A year in blocks

We’re almost at the end of December, and what a year we’ve had together! From befriending shy armadillos to tackling ominous trials, from discovering the creaking’s secrets to gifting brightly dyed bundles, what’s made our 15th year of Minecraft so incredible isn’t our game drops, or the Tricky Trials update, or the features that’ve been released.

It’s YOU.

This year, you and the rest of our Minecraft community have explored over 85 million biomes – including some new ones, like the pale garden. You’ve crafted over a million pieces of wolf armor, tamed over 100 million wolves, and defeated a whopping 20 million breezes. If that wasn’t brave enough – you opened 4 million ominous vaults, and crafted over 2 million maces!

You’ve also broken over 300 billion blocks – which is a mind-boggling number. If you’d broken one of these blocks every second – that time would stretch all the way back to when dinosaurs roamed the earth (and I’m talking real dinosaurs. Not the dinosaurs you might find at Minecraft Marketplace). How incredible is that?!

We’re really excited to see what the next year of game drops brings – and what you’ll create from them. But for now, we just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for making our fifteenth year extra special.

This one’s for you!