with the current team of devs who's ethos seems to be to never touch the already well established gameplay features there will never be a minecraft 2.0

the entire philosophy of development for that game would need to change for that to happen

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Actually, Minecraft 26 comes out this year. They dropped the "1." and bumped the sub-version from 21 to 26 to match the year. They've also changed the way the new second tier works to be related to the quarter-year.

26.1 is due next month.

So yeah, there'll never be a Minecraft 2.0. The versioning no longer allows for it.

(This doesn't rule out a game called "Minecraft II" with its own set of unrelated but identical version numbers. Minecraft II 36.1 drops in ten years. Maybe. But probably not.)

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You haven't accounted for 3002.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I assume they're using (year - 2000) as the version number, which happens to match "last two digits" and will do until 2099. So any version of Minecraft released that year under the new system would be Minecraft 1002.x, not 2.x.

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

yeah, minecraft version will be the next y2k

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

honestly good for them, this tells me they realised how useless the "1.x.x" format is since they do not plan on ever having it tick up to 2.x.x, and changed it to something that allows them to convey more meaningful information

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft II is called Hytale

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And here's me thinking it was called Vintage Story.

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was Veloren

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean Valheim?

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Veloren, it's basically Hytale before Hytale

EDIT: It's also open source

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I was trying to keep the bit going haha

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If there ever is a "Minecraft 2.0," they would absolutely continue developing Minecraft 1.xx in parallel.

Honestly, props to them. They could make a huge amount of money by just moving over to a 2.0 and forcing a billion people around the world to buy the new version (and you know those people would buy it), but they aren't doing that.

[–] blamster19@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Minecraft recently changed its versioning scheme so the next release will be Minecraft 26.

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

well that's a disappointment

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Officially and under the hood it's still 1.26, actually. At least on Bedrock.