Why June 17 is a big day for Minecraft fans

Mojang is currently finishing up the Chase the Skies game drop for Minecraft. It is a new small update that will soon land for the game. The developers have been working on this update for several months now, and it's finally ready for release. It features happy ghasts, Vibrant Visuals, and several other features that will be pivotal for Minecraft's future.

Mojang recently announced that the Minecraft Chase the Skies game drop will release on June 17, 2025. Hence, this date is important for every fan. Here is more about why the date and the update are such a massive deal.

Reasons why the Minecraft Chase the Skies update on June 17 will be a massive deal for fans

Vibrant Visuals is a massive deal for Minecraft Bedrock Edition

Mojang officially releases their very own shaderpack-like graphics with Vibrant Visuals (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

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Mojang surprised all of its fans by introducing Vibrant Visuals at the first Minecraft Live of 2025. This visual upgrade is arguably one of the biggest features the game has ever received. It offers volumetric lighting, shadows, reflections, and fog, along with many other visual features. It uses Mojang's new graphics engine, Render Dragon, which was previously only used as a test feature in beta/preview versions.

During the same event, Mojang revealed that Java Edition will eventually get this feature, which is now only available in Bedrock Edition. As the months went by, it became evident that the team intended to include the feature in Chase the Skies, the upcoming game drop.

Mojang's very own shader pack will soon be available for Bedrock Edition players to activate and experience.

Craftable saddles and a new lead mechanic will become game-changing

Saddles and leads are receiving massive new changes (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

During Chase the Skies' development, Mojang also brought several major changes to saddles and leads that will arrive with the game drop.

Firstly, they made saddles craftable and allowed two entities to be connected with a lead without any connection to the player. These two features alone will be quite game-changing since players will now be able to craft saddles and travel the world more easily, and also transport entities more easily.

Lead also received various other changes in physics, tensile strength before breaking, and others to make it even better and useful than it already was.

Minecraft players will get a second method of flying in the game

Happy ghast will be the second way to fly in Minecraft after elytra (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

For 16 years, the only way to fly in Minecraft was to find and use an elytra after defeating the Ender Dragon. Hence, flying in the game was considered an endgame activity. Now, however, Mojang will release the happy ghast, which is a new friendly mob that will allow players to fly on it.

This mob can be grown from a dried ghast, and it wears a harness for players to sit on. Happy ghast can fly around anywhere, allowing players to travel a lot easily compared to an elytra, even though it is a lot slower than one.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra