Minecraft:Named update

Named update is an update which adds a number of features or changes to features.

Description

Named updates have two types: Minecraft:major updates and Minecraft:game drops. Their shared characteristics are as follows:

• These named updates are containing a number of features or changes to features related to a theme. 
• These named updates are loosely planned up to two years at most in advance, give or take, depending on community feedback.

The primary distinction lies in update frequency and the scope of added or revised content.

Major update

Template:Main A Major update<ref name="newversionnumbering">Template:Mcnet</ref> is a named update which adds a number of features or changes to features, that are released sparsely. Minecraft:Tricky Trials was the last major update, before the release schedule switched to the game drop system, and one to two of these were released yearly before.

Game drop

Template:Main A Game drop<ref name="bats and pots">Template:Tweet</ref> (or sometimes referred to as "drop")<ref name="shy friends">Template:Mcnet</ref> is a named update which adds a relatively smaller number of features or changes to features. The release schedule switched to the game drop system after Tricky Trials. For the most part, one game drop is released in each business quarter of a year.

List of major updates

{{#section-h:Major update|List of major updates}}

List of game drops

{{#section-h:Game drop|List of game drops}}

See also

• Minecraft:Version types
• Minecraft:Version history