{"id":85532,"date":"2026-07-08T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85532"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:36:28","slug":"minecraft-is-adding-a-highly-requested-feature-its-been-missing-for-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85532","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Is Adding A Highly Requested Feature It\u2019s Been Missing For 17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/next-minecraft-update-release-date\/1100-6530316\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/next-minecraft-update-release-date\/1100-6530316\/\">new update coming to Minecraft<\/a> is adding something the game has never had in its 17-year history and it&#8217;s something everyone loves to do: sit down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new video, producer Gustav H\u00f6glund confirmed that there will finally be a &#8220;straightforward&#8221; way to take a load off, and that&#8217;s with a new craftable cushion that players can sit on. As H\u00f6glund noted, people have found creative ways to sit down already by way of plopping down in a boat, a mine cart, or by riding an animal. But that&#8217;s not <em>true <\/em>sitting. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Agmsdgyj_8M  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Now there is finally this straightforward way of just putting down a cushion and sitting down. I think the cushion opens up so many new possibilities for building. I won&#8217;t even try to get guess what the players are going to end up doing with them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 16 different cushion colors to choose from, as you can see below. The cushions can be crafted using wool slabs, which are also new to the game.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1813993\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"579\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-08-at-9.04.07-AM.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1813993\" \/>Sitting is nice, and soon you can do it in Minecraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new update coming to Minecraft is adding something the game has never had in its 17-year history and it&#8217;s something everyone loves to do: sit down. In a new video, producer Gustav H\u00f6glund confirmed that there will finally be a &#8220;straightforward&#8221; way to take a load off, and that&#8217;s with a new craftable cushion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85535,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85532\/revisions\/85535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}