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 11 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

You haven't accounted for 3002.

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

yeah, minecraft version will be the next y2k

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

Minecraft II is called Hytale

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

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

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

I thought it was Veloren

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

You mean Valheim?

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

Veloren, it's basically Hytale before Hytale

EDIT: It's also open source

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was trying to keep the bit going haha

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

well that's a disappointment