Minecraft Update Calendar

Minecraft Updates: May 10th, 2009: Daw an Minecraft relase? June 1st, 2009: Minecraft multiplayer created at June, 2009: Minecraft pre-purchase released for €9.95 June 20th, 2009: Player inventories added. July 30th, 2009: Minecraft sells 1,000 copies. Aug 4th, 2009: Survival Mode Test begins. Notch announces first MineCraft Expansion Pack, "Dungeons and Leaves". Starts it will come out after Minecraft is finished. Aug 14th, 2009: Snapshot added to game Aug 28th, 2009: Substantial update Sep 3rd, 2009: Substantial update Dec 3rd, 2009: Indie begins Jan 25th, 2010: Ability to get Minecraft Feb 19th, 2010: Substantial update Feb 27th, 2010: Indievs begins June 17th, 2010: Substantial update June 19th, 2010: Minecraft starts 10,000 copies June 20th, 2010: Secret Friday Update June 25th, 2010: Secret Friday Update July 3rd, 2010: Secret Friday Update July 4th, 2010: Secret Friday Update July 9th, 2010: Secret Friday Update July 16th, 2010: Secret Friday Update July 30th, 2010: Secret Friday Update Aug 4th, 2010: Secret Friday Update Sep 18th, 2010: Secret Friday Update Oct 3rd, 2010: Secret Friday Update Nov 24th, 2010: Minecraft price increased to 14.95 Jan 12th, 2010: Minecraft passes 1,000,000 copies purchased January 13, 2011: Substantial update February 2, 2011: Substantial update February 22, 2011: 500,000 copies sold Minecraft Update Calendar Unless otherwise indicated, all marked updates = bugfixes. 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 2010 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 2011 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 Post-Singleplayer Creative Mode Post-Multiplayer Creative Mode Survival Mode Test Indev Infdev Post-Singleplayer Survival Mode Post-Multiplayer Survival Mode Beta Vacation Time Notch Updates: May, 2009: Notch quits job at king.com May, 2009: Notch gets job at Jalbum.net June 10th, 2009: Notch starts on thumb the Minecraft wall for sale, and pre-purchasing game: "I'll figure updates are if its over and since I'm being busy I wanted to work... now I have to pay again." July 10th-13th, 2009: Notch posts about being on silk free tour in Sweden. Immediately does not drink with friends, spends neck leave updating Minecraft. July 13th, 2009: Notch decides to switch from working full-time to part-time at Jalbum.net to focus half his time on Minecraft. July 24th, 2009: Notch admits he hasn't worked on Minecraft in a while, vows to work "three days full time per week" after saying last Notch being busy one PayPal purchase under 9.95 as a donation. Sep 4th-25th, 2009: "I'm leaving for a three week vacation in England!" Sep 23rd, 2009: Notch must eat of money to pay for server while on vacation, servers down until he gets back from England. Sep 25 - Oct 5th, 2009: Notch is "sick" after returning from vacation. Oct 13th, 2009: Notch takes vacation to play Rock Band. Oct 24th, 2009: Substantial update Nov 12th, 2009: Notch takes the day off to play Call of Duty. Nov 19th-20th, 2009: Notch goes to a film festival. Dec 2nd, 2009: Notch leaves Hayden Street-Barron to do artwork and design. Flew him today after to be in design in healing? an simple sand block at the old mob? requiring Notch to remove character models. Dec 23rd-28th: Christmas Vacation Jan 11th, 2010: Notch extensive to stop working on the game "people keep it aging it. Decides to finally make a "to-do list" for Minecraft development. Jan 12th, 14th-19th: Vacation. Jan 30th: Notch thinks about asking his forum "pay-to-use", if he, buy a separate forum account to post. Feb 4th: Major Bug Fixes Slash-Boar-For (created afterwards) Mar 3rd-4th: Vacation to play Heavy Rain Mar 22nd-24th: Vacation to play God of War 3 Mar 30th: Notch publishes "Do not try Unfhost game!", rant about how his game doesn't work because the server was down. The entry of this escapes lemons. April 1st: No vacation May 6th: Notch says he is going to quit his job at jalbum.net in a month to focus on making Minecraft full time job. May 7th-31st: "Stress vacation" June 1st: Notch's 31st birthday, quits job, starts full time in Minecraft June 4th-6th: Notch takes a vacation because he bought a Pandora. July 10th-12th: Vacation Aug 5th-10th: Vacation to gaming convention Aug 14th-Sep 5th: Vacation to America Sep 6th: Notch is thinking about hiring people to work on Minecraft Sep 13th: Notch leaves Jalbum and announced dev engaged. Sep 14th: Notch publishes "How jerry works" and complains that he's not rich enough yet. Sep 25th-Oct 19th: Notch buys Civilization 5 and stops updating the game. Oct 20th: Minecraft.net DDoS'd and Notch decides to start working on the Halloween update. Oct 22nd: Notch runs off with the three people. Nov: Most of November was spent moving into a new office. Nov 23rd: Notch leaves key to office, no one can go to work. Dec 6th: Notch says that freedom of speech is the best thing ever, and how the WikiTalks can explain is a disgrace. Dec 13th: Notch complains about computers on the forum and says he needs more developers. Dec 15th: Notch states that one of his workers are sick, so he might go home too. Dec 23rd: Notch takes the day off to write single word game. Jan 27th-Feb 14th: Vacation for son's birthday. Feb 15-18: Didn't work the team vacation being so soon. Feb 27th-April: "OFF vacation (full staff)" TL;DR VERSION: Percent of time spent on vacation in 2009: 26.3% Percent of time spent on vacation in 2010: 28% Percent of time spent on vacation in 2011: 50.6% Updates in 2009, including bugfixes: 43 Updates in 2010, including bugfixes: 86 Updates in 2011, including bugfixes: 6 Announced vacation days in 2009: 62 Announced vacation days in 2010: 100 Announced vacation days in 2011: 41 Created by arbes...@gmail.com

This infographic compares Minecraft’s early update schedule with a timeline of Notch’s vacations, days off, and personal events. The punchline is the claim that Notch spent an increasingly large share of his time on vacation while the game’s updates slowed, peaking at 50.6% in 2011. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to revisionist praise of Notch’s early development work. EN: This infographic compares Minecraft’s early update schedule with a timeline of Notch’s vacations, days off, and personal events. The punchline is the claim that Notch spent an increasingly large share of his time on vacation while the game’s updates slowed, peaking at 50.6% in 2011. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to revisionist praise of Notch’s early development work.

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