Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has been updated many, many, many times. Over the years fans have started working together to find these earlier versions. Most were easy to find. But a version Alpha 1.1.1It was considered completely lost until a random tweet from a decade ago resulted in it being found on an old hard drive.
@Lunashitch shared on twitter a fascinating thread details how she recently saved a piece Minecraft History.
The original Java build of Minecraft was released in 2009 and then went through several development and release phases. In 2010 the game was in alpha and updates were released frequently and sometimes without warning. These secret updates were usually dropped on Fridays. However, on September 18, 2010, a secret update was released on Saturday. This was the 1.1.1 update and while it introduced some important things like fishing rods and ducking, it also added a nasty bug that could result in a gray screen. So Mojang fixed the bug and quickly updated the game. Very quickly, actually. According to Minecraft Alpha 1.1.1 was available to experts and archivists to download for only 3 hours and 25 minutes. After that, 1.1.2 was releasedthat fixed the bug.
In recent years, tracking down a legitimate version of this update has proven impossible as it was surprising and players only had a short amount of time to download it. It was also buggy, so many people deleted it back then and moved on to the better 1.1.2 update. So people at the Omniarchive, a group dedicated to finding and saving old versions of the. dedicates Minecraft Games, had almost given up hope of finding 1.1.1.
Then a few months ago someone looking for that version of the game found an old tweet from @Lunashitch. The tweet from September 18, 2010 was simply their statement that there was a new version of. gives Minecraft out. But the timing of the tweet caught someone’s eye. Could she have downloaded the rare version 1.1.1 of the game? If so, did she still have it? After ignoring the first message asking about the update, Luna responded to a follow-up message on June 25 and decided to dig around to see if she had saved this rare update.
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After Luna connected an external hard drive containing files from an old laptop, Luna found one Minecraft .jar file with the correct timestamp. Dig a little more and she was able to confirm that she actually had the long-awaited 1.1.1 update in her possession.
She published the news in the Omniarchive Discord Server and the community exploded with excitement and disbelief. “Only from the reactions begins the reality of how big a find is,” Luna said in a tweet. “I’m literally starting to shiver.”
Even more amazing is the discovery that based on the timestamps on the file, Luna most likely only downloaded this update 90 seconds before it was removed and replaced with 1.1.2. Luna described this as some “damn astronomical odds. “
“The moral of the story: Never delete anything,” Luna said in the last tweet that ended the thread.
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