Minecraft devs say anything is possible in the sandbox game's future as they start to dip into old ideas for new updates: "You always have more ideas than you can realize"

Minecraft will soon follow up its precious, new Tiny Takeover update with the underground overhaul Chaos Cubed, but developer Mojang wants players to know its tight timeline doesn't mean its sandbox game's future is set. Actually, anything is possible for Minecraft.

Talking to Gamespot, product manager Anna Lundgren says, "Nothing is ever off the table when it comes to what's possible in the future." In fact, Mojang has been actively revisiting abandoned ideas to see if they could work in modern Minecraft.

"You always have more ideas than you can realize at one point in time," says Lundgren, "But I also love how that doesn't necessarily mean that things won't happen." She gives an example with the handmade copper golem first introduced as a possible mob candidate in the 2021 Minecraft Live 2021 mob vote poll – which it lost.

But "after a lot of years of thinking out in the public," Lundgren says, "the Copper Golem from the mob vote [in 2021] finally made its way in" as part of The Copper Age game drop this past September. Plus, "we had the firefly bushes coming in as a second interpretation of the fireflies we had been thinking about for 2022," which were announced in 2021, but were soon removed.

Developers had found out fireflies were poisonous to real frogs, but not their Minecraft frogs, which I suppose broke their immersion more than the existence of lava blocks and zombies. In any case, Mojang introduced its more eco-friendly firefly bushes in 2025.

"It's really nice when you have those ideas that, for some reason – time or other challenges – [don't] make sense at the time," Lundgren says. But then they come back around.

Familiarize yourself with all Minecraft mobs before they do.