MineCon and a costume competition. The event is also featuring info and pre/post show events. During the event, Mojang announced "", a dungeon-crawler spin-off of "Minecraft". At some MINECONs, attendees have received an exclusive in-game cape. MineCon MineCon is a convention for the video game "Minecraft", hosted by Mojang. The first gathering in 2010 was known as MinecraftCon. 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 most recent convention, held in Anaheim, had 12,000 attendees. The latest event, known as MineCon Earth, took place on
Minecraft mods as Java is known to be. However, Mojang developer Tommaso Checchi reassured fans on Reddit that modding was "too important" to "Minecraft" for the Java-based versions to be discontinued. Mojang released version 1.9 of "Minecraft" for the PC in early 2016, and with this update the company promised that the creation and updating of mods would be significantly simplified. Previous updates have been known to break available mods, forcing creators to spend considerable time updating them. In April 2017, Mojang announced the upcoming creation of a so-called "Minecraft Marketplace", where players would be able to sell user-created content for the