Minecraft: Nether Update
Minecraft: Village & Pillage is a major update for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition themed around revamping the Nether. It adds multiple new features to this dimension, such as new biomes and mobs.
Minecraft: Nether Update is an adventure developed by Mojang Studios, released 23 June 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Amazon Fire TV.
What Minecraft: Nether Update is
Minecraft: Nether Update is an adventure game developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Android, Gear VR, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Minecraft: Village & Pillage is a major update for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition themed around revamping the Nether. It adds multiple new features to this dimension, such as new biomes and mobs.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Minecraft series
Minecraft: Nether Update is the 66th of 131 entries we hold in the Minecraft series. The next entry was Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens in 2020.
What it launched against
Minecraft: Nether Update launched on 23 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant and Desperados III. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant, Desperados III.
Official trailer
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