We’ve been giving Minecraft a lot of attention recently and with good reason – the game is a phenomenon. Starting off being developed by a single person the game has effectively spawned an entire game development studio dubbed Mojang Specifications along with an international following. But, that’s not the most amazing part – the most amazing part is the fact that the game is still in beta meaning it has a lot of room to grow.

While we told you about the Minecraft 1.7 update just yesterday, the real update gamers are looking forward to is Minecraft 1.8. This is the update that Notch is calling the Adventure update which will add a ton of new content that’s yet to be announced. Luckily, Notch has finally spoken of the 1.8 update giving us a bit of inside into what to expect.

According to notch the update will include more interesting farming, NPC filled villages, more incentives to explore, new combat mechanics, at least one new mob and “complex terrain features”. Unfortunately some of these things are quite vague but they will definitely be giving Minecraft a ton of depth – even more so than it already has.

Minecraft has taken the world by storm and has quickly become one of the most successful independently developed titles of all time. However, what you may not have known is the fact that Minecraft is still a beta. That’s right, the game has already sold millions of copies and isn’t even a final release just yet. Luckily Mojang Specifications are doing what they can to push the game towards a final release. In fact head developer Notch has just come forth to let us know that the company is currently working on beta 1.7. The big news surrounding this beta is the fact that it will be the “adventure update” along with adding small support for mods.

Unfortunately no other information was given as to what exactly this adventure update will include but it seems that Minecraft will be a much more feature intensive game quite soon.