Minecraft Earth

Minecraft Earth (also referred as MC Earth) is an AR game based on the popular video game, Minecraft. It was announced on May 17, 2019 during the WWDC. A closed beta version of Minecraft Earth released on July 16, 2019 to 5 cities through iOS, just about 2 months after the announcement.

History
In 2015, Microsoft Hololens announced that they would be making a AR game based on Minecraft.

On May 17, 2019, Minecraft Earth was officially announced, with a teaser trailer and introducing some features in WWDC.

On July 13, 2019, the Minecraft Earth twitter page introduced 3 new mobs, the ender dolphin, pyjamallamas and cluckshroom.

Starting July 16, 2019, Mojang exclusively invited players to test out a closed beta version of Minecraft Earth, which was mostly YouTubers. The beta first rolled out in Seattle and London. A day after, Stockholm and Tokyo was announced. On July 18, 2019, Mexico City was the 5th city to be introduced into the beta.

Gameplay
Similar to Minecraft and Pokémon Go, players walk around to obtain tappables, which can be used to obtain resources including blocks and mobs. The resources go into their inventory to be kept at any time. Every time when they collect tappables, they earn XP in order to level up, similar to Minecraft’s XP system. With buildplates, players are able to build anything with the resources they collected. About 1 buildplate can be earned every 5 levels (level 5, 10, 15, 20). Players can also go in a bigger view to see the buildplate in real life. An adventure mode was implemented to Minecraft Earth but has not been added to the closed beta. Minecraft Earth alerts players when they are about to trespass, it’s implemented to have less incidents while playing the game.

Unused or developing features
See Minecraft Earth/unused, possible or developing features.

Trivia

 * There are multiple mobs that were added to Minecraft Earth but was not added to Minecraft.