Mojang admits the Caves and Cliffs update's new world generation tech was so much of a monumental task, the studio swore off yearly updates. Speaking at a GDC 2026 Minecraft panel (attended by and ...

Caves and Cliffs was so influential that it had to be split into two updates. It was such a game-changer that Mojang could not put everything into one patch, instead splitting it between versions 1.17 ...