Minecraft's First 2027 Drop Adds a Boomerang Throwing Disc

Mojang Studios has a new weapon coming, and it comes back. The studio announced the Throwing Disc during Tubbo's Mid-Offs show at TwitchCon San Diego on Saturday, November 14, 2026, as part of Minecraft's first game drop of 2027. The disc is a boomerang in everything but name: a player throws it, it damages what it crosses, and it flies back to the hand that threw it.

That return is the break from the game's current throwing weapon. The trident, added with Update Aquatic in July 2018, only flies back when it's enchanted with Loyalty. The Throwing Disc returns every time, with no enchantment and no ammunition to gather, and there's no dropped weapon to fetch after a miss.

The disc's range on a flat throw isn't long, and Mojang framed that limit as the point. Bounce the disc off a hard surface, the ground or a wall at an angle, and it ricochets, traveling farther and changing direction with each impact. In the gameplay shown at the reveal, the wall behind a target kept the disc in play, and tight spaces turned into the weapon's best ground.

One throw can also do a crowd's worth of work. The disc passes through whatever it meets, so mobs lined up along its path all take damage from a single throw. Mojang pitched it for exactly that moment: a player grouped by a horde in a cave, where the ricochet keeps hitting and the disc still comes home.

Players will craft the disc in five tiers: copper, iron, golden, diamond and netherite. There's no wooden or stone version, which puts the entry tier at copper and makes the new weapon a mid-game tool rather than a first-night one. It's the first new throwing weapon the game has added since the trident arrived in 2018.

The second announcement rides in the same drop. Bedrock Edition has kept its off-hand slot limited to a short list of items for years, while Java Edition has had dual wielding since 2016. Full off-hand support is now confirmed for Bedrock in 2027's first drop, and players can throw and catch the disc with either hand. Mojang says the feature will appear in the next Bedrock Preview and Beta builds.

What's missing is a date. Mojang is still finishing the Winter 2026 game drop, and it hasn't published a release date or version number for the 2027 drop. The studio has confirmed only the window: the first game drop of 2027 carries both the Throwing Disc and Bedrock's off-hand parity.