Minecraft 1.20 Release Date CONFIRMED!!!

It’s been confirmed now that the tales and trails update Minecraft 1.20 will be releasing on June the 7th of 2023. trails of tales will be available on June 7th June 7th that’s so soon it really is Right 12 days from now the trails and tales update will be coming

Out and by the way look at this fancy image they’ve got here but it’s also the image they’re using to promote this update all over social media but it has a little bit of an error with it actually it’s not just one error there are three big flaws in how they’re

Promoting this update Can you spot the three of them in just this one image I would love to know if you can uh but first here’s something interesting though this is actually the exact same date The Wild update released last year and it’s also the exact same date the

World updates release date was announced May the 26th and June the 7th that is a wild coincidence except it’s not because they actually had to move the release date from a Tuesday to a Wednesday this year specifically to match that the reason they chose to release these two

Updates which are wildly different in terms of community reception on the same day is an interesting topic but also we need to dive into this thing from the announcement and I’ll go through all of that right after I mentioned that on this channel I love to cover Minecraft

Update news uh what exactly is inside of them when the updates are releasing and the secret things inside of them you might not have known about if you want to see all of these things then subscribing is something I’d really appreciate you considering if you want

You can hit the button now and you can always unsubscribe later I wouldn’t even be offended speaking of being offended if you’re a winter person you’ll probably be offended at the days that Minecraft tends to release updates so if we take the last 10 updates that Minecraft has released uh 1.11 all the

Way through 1.20 and we look at their release date side by side I think a couple of Trends become very clear the first is that Mojang clearly prioritizes summer updates over winter ones this is an overwhelmingly clear Trend and it probably makes sense when you look at the demographics of Minecraft although a

Lot of players are in the southern hemisphere where technically speaking June is the winter it seems as though they want to release this at the week of summer because what better way to enjoy the sun and the the great temperatures than to stay inside and play Minecraft with your friends this obviously is

Something they have data to back up but the other thing that clearly is backed up by data here is the second observation which is that the second week of June is a very clear Target for them you can tell this because three separate updates released on June the

7th and June the 8th was the release date of 1.17 this is notable because caves and cliffs had to be split into two updates specifically so they could release this one in June the finished part of the update you know the bit with the caves in the cliff that released

Later on in the year when it was actually finished but they were clearly under some pressure as a studio to release something in June I would even say they you know Microsoft is a very data driven company they must have some data saying that the biggest increase to

Minecraft sales is when they can release an update somewhere in June this is probably because it gives them something to promote in terms of trailers and you know PR posts on social media but it also gives people the opportunity to talk about stuff because what better way

To get people into Minecraft of them one of these organic conversations hey mate have you heard about this new update it’s absolutely wild well I mean it’s not but it’s called that no because I’m not your friend I’m literally just a cat something else Minecraft like to do to

Promote their updates is make these marketing images and I’m loading this one up in paint to show you around it because it is really great but it has a really interesting mistake I would say uh that tells us something about Minecraft’s uh you know development and

It tells us about the boat feature in a way that really is a I think it makes it obvious they need to make changes but first things first let’s talk about what I love I love the sniffer over here just looking off into the distance enjoying the sunset it’s beautiful there’s

Nothing more to be said here I really like it uh there is also some lovely archeology happening here and to kind of convey the tales part this update it’s a guy standing at a lectern I like all of these tiny features in this uh you know image right here I love the other

Sniffer found right here and I love that there’s a sniffer egg being sounded by a cat watching some uh your fish it’s very cute on this side there’s lots of Beach is being shown off the smithing table the neutrals or bookshelves the uh you know we’ve got the uh the new pots with

The item frames on them this is a fun idea it’s lots of really good stuff I love this armor over here I love the fact that there’s cherry trees and then there’s a Pillager shooting a camel this is weird Enough by itself pillagers aren’t a new part of this update but I

Guess they’re just trying to say camels are a great way to avoid other mobs but the camel is jumping unrealistically high if you look at where the Pillager is the player must have come from at least here which means the camel has jumped a distance which it cannot jump

In Minecraft and again to me that tells me that like well if this is what people like to imagine why didn’t they just make the camel able to jump a bit higher but the other crucial sin here is the fact that do you remember recently Minecraft made it so that horses were

Unable to go in boats this was a bizarre decision no one wanted one person on the bug tracker felt like they wanted it but even then when it happened they said no that wasn’t how I wanted the bug fix I said it was a bug uh that they didn’t

Fit visually and so long story short no one wanted them to fix that and so I was wondering are camels meant to film boats and so I looked it up and they were meant to but then some reported it as a bug camel should not get into boats and

Raft and so they fixed that in 1.19.60 and so the lesson here is please stop reporting things that are bugs but are clearly better features uh for the bug tracker because Mojang doesn’t know how to fix what you know the fact that even the people who are designing in charge

Of Graphics design think that a camel should go on a boat and the camel should jump high is a good sign to me that there is a mistake in how Minecraft are putting these things together I think uh you know I I do really like this image I

Think it’s a great way to market the update and I love uh all the little tiny things around it to encourage you to check out the update but the fact is it tells us what the the Minecraft game is we’d like to play we’d like a Minecraft with higher cameras we’d like a

Minecraft with camels and boats and I think also we’d like a Minecraft where there’s a new structure made of sand in the Overworld like why why is this a thing here it looks like it’s a part of the natural world is it I don’t really

