not much is known about the game other than that it was influenced by a

city-building freeware game called Dwarf Fortress

while Notch was working on RubyDung he found another game titled Infiniminer

Infiniminer was an open source multiplayer block-based sandbox

building and digging game

sharing many similar features with what would later become Minecraft

the name Minecraft came about when a user in an IRC chatroom with notch

suggested itbut originally Notch wanted to call it Minecraft: Order of the Stone

this is the first ever version and released video of the game

then only titled as Cave Game only four days later on May 17th 2009

the very first alpha version of the game is released to the public

this image is believed to be the first ever in game creation shared by a user

only 49 minutes after the game was released

and two and a half hours after release the very first in-game sprite art in the

form of an 8-bit Mario was created and shared

if you're even slightly involved in the Minecraft gaming community it's very likely

you've heard about Herobrine

it's a creepypasta story about the character in the game which looks

exactly like the protagonist Steve

with the exception of the eyes which are completely white

different sources state that Herobrine either started on 4chan or the minecraft forums

sometimes in mid to late 2010 since then it's achieved an enormous popularity

with a large following creating various mods texture packs skins another game

content to bring Herobrine to life

it got so popular that even the game's creators and developers started making

little hints and easter eggs towards it

for example in several patch updates they've added a line "Herobrine Removed"

or in the Xbox 360 version of the game there's a loading screen note that reads

"We think 4J Studios has removed Herobrine, but we're not too sure"

however like almost every other creepypasta story

it's all a work of fiction there's nothing in the source code of the game

to indicate Herobrine's existence

and Notch has officially said himself that Herobrine is not

in the game and that there are no plans for a future implementation

the creeper is a very iconic creature in Minecraft

but it was actually created by mistake the creeper came about when the length and

height of a pig model was accidentally inverted resulting in a tall midsection

with small legs

Notch liked the look of the model and added a green texture to it

and so the creeper was born all the creatures in the game

are genderless even the main protagonists Steve is neither male or female

or both the name Steve was actually just suggested as a joke by Notch

but the name stuck with players and has been widely used ever since

if you want to be accurate Steve should be referred to only as

The Player

Minecraft is pretty huge I mean like really huge

it's so huge that you could say it's infinite and no one would be the wiser

however that is technically not true

the map itself might be infinite but the part of the map the player can interact

with and walk-on

is not one block in Minecraft equals 1 meter and if you stand in the center of

the world you will have approximately thirty

million blocks in any given direction that's sixty million meters in both the

z and x axis

that equals 3.6 quadrillion

square meters seven thousand times larger than the surface of the earth

beyond this edge world generation is drastically simplified

you'll fall right through blocks and the game will most likely crash

there's been some ridiculously amazing and obviously time-consuming minecraft

creations over the years

here are a few examples the city King's Landing from the TV series Game of Thrones

a computer inside Minecraft using redstone

one of the large cities from the Lord of the Rings universe

Mirrors Edge a scale model of the Starship from the TV series Battlestar Galactica

an original Minecraft world called Imperial City

when you create a new Minecraft world you do not only create 1 world

both 3 the default world or dimension

is called The Overworld then by using portals you can travel to two other

dimensions

these were in the beginning supposed to be representations of heaven

and hell however only the latter made it into the game in the form of

The Nether the third dimension which was originally going to be called Sky

Dimension turned into a world called

The End the home world of the endermens and if you've played Minecraft you

should know it's anything but heaven

if you open up the texture for Zombie Pigmen

you'll find a hidden message written on it the message is a thank you note from

Notch to the original creator of the skin

and while speaking of textures 3 of the pictures featured on paintings in the game

are from the game Counter Strike

part of Minecraft's success is believed to be the cause of the games constant updates

new content is added frequently which keeps the game alive

but because of the constant updates there're bound to be ideas that never

made it into the current version of the game

and sometimes you just have to wonder why

for example Gears was a block that was supposed to be added to the game

but for unknown reasons they never did and most likely was replaced by redstone

it's not know what function Gears would have had but the files has since been

completely removed from the current versions of the game

another feature was lanterns just like torches you could hold the lantern in

your hand but unlike torches

you did not have to place the lantern ford it to shine

meaning you could walk around at night with the lantern equipped

and be able to see just fine Emerald ore was never supposed to be in the game

but was changed from the previous idea of Ruby ore

at the last stages of implementation because a developer had trouble

spotting the difference between Ruby ore

and redstone the texture of Ruby ore can still be found the game files and it's

unknown whether or not they will be used in the future

also in the texture files of game there seems to be textures

for a chair and a table leading many players to believe

furniture was at some point supposed to be added to the game

but don't worry many of these dropped or on hold ideas and features can

still be added today by using mods