If you don’t know the story behind it, you might be surprised to learn that Minecraft 1.20 is (or at least was) one of the least anticipated Minecraft updates in years. To summarize, you should know that the latest updates, although they brought a number of very interesting news, were a bit of a disappointment for the community, as they did not live up to everything that was promised in the respective announcements.

Minecraft 1.16 with the nether update was a complete success, but then came the announcement of Minecraft 1.17 Caves & Cliffs, which raised even more anticipation. It was caused by a number of circumstances that we already told you about back then Much of what was promised for said delivery does not arrive the sameand in fact, some of the features that were announced at the time are yet to come, such as the archeology mode.

Something quite similar happened with Minecraft 1.19 The Wild Update, which also suffered cuts between what was originally announced and what ended up getting to players who were already quite critical of Mojang at the time, well noticed by the studio. So the announcement of Minecraft 1.20 was somewhat surprising (and in my opinion correct) as it was the first time in a long time that the studio did not announce a name.

This happened in October of last year, and since then we have seen new images arrive that anticipate some of the new things that we will find in Minecraft 1.20. The big difference from previous versions is that we learned about the news in this way, through images and postings on the game’s official blog, the model with which users discovered news when they were practically readythereby avoiding the risk of subverting expectations.

A few months later, with some interesting news already confirmed, it was time to give the game’s next update some personality, and so Mojang did on its blog where tells us that Minecraft 1.20 will be an update to Trails & Tales, a name that seems very promising to me personally, if finally its second volume Tales is related to the news that enriches the game’s ability to create and represent stories. Something that, according to Agnes Larsson, seems to be the basis of Minecraft 1.20:

«Update 1.20 is all about self-expression, specifically self-expression through role-playing, storytelling, and world-building. And it is the path, your paths, that connects everything. The worlds of Minecraft belong to the players, as do the stories or narratives about those worlds.»

Personally, I haven’t played Minecraft in a while (and the truth is that I miss it a lot, especially with friends), but I find the approach of Minecraft 1.20 Trails & Tales Update so interesting that I want to dedicate a few hours to the latest images in a Whatever way, to give you a personal testing revealed what all the new features that are already in the testing phase look like.