Hello everyone and welcome back to our fifth episode of do you know minecraft a video series of short and to the point videos where I cover interesting facts about the game you might not know in this episode I’m going to go through 10 interesting facts involving notch the Creator of Minecraft and I know some of you will point this out not all of the facts are strictly about Minecraft but that doesn’t stop them from being interesting and worth including in this video not his full name is Marcus elects a person and it’s entirely possible I’m Crying out seing that incorrectly and he was born in Stockholm Sweden in 1979 and at the age of 7 he started programming and making games and is an entirely self-taught game developer and after making mini games he started minecraft in May 2009 knotch programmed his in-game player to drop an apple when Killed by another player it is believed this was added after a player named jte started a rumor in a crafting guide they created saying notch would drop an apple when killed this feature was removed from the game in beta 1.7 point 3 not stated that if minecraft won the 2010 India the Year awards he would add cake to minecraft minecraft’ won the Players Choice of India the year and not fulfilled his promise adding cake in the beta 1.2 update released on January 13 2011 some items in the game including lever Armour iron sword quiver and Apple are actually Taken from one of notches previous games called The Legend of the chamber that he was developing in 2008 with these screenshots you can see that the items are exactly the same as they were in that game potion brewing or alchemy is not put it had been planned for a long Time and is why redstone oil turns into redstone dust when mind I think the redstone dust which is and always has been the official name for the red stuff fits fairly well with the pur pseudo fantasy theme of Minecraft and it will certainly have more uses in the future Mainly for alchemy and possibly for other forms of magic this quote was taken from Naches blog post on the 7th of July 2010 notches birthday is on the 1st of June and although it’s not listed on the minecraft wiki’s list of titles flash messages on the 1st of June the Name displays the message happy birthday knotch if you want to see this for yourself just set your computer’s calendar to the 1st of June and load up minecraft in November of 2011 the first minecon was held in Las Vegas with 5,000 fans attending to celebrate the release Of Minecraft 1.0 what many people don’t know is that notch held a public meeting with his fans in 2010 around 50 people met up in Bellevue Washington on the 31st of August 2010 it was dubbed Minecraft con by some and even notch himself referred to it as a Minecraft Convention because of this some people believe it was the first official Minecon as well as programming and making video games notch also made music under the name of Marcus Alexi in 2002 and 2003 although he only released a few songs they are still available online And can be heard on his bank amp which is devoid of information and images of course up add a link to the bank and website in the description box so you can listen to them in your own time not never wanted to add ladders to the game To quote him sometimes the fans are right – like ladders I did not want ladders in minecraft at all ladders are never fun they’re not fun in minecraft either but there are very good utility and it’s an easy way to get straight up without having stairs to go back and Forth so I added them anyway because the fans convinced me ladders were added in the instead version of the game on June the 7th 2010 the chances are you know that in 2014 not showed Moe yang the owners of minecraft – Microsoft for a rumor 2.5 billion dollars unfortunately Not Chad lost interest in the game some time ago and after receiving a lot of hate for the Euler agreements he had nothing to do with he decided to move on and sell his game ironically he made this tweet back in 2012 saying his price Was 2 billion he probably had no idea at the time this would ever amount to anything but still is funny and kind of ironic and that’s our 10 facts for this episode be sure to leave a like if you enjoyed it and drop me a comment down Below and let me know how many of these facts you knew about if you’re not subscribed to the channel be sure to do so for more awesome videos like this one and check out the do you know minecraft playlists so that it for me this video as always thank you Ever so much for watching and I’ll catch you next time bye-bye Video Information
This video, titled ‘Ten Notch Facts – Do You Know Minecraft?’, was uploaded by xisumavoid on 2015-10-11 15:30:00. It has garnered 102700 views and 3455 likes. The duration of the video is 00:04:33 or 273 seconds.
Do You Know Minecraft? Playlist ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VmhWGNRxKh9il64la9_Bsrxj5LXJmC_ In this episode is dedicated to Notch, the creator of Minecraft.
Notch’s music http://markusalexei.bandcamp.com/
Minecraft: Redstone Jukebox Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf_5zDBY490&index=1&list=PLEB388783144C45A8
Minecraft: Witch Farm For 1.9 Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZiw14Tn_s&index=2&list=PLEB388783144C45A8
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