Since 2011 MINECON has been the time of year that we come together to celebrate the past, present and perhaps most excitingly the future of Minecraft. Our event has evolved over the years to what you’re experiencing right now and next year we’re evolving it even further joining our live broadcast in 2020 will Be an all new, in person event called Minecraft Festival. Minecraft festival will take place from September 25th to September 27th in Orlando Florida I’m pretty excited as a Floridian you can expect interactive exhibits inclusive gameplay competitive tournaments live entertainment creator And community panels and more. To sign up for more information please head to our website. Very exciting! And now please welcome to the stage Agnes and Jen’s! Welcome how has the show been for the two of you? You were buzzing around. Yes, it’s been super fun yeah really amazing. Yeah it’s been fantastic. Great Show! It was very cool to see the Dungeons premiere. Yeah absolutely it’s so fun. and I love the opening cinematic it’s so cool. It’s beautiful, so Jens how does it feel when we have two new games coming out? It’s of course great like we have Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth but we actually have a third minecraft game coming out It’s a board game called Minecraft Builders and Biomes. Builders and Biomes! That’s very exciting yeah there might be a hint of Builders and Biomes somewhere for people to see. So you’re gonna tell us about an. The next big update! But before that, I want to know, how you got into gaming? Agnus? Oh yeah so I have played games and loved games as long as I can remember and I used to draw games before I could program I actually learned programming Much later. I just used to draw my own games and then one day I thankfully made it into gaming and working on games and it’s so fun. We have a photo of the original tiny Agnes here. I love I love that you’re playing on a computer you also Have a baby bottle so those you have really been playing since you were very small. Yes, I mean I think I should be old enough to drink from something else there though. But I probably was quite stubborn. Like “I want my bottle”! Were you coding at this point? Or is that much later? Yeah no coding yet, only playing. And Jens how was game development how did you get your start? Yes, it’s a very similar story.I loved games and I made levels on on paper and added enemies and when a friend showed me a shoot-’em-up construction kit on Day on the c64 and then that’s when I realized we can make games and I’ve been doing that since then. And of course we have a photo of adorable tiny Jen’s there on the left playing a game and watch. You you look the same. More beard So you’re gonna tell us about the next update. Yes but first… okay but first First a part of the next update we want to show you a block that is not completely related to the theme of the update but still it’s really cool so here is the Target block. Target block! How cool is that. I also like your little chicken advisor there hanging out during the whole process. Tell us about the target block. Yes,so you can shoot arrows at the target block and it will emit a redstone signal and the closer the arrow hits the bullseye the bigger the signal will be. How do you see players using this? Well, making mini games and various contraptions of course and and maybe also create new hidden entrances to their bases. That would be cool. That would be amazing. So you said this is part of the next update which… Yeah we’re super excited to Finally have Nether updates. The nether update! So the nether hasn’t been a place that’s very liveable and that is all about to change so how is that changing? I mean well it will still not be easy to live there. Okay. But we want players to be able to have a Base there so for example you can set your spawn in Nether. You can find food in Nether but it’s still a really dangerous place! Food in the nether? So that means there’s something… Well it’s new mob and we will talk more about it later. Okay so first. Of course we also wanted to make sure that there’s more things to explore and and yeah more things to find more things to do so we we wanted to introduce Biomes to the Nether. Yes, so we will actually show some of them today and the first one is the Soul Sand Valley Soul sand valley. You’re right not sure I would want to live there. It depends on what you prefer. What’s happening in Soul Sand Valley? It looks incredible! Yes I would say this is a scary biome. It’s quite barren and it has this blue fog and a blue fire which Is a new block or actually if you place fire on a source on it will now turn blue and it’s also like the stalactite and visible fossils. and you’ll be able to take the Soul Sand block and that will work in any of the dimensions Absolutely. That is very cool. I bet people will do really amazing things with blue flames You did say biomes. So we have another biome to look at. What biome is that? It is the Netherwart forest There is a lot in the Netherwart Forest! So what’s happening in there? Lots of things, so yeah as you can see it’s two variants of it. So the red one has a very live atmosphere in its own very weird and Netehery way since like swirling particles and a lot of vegetation. It is very dense. So the players should get lost in there. And then we have the blue one which