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, revealing the winner of this year's mob vote, new content coming in its 1.21 update, new Star Wars DLC, and more. All of which comes as Mojang announces an absolutely monster milestone: Minecraft has now sold over 300m copies, meaning it's still the best-selling game to date, but is now well over 100m sales ahead of its nearest rival, GTA 5.
Back to Minecraft Live, though, and Mojang's celebrations began with the reveal of Minecraft's Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC, which comes to the in-game Marketplace on 7th November. It'll give players the chance to rise through the ranks from padawan to Jedi Knight - meaning, yes, there's lightsaber combat and Force powers - on a journey featuring familiar Star Wars characters and locations to explore.
More Minecraft DLC arrives next year, taking the form of a tie-in with the BBC's upcoming Planet Earth 3 that'll"immerse players in the wonders of the natural world". It'll be available via Minecraft Education and the Minecraft Marketplace when it arrives in 2024.Also due in next year, specifically in"mid-2024", is a major new Minecraft Vanilla update, known as 1.21.
Update 1.21 also adds the Trial Spawner, enabling players to spawn a specified target count of mobs based on a timer. It also rewards players by ejecting its loot. And finally for 1.21, there's the new Copper Bulb, which omits light depends on its oxidation stage, with more oxidation meaning less light.Rounding out today's Minecraft-specific news, Mojang revealed the results of what's proven to be athis year.
That's wasn't quite everything show during Minecraft Live, however; Mojang also unveiled a number of new additions for this year's real-time strategy spin-off, Minecraft Legends. There's a new Lost Legends challenge event, titled Creeper Clash, which arrives on 19th October, just in time for Halloween, with Snow vs Snout due to follow in December.
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