Minecraft Legends ropes in 3 million players in under two weeks

Blackbird Interactive and Mojang’s Minecraft Legends is off to a healthy start. The strategy game is a unique take on the Minecraft world, pitting players against the invading piglins. With co-op functionality and crossplay, Minecraft Legends has amassed over 3 million players since its launch on April 18, 2023. The developers recently confirmed the player count on Twitter while putting out a hotfix.

Developers put Minecraft Legends player count at over 3 million

#MinecraftLegends just launched and over 3 million players have already hopped in! We’re pleased to announce our first game update, which is starting to make its way to supported platforms right now!

Find out more here: https://t.co/R9gVpqsA0J pic.twitter.com/hA0heojV4B

— Minecraft Legends (@legends_game) April 28, 2023

With over 3 million players to partake in the action, the game has reached a massive audience. While the user count is impressive, a lot of the users are from Xbox Game Pass. Coming from a first party studio, Legends was added as a launch day title on Game Pass with many hopping into the RTS instantly. However, with a sustained 3 million player count two weeks in, the spin-off RTS is doing well, despite being a big departure from the original game.

The announcement was made alongside a patch release that shipped a few fixes.

What’s included in the latest update?

Matchmaking Improvements

• Added the ability to invite friends to a lobby to join the same team before finding other players in matchmaking (MCLG-11)
• Lowered the timer to start a matchmaking game from 60 seconds to 10 seconds. Matches now start much faster once at least six players have joined a public lobby
  • The timer will still be 60 seconds in some matches until all platforms have received the update

Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game
• Fixed a crash that could occur when starting the Campaign
• Fixed a crash that could occur when mobs were directed by a player when attacking the Nether Beacon Base
• Fixed piglins spawning from piglin launcher crates before the crate hit the ground
• Fixed magma cubes causing audio spam when colliding with units

Nintendo Switch Performance

• Improved input latency
• Made several performance improvements for a smoother gameplay experience
• Improved world loading speed, especially around piglin bases
• Fixed a crash when loading into a co-op Campaign

Localization

• Made several improvements to text wrapping with Arabic and Hebrew localization

Japanese Localization

• The button to enter the game is now the O button on PlayStation
• Fixed translation of “Orange Team” on several screens
• Fixed translation of “Log” in the Versus Mode lobby
• Fixed translation “Beak’s Eye View” on the post-game screen
• Removed unnecessary text “~007E” from the Private Match description