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From big updates to new downloadable content here's what we learnt from this year's Minecraft Live event.

At the annual event Game director Agnes Larsson and some of the developers share the latest news and offer sneak peeks of new updates for the game.

This year the livestream event on 15 October covered everything from the 1.21 update, to collabs with Star Wars and Planet Earth III and which creature won the all important mob vote.

Was it penguin, armadillo or crab?

Makers Mojang also announced that Minecraft has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide and that 2024 would kick off Minecraft's 15th Anniversary Celebration.

Read on for more.

Star Wars DLC

During the live event Minecraft shared that a new Star Wars DLC will head to Minecraft Marketplace from next month.

Called Star Wars: Path of the Jedi - The new DLC is set during the Clone Wars, where players will train with Grand Master Yoda, Mace Windu, and the other Jedi as a young Padawan.

Players will also be able to explore planets, take part in lightsaber battles against fearsome galactic creatures and use the Force.

As well as this players will be able to create their own custom lightsaber and droid.

Planet Earth III DLC

Minecraft also announced their next collab with ����ý nature documentary series Planet Earth.

The Planet Earth III DLC has been created by Minecraft Education and ����ý Earth to be released in 2024.

Last year Minecraft launched the Frozen Planet II DLC, offering five frozen worlds for players to explore and learn in.

This time players will be able to play through some of Earth's most diverse landscapes - biomes - as well as meeting creatures in-game that feature in the TV series.

Who won the mob vote?

This years annual mob vote winner is... The Armadillo!

Armadillo came out top of the vote with a 42.3% win - beating Crab, who came in second place with 32.5% and penguin with 25.2% - to join the game permanently in a future update.

It can be found in the savannah biome and is a pretty shy creature. If you startle it, it will curl up into a blocky ball!

The armadillo drops a scute that you can use to craft a new type of armor, wolf armor, which can give player's pet wolves some extra protection.

What's coming in the 1.21 update

The next big update heading to the main game will be the 1.21 update.

The new update doesn't have a name yet, but Minecraft said it will be revealed later, and released midway through 2024.

The team showed off some of the new features coming to the game, including trial chambers - which allow players to face off against unique underground areas packed with traps, trial spawners, mobs, loot, and more that changes each time players tackle it.

A new hostile mob called The Breeze will also appear during these trials. They move by jumping and shooting wind energy at players that explode, as well as exploding immediately if they run into a player.

The team also showed off some of the new blocks heading to the game in the 1.21 update, which include tuff and copper blocks, which can be used to create copper bulbs.