Minecraft x Dragon Ball Z: 1.1 Legends update adds Vegito
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The Dragon Ball Z DLC in Minecraft gains Bardock, Teen Gohan, Gotenks and Vegito, an eight-player custom tournament and four new Story Mode fights.
The Minecraft x Dragon Ball Z DLC received the 1.1 Legends update this Wednesday, October 22, 2026. Created by the studio Cyclone and distributed on Minecraft Marketplace, the new version adds four fighters — Bardock, Teen Gohan, Gotenks and Vegito — plus four new Story Mode fights, new battle areas and a custom tournament for up to eight players. Nearly one year after the crossover launched in November 2025, the free content arrives days before Minecraft debuts on Nintendo Switch 2, scheduled for October 27.
What version 1.1 brings, in numbers
Released in November 2025 with Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Frieza and Cell on the launch roster, the DLC follows the incremental content strategy applied to the Marketplace's biggest licensed packs — the same logic behind the Star Wars, Batman and Jurassic World crossovers. Large drops are followed by themed patches that reignite community interest across the product's life cycle. The 1.1 Legends update expands both the story mode and the roster at once, and official materials also point to unlockable alternate versions of the original fighters.
| New feature | Detail |
|---|---|
| New fighters | Bardock, Teen Gohan, Gotenks and Vegito |
| Story mode | Four additional fights chained to the campaign |
| Battle areas | New combat settings built from blocks |
| Alternate versions | Unlockable variants of the original fighters |
| Custom tournament | Competition brackets for up to eight entrants |
In the official description of the launch trailer, Mojang sums up what the patch delivers:
“Discover new fighters like Bardock, Teen Gohan, Gotenks, and Vegito. Battle in new areas and compete in a new Custom Tournament mode for up to 8 players. Continue the Story Mode with 4 new fights and unlock more alternate versions.”
A cubical roster with narrative weight
The new quartet was no accident. Bardock, Goku's father, joins the game carrying the aura of the warrior who foresaw his home planet's destruction; Teen Gohan brings back the arc that culminates in the Cell saga, one of the most celebrated stretches of the series; Gotenks, the fusion of Goten and Trunks, arrives as one of the funniest and most devastating moves from the end of Dragon Ball Z; and Vegito, born of Goku fusing with Vegeta, closes the pack with the ultimate trump card used against the monster Buu.
With the additions, the adaptation now covers virtually every era of Akira Toriyama's work that can be represented in this form: the generation before Goku's arrival on Earth, the hero's youth during Gohan's maturation, the fusions of the final arc and the improbable pact of historical rivals distilled into a single combatant. It is not just extra content: it is an expansion that fills narrative gaps in the campaign — a rare degree of care among licensed DLCs, which often simply stack skins without touching the story mode's structure.
The tournament revives the Tenkaichi Budokai atmosphere
The big collective novelty is the Custom Tournament, a mode that recreates the structure and aesthetic of the World Martial Arts Tournament — the legendary Tenkaichi Budokai that named generations of fighting games in the franchise and remains an emblematic stage of the Dragon Ball narrative. Players build brackets with up to eight slots, fight through sequential rounds in arenas crafted for the event and re-enact the classic ritual: the central stage with the trophy, packed grandstands and the tension of needing three straight wins to advance.
The mode is a direct nod to the audience that enjoys the franchise together. Minecraft already supports local play for up to four players on Switch 2, and the eight-player tournament, which demands a bit more organization, runs on quick rules designed for short sessions — the format that dominates console gatherings these days. There is a relevant requirement: to access the novelty, the Dragon Ball Z DLC must be installed, as the mode does not work on the base game.
Price and how to play
The DLC remains on sale on Minecraft Marketplace for 1,510 Minecoins, which in practice equals the US$ 8.99 charged in the store. The update carries no additional cost: every owner of the pack receives 1.1 Legends automatically. To play, all you need is any supported copy of Minecraft and the DLC purchase made inside the game itself, with no dependence on extra subscriptions.
The kind of experience is worth highlighting: the pack concentrates challenges, arenas and a story-mode campaign tied to combat rules — closer to a fighting-game spin-off inside the sandbox universe than to traditional block gathering. For Dragon Ball Z fans, quick matches in closed arenas pair better with Kamehameha and super-move mechanics than free-form survival, and that is exactly the format the tournament reinforces.
Switch 2 timing with a free upgrade
Mojang's calendar is no coincidence. Minecraft debuts on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27, and the crossover update rides the window opened by the new handheld generation. Anyone who owns the digital version of the game for the original Switch can migrate for free to the Switch 2 standard edition in most regions until January 2027, with saved worlds carried over to the new console — one of the most generous generational transitions to date.
For the eight-player tournament, the Switch 2's community profile works as a showcase: it is the ideal format for local group sessions and online challenges among friends — a spirit that has sustained Nintendo's multiplayer tradition from the arcade era for decades. The patch therefore lands at the moment the new handheld generation anchors the sandbox experience around mobility and quick matches.
Licensed crossovers keep moving the Marketplace
Last week, Minecraft itself received the Avatar Legends add-on, another heavyweight franchise investment in blocks — a sign that licensed crossovers remain one of the Marketplace's main revenue engines. In parallel, the Dragon Ball brand keeps a constant presence in the Nintendo ecosystem: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero accumulates additional content on the platform, and the free-to-play Dragon Ball: Gekishin Squadra distributes promotional codes with redeemable items for a limited time.
For fans of Akira Toriyama, 1.1 Legends is one more move in a strategic year, with updates spread across genres and consoles. Anyone looking for the original material finds the DLC announcement on Mojang's official website, the update trailer on the game's official YouTube channel, and the originating report at the Nintendúo portal.
Meanwhile, coverage keeps flowing here: revisit how DeepMind's AI agents beat Minecraft without humans, browse the portal's anime section for the latest from the franchise and check our ranking of the best Nintendo arcade games. The 1.1 Legends patch is already live for all DLC owners, at no additional cost.
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