Minecraft Live

Minecraft Live is an interactive livestream about the video game Minecraft, hosted bi-annually by developer Mojang. Originally starting out as an in-person fan convention called MinecraftCon (later Minecon), the first gathering was in 2010; the event reoccurred annually until 2016 under the name Minecon. The Minecon 2011 convention was held in Las Vegas and celebrated the launch of the game with Minecraft-related discussion panels and gaming areas; the last in-person convention, Minecon 2016, held in Anaheim, had 12,000 to 14,000 attendees. The most recent event was held on May 30, 2026. The upcoming event will be on September 26, 2026. Since 2017, Minecraft Live has taken the form of an interactive livestream. The livestream was called Minecon Earth in 2017 and 2018, and was later renamed to Minecon Live in 2019 and Minecraft Live starting in 2020, where the audience was permanently removed. An attempt at returning to in-person events, called Minecraft Festival, was prevented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2024, Mojang announced they were changing the structure of Minecraft Live. It will now broadcast twice a year, and the mob vote was retired due to controversy from the community.