When Minecraft came out: Minecraft Classic, Indev and Infdev

What happened next - in analysis Minecraft 1.0 «Adventure Update» and in the feed "Updates", where each version since 1.0 is disassembled.

Notch started making the game on May 10 or 11, 2009 - he himself recalled that it was most likely the 11th. The working title was Cave Game, "a game about caves." On May 14, it was renamed “Minecraft: Order of the Stone”, and soon remained simply Minecraft.

The earliest assembly that can be started now is rd-132211, collected on 13 May 2009. The grass and the stone in it are the same textures as in Cave Game. In a few days, the earth, rock, board, seedlings, physics, preservation of peace and the first mobs were added. The broken block did not throw anything out at that time. The whole phase took less than a week.

Classic is the first stage, the versions of which everyone has seen. The first build, mc-161607, was compiled by Notch on May 16, 2009, and May 17 posted 0.0.11a on the TIGSource forum. He signed it “Minecraft (alpha)”: this stage received the name “Classic” retroactively, on the Notch blog on June 28, 2010.

What appeared in Classic:

• World: bedrock, water and lava, sand, gravel, coal, iron and gold ores, trees.
• Multiplayer: 0.0.15a, the first version with online play, was released on May 31, 2009 - two weeks after the first.
• Blocks for construction: sponge, glass, Block of Gold, mushrooms, dandelion and rose, wool in 16 colors.
• Survival Test - 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST, September 1, 2009. First Survival: 10 Hearts, Fall Damage, Air Underwater, zombie, skeletons, creepers and pigs. There was no rebirth: if you died, the world begins again, and points were given for mobs.
• End Classic: obsidian and sheep. Latest version, 0.30, released on November 10, 2009 in two versions - for creativity and for survival.

Indev - from "in development", "in development". The stage was held from 23 December 2009 to 23 February 2010 and made the sandbox a survival game similar to the current one:

• workbench, equipment and crafting - tools, armor, bow and arrows;
• oven and melting, food: pork, bread, mushroom soup;
• chests, torches, fire and paintings;
• change of day and night with the sun and moon, light from torches;
• wheat: seeds and tilled land;
• third person view on F5;
• world creation screen: theme, map type and shape.

The world in Indev was finite: a map of a given shape that was chosen at creation.

Infdev - "Infinite development". From February 27 to June 30, 2010, the world became endless for the first time, as the player moved on. And then they showed up:

• Far Lands - distorted terrain on the very edge of an endless world; they were removed to Beta 1.8;
• volumetric clouds and graphics switch “Fast” / “Detailed”;
• signs, stairs and doors;
• trolleys and Rail, dungeons with spawners;
• golden apples, steps and saddles.

The latest build of Infdev, dated June 30, 2010, was then called Alpha v1.0.0 by Notch - it starts with it Minecraft Alpha.

Classic in the browser

Mojang posted Classic free on classic.minecraft.net on May 7, 2019, by the tenth anniversary of the game: it's a re-created version of 0.0.23a_01, 32 blocks in it. How do you go in and call your friends by reference -- in our section. “Minecraft online for free”.

Versions in the launcher

Early versions are on the same list of Mojang versions as new versions. As of October 30, 2026, there are five pre-Classic assemblies (from rd-132211), four Classic and one Infdev - inf-20100618. Indev is not in the launcher. The last Classic, 0.30, it's called the c0.30_01c: it's the same creative 0.30, which was reassembled in 2011 for the signature of a file, and the game hasn't changed.

• Official launcher: In Java Edition's settings, include a show of historical versions, called "Show historical versions of Minecraft: Java Edition in the Launcher". The old versions will then appear in the choice of the version when the installation is created.
• JuxLauncher: == sync, corrected by elderman == @elder_man Pre-Classic, Classic, and Infdev will become the group Alpha, marking them by Mojang.

These are old versions without support: the skins are not visible in them (the skin server for versions up to 1.7.6 is long off) and the errors corrected later have remained in place. In JuxLauncher, each version has its own folder, but the world that is pathetic is still better. copy. All releases from 1.0 are on the page “All versions of Minecraft”.

• Minecraft Wiki: pre-Classic, Classic, Classic 0.0.11a, Multiplayer Test 1, Survival Test, Classic 0.30, Indev, Infdev, Minecraft 1.0.0, Minecraft launcher - dates, stage composition, old versions in the launcher.
• minecraft.net: Minecraft Classic in the browser - May 7, 2019, 32 blocks.
• Mojang Versions Manifest (version_manifest_v2.json) - what early versions are in the launcher, as of October 30, 2026.