Mojang already ran a full Minecraft Live back in March, the one with the Minecraft Dungeons II reveal, so a bonus broadcast out of TwitchCon Europe a few months later is a whole lot of Minecraft for the primary half of the 12 months. The studio packed it with a brand new game drop, a have a look at this 12 months’s third update, more on Dungeons II, and the title of the movie sequel.
First up is Chaos Cubed, an upcoming drop built around a brand new sulfur caves biome and the sulfur cube, a mob that feeds on blocks and absorbs their properties. The fun part is what you possibly can do with it afterward. You possibly can lob the cubes around with different physics, treat one like a ball, or feed it a stack of TNT and strap the result to a blissful ghast. Is that a cheap use of resources? No. Is it the very first thing most individuals are going to try? Probably.
The team also pulled back the curtain on this 12 months’s third drop, which adds a biome called the dappled forest. Picture warm gray poplar wood, a landscape coloured by poplar trees, persistently red shrubs, and abandoned camps scattered around to provide you something to dig into. The developers spent a part of the segment handing out decorating suggestions, and the takeaway, apparently, is that herringbone patterns are in. More details are coming closer to the autumn.
When Minecraft Dungeons II was revealed in March, the trailer teased what looked like an activated Ancient City portal, and we now know where that thread goes. Players will run into the Twisted Warden, a brand new enemy tied to the ominous deep dark portal. By all accounts it’s slow but hits like a truck, which is what you’d expect in a dungeon crawler. Dungeons II is the sequel to the 2020 original that reached greater than 25 million players, and it’s still heading in the right direction for later this 12 months on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC, with day one availability on XBOX Game Pass.
There was a LEGO crossover, too. TwitchCon’s Minecraft Arena recreated a couple of biomes in real life and built a large Twisted Warden pulled straight from Dungeons II. LEGO used the moment to indicate off an upcoming Dungeons II set before unveiling a brand new LEGO Minecraft Chicken Mounts add-on, which is out there now on the Minecraft Marketplace. If you have got ever desired to ride, customize, or do battle on a chicken, here you go.
After which, in the course of a broadcast about blocks, got here the movie news. The sequel to A Minecraft Movie is officially titled A Minecraft Movie Squared, which is either a math joke or a blocks joke, and it really works either way for a franchise built on cubes. I’ll admit I wasn’t sold on the primary movie’s realistic art direction when the teaser dropped, nevertheless it went on to make nearly $961 million worldwide, so what do I do know.
Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Danielle Brooks are all back, with Matt Berry returning in an undisclosed role after voicing the Nitwit in the primary film. The headliner, though, is Kirsten Dunst, who’s joining the forged as Alex. Director Jared Hess returns as well, and the sequel is ready to hit theaters on July 23, 2027.
Mojang also kicked off a Minecraft Movie Construct Challenge, where players can submit movie-inspired builds for a shot at seeing their creation appear within the film or its credits, plus a non-public screening and tickets. As for the stuff you possibly can actually play, the drops and Dungeons II are all landing this 12 months. The movie, math joke and all, is a 2027 problem.
Minecraft Live – May 2026