Minecraft’s second big update of the year is nearly here, and if you’re eager to start exploring what it has to offer, you’ll want to know exactly when it’s releasing. This one is called Chaos Cubed, and it promises plenty of fun chaotic features to explore.
Minecraft doesn’t get fresh updates super often, so whenever one is slated for release, it’s quite an exciting time. To ensure you’re ready to start playing as soon as possible, here’s the exact time and date when the Minecraft Chaos Cubed update will be released.
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Minecraft Chaos Cubed update release date and time
Minecraft’s Chaos Cubed update is officially scheduled to launch on June 16. Official update release times are never shared ahead of time, but luckily, Minecraft has a reliable, consistent schedule, making it fairly easy to predict when this one will be released. As long as everything stays on track and sticks to the normal release rollout, Chaos Cubed will go live at 10am CT.
We’ve set our timer to 10am CT and translated it across major time zones to help you check when it’ll go live in your area. If any unexpected changes or delays occur, we’ll provide an update here so you can check back to ensure you’re up to date with the latest information.
- PT: 8am on June 16
- CT: 10am on June 16
- ET: 11am on June 16
- BST: 4pm on June 16
- CEST: 5pm on June 16
- JST: 12am on June 17
- AEST: 1am on June 17
Minecraft Chaos Cubed update features
The Chaos Cubed update for Minecraft primarily focuses on the Sulfur Cube mob and the new Sulfur Cave biome that goes with it. There’s lots to uncover, though, so here’s a full breakdown of all the new features packed into this update.
- Sulfur Cube – A new passive mob that can be found hopping around Sulfur Caves. You can feed them a variety of unique blocks to enact various effects.
- Sulfur Cave biome – A special new region that’s found underground and is home to all kinds of sulfur features, including Sulfur Cubes, sulfur blocks, sulfur springs, sulfur spikes, and more. The springs and geysers for this area spawn on the surface above the cave, making it easy to locate this biome beneath.
- New blocks – An array of new blocks, plus various item variants of certain ones like stairs or slabs, are included in this update.
- Cinnabar
- Cinnabar stairs
- Cinnabar slab
- Cinnabar wall
- Polished cinnabar
- Polished cinnabar stairs
- Polished cinnabar slab
- Polished cinnabar wall
- Cinnabar bricks
- Cinnabar brick stairs
- Cinnabar brick slab
- Cinnabar brick wall
- Chiseled cinnabar
- Sulfur
- Sulfur stairs
- Sulfur slab
- Sulfur wall
- Polished sulfur
- Polished sulfur stairs
- Polished sulfur slab
- Polished sulfur wall
- Sulfur bricks
- Sulfur brick stairs
- Sulfur brick slab
- Sulfur brick wall
- Chiseled sulfur
- Potent sulfur
- Sulfur spike
- Cinnabar
- New music disc – A new music disc called Bounce is included in this update. You can find it inside chests that spawn in mineshafts within the Sulfur Cave biome.
- Java friends list – While playing the Java Edition of Minecraft, you can finally invite friends easily without the need for special servers or Realms.
Chaos Cubed has quite a lot to explore, but if you’re looking to stay busy while you wait for it to arrive, there are plenty of already existing features you might enjoy. If you’re not sure what to do, consider working on finding a Golden Dandelion, getting the Lava Chicken music disc, making a Copper Golem, and enabling Vibrant Visuals.
