Minecraft: The Wild Update (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Minecraft: The Wild Update

Minecraft: The Wild Update is a major update to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition themed around "scary things" and natural wilderness. It introduces the deep dark and mangrove swamp biomes; ancient cities; mobs such…

7 June 2022

What Minecraft: The Wild Update is

Minecraft: The Wild Update is an adventure game developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Bedrock Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Minecraft: The Wild Update is a major update to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition themed around "scary things" and natural wilderness. It introduces the deep dark and mangrove swamp biomes; ancient cities; mobs such as the allay, the frog, the tadpole, and the warden, as well as new items obtainable only in these new biomes.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Minecraft series

Minecraft: The Wild Update is the 88th of 131 entries we hold in the Minecraft series. The next entry was Minecraft: Lightyear in 2022.

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What it launched against

Minecraft: The Wild Update launched on 7 June 2022, within three weeks of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White and The Quarry. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White, The Quarry.

Official trailer