The History of Minecraft Skins

It all started with Steve, who was… Steve is just a regular person, wearing a blue shirt and blue pants. Steve was there from the beginning. Steve is technically Steve? with a question mark after it, because when asked what the skin was called that was the first thing that came to mind.

-…conversation about a mustache or not. -Mustache? Fine, it’s a beard, but… But I also think that Steve is nostalgia. One fun anecdote is that in the past when we were at conferences and such, we would hand out gifts to people who were dressed in a blue shirt, like Steve.

So Jens, what’s next for Minecraft? When Alex was added, I remember I appreciated it a lot. We felt that we needed a little bit more variation and diversity. The model on which the Steve skin is used is quite wide, it has wide shoulders.

We wanted to give the players a big range of possible appearances, just by simply adding a new character model. This new model also needed a new skin, which became the Alex. Alex looks quite a lot like Jens, and at the time…

I mean, he was one of my idols. He still is, of course, People ask me if I intentionally made Alex based on the way that I look. In a sense that’s true. I took inspiration from the way that I look with red hair and pale skin,

So that I could take the blame if people had complaints about the way the skin looks. The Steve and Alex skins have been around for quite a while now so we’re really happy that we can extend the cast with these new default skins. We’ll soon go into how we made the new skins

But now, let’s talk about why we added them. We added the new skins to include everybody. To show and represent the vast, wide variety of players that play Minecraft. The skins all look different from each other, so when we were deciding on their palettes we wanted to set them apart

So they all have different color schemes and combinations to make them all iconic and hopefully symbolic in the future. One of our principles was that we wanted to make the skins fun and charming. My favorite skin is Sunny. They have a prosthetic arm, and they look great!

The character creator is a place in Minecraft Bedrock where you can create your own character out of premade pieces and construct them however you want. So, choose from tops, bottoms, hairs, to make whatever you want. Whenever you make a new character in the character creator

You will randomly get one of the new cast or you can choose one yourself. So, you can choose who you want to be and then customize them yourself. Using and creating skins is very important in Minecraft, because Minecraft lets the players tell their own stories.

And then it becomes very important what they and what their friends look like. We’ve had lots of community question about the names and how they’re picked. Some players think that the names seem unusual. That’s because we wanted to pick lovely names from all around the world.

And they’re available in Java and Bedrock right now.