Minecraft Is Getting Its First New Dimension in Over 14 Years

Mojang announced at Minecraft LIVE on September 26, 2026 that the Sift is coming to Minecraft Java and Bedrock Edition in 2027 — the game's first new dimension in more than 14 years. It will become the fourth official dimension, joining the Overworld, the Nether, and the End.

Details on how the Sift will actually work in vanilla Minecraft are thin — Mojang only teased its visual style during the broadcast and briefly showed one of its new mobs. For a better sense of what to expect, the Sift is already playable in Minecraft Dungeons 2, which launches September 29, 2026. There it's described as "beautiful, vibrant, and teeming with souls," and includes new biomes called the Meadow and the Carapace.

Minecraft last added a new dimension with The End, which arrived over 14 years ago. The game has since sold more than 425 million copies and still sees over 300,000 new players every single day, so a new dimension is a genuinely rare and significant addition to the base game's structure — not just a content update.

Mojang is clearly using Dungeons 2 as an early showcase for the Sift before it lands in Java and Bedrock next year. Expect more details to surface once players get hands-on time with the dungeon crawler version.