Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson brought on a little bit of a stir over the weekend when he “mainly introduced Minecraft 2,” after the overwhelming majority of respondents to a ballot on X stated that is what they need him to make. Not actually Minecraft 2, after all—he is not allowed to do this—however a “non secular successor,” just like the unique. He sounded fully critical about it on the time, however apparently he is now modified his thoughts.
“Talked to the fellas on the workplace,” Persson tweeted earlier this week (through GamesRadar). “Looks like we’re making Levers and Chests! Tipping level was PC Gamer saying it appeared attention-grabbing, lol. Yeah I nonetheless love PC Gamer.”
So should you have been trying ahead to Minecraft 2, properly, sorry about that. But in our protection, this wasn’t totally our doing. Persson did not sound overly smitten by doing one other Minecraft-like within the ballot that began all this enterprise, saying that non secular successors to fashionable video games are sometimes “washed up” and “tragic,” and he repeated that sentiment in response to a consumer on X who stated they felt “betrayed” by the choice to vary route.
“Trust me, the non secular successor can be method much less enjoyable than the dungeon roguelike,” he wrote. “They’re all the time kinda unhappy nostalgia dumps.”
The dungeon roguelike in query is Levers and Chests, which Persson started teasing in 2024 alongside his new BitShift Entertainment studio. And frankly, I believe it does look extra attention-grabbing than a Minecraft Redux form of factor—though to be truthful, I say that as somebody who’s extra inclined to go for that form of factor than most anyway. Persson truly dropped a shout-out to one among my favorites of the style, saying he hopes Levers and Chests “will likely be no less than half as enjoyable as Legend of Grimrock 2.”
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As for Minecraft 2, “You’ll should ask Microsoft about that one,” Persson wrote, reminding everybody that the sport has been out of his palms for a decade now. I would not maintain my breath ready for it to occur, although—Minecraft remains to be a monster—and even when it does sometime, Persson nearly definitely will not be concerned: He was excluded from celebrations of Minecraft’s 10th anniversary in 2019 over his “feedback and opinions,” a reference to a number of transphobic and anti-feminist statements made by Persson within the years following the sale of Mojang to Microsoft.
