All Minecraft Releases

The first snapshot toward Minecraft 26.4, September 22, 2026: Vulkan by default, Sulfur Caves under old worlds and new handshake properties for servers.

The Wilderness Bound drop, September 15, 2026: the Dappled Forest, poplar wood, abandoned camps, cushions and straw beds.

The Chaos Cubed drop, June 16, 2026: the Sulfur Caves biome, the Sulfur Cube, sulfur and cinnabar blocks and experimental Vulkan rendering.

Second hotfix for 26.1, April 9, 2026.

Hotfix for 26.1, April 1, 2026, fixing chat reporting.

The Tiny Takeover drop, March 24, 2026: new baby mobs, the Golden Dandelion and the first year based version number. Requires Java 25.

The Mounts of Mayhem drop, December 9, 2025: spears, the Nautilus mount, the Parched and the Camel Husk. The last 1.x release.

Hotfix for The Copper Age, October 7, 2025, for piston, wind charge and teleport bugs.

The Copper Age drop, September 30, 2025: the Copper Golem, copper tools and armour, shelves, and the end of fixed spawn chunks.

Graphics hotfix, July 17, 2025, for freezes and texture corruption on Intel Gen11 graphics.

Hotfix for Chase the Skies, June 30, 2025, with the Lava Chicken music disc, a new painting and crash fixes.

The Chase the Skies drop, June 17, 2025: the Happy Ghast flying mount, the Dried Ghast block, harnesses and the Locator Bar for multiplayer.

The fifth 1.21.6 snapshot, May 6, 2025: a projectile hit margin that grows during flight, a scale cap for happy ghasts, and a rework of shader fog.

The fourth 1.21.6 snapshot, April 29, 2025: leads crafted from string only, a soul sand dried ghast recipe, dried ghasts from piglin bartering, and strict JSON parsing.

The third 1.21.6 snapshot, April 22, 2025: the locator bar leaves experiments, Realms settings get tabs, and a Cloud Distance video setting arrives.

The second 1.21.6 snapshot, April 15, 2025: reworked leads, mob-to-mob leashing, shears that cut leads, happy ghasts towing boats, and clouds out to the horizon.

The first 1.21.6 snapshot, April 8, 2025: dried ghasts, ghastlings and rideable happy ghasts with harnesses, two new advancements, and an experimental locator bar.

The Spring to Life drop, March 25, 2025: new cow, pig and chicken variants, fireflies, falling leaves, and technical work on item models and data packs.

The tenth and final 1.21.5 snapshot, March 5, 2025: the tntExplodes game rule, custom data on every entity, and cow and sheep model fixes before the pre-releases.

The eighth 1.21.5 snapshot, February 26, 2025: fallen trees in oak, spruce, birch and jungle, firefly bushes in more biomes, and mixed lists in /data.

The sixth 1.21.5 snapshot, February 13, 2025: biome-based sheep colors, camels in deserts, bundles in village chests, and new cartographer and wandering trader trades.

The fifth 1.21.5 snapshot, February 5, 2025: cactus flowers, short and tall dry grass, warm and cold chickens with brown and blue eggs, and a new fire game rule.

The third 1.21.5 snapshot, January 22, 2025: new item components for shield blocking, loom patterns and trim materials, plus data-driven cat and frog variants.

The second 1.21.5 snapshot, January 15, 2025: Mojang's GameTest framework comes to the game with test blocks and /test, and saddles get a round of fixes.

The first 1.21.5 snapshot, January 8, 2025: leaf litter, wildflowers, pig variants by biome, and a lodestone recipe that uses iron instead of netherite.

Added pale garden biome, creaking mob, pale oak wood, and eyeblossom flowers.

Bug fix update with minor gameplay tweaks.

Added bundles as a permanent feature, hardcore mode messaging improvements.

Bug fix update for Tricky Trials addressing gameplay and stability issues.

Added trial chambers, the Breeze mob, trial spawners, vaults, maces, wind charges, and new copper/tuff blocks.

The only release candidate for 1.21 Tricky Trials, June 10, 2024. It reverted the 1.21-pre4 changes to Fire Protection and Blast Protection and fixed three bugs.

The first 1.21 pre-release, May 29, 2024: ender pearls and ridden mobs go through portals, the mace and Wind Burst changed, and Fire Aspect stopped lighting blocks.

Hotfix for 1.20.5 resolving data pack and item component issues.

Added wolf armor, armadillos, new wolf variants, and the data-driven item component system.

The tenth 1.20.5 snapshot, February 28, 2024: item components replaced item NBT, wolf armor was reworked, and the 1.21 experiments got small changes.

Quick hotfix release for 1.20.3 addressing critical bugs.

Added decorated pots with storage, bat model refresh, and new experimental features for 1.21.

Added diamond ore distribution changes, improved villager trading, and new experimental features.

Added cherry grove biome, armor trims, archaeology, camels, sniffers, hanging signs, and more.

The first 1.20 snapshot, March 22, 2023: the 1.20 experiments became part of the game, plus trail ruins, suspicious gravel, sniffer eggs and editable signs.

Added the cherry grove biome (experimental), new armor trims, and accessibility improvements.

Added vex, piglin, and evoker fangs model changes, new creative inventory, and experimental features toggle.

Added the Deep Dark biome, ancient cities, the Warden, mangrove swamps, frogs, and allays.

World generation overhaul with expanded world height, massive caves, new mountain generation, and biome distribution.

First part of the Caves and Cliffs update adding amethyst, axolotls, goats, copper, glow squid, and more.

Massive Nether overhaul with new biomes, netherite, piglins, bastions, and ruined portals.

Added bees, beehives, honey blocks, and major bug fixes and performance improvements.

Completely overhauled villages with new structures, villager professions, pillager raids, and many new blocks.

Complete ocean overhaul with coral reefs, shipwrecks, dolphins, tridents, drowned, and swimming mechanics.

Added concrete, glazed terracotta, parrots, the crafting recipe book, and advancements.

Added woodland mansions, ocean explorer maps, llamas, shulker boxes, and totems of undying.

Added polar bears, strays, husks, magma blocks, and structure blocks.

Overhauled combat with attack cooldowns, dual wielding, elytra, and End Cities.

Massive update adding ocean monuments, guardians, armor stands, banners, and many new stone types.

Massive world generation overhaul adding new biomes, flowers, stained glass, and amplified terrain.

Added horses, donkeys, mules, horse armor, leads, and carpets.

Major redstone overhaul with comparators, hoppers, droppers, daylight sensors, and quartz blocks.

Halloween-themed update adding the Wither boss, bats, witches, command blocks, and anvils.

Merged singleplayer and multiplayer code, added trading with villagers, emeralds, and adventure mode.

Raised the build height to 256, added jungle biomes, iron golems, and ocelots.

Added spawn eggs, new languages, and world type options including superflat.

The official full release of Minecraft, adding The End dimension, Ender Dragon, enchanting, brewing, and more.