Road to Minecraft 1.0, Day 121: Alpha 1.0.8(_01), 1.0.9, and 1.0.11 (Seecret Friday Update 6)
Sunday. Real date: 8 February 2026 Time machine: 25 July 2010 Recorded playtime: to be figured. Many changes in these versions; some major, some minor. Alpha 1.0.8_01 Alpha 1.0.8 is a lost version, because Notch inexplicably threw his own (frankly already nonsensical) semantic versioning scheme out the window. Historically, even up to this point, he would "reupload" versions of the game without incrementing the version number if he made a minor mistake. In this case, he forgot to remove some debug code before releasing a1.0.8, and he needed to fix that for stability reasons (allegedly). In many past and future versions, he did this by replacing the existing version in-place. In this version, though, he added _01 to the version number. For some reason. Thus, for all intents and purposes, a1.0.8_01 is a1.0.8. We will continue as such. This version adds cows, leather, and milk, although milk is unobtainable in normal gameplay and serves no purpose yet anyway. My stay in this ver...
