Timeline of events
This page's purpose is to retrace the history of all events related to Minecraft, Mojang and its employees in a less targeted manner than the different version history pages.
Births of Mojang employees and staff[edit]
Updates per year[edit]
This is a list of how many release and development versions there have been every year for each edition of the game.
Java Edition[edit]
Bedrock/Pocket Edition[edit]
Legacy Console Edition[edit]
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April [edit]
May – Birth of Minecraft[edit]
June [edit]
August [edit]
- 4 – Java: First elements of Survival shown.
- 18 – Java: Introduction of Health shown.
October [edit]
December [edit]
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January [edit]
February [edit]
June [edit]
July [edit]
August [edit]
September [edit]
October [edit]
December [edit]
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4 snapshots were released in
January [edit]
February [edit]
March [edit]
- 2 – Scrolls, Mojang's second game, is announced on The Word of Notch.[25]
- 4 – "Minecraft - Volume Alpha", the soundtrack of the game by C, is released.
- 31 – Java: Beta released.
April [edit]
May [edit]
June [edit]
July [edit]
- 1 – Minecraft passes 10 million registered users.[27]
- 30 – Minecraft T-shirts are made available on Battlefield Heroes for the of July week-end only as a form of "neighborly friendly cross-promotion" between DICE and Mojang.[28]
August [edit]
- 5 – Notch receives a page letter from Bethesda Softworks, threatening him with a lawsuit if he does not change the name "Scrolls" (which is too close to "The Elder Scrolls", according to Bethesda) for his next game. A little while before this, Notch had already been warned by Bethesda's lawyers about this problem, and had suggested a compromise in which he would never put any word before "Scrolls".[29]
- 8 – Henrik "Carnalizer" Pettersson joins the Mojang team.[30]
- 14 – Marriage of Ez & Notch, an extra copy is offered to all people who purchase Minecraft on the 13th and 14th of August.[31]
- 16 – Minecraft: Pocket Editionv officially released (Xperia PLAY only).
September [edit]
November [edit]
December [edit]
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January [edit]
- 12 – Java: Java Edition released.
- 18 – As part of the worldwide protest against SOPA, Mojang establishes a blackout on all their sites for the entire day.[34]
- 24 – LEGO announces that the LEGO Minecraft project has passed the 10, required votes.[35]
February [edit]
March [edit]
- 1 – Java: Java Edition released ( was skipped for practical purposes).
- 12 – The "Elder Scrolls vs. Scrolls" lawsuit has an outcome: Mojang can call their game "Scrolls", but no sequel using this name will be allowed.[37]
April [edit]
May [edit]
June [edit]
- 1 – "Micro World", the first LEGO Minecraft set, is released (coincidentally with Notch's birthday) and available on the LEGO online shop.[38]
July [edit]
- 13 – Legacy Console: Xbox Edition TU3 released.
- 16 – Legacy Console: Skin Pack 1 released. It includes 45 skins inspired by Minecraft, "Halo", "Fable" and "Gears of War" among others as well as new skin designs.
- 18 – Legacy Console: The Summer Of Arcade Promotional Skin Pack was made available through August 22, It included 15 skins inspired by various arcade games such as "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" and "Deadlight".
August [edit]
September [edit]
- 6 – PE: v released for both iOS & Android.
October [edit]
- 16 – Legacy Console: TU5 released.
- 17 – Legacy Console: Skin Pack 3 released. It includes 45 skins inspired by Minecraft, "Half-Life", "Portal" and "Left 4 Dead" among others as well as new skin designs.
- 24 – Mojang starts the Minecraft Bug Tracker, an online tool that simplifies the communication of found game issues between the players and the developers.
- 25 – Java: Java Edition "Pretty Scary Update" released ( & were skipped for practical purposes).
- 26 – Legacy Console: Halloween Skin Pack was made available through November 26, It included 55 Halloween-themed skins, including 7 with capes.
November [edit]
- 6 – Minecraft gift cards are available in physical stores in the US.[41] This is the first time Minecraft can be bought without a credit card.
- 15 – PE: v released for both iOS & Android.
- 24 – MINECON is held at Disneyland Paris, France.
- 25 – Second day of MINECON MINECON capes released. Java Edition , also known as "The Redstone Update" is announced.
December [edit]
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January [edit]
February [edit]
March [edit]
April [edit]
May [edit]
June [edit]
July [edit]
August [edit]
- 6 – More MINECON details were announced.
- 20 – Minecraft was announced for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.[44][45] The PS4 edition will be released on the same day the PS4 gets released for North America (November 15),[46] and Europe, Australia, and Latin America (November 29).
- 23 – Legacy Console: TU12 released.
September [edit]
- 2 – Minecraft for Java surpasses 12 million sales.
- 4 – Legacy Console: Mass Effect Mash-up Pack released.[47]
October [edit]
- 2 – Legacy Console: Plastic Texture Pack released.[48]
- 9 – Legacy Console
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