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Minecraft's First New Dimension in 14 Years

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Minecraft's First New Dimension in 14 Years

Fourteen years. That's how long Minecraft made everyone wait for a genuinely new dimension — and at Minecraft Live today, Mojang finally showed one. It's called the Sift, it lands in 2027, and the reveal art alone already feels like 2011 all over again, in the best possible way.

Alex, an allay and a rabbit explore the warm orange-toned Sift dimension in Minecraft's new key art, a creeper lurking in the background

New world, new trails, new things waiting to end you. Mojang is calling it the game's first new dimension in over fourteen years — which means every "massive" update since 2012 was, technically, rearranging furniture.

Minecraft LIVE September 2026 event key art — characters and a cat on a sunset path framed by endermen

The show itself was a victory lap, but the Sift was the moment chat actually exploded.

Minecraft Dungeons II key art — heroes battling sniffer, drowned and skeletons as the crossover reaches the main game

And the part nobody saw coming: Dungeons 2's new dimension crosses straight into Java and Bedrock. One franchise, fully merged. Suddenly "Minecraft 2" isn't a sequel — it's a patch note.

▶ The full breakdown is in today's episode — watch it here.

Source: IGN

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