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Development of Cave Game
Notch begins work on Minecraft, under the working title "Cave Game". Using RubyDung, an abandoned game project of Notch, and Infiniminer as bases for the code, he began to create the pixelated open-world based game, which would eventually become Minecraft. -
Birth of Minecraft
Minecraft is first released to the public. The original name "Minecraft: Order of the Stone" is just shorten to "Minecraft" the popular title gamers know today. -
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Minecraft Accounts and Forum created
Users can now register accounts for Minecraft, and a few days later a forum is created for fans to communicate with each other. -
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Introduction of Multiplayer
Multiplayer begins its testing on June 1, 2009, and is finally released a week later to players. -
Custom Skins are released
A huge feature in the Minecraft series, players now have the ability to customize their player's skin. -
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Survival and Health are introduced
Two extremely important features of Minecraft, survival mode (August 4, 2009) accompanied by health weeks later (August 18, 2009) begin its testing period. -
Survival Test begins
Notch introduces survival into the Minecraft game, as a way to test out the features with players. -
Minecraft PC passes to Indev stage
Indev Features Minecraft passes the Indev stage, (short form for in development), and now requires a 5.00 € Premium Account to be accessed. -
Minecraft passes 100,000 registered users
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Minecraft passes to Infdev Stage
Infdev Features Shifting from Indev (in development) to Infdev (infinite stage) where the only mode players can access is survival, and it introduces infinite maps. -
Minecraft passes 20,000 sales
Sales of Minecraft for the PC, pass 20,000 sales. -
Minecraft PC passes to Alpha development stage
Alpha Version Features Minecraft PC passes from Infdev to Alpha development stage (Alpha 1.0.0), price raised from 5.00 € to 10.00 €, it is now possible to play on a client window. -
Official release of Survival Multiplayer
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Mojang AB is founded.
Founded by Markus Persson, Jakob Porsér, and Carl Manneh, it becomes the company behind the creation of Minecraft. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 51 employees. -
First MinecraftCon
A spontaneous gathering of over 50 fans after a call by Notch, is held in Bellevue, Washington. It starts the yearly tradition of holding a convention for Minecraft players, and the name is soon switched over to Minecon. -
Minecraft PC goes to BETA stage
Beta Features Minecraft PC passes to Beta development stage (Beta 1.0), price raised from 10.00 € to 15.00 €. -
Minecraft surpasses 1 million sales
Minecraft PC gets 1 million copies sold. -
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition at the E3 conference
Microsoft reveals Minecraft the Xbox 360 Edition at the E3 Conference, and set to be released next year. -
Minecraft passes 10 million registered users.
Over 10 million users register on Minecraft for PC. -
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Minecraft for PC surpasses 10 million sales.
10 million sales! Wow! That's impressive. -
Minecraft for PC surpasses 12 million sales.
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Minecraft for PC surpasses 13 million sales.
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Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition 1.0 officially released.
PS3 Features Minecraft is finally released for the PS3 after the Xbox 360 had the game for at least 2 years. -
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Minecraft PS4 and Xbox One editions are released.
PS4 (September 4, 2014) and Xbox One (September 5, 2014). -
Mojang and Minecraft are acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
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Collaboration with Telltale Games.
Mojang announced that they will collaborate with Telltale Games to create a new Minecraft spin-off game called Minecraft: Story Mode. -
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Minecraft for PC surpasses 20 million sales.
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Minecraft: Story Mode is released.
Minecraft: Story Mode An ongoing episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video game based on the sandbox video game Minecraft.
