Minecraft: Dungeons will dungeon-crawl by way of the blockworld

A brand new Minecraft spin-off game will delve into the blockworld as a dungeon-crawler in 2019, builders Mojang announced this weekend throughout their MineCon fan occasion. Minecraft: Dungeons is its title, and whacking monsters is its game. Inspired by “classic dungeon crawler games”, they are saying, it’ll ship as much as 4 gamers to whack and stab and thwipp and zap by way of Minecrafty ranges and monsters, grabbing no matter loot’s not nailed down. Have a peek within the announcement trailer under.

“We’ve taken the combat mechanics of the core Minecraft game and turned it into an adventure game in which you fight monsters, explore environments, find treasure, and earn even better equipment,” Mojang chief inventive officer Jens Bergensten defined.

That sounds a bit bizarre contemplate Minecraft’s fight is fairly eh, even after a number of updates geared toward enhancing it, however who am I to argue with one of many greatest games on the planet? It’s not for me, and that’s high-quality.

Minecraft: Dungeons will go to new environments not seen in Minecraft earlier than, full with new monsters and new bosses.

The game slated to launch to launch a while in 2019. Mojang simply say “PC” relatively than specifying a model of Windows, so fingers crossed it gained’t be one in all Microsoft’s Windows 10 exclusives? Microsoft could personal Mojang these days, however they do appear to maintain them on a barely longer leash than another studios.

Minecraft has already spawned an episodic story doodad spin-off in Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode. Despite Telltale’s recent massive layoffs, that’s supposedly nonetheless being transformed to a magical interactive film for Netflix.

Minecon this yr (and final) was a livestreamed digital occasion, relatively than the days-long bodily conference because it began as. MineCon Earth, they name it. The full factor is archived on YouTube for folk who need to watch.

Disclosure: Our weekend editor, Jay Castello, typically writes for Minecraft’s web site.