Minecraft actually began in the form of another game titled RubyDung
not much is known about the game other than that it was influenced by a
city-building freeware game called Dwarf Fortress
while Notch was working on RubyDung he found another game titled Infiniminer
Infiniminer was an open source multiplayer block-based sandbox
building and digging game
sharing many similar features with what would later become Minecraft
the name Minecraft came about when a user in an IRC chatroom with notch
suggested itbut originally Notch wanted to call it Minecraft: Order of the Stone
this is the first ever version and released video of the game
then only titled as Cave Game only four days later on May 17th 2009
the very first alpha version of the game is released to the public
this image is believed to be the first ever in game creation shared by a user
only 49 minutes after the game was released
and two and a half hours after release the very first in-game sprite art in the
form of an 8-bit Mario was created and shared
if you're even slightly involved in the Minecraft gaming community it's very likely
you've heard about Herobrine
it's a creepypasta story about the character in the game which looks
exactly like the protagonist Steve
with the exception of the eyes which are completely white
different sources state that Herobrine either started on 4chan or the minecraft forums
sometimes in mid to late 2010 since then it's achieved an enormous popularity
with a large following creating various mods texture packs skins another game
content to bring Herobrine to life
it got so popular that even the game's creators and developers started making
little hints and easter eggs towards it
for example in several patch updates they've added a line "Herobrine Removed"
or in the Xbox 360 version of the game there's a loading screen note that reads
"We think 4J Studios has removed Herobrine, but we're not too sure"
however like almost every other creepypasta story
it's all a work of fiction there's nothing in the source code of the game
to indicate Herobrine's existence
and Notch has officially said himself that Herobrine is not
in the game and that there are no plans for a future implementation
the creeper is a very iconic creature in Minecraft
but it was actually created by mistake the creeper came about when the length and
height of a pig model was accidentally inverted resulting in a tall midsection
with small legs
Notch liked the look of the model and added a green texture to it
and so the creeper was born all the creatures in the game
are genderless even the main protagonists Steve is neither male or female
or both the name Steve was actually just suggested as a joke by Notch
but the name stuck with players and has been widely used ever since
if you want to be accurate Steve should be referred to only as
The Player
Minecraft is pretty huge I mean like really huge
it's so huge that you could say it's infinite and no one would be the wiser
however that is technically not true
the map itself might be infinite but the part of the map the player can interact
with and walk-on
is not one block in Minecraft equals 1 meter and if you stand in the center of
the world you will have approximately thirty
million blocks in any given direction that's sixty million meters in both the
z and x axis
that equals 3.6 quadrillion
square meters seven thousand times larger than the surface of the earth
beyond this edge world generation is drastically simplified
you'll fall right through blocks and the game will most likely crash
there's been some ridiculously amazing and obviously time-consuming minecraft
creations over the years
here are a few examples the city King's Landing from the TV series Game of Thrones
a computer inside Minecraft using redstone
one of the large cities from the Lord of the Rings universe
Mirrors Edge a scale model of the Starship from the TV series Battlestar Galactica
an original Minecraft world called Imperial City
when you create a new Minecraft world you do not only create 1 world
both 3 the default world or dimension
is called The Overworld then by using portals you can travel to two other
dimensions
these were in the beginning supposed to be representations of heaven
and hell however only the latter made it into the game in the form of
The Nether the third dimension which was originally going to be called Sky
Dimension turned into a world called
The End the home world of the endermens and if you've played Minecraft you
should know it's anything but heaven
if you open up the texture for Zombie Pigmen
you'll find a hidden message written on it the message is a thank you note from
Notch to the original creator of the skin
and while speaking of textures 3 of the pictures featured on paintings in the game
are from the game Counter Strike
part of Minecraft's success is believed to be the cause of the games constant updates
new content is added frequently which keeps the game alive
but because of the constant updates there're bound to be ideas that never
made it into the current version of the game
and sometimes you just have to wonder why
for example Gears was a block that was supposed to be added to the game
but for unknown reasons they never did and most likely was replaced by redstone
it's not know what function Gears would have had but the files has since been
completely removed from the current versions of the game
another feature was lanterns just like torches you could hold the lantern in
your hand but unlike torches
you did not have to place the lantern ford it to shine
meaning you could walk around at night with the lantern equipped
and be able to see just fine Emerald ore was never supposed to be in the game
but was changed from the previous idea of Ruby ore
at the last stages of implementation because a developer had trouble
spotting the difference between Ruby ore
and redstone the texture of Ruby ore can still be found the game files and it's
unknown whether or not they will be used in the future
also in the texture files of game there seems to be textures
for a chair and a table leading many players to believe
furniture was at some point supposed to be added to the game
but don't worry many of these dropped or on hold ideas and features can
still be added today by using mods