Minecraft Live

2010 MinecraftCon 2010 was a gathering of more than 30 people at Bellevue, Washington, on 31 August. The event was organized following a post on Markus Persson's blog in which he made people aware he was going to be in the area. He was aware multiple people had expressed an interest in meeting him, and called for people to suggest places where a small meeting could be held. The event would eventually take place in Bellevue Downtown Park and had a small group of people asking Persson questions about the state of Minecraft's development. 2011 Five thousand people attended the first official MineCon convention held in Las Vegas on 18 November. Many in-game MINECONs have announced an intent to return with the start of the next MINECON. Jens Bergensten later said that it would be on the east coast. On 27 June, it was announced on Mojang's YouTube Channel that MINECON 2013 will be held in Orlando, Florida. The event took place on 2 and 3 November. 2014 (cancelled) On 30 March 2014, Lydia Winters revealed in a tweet that MINECON 2014 would be held in Europe. However, on 1 August 2014, Vu Bui created a blog post, stating that there would be no MineCon 2014, but instead the next MineCon would be in Spring 2015 in London. it was announced by Guinness World Records that MineCon had won the world record for the most attendance for a convention that is solely for one game, selling 10,000 tickets. 2020–2022 Minecraft Festival (cancelled) Following three years of livestreams, a return to the in-person convention format was announced at Minecon Live 2019, named Minecraft Festival, which would happen in September 2020. Minecraft Festival's venue, the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, would have been the same venue for Minecon 2013. More details were revealed at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but was swiftly postponed a week later to the same dates the next year, then to an undetermined date in 2022, and then cancelled for 2022 as the pandemic continued. == Online events ==

2017 On 8 August 2017, Mojang announced that MINECON would be taking the form of an interactive livestream on 18 November 2017, dubbed "MINECON Earth". 2019 On 17 May 2019, MINECON Live 2019 was announced to be held on 28 September that same year, changing the name of the event from "MINECON Earth" to "MINECON Live" to avoid confusion with their new game Minecraft Earth. The three options were Iceologer (featured in Minecraft Dungeons), Moobloom (featured in the now cancelled mobile game Minecraft Earth) and Glow Squid, with the latter winning. The livestream also provided details on Minecraft's next big update, "Caves & Cliffs", and a musical "Nether Update Encore" from Element Animation featuring additions from the previous update. 2021 Minecraft Live 2021 was held on 16 October 2021. The show also announced the theme of the next major update, called "The Wild Update", which added a new biome, the mangrove forest, and an underground biome called the Deep Dark, which was originally planned for the "Caves & Cliffs". 2022 Minecraft Live 2022 was held on 15 October 2022. It featured a Mob Vote, this time in-game, with the options consisting of the Sniffer, the Rascal, and the Tuff Golem, the first of which won the vote. Unlike previous years, the developers revealed a few basic features for the next update, including camels, bamboo wood, and hanging signs. The update was later dubbed the "Trails & Tales" update. It also announced the basic gameplay for the upcoming game Minecraft Legends and the Season 3 update for Minecraft Dungeons. 2023 Minecraft Live 2023 was held on 15 October 2023, which featured another Mob vote, featuring the crab, armadillo, and penguin, the second of which won the vote. The event also announced portions of the next major updates of Minecraft, Minecraft Legends and Minecraft Education. Like previous years, there was an announcement relating to the next major update. This year, the update that was announced was Tricky Trials. The update had been introduced to focus on underwound structures that was focused on combat. As well as a new block that enabled automatic crafting called the "Crafter". Yet another short film from Element Animation was shown during the livestream, staring mobs from the last update. 2024 Minecraft Live 2024 was held on 28 September 2024. Starting with this year, the mob vote was retired. and featured another short from Element Animation, promoting the upcoming drop. 2025 March Minecraft Live 2025: March 2025 was held on 22 March 2025. The first of two Minecraft Live events in 2025, it discussed the upcoming Spring Drop which was later released on March 25 as Spring to Life, which included new variants of existing mobs. It also showed some features coming in a later drop nicknamed the "Summer Drop", such as Vibrant Visuals, a built in form of shaders, and new forms of the ghast, the dried ghast, ghastling, and happy ghast. It also showed a preview of the upcoming A Minecraft Movie. September Minecraft Live 2025: September 2025 was held on 27 September 2025. The second of two Minecraft Live events in 2025, it discussed the Copper Age and Mounts of Mayhem updates. 2026 Minecraft Live 2026: March 2026 was broadcast on 21 March 2026. During the event, the release date of the Tiny Takeover update was revealed, along with the announcements of the Chaos Cubed update and Minecraft Dungeons II. == Notes ==