Minecraft versions

Wilderness Bound added the autumn-themed dappled forest biome with poplar trees, shelf mushrooms and red shrubs, plus abandoned camps that generate across 16 biomes.

• New dappled forest biome with poplar trees in autumn colors
• Abandoned camp structure generates across 16 biome types
• Wool and concrete stairs and slabs in all 16 colors
• Cushions are a sittable furniture entity in 16 colors

Chaos Cubed added sulfur and cinnabar building sets, the sulfur caves underground biome, and sulfur cubes, passive mobs that absorb blocks and take on their physics.

• New sulfur caves underground biome with sulfur and cinnabar
• Sulfur cubes absorb blocks and change physics to match
• Sulfur and cinnabar building sets with stairs, slabs and walls
• Potent sulfur creates geysers under water and magma blocks

Tiny Takeover was the first release on the new year.drop.hotfix version numbering and the first to ship fully unobfuscated, requiring Java 25.

• First release using the year.drop.hotfix version format
• Ships fully unobfuscated, with no obfuscated variant
• Requires Java 25 and bundles the Microsoft build of OpenJDK 25
• Golden dandelion pauses and resumes baby mob aging

Mounts of Mayhem added the nautilus and several undead mounts, spears in seven material tiers and nautilus armor for riding underwater.

• Nautilus is a tameable, rideable aquatic mob
• Spears in seven material tiers with jab and charge attacks
• Nautilus armor in five tiers plus netherite horse armor
• Camel husks, parched and zombie nautilus added

The Copper Age built copper out into a full tool, armor and decoration set and added the copper golem, which sorts items between chests.

• Copper tools, copper armor and a copper block family added
• Copper golem spawns from a pumpkin on a copper block
• Shelves store up to three stacks and respond to redstone
• Mannequins added as customizable player-like entities

Chase the Skies added the happy ghast, a rideable flying mob that carries up to four players, grown from a dried ghast block into a ghastling.

• Happy ghast is a rideable flying mob for up to four players
• Dried ghast block hydrates in water to spawn ghastlings
• Locator bar shows other players' directions on the HUD
• 16 colored harnesses for riding a happy ghast

Spring to Life filled the overworld with new plant life and gave pigs, cows and chickens cold and warm biome variants.

• Cold and warm variants for pigs, cows and chickens
• Leaf litter, wildflowers, bushes and firefly bushes added
• Fallen trees and cactus flowers generate naturally
• Wolves gained six new sound variants

The Garden Awakens added the pale garden biome with pale oak trees, resin blocks and the creaking, a hostile mob that freezes while a player looks at it.

• New pale garden biome with pale oak trees and moss
• The creaking, a hostile mob tied to a creaking heart block
• Full pale oak wood set plus resin blocks and resin bricks
• Eyeblossom flowers open and close with the day cycle

Bundles of Bravery added the bundle, an item that holds a mixed stack of up to 64 items and comes in 16 dyed colors.

• Bundle item holds a mixed stack of up to 64 items
• Bundles craft from string and leather in 16 dyed colors
• Baby dolphin, squid and glow squid variants added
• Salmon now come in small, medium and large sizes

Tricky Trials added trial chambers, an underground structure built around trial spawners and vaults.

• Trial chambers generate underground with combat challenges
• Trial spawners and vaults give loot
• Breeze and bogged mobs added
• Mace, crafted from a breeze rod and a heavy core

Armored Paws added the armadillo, wolf armour and eight wolf variants.

• Armadillo and wolf armour added
• Eight new wolf variants that spawn by biome
• Item NBT replaced by structured data components
• Requires Java 21 and a 64 bit operating system

Trails & Tales added archaeology, armour trims, camels and sniffers, plus the cherry grove biome and two new wood sets.

• Archaeology with the brush, suspicious sand and pottery sherds
• Armour trims from 16 smithing templates
• Camel and sniffer mobs added
• Cherry grove biome and a full cherry wood set

The Wild Update added the deep dark, ancient cities and the warden, along with mangrove swamps, frogs and allays.

