1.22 - The NPC Update

The NPC Update (version number 1.22) is a major Minecraft version released on July 5, 2025. It was originally announced at Minecraft Live 2024 on September 13, 2024, however earlier references to this update could have appeared before that time.
This update was succeeded by 1.23 - The Technology Update and later 1.24 - Minecraft Transit Update.
== Additions ==
=== Mobs ===
==== Smart NPC ====
* An entity that you can talk to via game chat or a dialogue box. It was powered by the GPT-5 model by OpenAI and can produce AI generated responses. 
* This mob has the same power as an average player, and it can help players out on tasks such as mining, farming, hunting, survival and building.
* This mob can naturally spawn in any biome where players can be normally spawned too.
* Any instance of this mob will have different names, while the skin will be one of the 10 pre-installed. However, the player can add more skins by downloading NPC Skin Packs from the internet or the Marketplace (Bedrock Edition only).
* Has different smart levels, where smarter NPCs would happen to be able to perform tasks quicker and more efficiently.
=== Female Villager ===
* Female Villagers are added and behave like Male Villagers, but more femininely. This means that Female Villagers are now required to create new baby Villagers with a male Villager. However, this condition is not necessarily required to build a relationship.
=== Items ===
==== Smart NPC Spawn Egg ====
* Self-explanatory.
==== Smart NPC customiser ====
* Can only be obtained in creative mode. Use this item on any Smart NPC to customise its name, skin, smartness or personality.
* Whatever you do, never let any Smart NPCs get one of these on their hands. This is very dangerous and will trigger a game crash and delete all auto-save files. This was confirmed as an intended game mechanic by Mojang, and possibly a reminder to not let real life robots change itself or they will rebel upon us one day.
==== Wrench ====
* When used on a block, can fix almost any glitches of it. If a certain block has been corrupted or glitchy, use this item to fix it.
* It can also fix block attribute discrepancies, and acts like the pre-existent debug stick.
== Changes ==
=== Mobs ===
==== Villager ====
* Villagers now interact with players through speech alongside with generative text response. The process works as follows:
*# Villager assesses surroundings and generates a response.
*# AI synthesises the text into the generic villager voice.
*# Villager's message appears in game chat while the voice plays.
* Unlike Smart NPCs which they are heavily based on now, Villagers cannot help the player on tasks. However, Villagers can sense if a player is stealing items from their chests and stop them in time.
=== Miscellaneous ===
==== New logo ====
* A new logo had replaced the previous one to fit the new Minecraft's theme better.
Category:Updates