Today, Joshua Mutter uploads "A Pirate's Life in Minecraft". #minecraft

Today, user dioptreproductions creates Portal 2's ending sequence in Minecraft, complete with a noteblock turret song. #minecraft

Today, Daniel Kaplan attempts to stream Minecraft Pocket Edition on bambuser.com, but the stream goes down after less than half an hour. He'll try to post something next week as an alternative. #minecraft

Today, another Adventure Update teaser has come in the form of an image of a list of servers. In Beta 1.7.3, players have to type in the exact IP of a server to connect to it, with no way to save servers. #minecraft

Today, the bow is being redesigned as part of the Adventure Update. A new achievement will be in the game for killing a skeleton with an arrow loosed from 50m away, a currently impossible shot. Another achievement under consideration is one for shooting the moon, a reference to Portal 2 #minecraft

Today, an office photo tour shows how Mojang has continued to spruce up their space since the housewarming party. In other news, the Adventure Update will be playable at Mojang's PAX Prime 2011 booth in August! #minecraft

Today, a new Adventure Update teaser image is dropped, showing what to be the intersection of a ravine with the new structure previously shown. #minecraft

Today, user SSLithuania uploads "How to train your creeper", the title a parody of a recent Dreamworks movie. The video uses 3D animation over in-game footage as opposed to a mod. #minecraft

Today, user TaviRider obtains and distributes top-secret information about the Adventure Update: #minecraft

Today, Beta 1.7.3 is released, a fairly standard bugfixing update that, among other things, removes the very popular piston block duplication glitch over a week after it popped up. This would be the last update before the Adventure Update brought major changes to Minecraft. #minecraft

Today, TeamEvilMojang mods in carnivorous pigs, resembling feral hogs in appearance and behavior. #minecraft

Today, Minecraft is nominated for 5 categories for this August's European Games Award, including Best European Game. Mojang is also nominated for the Best European Studio award. web.archive.org/web/20110721... #minecraft

Today, the Adventure Update logo is revealed! This is the first update to have such an image, matching how big the update has become, with there being a list of over 40 things to be added. The intent is to make Minecraft "more gamey". This will be the last content update before release! #minecraft

Today, user MyMinecraftProject uploads a video of them riding their double roller coaster, designed for a player and a dog to ride together. #minecraft

Today, Minecraft YouTube continues to be inundated with pistons. ArchangelMelek makes a tutorial for a relatively simple but popular use for pistons: doors. #minecraft

Today, Mojang makes a statement against Bill S.978, which would forbid sharing videos of copyrighted material online, including video games. Since Minecraft owes so much of its success to YouTube, they've decided that if the bill is passed, they will simply alter the TOS to allow videos. #minecraft

Today, Beta 1.7.2 is released, another hotfix for the latest update. Unfortunately for Mojang, a major glitch was discovered just in time for the weekend: Piston duplication. Rapidly firing pistons can violate the law of conservation of mass for any pushable block, as shown in the video. #minecraft

Today, Beta 1.7 (and hotfix Beta 1.7_01) is released, adding pistons to vanilla Minecraft! The new block was heavily inspired by the popular piston mod, had its development interrupted by pocket edition, and is now being released early to tide Minecrafters over until 1.8. #minecraft

Today, ThinkGeek posts a promotional video for the recently-released Foam Pickaxe #minecraft

Today, a little more info is given about the newly-designated 1.8. The Adventure Update will reshape the terrain, add new features for combat and exploration, mobs, villages, and more! #minecraft

Today, a bit of an update reshuffling is announced. With the Adventure Update growing in scope and nowhere near completion, 1.7 will instead just add pistons, which themselves are nearly complete. 1.8 will be released some time after, and will likely be the last Beta version. #minecraft

Today, "Team Evil Mojang" shows a new creation: the Pigman. This obviously is not an official account, but people have speculated on the upcoming NPCs being de-zombified pigmen. #minecraft

Today, Joshua Mutter uploads "The Life of a Minecraftian" #minecraft

Today, another Adventure Update feature is leaked... It's just unclear what exactly it is. The picture is of Steve in the air with white particles under him at night. Some think it's a way to the Sky dimension, others an OP new item, and still others think it's "creative mode" flight #minecraft

Today, the Minecraft Forums continues its extended downtime. While replacing server infrastructure, the backup failed, so Minecrafters are currently forced to use reddit. Fortunately, no personal information was compromised. #minecraft

