- The next Minecraft update is expected to be released by mid-June 2025.
- Called the Minecraft Chase the Skies, the drop includes many new features, including new Ghast mobs, a new player locator bar, and beautiful Vibrant Visuals.
- Furthermore, saddles can now be crafted alongside more additions coming to the game.
Minecraft updates evolved after the live event last year. The days of massive annual releases are now over, and we are expected not to get the 1.22 update anytime soon. Instead, players now enjoy frequent but smaller Minecraft game drops like Spring to Life that introduced the Pale Garden and the farm animal variants. The newest Live 2025 brought the Minecraft Summer Drop, a stack full of new features, mobs, and visual upgrades. However, with the release date in the fog, there are details gamers want to know. Find them all here as we tell you the Minecraft Chase the Skies release date, along with its now confirmed name.
Minecraft Summer Drop 2025 Release Date
As per the previous trends, the Minecraft 1.21.6 Chase the Skies is most likely poised to be released by mid-June. Although this is just speculation, it aligns well with the earlier Spring to Life update, which was released 20 days after its last snapshot.
The Minecraft Spring to Life Drop introduced the Cow, Pig, Chicken variants, Wildflowers, Cactus flowers, and several new features into the game. Moreover, we tried these features before release from the snapshots, previews, and pre-releases. We can see a similar pattern being followed with the upcoming Minecraft 1.21.6 update, with all pre-release snapshots being released.
Upcoming Minecraft 1.21.6 Name
Mojang has a fun way of introducing Minecraft drops by giving them cool names. The latest Spring to Life update was themed around the new flowers, mob variants, and mostly ambient features that make the surroundings more lively.
In one of the latest announcements by Mojang, we now have a name to the new Minecraft 1.21.6 update and it will be called “Chase the skies“.
The name is heavily justified as the recent Minecraft snapshots introduced us to ghast variants, including happy ghasts, dried ghast blocks, and ghastlings, a new crafting recipe for saddles, lead, and harnesses, the player locator bar, and even the beautiful, vibrant visuals. If that continues, we might get to see more rejected ‘mob vote’ mobs in the game.
Minecraft 1.21.6 Features
As discussed earlier, Mojang has changed the way Minecraft releases updates. While game drops are supposed to be smaller releases, the next Minecraft Chase the Skies drop will be a pleasant surprise. That’s because it is just full of new features and exciting upgrades.
As you read above, we are being introduced to the new variants of Ghasts that can be brought to the Overworld from the Nether dimension and ridden. You can bring a small dried ghast or craft it from Ghast tears and a soul sand block. Watering this small creature will turn it into a Ghastling, and as time passes, it will gradually turn into a happy ghast that you can ride using a harness.
Furthermore, a new player locator bar helps you easily find your friends in a multiplayer server using the small and colorful indicators overlapping your XP bar. You also get a small arrow indicating whether a particular player is high up in the sky or mining at deep Y levels.
With the upcoming Chase the Skies drop, Minecraft Bedrock is receiving a much-needed change, the Vibrant Visuals. You can toggle this on to experience a massive improvement in the game’s graphics that matches the one you get while using Shaders in the Java edition.
Apart from these, the upcoming Minecraft 1.21.6 brings a new leash update, makes saddles craftable, and the harnesses you can use to ride the Happy Ghasts.
And now you know about the next Minecraft update and its release date. What features are you most looking forward to in the next drop? Let us know in the comments below!
