Minecraft was initially introduced in 2009, and many of its updates have been released since then. However, one of the game's versions was lost until it was suddenly found after over 10 years of searching.
At first, Minecraft updates were released quite often, with some of them being released without prior notice. As a rule, such patches were released on Friday. One of them, though, version Alpha 1.1.1, was released on September 18, 2010, which happened to be Saturday.
Alpha 1.1.1 version added fishing rods and the ability to crouch in the game, but a bug in this release could make the screen go entirely gray. Soon enough, Mojang studio developers fixed this bug in the Alpha 1.1.2 patch. In fact, it was fixed so quickly that Alpha 1.1.1 was only available for download for 3 hours and 25 minutes.
Since then, gaming enthusiasts have tried to find the Alpha 1.1.1 release, but because of the unexpected release and that bug (even players who managed to download the update deleted this version), even the Omniarchive group, which archives old Minecraft versions, almost lost their hope.
A few months ago, a tweet by Twitter user Lunasorcery was found. They wrote about the new version of Minecraft's release on September 18, 2010. Only last week did she notice messages asking her to look for the Alpha 1.1.1 release.
Lunasorcery found a USB stick with old files and found the "minecraft.jar" file dated September 18, 2010. They opened the archive and found that it was indeed Alpha 1.1.1. The Omniarchive members later confirmed the find.
Thanks to the attention of Lunasorcery, other lost Minecraft builds were discovered, too.