Today, another spoiler about the adventure update is leaked: underground ravines! Behind the scenes, these cave features have been in development for a while, and now they're ready to be added in the next update. #minecraft

Today, another video comes out with footage shot earlier in the month at E3, this time featuring The Shaft podcast interviewing scores of Steves. #minecraft

Today, Tested.com releases a video shot at E3, where Will and Norm got the chance to play Pocket Edition. #minecraft

Today, user CorruptCarnage uploads episode 1 of their Minecraft Let's Play... In real life! #minecraft

Today, Jens delivers his talk at Dreamhack, livestreamed on justin.tv. Many potential additions are discussed, from confirmed (Endgame challenges like Terraria, critical hits, NPCs) to possible (larger height limits, magic) to not happening (Rideable dragons/flying machines, new weapons). #minecraft

Today, the number of registered Minecraft users has surpassed the population of its home country, Sweden! There are millions of "potential customers" playing just Classic, more than a year after that build ceased development. #minecraft

Today, Jens continues work on Minecraft, sharing that pistons are limited to pushing 12 blocks at a time and improving redstone dust's automatic connections with repeaters. #minecraft

Today, ThinkGeek announces new Minecraft merch: a foam pickaxe and (sticky note)blocks. #minecraft

Today, the Minecraft YouTube channel uploads a video showing the upcoming piston block. Inspired by Hippoplatimus' piston mod, these differ from the modded version in distinct ways #minecraft

Today, Lydia Winters (better known as MinecraftChick) has been hired by Mojang! After her great performance demoing pocket edition at E3, she expressed interest in joining Mojang, got an interview on the last day of the convention, and is being hired as a sort of community ambassador. #minecraft

Today, TeamEvilMojang distills a creeper down to its original base form #minecraft

Today, new lighting systems are shown off, due to be added in 1.7. The lighting transition from day to night will be improved. #minecraft

Today, team Mojang flies back to Sweden after E3. A dev blog post made during the travel day reviewing all that occurred during E3, such as the Xbox announcement. Las Vegas' convention space is fully booked for 11/11/11, so to make room for Minecon, release will be delayed by one week. #minecraft

Today, E3 concludes, with the last Minecraft event held at noon. Team Mojang caps it off in style with a party at the Playboy Mansion. #minecraft

Today, E3 continues. The Shaft Podcast joins in the pocket edition demoing, and two more Steve Head handouts are conducted, making for quite the intimidating display. #minecraft

Today, E3 officially begins! Pocket Edition is demonstrated to the public in-person for the first time by YouTuber Minecraft Chick. Steve heads and blue shirts are given out to all who want them. And @2playerproductions.bsky.social is here again to record! #minecraft

Today, Mojang joins many other gaming companies in making a big announcement the day before E3 officially begins: Minecraft is coming to the Xbox 360! The 2nd port of the game (after the mobile version to be showcased this E3), development has just begun and it aims to release in winter. #minecraft

Today, Bebop Vox interviews YouTuber and soon-to-be E3 presenter Minecraft Chick. #minecraft

Today, Lemon. #minecraft

Today, it's confirmed that the Steve heads will be making an appearance once at E3 once again. Anyone who wears a blue shirt can pick one up from the Sony Ericsson booth, where Mojang will be. #minecraft

Today, Mojang CEO Carl Manneh tweets that he's working with Hat Films again today, though on what is unclear, as no update is imminent... #minecraft

Today, user WelshPixie plays in a Sky Dimension world! Made possible by the Bukkit plugin accessing currently unused code in the game, the world looks as it did in the pictures shown online. #minecraft

Today, 1.6.6 is released, the last minor version for 1.6 unless there's a catastrophic bug lurking in the code. The fps limiter was changed again, restoring the option for unlimited fps and making it more intuitive. A few other features were also added, and (of course) bugs squashed. #minecraft

Today, user hojjoshMC uploads "All I Do Is Dig", a parody of "All I Do is Win" by DJ Khaled, and filmed with the help of some other users. #minecraft

Today, a dev blog post explains the updated framerate limiting option. The 3 options are 40, 90, and 200fps. The way it works is that the framerate will be capped at the respective value and the extra resources will be used for chunk loading, except for the 40 option, which is a hard cap. #minecraft