Minecraft 1.20 ‘Trails & Tales’ update is officially here
The massive content update is now rolling out to all players.
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Update, June 7, 2023, at 10:15 a.m. CT —True to its word, Mojang Studios is now in the process of releasing the colossal 1.20 “Trails & Tales” update to Minecraft on every platform and for every player. The update measures around 960MB in size, or just under 1GB. It may take a while for the update to appear for all players. You can also now view thefull changelogfor the Minecraft Trails & Tales update to see every new feature, change, and improvement, as well as a new launch trailer I’ve included below.
Alongside the update, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is also leaving early access on ChromeOS, making it available on more devices and giving it feature parity with all other platforms.
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Minecraft didn’t become one of the most successful, best-selling games of all time for no reason, and has enjoyed over a decade of healthy life because of a constant stream of support from its creators and its community. On Friday, Minecraft developer Mojang Studios finally revealed exactly when players can expect the official release of the next major Minecraft content update.
The Minecraft 1.20 “Trails & Tales” updateofficially arrives onJune 7, 2023, for both Minecraft: Java Edition and Minecraft: Bedrock Edition players. This is a huge update, so I won’t cover it all, but here’s a quick overview of some of the most exciting features coming toMinecraftin this release.
You can see many of these new features and improvements in the images below.
Minecraft players aren’t just getting a huge update filled with features — we’re even getting a new platform on which to play.Minecraft has been in testing on Chromebooksfor a while now, but the game is officially releasing on the Google-fied laptops and tablets with the release of the Trails & Tales update. This is the Bedrock Edition, of course, so it features full cross-play and cross-save with all the other Bedrock Edition platforms.
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Minecraft is also getting five new songs with this update, composed by Aaron Cheref. If you can’t wait to hear them, you can actuallyfind the new Minecraft songson most streaming services right now. You can check out the new music while you’re earning the new Xbox achievements added in this update.
In case you missed it, a long-running hot topic in the Minecraft community once again made the rounds when ray-tracing files were found in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. However, it’s very likely that these files were already in the game for the Windows PC version and NVIDIA RTX GPUs, soplayers shouldn’t get their hopes up for ray-tracing in Minecraft on Xbox Series X|S.
Minecraft isn’t just one of thebest Xbox gamesandbest PC games… It’s simply one of the greatest games of all time. The 1.20 “Trails & Tales” update isn’t the largest or most ambitious update Minecraft has ever seen, but it does include a ton of new features focused on expanding player expression, creativity, and representation, as well as many dozens of under-the-hood changes to improve the overall experience.
Minecraft 1.20 “Trails & Tales” officially releases on June 7, 2023, and it’s coming to players onXbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS platforms. Both editions of Minecraft are also available throughXbox and PC Game Pass, giving you even more ways to play.
This update is also releasing the day afterDiablo 4arrives, so Minecraft is officially a Diablo competitor (in addition toMinecraft Dungeons, I mean). You heard it here first.
Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
