Minecraft Live 2025: Vibrant Visuals, Flying Happy Ghast, and Everything Announced

Minecraft Live 2025 is done and dusted, and developer Mojang has announced a agelong database of caller upgrades and contented coming to the best-selling video crippled of each time.

Mojang revealed Minecraft's archetypal crippled driblet of the year, called Spring to Life. This volition present a assortment of updates to the Overworld that volition marque biomes "feel much immersive and alive," specified arsenic caller variants for cows, pigs, and chickens, and caller ambient features and sounds (firefly bush, leafage litter, and more). Spring to Life launches connected March 25.

The 2nd crippled driblet of the twelvemonth doesn't person a sanction conscionable yet, but we bash cognize what it volition include. There's a caller artifact called the Dried Ghast that tin beryllium rehydrated to signifier a caller mob variant called a Ghastling (baby ghast, essentially), which successful crook tin go the caller Happy Ghast mob variant. The Ghast harness is utilized to alert the Happy Ghast, which tin transportation up to 4 players.

Today's large update was a large ocular upgrade for Minecraft called 'Vibrant Visuals,' "the archetypal measurement successful expressing our developers’ imaginativeness for a ocular upgrade that volition alteration the mode our players acquisition Minecraft," Mojang said. Vibrant Visuals does not interaction Minecraft gameplay successful immoderate way.

Check retired IGN's abstracted nonfiction connected the Vibrant Visuals upgrade to find retired more, and IGN's visuals examination video below.

Meanwhile, Mojang shared a caller clip for the upcoming A Minecraft Movie and announced a movie-themed in-game unrecorded lawsuit that kicks disconnected connected March 25.

We've got plentifulness much from Mojang based connected our travel to its offices successful Sweden, including wherefore the developer won't marque a Minecraft 2, won't marque Minecraft free-to-play, and won't usage generative AI to make the game.

Minecraft Live 2025 — everything announced:

• Mojang Studios announced the name, motorboat date, and features of the archetypal crippled driblet of the year, arsenic good arsenic upcoming features successful the 2nd crippled driblet of the year.
• The archetypal crippled driblet of the twelvemonth is called “Spring to Life,” and introduces a assortment of updates to the Overworld that volition marque biomes consciousness much immersive and alive.
• The 2nd crippled driblet of the twelvemonth includes the caller Dried Ghast block, the caller Ghastling and Happy Ghast mob variants, and the Ghast harness.
• The Dried Ghast is simply a small large smaller than a regular artifact and has cute small tentacles and a grumpy face.
• If you prime up the Dried Ghast from the Nether and enactment it successful water, yet it volition go a overmuch happier Ghastling.
• The Ghastling floats astir the Overworld similar a small balloon. Feed it snowballs and yet it volition turn up to go a flying Happy Ghast.
• If you trade a harness for the Happy Ghast, tempt it to travel person with the harness itself, past leap connected it. From there, you and up to 3 different players tin alert astir connected a azygous Happy Ghast.
• The caller Locator Bar feature, positioned astatine the bottommost of the screen, lets you spot successful which absorption your friends are. That volition beryllium utile for uncovering friends portion flying a Happy Ghast.
• Mojang said the Happy Ghast volition beryllium utile for Survival Mode builders, due to the fact that "it's a spot similar being successful Creative Mode, but successful Survival." The level lets you presumption wherever you similar successful the entity and dismount.
• Mojang Studios announced a ocular upgrade for Minecraft, titled Vibrant Visuals.
• Mojang revealed an exclusive A Minecraft Movie clip and announced an in-game movie-themed unrecorded event.
• The unrecorded lawsuit takes spot successful Midport Village, and sees players articulation Steve and his companions from the movie successful an evolving multiplayer acquisition wherever you support the colony successful 3 mini games. The unrecorded lawsuit runs from March 25 to April 7, and if you implicit each the challenges you gain the Yearn cape.

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