Many videogame media released their articles for Minecraft following the conference.
Chen Mo's newest game: Minecraft
Chen Mo's first VR game exposed
Minecraft: Pixel art building game
Minecraft and Thousand Hells released at the same time
Chen Mo: nothing but praises for Thousand Hells during his conference
These articles went over the details that were shown during the conference, including the playstyle, as well as some gameplay footage.
Soon, the news was spread among the players. There were various different reactions, but most of them had some element of shock.
Chen Mo's first VR game is a building game?
But most of them could tell what the point of the game was just by looking slightly deeper into the articles.
From the looks of it, it was a game based around creating. Just like Don't Starve, it featured an open world and more complex online modes.