Ten Years Later A Unique Version Of Minecraft Was Found

A rare early version of Minecraft that was thought to be lost, has been rediscovered more than ten years after its release. Minecraft whitelist servers Minecraft Alpha 1.1.1 was released in September 2010 for the original Java Edition. It was only available for three hours. Gaming archivists have now found it again.

Over the years, there have been hundreds upon hundreds of Minecraft versions. Fans have meticulously gathered and archived many of them to preserve. However, one particular version, Alpha 1.1.1 or Seecret Saturday, was thought to be completely lost. It introduced fishing rods as well as infiltrating into Minecraft. However, it was found to have a game-breaking bug which made the screen completely gray. Version 1.1.2 was released within hours.

@lunasorcery on Kotaku and Kotaku, shared the entire story of its rediscovery on Twitter. As Luna describes the story, Alpha 1.1.1 became a viral phenomenon or even a holy grail of the Minecraft archiving Discord Omniarchive and no one would have expected to find it.

Someone found one of Luna's old tweets, and asked her about it. She later discovered a backup of minecraft.jar that was the same date as Alpha 1.1.1's release on September 18, 2010. Luna confirmed that the file was Alpha 1.1.1 and posted about it on Omniarchive and then took it down.

So I made a post in Omniarchive and it would be understatement to say that some people were noticing.

Just from the reactions the reality of the size of this find is begins to take hold. I literally start shaking.