has a very like a unique atmosphere it’s like even more weird if possible and this is the particle server is falling and lots of new blocks and lots of new vegetation. How did you decide on the colors? Because it is so different than The look of the Nether when you add these Biomes. Yeah when we wanted to make sure that when you explore you get a more variation since more than just red than yellow and we were thinking about how the overworld as much green blue and Gray and then this black purple and yellow so we were thinking how can we are the more color depth to do the Nether that that kind of creates a good feeling for the the Nether still. It’s really beautiful but you said it’s gonna be just as hard. So even though this looks quite, you know like an oasis. it’s not going to be? Well, we still call the Netherwart forest the Nether oasis but that doesn’t mean it will be easy being there. So there will be for example a new hostile mob. I think we could show it now and we are temporarily calling it the Piglin Beast. The Piglin Beast. So you said we’re temporarily calling it the Piglin beast. What does that mean for everyone? We would actually love to get suggestions from the community on a better name. So, please if you have any suggestions send them and then we can pick the name later. And what happens with this new to be named Piglin Beast The to be named Piglin Beast is really aggressive so it’s quite scary but it’s also the food source in the Nether actually. So we really want the the experience to be very unique in that it shouldn’t feel like another overworld so when you get your food you can’t just have like it pretty little farm, instead you need to find this scary aggressive Piglin Beast and get the food from that. And this is the first time you have a food source in the Nether? Yes. Which is really awesome so that does make it livable… ish Liveablish. And where does Piglins come from? So Piglin is actually what we call the pig men now and we are also introducing Piglin mob as well we can take a look at the video I believe Let’s see them, Piglins. They look mean but they also have the floppy ears. They’re kind of cute too. Yes, there’s a lot going on in this video. But at the core the Piglin is almost like a new civilization you know that we add to the Nether and they are actually hostile towards the player. They also don’t like Wither Skeletons and they hunt the Piglin beast for food as well but they Do collect gold and if you as in this picture wear cool armour they will kind of like they will ignore you they won’t like you but they will ignore you unless you open chests or stop poking in their stuff. Yes I really like this mechanic Actually so if you open a chest close to Piglin and they see you they will get really upset. But there’s actually a good reason why the player wants to approach the Piglins because we will introduce a new kind of trading with them that we Call bartering but it’s a little bit different to villager trading. Villager trading, you know the villagers are like her very friendly. The Piglins do it in their own way so it’s like you can throw some gold at them and they will throw And knife and then somewhere you can go and pick it up so it’s my Piglin style trading. That’s amazing so will there be new things that they’re gonna barter with you= It will, but we will not tell what you can barter yet. So new things coming to the Nether. That is a lot of Nether things coming! Any particular favorites in this update for either of you or you love them all too . much? Yes, for me it it is the Piglins because we we have we have so many ideas. Oh so many ideas for that. Agnes? For me it is the biomes because well it will be so interesting to explore but of course biomes also add so many new resources and similarly new atmospheres. So yeah I’m very excited for the biomes. Amazing! Speaking of biomes we have a vote going on that we now have a winner for Predictions, on the winner it’s either swamp or mountains which do you think will take it? Hmm, well I will guess swamp. Okay Jens? Well Snow is snowier. So you’re guessing mountains? Mountains, yes. Maybe we should find out Is our correspondent somewhere close? Okay there you are. Hello! I have the vote right here they have tallied it and they have double-checked it Who is going do the honors? I think it’s Jens’s turn. You were quick, wow! Okay, All right. Let’s hear it. Yes and the winner is Mountains! How does it feel with the mountains? Great absolutely! it is also your prediction. Can you remind us what we’ll be getting in the mountains? You will get goats and you will get and kind a new kind of snow. yes yes and we’ll also look into like the Generation of the mountains to give them a more majestic feel. Jen’s and Agnes you have given us a ton to look forward to thank you so much. Thank you. It’s’s been show packed full of announcements and to answer some of the Questions that have been coming in live during the show stay tuned for a developer panel that begins right after this. But first let’s take a quick look at what’s happened over the course of this show with so many updates Video Information
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Lydia Winters talks to Minecraft developers Jens Bergensten and Agnes Larsson to find out what is on the horizon. Here’s the first-ever news about The Nether Update!