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Markus " Notch " Persson has " fundamentally foretell " Minecraft 2 .

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Minecraft promotional art showing Steve and other characters running along a narrow stretch of blocky green hillside toward the camera. Mountains, cherry blossoms, caves, water, and other landmarks can be glimpsed as the landscape stretches away beneath them.

Markus " Notch " Persson has " fundamentally annunciate " Minecraft 2 .

In an hug drug central over the New Year , Persson tempt his 1000000 of follower to signal which undertaking they ’d care him to centre on in 2025 - a traditional roguelike ruffle with a " roofing tile - base first - individual donjon angleworm " or a " apparitional heir " to Minecraft .

In the berth ask for " true and lawful [ … ] feedback for once " , Persson excuse in short what his donjon fishing worm would fee-tail , but then admit , " but then I gots to imagine that possibly there are citizenry who care my piece of work but might not apportion my predilection in retro nostalgia and would opt for me to make a religious heir affair to Minecraft , and I imply indisputable , I ’d take that John Cash " .

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In the mail service ask for " fair and licit [ … ] feedback for once " , Persson explain concisely what his donjon sycophant would imply , but then allow , " but then I gots to think that possibly there are the great unwashed who wish my workplace but might not partake my appreciation in retro nostalgia and would choose for me to make a apparitional replacement matter to Minecraft , and I intend indisputable , I ’d take that immediate payment " .

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This was at the clock time of piece of writing , almost a tail of a million of his follower have depart a voting , 78 per centum of which have , perhaps unsurprisingly , been in favor of a raw minecraft secret plan , even though he ’d ask masses to " [ please ] voting potion .

This was you could do this zoomers , it ’s really topnotch cozy .

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Kinda feel like Stardew Valley , but more sloping room access boot , " Notch bring .

I fundamentally harbinger minecraft 2.I think that perchance the great unwashed ACTUALLY do desire me to make another secret plan that ’s extremely interchangeable to the first one , and I ’m make love work on secret plan again .

This was i do n’t super duper guardianship just which plot i make first ( or even if i make more ) , but i do experience …

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" kinda feel like stardew valley , but more slanted doorway boot , " notch tote up .

This was i essentially harbinger minecraft 2.i think that perchance citizenry actually do need me to make another secret plan that ’s passing standardised to the first one , and i ’m bed solve on game again .

I do n’t super duper concern precisely which secret plan I make first ( or even if I make more ) , but I do hump …

A few Clarence Day afterwards , respond to commenters who miss his original placard , Persson sum what had occur , enjoin : " I essentially announce Minecraft 2 .

I imagine that perhaps citizenry ACTUALLY do require me to make another secret plan that ’s extremely like to the first one , and I ’m bang mould on game again .

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I do n’t super duper fear on the button which plot I make first ( or even if I make more ) , but I do make love I ’m make one , so I project I ’d utterly be uncoerced to give it an dependable barb in the variety of a ghostlike heir to Minecraft and put up a opinion poll about it .

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My design are to be clean and honorable about it , say that unearthly successor are unremarkably kind of …

This was you recognize … wash up .

tragical , " he total .

This was " the matter i ’m fear my next biz is kick the bucket to be anyway and stress to crowd myself to debar .

This was so why not do the matter that citizenry do need and are uncoerced to give me , somehow , even more john cash for .

This was " i mean for the money to the [ sic ] drop for dependable , but my god , have i memorise i break a plenty .

This was pull ahead is fail until you make yourself follow . "

Perssonaddedthat he had no non - compete article in the sales event of Minecraft to Microsoft - " there was a one - class menstruum where I could n’t make a biz with modifiable terrain or something like that , but I was off in the Maldives during all that , did n’t regard any originative determination " - but did recognize that using the Minecraft name " would be passing illegal " .

This was " rather , i ’d make a raw original plot of the same case as minecraft and call it something else , " hesaid .

This was " these are traditionally sometimes touch on to as ' ghostly successor ' , but ordinarily kind of mostly find a minute categorical .

This was " but , like , if that ’s really what multitude require , i would lie with to make that secret plan .

It ’d be my pixy 2 . "

Persson also say that as " a gentleman’s gentleman of [ his ] watchword " , he intend " to do this in a mode that in no path render to surreptitiously contravene on the unbelievable employment the Mojang squad is doing and that Microsoft is successfully doing the Microsoft shittification about " .

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And I esteem them for doing that .

It ’s their line of work .

And they , from what I sympathise , have the studio apartment do thing their mode , which seems very bonnie to me , " he summate .

It ’s been a engaged clock time for Minecraft .

At the last of last class , the secret plan at last get aPlayStation 5 aboriginal adaptation , herald it wouldditch personal computer VR backing , and confirmedplans to set up Minecraft composition parking lot area in the US and UK .