Early today several reports emerged of Mojang, building a full-scale “Minecraft 2”, the studio’s own plans, which was published the same day, point somewhere else entirely. The post from Chaos Crave on Sunday said the sequel is being built “from the ground up on a brand-new engine” for PC, PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox. It credited unnamed “insiders” with details such as realistic water physics, dynamic weather disasters and travel between dimensions without loading screens.
The rumour spread quickly because it promises something many players have wanted for years. Minecraft has sold more than 425 million copies, according to Xbox, and Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma said in September that over 300,000 people play it for the first time every day. A clean-slate sequel would be one of the biggest announcements in gaming, which is exactly why the lack of a named source matters.
The post does not link to a report, name a publication or identify the insiders behind it. That is unusual for a claim of this size, because a genuine leak about Microsoft’s biggest game would normally come with at least one named outlet or reporter attached. Until that changes, the story is an unverified claim rather than a report.
The platforms named in the post raise questions of their own. Sony has not announced the PlayStation 6, and its chief executive said in May that the console’s release date and price had not been decided. Microsoft’s next console, Project Helix, will only reach developers as alpha hardware from 2027, and Xbox described it this weekend as a console that can also play PC games.
Mojang laid out its own plans the same weekend, and a sequel was not in them
Xbox’s 25th anniversary magazine, released on 15 November and free to read on Xbox Wire, includes a long feature on what comes next for Minecraft. It quotes Kayleen Walters, president of Xbox’s XP division and former president of Mojang, at length. Her account centres on extending the current game rather than replacing it.
The biggest piece of that plan is the Sift, a new dimension that Mojang announced at Minecraft Live on 26 September. It debuted in Minecraft Dungeons II, which launched in September, and arrives in the main game on Minecraft Java and Bedrock next year. The first Dungeons found around 30 million players, Walters said, which showed Mojang there was appetite for Minecraft in other genres. Walters said Mojang wanted “the most significant addition to the Minecraft universe in 15 years” to debut somewhere players had to go and experience for themselves.
Walters also stressed continuity with what players already have. Minecraft runs on roughly 20 platforms, and she said Mojang treats every player “as equally important, whatever platform they play on”. She described long-running save files as “digital heirlooms”, adding that everything Mojang ships “has to be safe for a world someone has been building since yesterday or for decades”.
Physics and a new dimension are already coming, just not as a new game
Some of what the rumour describes is already happening inside the existing game. Walters said the Sulfur Cube, a recent mob, began with the question “What if we put physics in Minecraft?”, which she called a bold question to ask of a 17-year-old game. The Sift adds the first new dimension since the End arrived in 2011, and TalkEsport’s guide to reaching the Sift covers how players can explore it early.
Mojang also has new leadership at the top of the studio. Maria Angelidou-Smith became chief executive of Mojang and Minecraft in October, and told the magazine she wants to help Minecraft reach new generations “while protecting what makes it so special”. None of that rules out a sequel at some point, but nothing Mojang has said publicly points to one being in development.
The magazine also shows how far Minecraft now reaches beyond the game itself, which is where much of Mojang’s new investment is going. Walters pointed to A Minecraft Movie as proof that new players can arrive through a film, a theme park or a classroom rather than the game. A Minecraft World theme park land is due to open at Chessington World of Adventures Resort near London in 2027, with what Xbox calls the world’s first Minecraft-themed hotel.
