During its lifespan, some updates were devoted mostly for testing new things, like torches or fire. Indev received 29 updates after this, gaining a few fundamental features to Minecraft as it went, which are listed below. New features currently contained a more complex and realistic lighting scheme than Classic mode's and support for MD3 mob models, demonstrated by Rana. Indev version 0.31 was put to the public at /indev and available only to people who had purchased the game. Indev was initially released on Decemafter Notch received requests to let the community try out new features he was implementing. Indev was phased out in favor of Infdev after infinite maps were to be added into the game. Indev (short for "in development") was the third phase of Minecraft's development cycle and an older test version of Minecraft's Survival mode, which succeeded Survival Test in Classic Mode, and was the second Minecraft development stage to have some of its versions released to the public. The addition of Creative mode in Beta 1.8 rendered Classic functionality obsolete. Even after Classic was phased out, Survival Test was still playable until the website received a major overhaul on December 16, 2010, where it was quietly removed.Ĭlassic does not support many of the main features in the current versions such as crafting or a proper inventory. Indev through Beta 1.7 did not contain a "creative" mode, so players continued to use Classic for building things that would take too long in newer versions. The test had a point-based system, where the player could acquire points from killing some of the game's first mobs. It was a very early version of the game mode.
The release of Survival mode in Classic was conducted in a series of tests named Survival Test. This phase was commonly named "alpha" during its development until June 28, 2010, when a blog post retroactively labeled it as "Minecraft Classic". Creative and later Survival game modes were introduced in this phase. The phase was originally named " Cave Game" until the game was changed to " Minecraft: Order of the Stone" then finally to " Minecraft".Ĭlassic was the second phase in the development cycle of Minecraft ( Java Edition), following pre-classic and preceding Indev, and was the first Minecraft development stage to have some of its versions released to the public. It was the very first development phase of the game, lasting for only six days. Pre-Classic is the name given to the prototype versions of Minecraft (what is now Java Edition) developed before Classic. 2 Minecraft with Gadget and Candace Flynn.