Will Minecraft 1.20 Have a New Dimension? No, But Here‘s What To Expect
I‘ve got some disappointing news for Minecraft fans hoping 1.20 would introduce an exciting new dimension to explore. Based on details announced at Minecraft Live 2022 and clarified in Mojang‘s 1.20 "Trails & Tales" update announcement, there will not be a new dimension.
However, there are still some awesome new additions coming that let players express their creativity and tell meaningful stories by customizing characters, utilizing new blocks, and enriching adventures across existing dimensions.
Let‘s dig into the key things 1.20 has in store!
New Ways to Explore Existing Minecraft Dimensions
While no new dimensions are coming, Mojang is expanding possibilities with your overworld, nether, and end adventures. Here are some of the most notable updates:
Diverse Character Representation
The character creator is getting overhauled to allow more diverse avatar designs. Mix and match hairstyles, skin tones, facial features, and clothing items to design a hero that represents you. With 50+ new appearance options, I‘ll definitely be customizing new looks to represent different characters in my multiplayer adventures!
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Building With New Bamboo Resources
Over 6 new bamboo wood types are being introduced! From bamboo planks to stairs, fences, and more, these vibrant new blocks are perfect for Asian, tropical, and natural build themes. I can‘t wait to see the beautiful gardens, pathways, treehouses, and Asian structures players construct. This addition alone brings so much more representation and breadth for different build styles.
Camel Mobs Bring Desert Diversity
Camel mobs are confirmed for 1.20 as a new way to traverse desert biomes or create nomadic caravans. Equip your camel‘s inventory, traverse hills with ease, and even breed baby camels! With improved desert village designs also teased, I‘m looking forward to richer desert adventures.
Storytelling Enhancements
Signs can now hang on walls to display lore tidbits or guide adventure maps. The updated book & quill UI makes navigating and editing in-game written stories far smoother. Display cases provide a fancy way for players or servers to exhibit rare items. Combined with the new mob behaviors coming, storytelling capabilities in worlds just keep expanding!
Fan Dimension Hopes and Speculation
While news is quiet on official new dimensions from Mojang, that doesn‘t stop the community from dreaming up amazing ideas. Here are a few in-demand environmental concepts I‘d personally love to quest through someday:
Aether Dimension
This beautiful sky-based realm with clouds, rainbow beacons, mythical mobs like flying whales and more was originally envisioned as the "heaven" dimension to contrast the nether. The Aether mod was hugely popular over the years, and fans continue to ask for it to become an official addition. Gliding between celestial islands and mythical structures in a realm above the overworld sounds incredible!
Sculk Dimension
Many players love the eerie vibe of Deep Dark cities and awe-inspiring ancient structures where skulks and wardens dwell. Why not a whole world themed this way? The "Sculk Dimension Concept" thread on official Minecraft feedback boards elaborates an amazing dimension vision centered around these new 1.19 features. Fighting your way through procedural skulk-infested ruins to reach ancient shrines sounds like an incredible atmospheric challenge!
Food Forest Dimension
SHARED on Reddit by u/Callumyoung101, this dazzling concept shows an alternate plant-filled realm with biomes themed around various food groups. Melon marshes, berry thickets, and infinite cake mountains? Yes please! It could be an amazing sustainable food source for long playthroughs while also offering new exploration joy.
And those are just a few remarkable ideas from millions of wishful Minecraft fans. With the depth of passion this community has, I bet Mojang developers have quite the vault of future dimension concepts to potentially pull from!
What Sources Are Saying About a New Dimension
Minecraft data miners and reliable insider sources indicate more alternate realms may indeed be on the horizon farther down the update pipeline.
Kingbdogz (aka Brandon Pearce), one of Minecraft‘s Lead Developers, replied on Reddit in 2020 saying:
We‘re absolutely not finished with alternate dimensions. 🙂 New dimensions and revision of existing ones will always be something we want to take on in big Updates!
Another Minecraft developer Mega_Spud even has the mysterious dimensions repository on Github, indicating in-progress design documents.
Notch himself stated years ago a desire to see the game grow to over 100 distinct dimensions. As credited Minecraft researchers the Game Detectives summarized:
We know that Notch envisioned Minecraft to host many dimensions, saying he wanted ‘over a hundred‘ of them, because it was inspired by Magic: The Gathering‘s plane and world concept.
In summary, while no major new realms are launching yet with 1.20, expert analysis and comments signal the potential remains open farther down the road. As Mojang said themselves:
Trails and Tales sets the groundwork for more Minecraft updates that‘ll continue to make Minecraft, well, more Minecraft!
And to many loyal fans like me, "more Minecraft" absolutely includes exciting new environments waiting to be discovered out there somewhere!
Comparing Minecraft‘s Current World Options
||Overworld|Nether|End|
|-|:-:|:-:|:-:|
|Biomes|Plains, Forests, Jungles + many more unique ones like Mushroom Fields|Soulsand Valley, Warped Forest, Basalt Deltas + Nether Wastes|End Barrens, End Highlands|
|Common Mobs|Pigs, Cows, Creepers, Spiders + ~90 total options|Zombie Pigmen, Ghasts, Endermen + ~15 unique mobs |Endermen, Shulkers, Ender Dragon|
|Ambience/Atmosphere|Varied depending on biome. Overall vibrant, earthy colors and sounds|Hellish red hues, eerie ambience. Danger from lava, fire, etc| Alien-like purplish tones, sense of isolation yet mystery|
|Key Structures|Villages, outposts, ocean monuments, witch huts + dozens more|Nether Fortresses, Bastion Remnants|End Cities|
|Purpose|Sandbox home to build and thrive|Access to key resources like netherite and blaze rods via perilous questing|Beat the dragon for ultimate bragging rights!|
Hope this table helps summarize how our current realm alternatives compare at a high level. As we can see, they each offer dramatically different atmospheres, challenges, and journeys for motivated Minecraft explorers. More dimensions would enrich those options even further down the road!
My Take: Exciting Times Ahead for Dimension Diversity
While Minecraft 1.20 "Trails & Tales" itself won‘t include a new dimension based on current details from developers, I dream of what wondrous worlds may come in future updates or DLC expansions.
As a passionate gamer and content creator always seeking new frontiers and adventures, I‘m crossing my fingers dimensions like a heaven-like Aether or perilous Sculk dimension materialize someday. And I‘ll eagerly theorize about any potential clues pointing to their debut!
For now, props to Mojang for the thoughtful, creativity-focused improvements coming in 1.20. Representation, builds, and storytelling remain at the game‘s heart for good reason. I‘m overjoyed young Minecraft fans worldwide will get to shape themselves and their stories in the sandbox more than ever before. Questing through stunning bamboo forests with my customized character atop a trusty camel sounds like quite the magical adventure indeed!
Yet part of Minecraft‘s timeless intrigue remains the worlds beyond our sight…I‘ll be watching the night skies closely for any mysterious new portals as 1.20 nears release. Who‘s with me? 👀
What are your hopes for upcoming dimensions or updates? Let me know in the comments!
