Ten Years Later A Rare Version Of Minecraft Was Found

More than ten years after the release of Minecraft, a rare early version of Minecraft was thought to have disappeared. Minecraft alpha 1.1.1 was released for the original Java Edition in September 2010 and was available for about three hours. Now it's finally been found again by gaming archivists.

There have been hundreds of versions of Minecraft over the years and fans have meticulously preserved and archived the majority of them in the interest of preservation. One version, Alpha 1.1.1, or Seecret Saturday was thought to be lost. pubg qa It introduced fishing rods as well as sneaking to Minecraft. However, it was found to have a game-breaking bug which caused the screen to go completely gray. Version 1.1.2 was released within hours.

The whole story of its discovery was shared over Twitter by the user @lunasorcery (via Kotaku), who found the lost alpha. As Luna explains, Alpha 1.1.1 became a viral phenomenon or even a holy grail in the Minecraft archiving Discord Omniarchive and no one of them expected to find it.

Someone stumbled across one of Luna's old tweets and inquired about it and she was able to find an old backup of minecraft.jar that was the same date as Alpha 1.1.1's release date of September 18, 2010. Luna examined the file and confirmed that it was indeed Alpha 1.1.1 which she later posted about on Omniarchive and it exploded.

So I posted in the Omniarchive server, and it's an understatement to say that a few people reacted.

Based on the reactions the reality of how big a find this is begins to sink in. I feel like I'm shaking.