A new replace coming to Minecraft is including one thing the sport has by no means had in its 17-year historical past and it is one thing everybody likes to do: sit down.
In a brand new video, producer Gustav Höglund confirmed that there’ll lastly be a “easy” solution to take a load off, and that is with a brand new craftable cushion that gamers can sit on. As Höglund famous, individuals have discovered inventive methods to take a seat down already by the use of plopping down in a ship, a mine cart, or by driving an animal. However that is not true sitting.
“Now there may be lastly this easy method of simply placing down a cushion and sitting down. I feel the cushion opens up so many new potentialities for constructing. I will not even attempt to get guess what the gamers are going to finish up doing with them,” he mentioned.
There are 16 totally different cushion colours to select from, as you may see under. The cushions may be crafted utilizing wool slabs, that are additionally new to the sport.
The announcement of the brand new replace for Minecraft comes at a tumultuous time at Xbox, which owns the franchise and developer Mojang. The Swedish studio was among the many groups impacted by layoffs. Moreover, it was confirmed that Mojang–along with Sweet Crush studio King–will now report on to Xbox CEO Asha Shamra. She mentioned Mojang and King are Xbox’s “largest” items ranked by month-to-month energetic gamers. One other Minecraft-related change because of the Xbox “reset” is that Minecraft studio head Helen Chiang has been promoted to turn out to be the chief working officer at Xbox.
“She is going to carry our companies collectively underneath one working mannequin, ensuring we clarify funding choices, be taught from our successes and failures, and maintain ourselves accountable for outcomes,” Sharma mentioned.
Minecraft has offered lots of of hundreds of thousands of copies, and that does not depend spinoff video games like Minecraft Dungeons. The sequel, Minecraft Dungeons 2, launches in September. Outdoors of video games, A Minecraft Film was an enormous hit in 2025 and a sequel is about for launch in 2027.
