Minecraft Live

Minecraft Live
StatusActive
GenreVideo games
FrequencyBi-annual
VenueVarious
Inaugurated
  • 31 August 2010 (2010-08-31) (as MinecraftCon)
  • 18 November 2011 (2011-11-18) (first official Minecon)
  • 25 September 2020 (2020-09-25) (as the cancelled Minecraft Festival)
  • 3 October 2020 (2020-10-03) (as the online Minecraft Live)
FounderMarkus Persson
Most recent22 March 2025 (2025-03-22)
Next event2025
Organized byMojang Studios
Websiteminecraft.net/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 attendees.

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 has been retired.