Minecraft Version Timeline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quick hotfix release for 1.20.3 addressing critical bugs.

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

Hotfix for 1.20.5 resolving data pack and item component issues.

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

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

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

Bug fix update with minor gameplay tweaks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Second hotfix for 26.1, April 9, 2026.

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

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