Minecraft Updates Timeline

This quiz gives you one Minecraft update or milestone at a time and a timeline from 2009 to 2026. You tap the timeline at the year it came out.

The card names the update and what it added, such as "Bees, bee nests and honey". It never shows the date or the version number.

Every card is placed, right or wrong. After each tap the timeline shows the true year, so each new card has more landmarks around it. Your score is the number of exact years.

How to play

• The timeline has one tick for every year from 2009 to 2026.
• Tap the timeline at the year of the card. On a computer, the year under the pointer shows before you click.
• Only the exact year counts. A tap one year too early is a miss.
• After each tap the timeline shows the true year, in green for a hit and in red for a miss, with the release date of the update.
• You place every card in the run. There are no lives.
• Your score is the number of hits. The maximum score is 20.
• The clock runs from your first tap. A faster run breaks a tie on the leaderboard.

What counts in this quiz

• Each run deals 20 cards from a pool of 33, so two runs are rarely the same.
• The pool has the named Java Edition updates from the Pretty Scary Update to Wilderness Bound, and milestones such as Minecraft 1.0, the purchase by Microsoft and A Minecraft Movie.
• The year of an update is the year of its first full Java Edition release, not of its snapshots or its later fixes.

What's not included, and why

• Small fixes without a name are not here, such as 1.18.2.
• Bedrock Edition dates are not used, except for the Better Together Update, which made the Bedrock Edition.
• Spin-off games are here only when they are famous: Minecraft Dungeons is here, Minecraft Story Mode is not.

Good to know

• Since 2024, Minecraft has several smaller game drops each year instead of one big update.
• The Nether Update and Caves & Cliffs: Part I came out almost exactly one year apart.
• In 2026 the version numbers changed from 1.21 to the year: 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3.