Minecon

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Minecon
Status	Active
Genre	Video games
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Various
Inaugurated	18 November 2011; 12 years ago (2011-11-18)
Most recent	28 September 2024; 47 days ago (2024-09-28)
Next event	TBD 1/2 2025
Organized by	Mojang Studios
Website	minecraft.net/en-us/live

Minecon (alternatively capitalised as MineCon, or MINECON), also known as Minecraft Live, is an annual interactive livestream and fan convention about the video game Minecraft, hosted by Mojang.^[1] The first gathering in 2010 was known as MinecraftCon. The event then went by the Minecon name from 2011 to 2019. 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 last in-person convention, Minecon 2016, held in Anaheim, had 12,000 attendees. An attempt at returning to in-person events was prevented due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 2017, Minecon has taken the form of an interactive livestream. The livestream was called Minecon Earth in 2017 and 2018, and was later renamed to Minecon Live in 2019 and Minecraft Live starting in 2020, where the audience was permanently removed.

As of 9 September 2024, the structure of Minecraft Live has changed. Minecraft Live will now broadcast twice a year, and the mob vote has been retired.^[2]