A Rare Version Of Minecraft Has Been Rediscovered Ten Years Later

A very rare early version of Minecraft, long thought to be lost, has been rediscovered over 10 years after its release. Minecraft Alpha 1.1.1 was released for the first Java Edition in September 2010 and was accessible for a little over three hours. Just Another Site Now it's been rediscovered by gaming archivists.

Over the years, there have been hundreds on hundreds of Minecraft versions. Fans have meticulously collected and archived a lot of them to preserve. However one particular version, Alpha 1.1.1 or Seecret Saturday was believed to be lost forever. It introduced fishing rods as well as infiltrating into Minecraft. However it was discovered to have a bug that caused the screen to go completely gray. Version 1.1.2 was released within hours.

@lunasorcery on Kotaku and Kotaku, shared the entire story of its rediscovery on Twitter. Luna clarifies that Alpha 1.1.1 was a popular meme or holy treasure in Discord Omniarchive's Minecraft archiving Discord Omniarchive. No one believed they would discover it.

Someone came across one of Luna's old tweets and inquired about it and she eventually discovered an old backup of minecraft.jar that was the same date as Alpha 1.1.1's release - September 18 October, 2010. Luna confirmed that the file was Alpha 1.1.1 and posted about it on Omniarchive and then took it down.

So I wrote in Omniarchive, and it would not be overstated for me to say that some people noticed.

From the reactions, the reality of the size of this find is starts to set in. I literally start shaking.