More than ten years after the release of Minecraft, a rare early version of Minecraft was thought to be lost. Minecraft Alpha 1.1.1 was released for the first Java Edition in September 2010 and was only available for about three hours, and now it's been discovered by gaming archivists.
There have been hundreds of versions of Minecraft over the years, and fans have meticulously saved and archived a lot of them for the sake of preservation. One version, Alpha 1.1.1, also known as Seecret Sunday, was thought to be lost. It introduced fishing rods and infiltrating into Minecraft. However, it was found to have a bug that would make the screen completely gray. Version 1.1.2 was released within hours.
The entire story of its discovery was shared on Twitter by the user @lunasorcery (via Kotaku), who found the lost alpha. As Luna says the story, Alpha 1.1.1 became a viral phenomenon or even a holy grail in the Minecraft archiving Discord Omniarchive and nobody would have expected to discover it.
Someone came across one of Luna's old tweets and asked her about it, and she discovered an old backup of minecraft.jar dating the same day as Alpha 1.1.1's release date of September 18 October, 2010. Minecraft tekkit servers confirmed that the file was Alpha 1.1.1 and shared the information on Omniarchive, which then went down.
So I posted in Omniarchive and it wouldn't be an understatement for me to say that some people were noticing.
Based on the reactions the reality of the size of this find is begins to take hold. I literally start shaking.