We don’t want our jams to jam up your internet pipes though, so it’s available to download separately from the main game.
It was then released for several other compatible devices on 8 October 2011.
But even though we’ve brought you The End, we’re a long way from finished with Pocket Edition. In August 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play on the Android Market as an early alpha version.
The Ender Update will bring the game version up to the big 1.0, in honour of introducing Minecraft’s complete ‘gameplay loop’, as the devs like to say. It’s since grown into one of our most popular versions of Minecraft, with over 40 million players, who are now able to enjoy the rich features of redstone, join each other on Realms, and across platforms, race each other on pigback, wail on witches and - with the upcoming Ender Update - battle the ultimate boss: The Ender Dragon. It was pretty bare bones - just the most minimal Minecrafty features in mobile form, hammered together in a mere three months.Īs Aron says: “It wasn’t even supposed to have multiplayer at first, and the first internal version only had an ASCII renderer!” We don’t want our jams to jam up your internet pipes though, so it’s available to download separately from the main game.What a long way we’ve come! At its inception, Pocket Edition was little more than an experiment by mega-brained Mojang coder, Aron Nieminen.
But even though we’ve brought you The End, we’re a long way from finished with Pocket Edition. What a long way we’ve come! At its inception, Pocket Edition was little more than an experiment by mega-brained Mojang coder, Aron Nieminen.