Minecraft boasts over 141 million monthly active users and other impressive numbers

With Minecraft Alive 2022, Mojang Studios is revealing all the biggest updates and announcements the Minecraft community needs to know about the growing Minecraft universe. Beyond reveals as to what'due south coming side by side for Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons, though, Mojang also updated some of the statistics nosotros have on the momentum that Minecraft continues to grow over fourth dimension.

In April, 2022, we reported that Minecraft had nearly 140 million monthly active users. It seems that momentum has impossibly managed to sustain and even grow since and then, with Minecraft boasting over 141 million monthly agile users in Aug. 2022. That means the number of people that actively played Minecraft just in Aug. approached and even surpassed the number of copies sold by some of the best-selling video games of all time. This shows that an incredible number of people are still investing enough of fourth dimension in Minecraft in 2022.

That'due south not all we learned, notwithstanding. Below are some of the key statistics on Minecraft, all of which are up to engagement equally of Aug. 2022. Unfortunately, Mojang did not provide an updated number for how many copies of Minecraft take been sold so far, meaning that number is withal officially 238 meg.

There were over 141 million monthly active users in Aug. 2022
Over $350 million in revenue has been generated past creators in the Minecraft Marketplace so far
Over 67% of players actively customize their Minecraft experience using the Marketplace
Over 1 billion hours accept been logged in Minecraft multiplayer
Over 201 billion hours of Minecraft YouTube videos were watched in 2022, making it the most-watched topic on YouTube that year

With such staggering numbers, it'south clear Minecraft is holding on tight to its title as the greatest game ever made. None of these numbers seem to apply to Minecraft Dungeons, but we reported that Minecraft Dungeons crossed 10 million players in Feb. 2022, an impressive milestone for a relatively young game. Because of this, both Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons have secured their spots every bit some of the all-time Xbox games.

Nosotros're covering everything announced at Minecraft Live 2022. The event covers a lot more than these Minecraft-related numbers, including the results of the annual Mob Vote, and we're keeping track of it all to go on you upwardly to date.

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