When is Minecraft Live 2025? Minecraft Live is now a twice-annual livestream event hosted by members of the Mojang team to inform the community about the latest goings on, development updates, and more. The event used to take lace once a year, and was always a huge date among the Minecraft community, so we can’t wait to experience the hype twice yearly.
Until 2024, usually around the Summer, a huge, single, epic update has come to everyone’s favorite sandbox game, and undeniably one of the best PC games of all time, Minecraft. In recent years, that update has been announced during Minecraft Live. Now, the landscape of Minecraft updates is changing forever with multiple ‘Drops’ spread throughout the year, announced during two annual Minecraft Live broadcasts. So, here’s what we know about how that impacts the Minecraft calendar when we might expect to see Minecraft Live in 2025.
Minecraft Live 2025
While there is no set date for the next Minecraft Live, we do know there will be two in 2025. Given the date of the last event, we would estimate that the first Minecraft Live 2025 will take place in April, with another to follow in October.
For the last few years, the annual Minecraft Live took place in or around October, with Minecraft Live 2024 broadcasting on September 28. With this in mind, we would expect one of the biannual events to happen around the same time. Given there are now two a year, a logical assumption would be that they will fall six months apart, suggesting the first event will take place around April.
Of course, this is speculation on our part at this point, but if we’re right, we would hope to see an official announcement from Mojang in March 2025. what we do know is what’s coming from the next Minecraft update, as Minecraft snapshots have already dropped in which you can check out new pig variants and leaf litter.
Minecraft Live 2024
Minecraft Live 2024 took place on September 28, 2024, at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 6pm BST. This event followed the announcement that there will now be two Minecraft Live events each year.
You can still catch up on Minecraft Live 2024 on the official Minecraft YouTube channel.
In a blog post on September 9, 2024, titled “The future of Minecraft’s development“, Mojang dropped a bomb on the community by announcing changes to the current update structure and calendar, as well as a move to two Minecraft Live events a year. This is all good news, as it just means more content at more regular intervals.
It does, however, spell the end of large annual updates, which might be good or bad, depending on how you feel about it. Personally, we loved looking forward to the huge content drop each year, and speculated that the next would be a long-awaited End update. However, we can’t say that more content throughout the year is a bad thing.
This has already been tested since last year’s event with an update in December 2023 which turned decorated pots into functional storage, followed by the Armored Paws update that brought armadillos and wolf armor to the game. Now, a year in Minecraft is going to look more like that, with these smaller content updates announced during the two more concise Minecraft Live events.
How to watch Minecraft Live
Minecraft Live is broadcast live on Youtube, Twitch, and the official Minecraft website. If you miss it, you can always catch up on the full stream or the highlights after the event.
In previous years, the show has started with a ‘pre-show’ feature, during which well-known Minecraft content creators recap their year in the game. Whether this remains in the twice-annual show remains to be seen.
From there, new updates on all of Mojang’s projects are revealed. Historically, this has included a Minecraft mob vote, on which we discuss more below, but Mojang has confirmed the mob vote will no longer take place. Catch up on all previous events or get ready for the next one on the Minecraft YouTube channel, Minecraft Twitch channel, or minecraft.net.
Minecraft Live mob vote
The Minecraft mob vote is not happening in future Minecraft Live shows, with the 2023 vote – won by the Minecraft Armadillo – being the last.
The Minecraft mob vote has been a bone of contention for the last few years. In 2020, the Minecraft glow squid won the vote, but many thought this decision was unfair since Dream – who had a huge following at the time – asked his fans to vote for the squid. Many thought this swayed the voting in his favor and was thus rigged.
Since then, many have complained about the Minecraft Live mob vote, despite it being arguably the most popular part of the show. Another reason many players have fought against the vote, including signing a mob vote petition in 2023, is because they feel one new mob a year isn’t enough, and there is no reason all three new mobs couldn’t be added – or more.
Whatever the reason, whether it’s one of these or something we aren’t privy to, the Minecraft Live mob vote is no more.
So that’s everything we know about Minecraft Live 2025 and beyond. When more is announced for the building game broadcast, we’ll add it here. In the meantime, get used to some of the newest blocks in the game with some of our favorite Minecraft house ideas, and try out the newest biomes in the best Minecraft seeds, including The Pale Garden, Cherry Groves, and more.