Over 10 years after promoting Minecraft to Microsoft for a cool 2.5 billion {dollars}, its creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, appears to be itching to create a successor to the sandbox sensation. He is even keen to work with Microsoft when constructing this mysterious sequel, although it appears like improvement remains to be but to kick off.

All this started with a social media ballot that Persson put forth on January 1, gauging curiosity in two gaming initiatives that he had an curiosity in growing. Certainly one of them was dubbed a “conventional roguelike (i.e., ADOM, Nethack, and so forth.) blended with a tile-based first-person dungeon crawler.” The subsequent was merely a “non secular successor factor to Minecraft.”

This put up, which at present sits with over 1.2 million views on X, has already acquired over 260,000 votes with three days remaining on the ballot. Virtually 80% of the votes have gone for the Minecraft venture up to now.

Following the outcomes, Persson went on to speak about how he would take the route of constructing this Minecraft successor. He referred to as making an official sequel “tremendous unlawful” due to Microsoft’s IP possession. Nevertheless, he stated the next a couple of potential official partnership:

“If Microsoft, for some cause, would need me to do it, and we, by some means, agreed on the phrases, I might completely be keen do to that. I might even give them a a lot larger share than I might really feel obliged to only to make it clear I am not doing it with unwell intent. However I will be a bitch to work with.”

A day later, Persson reaffirmed his plans to proceed with the ballot’s chosen outcome, saying that he “principally introduced Minecraft 2.”

“My intentions are to be clear and sincere about it, saying that non secular successors are normally sort of… you already know… washed up. Tragic,” says the most recent put up in regards to the venture. “The issues I am fearing my subsequent sport goes to be anyway and attempt to push myself to keep away from. So why not do the factor that individuals DO need and are keen to offer me, by some means, even MORE money for.”

He as soon as once more said that this venture will not “sneakily infringe” on Mojang and Microsoft’s work with Minecraft.

“I additionally intend to do that in a means that under no circumstances tried to sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang workforce is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the Microsoft shittification about,” Persson provides. “And I respect them for doing that. It is their job. And so they, from what I perceive, let the studio do issues their means, which appears very reasonable to me.”

What do you suppose will occur with this mysterious Minecraft non secular successor venture from Notch? Will it see the sunshine of day, and if it does, will it be capable to replicate Minecraft’s open nature and recognition?