Mojang already ran a full Minecraft Live back in March, the one with the Minecraft Dungeons II reveal, so a bonus broadcast out of TwitchCon Europe a couple of months later is a lot of Minecraft for the first half of the year. The studio packed it with a new game drop, a look at this year’s third update, more on Dungeons II, and the title of the movie sequel.
First up is Chaos Cubed, an upcoming drop built around a new sulfur caves biome and the sulfur cube, a mob that feeds on blocks and absorbs their properties. The fun part is what you can do with it afterward. You can lob the cubes around with different physics, treat one like a ball, or feed it a stack of TNT and strap the result to a happy ghast. Is that an economical use of resources? No. Is it the first thing most people are going to try? Probably.
The team also pulled back the curtain on this year’s third drop, which adds a biome called the dappled forest. Picture warm gray poplar wood, a landscape colored by poplar trees, persistently red shrubs, and abandoned camps scattered around to give you something to dig into. The developers spent part of the segment handing out decorating tips, and the takeaway, apparently, is that herringbone patterns are in. More details are coming closer to the fall.
When Minecraft Dungeons II was revealed in March, the trailer teased what looked like an activated Ancient City portal, and we now know where that thread is going. Players will run into the Twisted Warden, a new enemy tied to the ominous deep dark portal. By all accounts it’s slow but hits like a truck, which is what you’d expect in a dungeon crawler. Dungeons II is the sequel to the 2020 original that reached more than 25 million players, and it’s still on track for later this year on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC, with day one availability on XBOX Game Pass.
There was a LEGO crossover, too. TwitchCon’s Minecraft Arena recreated a few biomes in real life and built a giant Twisted Warden pulled straight from Dungeons II. LEGO used the moment to show off an upcoming Dungeons II set before unveiling a new LEGO Minecraft Chicken Mounts add-on, which is available now on the Minecraft Marketplace. If you have ever wanted to ride, customize, or do battle on a chicken, here you go.
And then, in the middle of a broadcast about blocks, came the movie news. The sequel to A Minecraft Movie is officially titled A Minecraft Movie Squared, which is either a math joke or a blocks joke, and it works either way for a franchise built on cubes. I’ll admit I wasn’t sold on the first movie’s realistic art direction when the teaser dropped, but it went on to make nearly $961 million worldwide, so what do I know.
Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Danielle Brooks are all back, with Matt Berry returning in an undisclosed role after voicing the Nitwit in the first film. The headliner, though, is Kirsten Dunst, who is joining the cast as Alex. Director Jared Hess returns as well, and the sequel is set to hit theaters on July 23, 2027.
Mojang also kicked off a Minecraft Movie Build Challenge, where players can submit movie-inspired builds for a shot at seeing their creation appear in the film or its credits, plus a private screening and tickets. As for the stuff you can actually play, the drops and Dungeons II are all landing this year. The movie, math joke and all, is a 2027 problem.
