GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Minecraft alpha version 1.1.1, an extremely rare build of the game that was only available for a few hours back in 2010, has finally been recovered ...

An extremely rare early version of Minecraft, long thought to be lost, has been rediscovered over ten years after its release. Minecraft alpha 1.1.1 was released for the original Java Edition in ...

"Minecraft" archivists are always on the lookout for old and rare builds. More than a decade ago, a woman installed the then-latest edition of the game, a bugged version that was replaced less than ...

As everyone is told, if you put something on the internet, it will be out there forever, whether it is publicly available or not. Case and point is a recent discovery of a long-lost version of ...

Minecraft alpha is a pre-production stage of Mojang's sandbox, from October to December 2010. While the game has countless features in 2025, back in the alpha stage, it barely had any features and was ...