dropstone block, will slowly be drained of its moisture and turn into clay. Mud can also be crafted into mud bricks.

To give life to the new swamps, frogs have been added, as well as their food source, tiny fireflies. Frogs start life as tadpoles, found in the ocean, which can be picked up in a bucket. There are different types of frog, dependent on temperature when growing up, such as the snowy frog or tropical frog. Each frog type has a unique ability.

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1449433273071980548

Other news

Minecraft will be coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC on 2 November, including both the Java and Bedrock editions and many other games.

New Seasonal Adventures have been announced for Minecraft Dungeons, featuring new rewards, pets, skins and emotes.

Minecraft Live 2021 Mob Vote Choices Revealed

2021-10-13T20:15:00Z

Every year at Minecraft Live, Mojang asks the viewers to choose one new creature to add to Minecraft out of a given selection.

This year, the three mobs to choose from are the glare, the allay, and the copper golem.

The glare is a small ghost-like mob that floats around, trying to make its way to an area that is dark. If it finds a dark area, it will get grumpy.

If chosen, you could use this mechanic to find an area that is dark enough for monsters to spawn. This would replace having to use the in-game debug menu to check light levels.

Mojang have previously stated that they want to replace features of the debug menu with proper mechanics, calling it bad game design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYIQsr9vsws

The second mob is the allay, another ghost-like mob that, when given an item, will fly around collecting any more of that item it finds lying around. When a note block is nearby, it will dance, and drop any items it is carrying.

If the allay is selected, you could use this to easily collect fallen items from, e.g., a mob farm. The current method to do this is lots of water streams moving items, which exploits buggy water mechanics that Mojang may not want to keep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdxGwg7cgjw

Lastly, there is the copper golem, a player-crafted mob similar to the existing iron golem. The copper golem is attracted to copper buttons, a new block that would be added if the copper golem is selected, and will randomly press the buttons.

If chosen, you can use this mechanic to create a randomiser, which is quite difficult to do in Minecraft normally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdBhu0KgJo

These three mobs are able to be voted on by the audience of Minecraft Live, starting at 16:00 UTC on this Saturday, 16 October.

In addition to the mob vote, the show will also announce the theme of version 1.19, the next major update after Caves & Cliffs Part II.

Minecraft Live 2021 Announced

2021-09-04T03:41:00Z

Minecraft's annual Minecraft Live convention for 2021 was announced yesterday by developer Mojang.

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1433445392423833602

On 16 October 2021 at 16:00 UTC, Mojang will host a live show all about the game. It will include interviews with developers and community members and a new mob vote where players can vote for a new mob to be added to the game.

Additionally, the theme of the next major update to the game, version 1.19, will be announced, and more information about the remaining features of the Caves & Cliffs update may be revealed.

More information will be released by Mojang as we get closer to the date of the event.

This is set to be the last livestream-only Minecraft event, with Minecraft Festival set to begin next year, an in-person convention reminiscent of the old Minecon convension which ran from 2011 to 2016.

Watch the announcement trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qrUb7a821c