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Keep the Current Version Numbering Format

Dear Mojang Team,

As a long-time Minecraft player and modding community member, I would like to express my concern about the upcoming change in the version numbering system planned for 2026.

Switching from the traditional 1.x.x format to a year-based format such as 26.1 may cause confusion among players, especially those unfamiliar with the reasoning behind the change. Many players might think that several major updates (e.g., from 1.21 to 26.1) have been skipped, leading to misunderstandings about what content they may have missed.

Moreover, this change could unintentionally complicate things for mod developers, map creators, and server managers. For example, many mods are labeled with formats like Mod-1.x to denote compatibility. If Minecraft suddenly jumps from 1.21.x to 26.1, users might assume the mod is outdated or incompatible, even if no major update breakage has occurred.

Instead of changing the version number format itself, I propose that Mojang consider using suffixes or tags to indicate update types and cycles. For instance:

  • 1.x.x-gd1（Game drop）

  • 1.x.x-fe1（Feature Expansion）

  • 1.x.x-hf (Hotfix)

This approach keeps the well-known and stable versioning format intact while still allowing Mojang to distinguish between different update types in a clear and readable way.

Thank you for considering this suggestion. I believe it would help reduce user confusion and maintain consistency for developers, creators, and players alike.

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    for sure there is many ways how to set apart big updates, drops, bug fixes, hot fixes and tiny patch versions.. they apparently are choosing one of worst formats because new format clearly do NOT tell people if new thing coming out is big or small
    having 1.X.Y.Z may be solution
    where 1 is release of game (it is Minecraft 1 now, first game, and all that)
    X is big update version that we HOPEFULLY get at some point again
    Y would be then drops and other smaller thing adding little bit of content
    Z be small bug fixes and patches
    so next drop would be 1.21.12, if they would make just bug fix to that then it would be 1.21.12.2, if actual big update would come again it would be 1.22 and so on.. simple and clear in my opinion, what is suggested in this post originally is good too, but I surely dont see why and how should be supposedly better to use some date-based system instead of what we have now or is presented here