• Deep dark biome and ancient cities added
• Warden added, a blind mob that hunts by vibration
• Mangrove swamp biome and a full mangrove wood set
• Frogs, tadpoles and allays added

Caves & Cliffs: Part II rebuilt Overworld terrain generation and made the world 384 blocks tall, from Y=-64 to Y=319.

• World height raised to 384 blocks, from Y=-64 to Y=319
• Terrain generation is now independent from biomes
• Six new mountain biomes and two cave biomes
• Noise caves and aquifers replace the old cave system

Caves & Cliffs: Part I delivered the blocks and mobs half of the update, with copper, deepslate, amethyst, candles, axolotls, glow squid and goats.

• Copper ore, ingots and blocks with four oxidation stages
• Deepslate and deepslate variants of every ore
• Amethyst geodes generate underground
• Axolotls, glow squid and goats added

The Nether Update turned the Nether into somewhere worth building in, with four biomes, four mobs and netherite gear.

• Four new Nether biomes
• Netherite tools and armour, upgraded from diamond
• Piglins, hoglins, zoglins and striders added
• Bastion remnants, ruined portals and nether fossils generate

Buzzy Bees added bees, bee nests, beehives and the honey blocks and items around them.

• Bees, bee nests and beehives added
• Honey bottles, honeycomb and honey blocks added
• Honey blocks slow movement and can be pushed by pistons
• Three new advancements for bees and honey

Village & Pillage rebuilt villages and villagers, added seven new mobs and spread crafting across new job site blocks.

• Villages rebuilt to match the biome they sit in
• Seven new mobs, the most since 1.0.0
• Crafting split across new job site blocks
• Crossbow added with Quick Charge, Piercing and Multishot

Update Aquatic rebuilt Minecraft's oceans and added the trident, conduits and a set of water mobs.

• Oceans rebuilt with coral reefs, kelp forests and icebergs
• Tridents, conduits and turtle shells added
• Dolphins, drowned, turtles, phantoms and fish added
• The Flattening replaced numeric block IDs with namespaced ids

1.12, the World of Color Update, added concrete, glazed terracotta and coloured beds, plus parrots and the recipe book.

• Concrete and concrete powder in 16 colours
• Glazed terracotta in 16 colours with directional patterns
• Beds in all 16 colours
• Parrots in jungles, tameable with seeds

1.11, the Exploration Update, added woodland mansions with the illager mobs, shulker boxes, llamas, observers and the totem of undying.

• Woodland mansions in roofed forest biomes
• Illagers: vindicators, evokers and summoned vexes
• Shulker boxes keep their contents when broken
• Llamas that form caravans and carry chests

1.10, the Frostburn Update, added fire and ice themed content: magma blocks, fossils, polar bears and the husk and stray mob variants.

• Magma blocks that damage anything standing on them
• Polar bears in the ice biomes
• Husks in deserts and strays in cold biomes
• Fossils made of bone blocks generate underground

1.9, the Combat Update, replaced click spam fighting with an attack cooldown and added shields, an offhand slot and elytra.

• Attack cooldown replaces click spam combat
• Shields and an offhand slot for dual wielding
• Elytra found on End ships let players glide
• The End gains outer islands, End cities and shulkers

1.8, the Bountiful Update, added ocean monuments, rabbits, guardians, banners and a long list of decorative blocks.

• Ocean monuments with guardians and elder guardians
• Rabbits, endermites and armour stands
• Banners in 16 colours with layered patterns
• Spectator mode and a customizable world border

1.7.2 rebuilt world generation with a dozen new biomes and rewrote the network stack on Netty.

• Eight new biomes plus mesa, savanna and roofed forest
• Stained glass and stained glass panes in 16 colours
• Acacia and dark oak wood sets
• Networking rewritten on the Netty library