Know but yeah I think this is also by the way a pretty natural integral version of using Steve and Alex for the two most foremost characters but then also mixing in some of the new ones um I think a lot of the stuff they do of characters isn’t you know like they kind

Of forceful on it this one is a much better just being like look there’s lots of Minecraft characters but we know you know Steve I think that’s the beauty of marketing you can’t sell things to people uh by you know like telling them things that they don’t want to hear you

Have to you have to show them the things that they’re actually interested in and so I really love that they’re showing us things that we would like to see it’s just we can only see them in this one marketing image which is a bit of a shame so the other interesting thing

About this release date is something I want to dive into off we talk about is there enough in this update a there are over 100 different unique features found in Tails and Trails but a lot of people still point to it and say it’s kind of

Like the world update however this is a significantly smaller minority than 1.19 and that definitely comes into the community reception of this which is one of the big differences between wild and Tails and Trails and to prove that to you here is a tweet from Corey schubyak last year being saddened by the

Community response to a brand new Minecraft update and here are the memes talking about it you know it’s calling it the mild update literally and here is the equivalent memes this year this is a meme calling it the TNT update which I mean to be fair that’s technically true

And here’s another meme saying that it probably should be called the tales and trails update I mean it makes more sense that way the number of times I’ve cut it tales and trails in my videos over the last few months is probably a few too many but either way the fact that we’re

Making memes and jokes about it rather than calling it the mild update or saying wow there sure seems to be half an update releasing in one update’s worth of time tells us that even Mojang has got their communication better or they’ve made made a better update I

Would say it’s actually a little bit of both I think this update is objectively bigger and better in quite a few ways but I think it’s the announcement and the hype curve that they’ve gone better the never update was one of the big hype waves we saw in Minecraft and then they

Followed it up with caves and cliffs but then the pandemic kit and then it’s been just a kind of bit of a downswing Minecraft is always going through these and so it’s great to see that they’ve gone from this down and rather than just wallowing in it they’ve actually got

Themselves a better update which hopefully they can use for 1.21 and Beyond but I think we should move a little bit uh you know although talking about that’s interesting and I want to move into uh the weird thing we know about 1.21 now uh but I do want to talk

Just a little bit about how this is going to be a good breath of fresh air for the community mostly in that we finally have exploration based mechanics coming back to Minecraft a reason to explore your world is going to exist again and I don’t think they got enough

Praise for just how well they’ve repurposed existing structures the amethyst geodes and the ancient city are both more useful because you can find more loot in the ancient city you you can find these amethyst geodes which can be used you know to get amethyst blocks which can do more sculpt things but also

They can be crafted together for a new item the desert temple and the desert well have gotten more useful the ocean ruins in both their varieties are now places you can find the sniffer this is a great update for retouching the world they only added one new biome and it’s a

Fairly small one but this the amount of new content we get without that is really quite great uh there’s reasons to go to bamboo forest again I love the way they really made the existing Minecraft world feel revitalized in a way that actually is quite exciting and that is

The part that I’m most excited for but now we need to move into the big question you probably have about this update I think that Minecraft updates are getting incredibly formulaic with the same release date and the same announcement day and I think that tells us that the 1.21 plan already is most

Likely going to be try and release on June 7th try and have announcement at some time Minecraft live and try and get the release day announcement at May and is that a good idea I think in some ways it is I think given the community something to look forward to and

Something to expect we already know 1.21 is in development we already know there are some uh you know Concepts that are being worked on right now that is a good thing knowing that 1.20.10 by the way there’s a beta out for that I was working on a video before this a huge

Announcement but knowing that that is happening is very good news too knowing that the game is moving forwards is really important for a player base and a community and so they’ve nailed that in my opinion but I do think uh that there is a point where too much formula and

This can get bad and I think that 1.21 should move out of the Wild update and the tail Trails theme of just making the whole game a bit better and really go back to making sure they get one big theme that it coherently makes sense to the average player I think Tails and

Trails make some sense I mean if we go back to looking at this you can say like well yeah this is the the tail look he’s he’s writing a book sort of and the trail is like the camel jumping somewhere but if you can’t explain why

The update name fits in one title then maybe it’s not the best title or maybe it’s a very good title because you have to play it to understand what’s happening again I’m not I I don’t have the access to Minecraft numbers and what people respond to all I know is that uh

This was a I think this is a really needed update because it focuses on exploration but it focuses in it in a way where I don’t think people even realize that until I said um that this is a Improvement to six separate Minecraft structures did you know that they made Expressions so much

Better or did you just think to yourself yeah there’s uh the customization and there’s the new loot found in the the structures but that’s about it right and that’s something I think about this update that makes it a bit more challenging it’s uh the way it ties into those deeper mechanics anyway speaking

Of deeper mechanics I have to go I hope that you have enjoyed if you like hearing about 1.20 subscribe to the channel and look forward to tomorrow because it’s the craziest upload day on the channel in I think years at this point I’m gonna be answering every big

Question you might have about 1.20 so you can prepare for the release in case you’ve missed something over the last few months uh or in case you’re wondering about how to get started the update and uh yeah I’ll be also streaming uh in the days leading up to

One 20 as well as the day itself so make sure you check all those things out and I’ll see you in the next one goodbye Foreign