The dream is dead: the creator of Minecraft has changed his mind about making his own Minecraft 2

Before fans had time to rejoice at the idea of ​​a spiritual successor to Minecraft from the creator of the original game, the dream turned out to be dead. Game designer Markus Persson has changed his mind about making his own Minecraft 2.

Image source: Mojang Studios

Let us remind you that with the onset of 2025, Persson launched a survey on his personal microblog in which he offered to choose which project of his studio Bitshift Entertainment is worth throwing all your efforts into – Minecraft 2 or the roguelike Levers and Chests.

Persson promised to take the voting results 100% seriously and give Minecraft’s spiritual successor a chance, and also expressed his readiness to work with Microsoft to create an official sequel to the block sandbox.

Image source: X (notch)

Despite the fact that Minecraft 2 wins the survey (with less than three hours left before its end) by a colossal (81.5% to 19.5%) margin, Persson still gave preference to Levers and Chests.

«I talked to the guys in the office. Looks like we’re doing Levers and Chests!” – Persson said. The developer added that the studio would probably have given the spiritual successor to Minecraft a chance if it had won the poll with a more significant advantage.

New screenshot of Levers and Chests (image source: notch in X)

In a response to a disappointed user, Persson assured that a “spiritual successor would be much less fun” than Levers and Chests will be, and advised another to contact Microsoft for questions about a potential Minecraft 2.

Levers and Chests does not yet have a final title or even an approximate release date. The game is positioned as an old-fashioned first-person roguelike and dungeon crawler with “absurdly broken mechanics” and voxel graphics.