Notch Says He ‘Basically Announced Minecraft 2’

Minecraft creator Markus Persson has mentioned he “principally introduced Minecraft 2” after polling his social media followers on what sport they’d like him to make subsequent.

Two choices have been listed within the ballot: a roguelike combined with a tile-based first-person dungeon crawler, and a a non secular successor to Minecraft, which within the ballot was referred to as “Minecraft 2.” On the time of this text’s publication, 81% had picked Minecraft 2 after 282,968 votes.

Sincere and bonafide request for suggestions for as soon as:

The brand new sport I am passionately engaged on is at present set to be a conventional roguelike (i.e. ADOM, nethack, and so forth) combined with a tile primarily based first particular person dungeon crawler (ie Legend of Grimrock (esp 2), Eye of the Beholder)

However…

— notch (@notch) January 1, 2025

In a subsequent tweet, Notch admitted he “principally introduced Minecraft 2,” and insisted he was “100% critical” concerning the ballot.

“I believed that perhaps folks ACTUALLY do need me to make one other sport that is tremendous much like the primary one, and I am loving engaged on video games once more,” he continued.

“I do not tremendous duper care precisely which sport I make first (or even when I make extra), however I do know I am making one, so I figured I would completely be prepared to provide it an sincere shot within the type of a non secular successor to Minecraft and put up a ballot about it.

“My intentions are to be clear and sincere about it, saying that non secular successors are often form of… you understand… washed up. Tragic. The issues I am fearing my subsequent sport goes to be anyway and attempt to push myself to keep away from. So why not do the factor that folks DO need and are prepared to provide me, one way or the other, even MORE money for.

“I intend for the cash to the [sic] spent for good, however my god have I discovered I fail so much. Successful is failing till you make your self succeed.

“Oh and I additionally very a lot worth being a person of my phrase, so I additionally intend to do that in a method that on no account tried [sic] to sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang group is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the Microsoft shittification about.

“And I respect them for doing that. It is their job. They usually, from what I perceive, let the studio do issues their method, which appears particularly reasonable to me.”

Based mostly on that, then, Notch is certainly getting down to work on a non secular successor to Minecraft a decade after promoting Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. Mojang continues to work on the eternally fashionable Minecraft, in fact, placing out a number of updates every year throughout all of the platforms the sandbox sport is obtainable on. Minecraft is formally the best-selling online game of all time, with an unimaginable 300 million copies bought. Microsoft has made no indication that it intends to launch a Minecraft 2, which comes as no shock given how fashionable Minecraft stays. Maybe that leaves the door open for Notch to fill a spot from the unique creator.

As Notch famous himself, it stays to be seen whether or not this ‘Minecraft 2’ ever sees the sunshine of day. Since promoting to Microsoft, the Swedish developer has began and stopped quite a lot of video games, together with house sandbox sport 0x10c (pronounced “Ten to the C”). Nonetheless, in one other tweet, Notch mentioned the chances of him ending tasks now are larger than they have been as a result of he has workers he feels accountable for.

In later tweets, Notch answered questions from followers on social media about this Minecraft 2, and insisted he doesn’t need to use something “too much like the stuff I bought,” on this new sport. He additionally mentioned his Minecraft 2 wouldn’t be a narrative sport, suggesting a brand new sandbox of some variety. “I would make an identical sport [to Minecraft] primarily based on what I feel the viewers that claims they need that sport may get pleasure from,” he defined. “In all probability do early entry to ensure we’re on observe.”

I imply greatest I’ve acquired in the intervening time is Adventureland, so yeah no concept

— notch (@notch) January 3, 2025

Notch even went on to say that if Minecraft ever wished him to make an official Minecraft 2 and each events agreed on phrases, “I would completely be prepared to to that.”

“I would even give them a a lot greater share than I would really feel obliged to only to make it clear I am not doing it with ailing intent,” he continued, earlier than including: “However I will be a bitch to work with.”

It appears unlikely that Microsoft would work with Notch, given it eliminated his identify from the opening credit of Minecraft following varied controversial statements he made within the years following the sale of Mojang.

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