Timeline
Product, community, and business events from 2009 to 2026, compared year by year across three parallel tracks. Events only; every entry follows items verifiable on Minecraft Wiki and Wikipedia.
How to use this page: events are listed by year in three parallel tracks (product / community / business). Events only, no commentary; the argumentation lives in the chapters of the main edition. Within a year, entries are ordered by date.1
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| May 17, the first public release of Classic; December, enters the Indev phase | The game spreads through the TIGSource forums, forming the earliest player community | — |
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| February, enters the Infdev phase; June 30, enters the paid Alpha phase; December 20, enters the Beta phase | September, the server-side mod hMod is released; December, the Bukkit project starts and the anonymous server 2b2t is founded | Mojang is founded |
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| August 16, Pocket Edition launches first on the Xperia PLAY and expands to Android in October; November 18, version 1.0 is released at MineCon 2011 | Bukkit's official release; the MinecraftEdu education project is founded | Java Edition sales pass 1 million |
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| May 9, the Xbox 360 Edition goes on sale | February 28, the Bukkit team is hired by Mojang | — |
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| December, the PS3 Edition goes on sale | April, the Hypixel server opens | PC sales pass 10 million |
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| September 2, Java Edition 1.8, the "Bountiful Update," is released | September 5, Bukkit is taken down under DMCA, catching forks such as Spigot in the fallout | Sales across all platforms pass 50 million; September 15, Microsoft announces the $2.5 billion acquisition of Mojang; November 6, the deal closes |
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| July 29, the Windows 10 Edition (Beta) is released; October, episode one of Minecraft: Story Mode goes on sale | July, MineCon 2015 is held in London | — |
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| February 29, Java Edition 1.9, the "Combat Update," is released; November 1, Minecraft: Education Edition is released; December 19, Pocket Edition 1.0 leaves beta | — | May, NetEase announces it has obtained the China publishing rights; sales across all platforms pass 100 million |
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| September 20, Pocket Edition 1.2 is released: Pocket Edition, Windows 10 Edition, and Xbox One Edition are unified under the name Minecraft (later known as Bedrock Edition) | November, the first MineCon Earth livestream is held, with the first mob vote (the Phantom wins) | April, the official content store Marketplace is announced; within the year, the China edition launches under NetEase |
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| July 18, Java Edition 1.13, the "Update Aquatic," is released, completing the Flattening | December, the Fabric mod loader is released | — |
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| April 23, Java Edition 1.14, "Village & Pillage," is released; May, the augmented-reality mobile game Minecraft Earth is announced | MineCon Live 2019 holds a biome vote | — |
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| May 26, Minecraft Dungeons is released; June 23, Java Edition 1.16, the "Nether Update," is released | October, the first Minecraft Live is held, with a mob vote (the Glow Squid wins) | May, sales across all platforms pass 200 million, with 126 million monthly active players; October, mandatory migration to Microsoft accounts is announced |
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| June 8, Java Edition 1.17 (Caves & Cliffs: Part I) is released; June 30, Minecraft Earth shuts down; November 30, 1.18 (Part II) is released | October, the Minecraft Live mob vote (the Allay wins); December, cumulative YouTube views of Minecraft-related videos pass 1 trillion | The officials announce that Marketplace creators have earned $350 million cumulatively |
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| June 7, Java Edition 1.19, "The Wild Update," is released; the same day, Java Edition and Bedrock Edition are merged into one bundle sold for PC | October, the Minecraft Live mob vote (the Sniffer wins) | — |
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| April 18, Minecraft Legends is released; June 7, Java Edition 1.20, "Trails & Tales," is released | May, Mineplex closes; July, NeoForge forks from Forge; October, Minecraft Live holds its final mob vote (the Armadillo wins) | September, the deadline for mandatory account migration passes; October, sales across all platforms pass 300 million |
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| June 13, Java Edition 1.21 releases, adding trial chambers | September 9, Mojang announces the end of the mob vote | — |
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| April, A Minecraft Movie opens in theaters worldwide | — | — |
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| — | January, Mojang confirms through its social channels that the mob vote will no longer be held | — |