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Java Edition Classic mc-161607

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This page documents a version of the game that was only released privately.
 
While there is proof of this version's existence, it was never released to the public.
This version does not have an official title.
 
The current title has not been used by Mojang.
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Minecraft alpha
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A version of Minecraft (Java Edition Classic private alpha) was released on May 16, 2009, at 16:07 UTC, referred to by Notch as "minecraft alpha".[1] This is the first version of Minecraft ever given to players, being released for private testing.[1][2] It is thus the first version in the Classic phase of development. The changes in this version are unknown.

Bugs

1 bug reported

  • Issues reported about this version were bad mouse movement[3] and a lack of a Y-axis invert.[4]

Trivia

  • The URL for Minecraft was given to users dock and fartron for testing.[5]

References

  1. ↑ a b TigIRC logs: (12:07:06) notch: minecraft alpha is available. I need someone on windows, someone on mac and someone on linux!
  2. ↑ "Early private singleplayer alpha coming very soon" (archived) – The Word of Notch, May 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ TigIRC logs: "(12:08:46) dock: the mouse movement is terrible" [...] "(12:09:16) dock: it barely moves, as though it is stuck, and then jerks" [...] "(12:11:55) dock: yeah the mouselook is pretty much unusable on mac"
  4. ↑ TigIRC logs: "(12:09:31) fartron: i don't have that problem but i need to invert the y axis" [...] "(12:09:39) fartron: or i will constantly walk into things"
  5. ↑ TigIRC logs: "(12:08:29) notch: awesome. urls pm'd."

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