First Minecraft 1.20 details revealed at Minecraft Live 2022, including camels and hanging signs - Windows Central

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Early representation  of Minecraft 1.20.
(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)

What you request to know

  • Minecraft Live 2022 is successful afloat swing, with announcements and quality for the aboriginal of the full Minecraft franchise.
  • During the event, Mojang Studios shared caller details connected the adjacent Minecraft contented update, nether the 1.20 mentation number.
  • The update centers astir subordinate expression, representation, and amended transparency from Mojang Studios.
  • Players tin look guardant to caller features similar hanging signs and chiseled bookshelves.

One of the halfway tenets of Minecraft is however it expands and evolves implicit time, and the adjacent twelvemonth volition beryllium nary antithetic for the developers astatine Mojang Studios. At slightest 1 large contented update is planned for Minecraft, and Mojang Studios has yet revealed portion of its program for delivering caller contented to players connected Saturday.

During Minecraft Live 2022, Mojang Studios took the wraps of Minecraft 1.20, the presently unnamed contented update heading to each vanilla Minecraft players astatine immoderate constituent successful 2023. The absorption of this update is subordinate expression, representation, and creativity, with Mojang Studios wanting to adhd features that let players to much efficaciously play however they want, portion being whoever they want. According to the creators down the legendary endurance game, this update is each astir making Minecraft "Minecraftier." This clip around, though, Mojang Studios is approaching Minecraft's adjacent contented update a small differently.

A large alteration that Mojang Studios is enacting with the Minecraft 1.20 update is successful however it announces features. Both the Caves & Cliffs Update and The Wild Update were mired successful contention owed to a fig of announced features that were aboriginal delayed oregon canceled, specified arsenic archaeology, birch wood improvements, and fireflies. Mojang Studios is responding to assemblage feedback, and present lone intends to uncover features and contented that are acold on successful improvement and person small accidental of being delayed oregon abandoned.

Intentionally avoiding announcing the afloat program oregon adjacent the sanction for the Minecraft 1.20 update volition let Mojang Studios to enactment adjacent much intimately with the assemblage connected its development, portion focusing lone connected features that are astir successful players' hands. This change, however, means that Mojang Studios lone showcased a fistful of features to travel successful Minecraft 1.20, with much to beryllium shown successful the coming months. Here's everything from the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 contented update that was shown during Minecraft Live 2022:

  • Seven caller default characters. Separate from the existent 1.20 update but connected successful theme, Minecraft's infamous Steve and Alex default characters are astir to summation immoderate caller friends. For the archetypal clip successful years, players volition person caller default skins from which to choose.
    • The 7 characters being added are Makene, Efe, Noor, Kai, Ari, Sunny, and Zuri
    • Each quality is visually unique, with a divers scope of appearances including darker tegument tones and adjacent prosthetics
    • The caller characters volition travel to Minecraft successful precocious Nov. oregon aboriginal Dec., 2022 successful a abstracted update
  • Camels. Alongside whichever mob wins the Minecraft Live Mob Vote 2022, the Minecraft 1.20 update volition besides see the camel, a desert-living alternate equine to the horse.
    • The camels connection a unsocial riding acquisition with a "dashing" quality alternatively of a precocious jump
    • Camels besides enactment two-player saddles, a archetypal for Minecraft mounts
    • Camels person a plethora of unsocial animations, similar for laying down
    • The passive mobs tin beryllium recovered successful godforsaken villages
    • Camels are gangly capable that hostile mobs can't scope players erstwhile they're riding them
    • Camels tin beryllium bred utilizing cactus
  • Hanging signs. The classical motion that has helped players statement and nonstop successful Minecraft for years is yet getting an alternate signifier — hanging signs.
    • Hanging signs harvester stripped logs and chains
    • Hanging signs travel successful aggregate varieties, including 2 chains erstwhile suspended from the underside of blocks, a azygous concatenation ending successful a "V" signifier erstwhile suspended from a constrictive artifact similar a fence, and a station with 2 chains erstwhile suspended from the broadside of a block
    • Players tin alteration the colour of hanging signs by utilizing antithetic varieties of wood to trade them
    • Hanging signs are different identical to regular signs regarding substance input
  • Chiseled bookshelves. An breathtaking summation with Minecraft 1.20 is simply a caller benignant of bookshelf, 1 with a much refined acquisition that is besides afloat functional.
    • Chiseled bookshelves tin store up to 6 books of immoderate kind
    • Players dynamically adhd and region books from the bookshelf — determination is nary in-game UI menu
    • Chiseled bookshelves enactment redstone interactions, with comparators capable to archer erstwhile a publication is added oregon pulled from the shelf
    • Using redstone, players volition beryllium capable to make concealed bookshelf passageways and more
    • The regular bookshelf is remaining successful the game
  • Bamboo gathering blocks. Arguably the biggest Minecraft 1.20 summation shown disconnected during Minecraft Live 2022 is simply a afloat suite of gathering blocks and crafting done with bamboo, bringing it successful enactment with different kinds of wood.
    • Bamboo tin beryllium utilized to trade similar wood can, with unsocial designs for planks, stairs, doors, fences, and trapdoors
    • There's besides a unsocial bamboo mosaic artifact with a much decorative design
    • Instead of a bamboo boat, players volition beryllium capable to trade a raft with a unique, level design
    • The raft inactive supports up to 2 players, arsenic good arsenic chests
  • Features not revealed oregon coming. Mojang Studios lone showed disconnected features it's assured volition get with Minecraft 1.20, but determination are different features that either weren't mentioned oregon aren't coming with this update.
    • Mojang Studios did not notation features similar archaeology oregon birch wood improvements
    • The workplace did corroborate that nary biome update is planned for 1.20
    • Fireflies are inactive a anticipation and are being discussed astatine Mojang Studios, but not for 1.20
    • Combat parity betwixt Minecraft: Bedrock Edition and Minecraft: Java Edition is thing Mojang Studios wishes to deliver, but it won't hap successful the 1.20 update

Early representation  of Minecraft 1.20.

(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)

Mojang Studios besides announced that each the features shown disconnected during Minecraft Live 2022 are person than players expect, an breathtaking determination that goes hand-in-hand with the studio's caller committedness to transparency and accrued assemblage involvement. The archetypal snapshots and Minecraft Preview builds for Minecraft 1.20 are lone a fewer days distant from being released with the update's archetypal 4 features, giving players a accidental to spell hands-on and supply feedback successful grounds time.

Over time, the 1.20 update is apt to grow with caller features and content, but lone erstwhile Mojang Studios is assured the features successful store are adjacent completion and practically guaranteed to marque it to the decorativeness line. In this way, Mojang Studios hopes to alleviate the vexation of agelong Minecraft update improvement times portion inactive adding plentifulness of caller contented to 1 of the best games from Xbox. Minecraft 1.20 volition officially merchandise for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition and Minecraft: Java Edition successful 2023.

Zachary Boddy is the Minecraft Expert and a News Writer for Windows Central, Android Central, and iMore. They person been gaming and penning for astir of their life, and person been freelancing for Windows Central and its sister sites since 2019, with a absorption connected Xbox and PC gaming. You tin find Zachary connected Twitter @BoddyZachary.

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