Mojang is changing the release pace of Minecraft updates in favor of more frequent content drops. This strategy shift was announced as part of a wider overview of the future of the game, which also saw Mojang tease some other changes to its Minecraft development practices.
The hit sandbox game has generally been receiving one major update per year for over half a decade by now. The latest such content drop debuted in June 2024 in the form of Minecraft's Tricky Trials update.
Mojang recently released the new Tricky Trials update in Minecraft, but the developer should next address updating one long-forgotten biome.
Mojang has now decided to shake things up a bit, having just committed to releasing Minecraft updates more frequently moving forward. Rather than having one content drop per year, usually during the summer, the company now plans to space out updates throughout each calendar year. These future releases will "vary in size," Minecraft Head Ryan Cooper wrote in a recent blog post dedicated to the future of the game's development. The executive also said that Mojang had already started experimenting with these smaller releases back in December 2023, when it turned decorated pots into working storage...
