I’ve always known my first Minecraft experience was playing some sort of PC demo version and then later getting the full game after thoroughly convincing my family Minecraft was not a virus that would take their debit card money, but I was not expecting to get gutpunched today that this was a 2011 PCGamer demo disc of all things!!!!!!!

I’ve always assumed my whole life it was the trial version you got off the Minecraft website and that I got it around 2012 or so, but this demo has the exact seed I remember with an elevated chest from the spawn, it being a double chest, there being a greeting sign, an ocean being behind you…

There being these greeting cards every in-game day helping you figure out the game… Truly amazed here that this is what I had!!! I was NOT a magazine kid but I just so happened to just be gifted PCGamer magazines every once and a while that I’d just kinda glance through- no real nostalgia for them but I’m surprised this is how I got my hands on the game!!! I weirdly do not remember the PCGamer retextured cows that’s a very awesome change I think I’m gonna forever have in my texture packs now.

Sadly I do not remember anything about the world I made within that time. I remember knowing already how to craft a pickaxe from Yogscast videos and thinking crafting was so cool, but that’s about it.

Back then I thought all the mods I saw were actually in the game and I remember in the full release trying to craft the wheel from the airship mod and being just so utterly heartbroken to find out what a mod was.

This is finally getting me to remember that I did actually have a good solid amount of hours in Minecraft on PC before Xbox consumed like 99% of my total playtime. If only I remembered what my old Mojang account name was!!!