Minecraft developer Mojang has no intention of incorporating generative synthetic intelligence into its sport growth course of.
The ever-increasing creep of generative AI into sport growth makes itself evident by the day, whether or not it’s Activision admitting to utilizing generative AI artwork in Call of Duty: Black Op 6, or Microsoft constructing Muse, an AI designed to “generate sport concepts.”
But, by the sound of it, Mojang has no plans of profiting from its guardian firm’s new know-how, a lot preferring the human contact that resulted in Minecraft turning into the biggest-selling sport of all time with an unbelievable 300 million gross sales.
“Here for us, similar to Minecraft is about creativity and creating,” said Minecraft Vanilla sport director Agnes Larsson throughout a current occasion attended by IGN, “I believe it is vital that it makes us really feel glad to create as people. That’s a function, [it] makes life look stunning. So for us, we actually need it to be our groups that make our video games.”
Ingela Garneij, govt producer of Minecraft Vanilla, expanded on this sentiment: “For me, it is the pondering outdoors of the field half. This particular contact of: what’s Minecraft? How does it look? That further high quality is de facto tough to create by way of AI. We even attempt to have distant groups generally and information them in constructing issues for us, which has by no means labored, as a result of it’s important to be right here working collectively face-to-face.
“I imply creativity is… you could meet like this as an individual, as a human to essentially really perceive the values and rules and the ecosystem, the lore, every little thing. It’s so large Minecraft, it is a planet, it is large.”
The people making Minecraft proceed to construct on its record-breaking foundations. The newly revealed graphics replace, titled Vibrant Visuals, is due out within the close to future, and Mojang continues to refuse to make Minecraft free-to-play. This philosophy of bettering and increasing the unique sport additionally goes hand-in-hand with Mojang’s need to not make a “Minecraft 2.” It could also be 16 years previous now, however there’s really no signal of Minecraft slowing down, and no signal of generative AI discovering its method into the Nether.
Check out every little thing introduced at Minecraft Live 2025 for extra on what’s coming to the sport.
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editorial Producer who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing on the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.
