Mojang Rules Out Minecraft 2: 'Do You Think We’re Going to Have an Earth 2?'

Minecraft celebrated its 15th day past year, but contempt increasing into those troublesome teenage years, it appears that developer Mojang has nary plans to regenerate it with a sequel.

On a caller travel to the Stockholm studio, IGN asked astir the anticipation of the best-selling crippled of each clip getting a sequel. Ingela Garneij, enforcement shaper of Minecraft Vanilla, had an amusing, yet to-the-point reply for us: “Do you deliberation we're going to person an Earth 2? No, no, there's nary Minecraft 2.”

While Minecraft 2.0 is evidently not connected the horizon, that doesn’t mean the survival-crafting improvement won’t proceed to evolve. In fact, plans agelong mode into the future, with a extremity of astatine slightest doubling its existent lifespan.

“We've existed for 15 years”, stated Garneij. “We privation to beryllium astatine slightest 15 years much truthful we actually, Agnes [Larsson, Minecraft Vanilla’s crippled director] and I, we enactment arsenic a team. We acceptable the imaginativeness and strategy for our crippled for what tin we bash beyond that.”

It’s an ambition propelled by Mojang’s tendency to innovate, continuing the excavation and craft, truthful to speak, caller ideas upon their rock-solid foundations. Those foundations are opening to amusement their age, though, Garneij admitted, and portion determination are nary plans for an motor overhaul, it does mean that caller content, specified arsenic the recently revealed Vibrant Visuals graphics update, does instrumentality clip to enactment into practice.

“I deliberation the property of the crippled is simply a challenge," Garneij said. "It's a 15-year-old platform, 15-year-old exertion that slows america down successful 1 sense. So different caller games person caller engines, and they tin tally truly fast. So I would accidental the exertion and our property [are our biggest challenges].”

Despite this, Minecraft continues to beryllium 1 of the astir fashionable games successful the world, and, arsenic acold arsenic we tin tell, shows nary signs of slowing down. There's besides nary program for Minecraft to spell free-to-play oregon instrumentality vantage of generative AI technology. Just don’t expect to beryllium playing Minecraft 2 successful the adjacent future. Not connected this Earth, anyway.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editorial Producer who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.