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Minecraft is turning 15, so they’re giving away some Character Creator itemsThemed around the history of the game
Themed around the history of the game
Image credit:Mojang Studios
Image credit:Mojang Studios
Minecraftis turning fifteen years-old and to celebrate Mojang are running fifteen days of giveaways from May 15th until May 29th. Apparently each day will offer up “a new free Character Creator item representing a different year of Minecraft history.”
This also means I’ve been playing Minecraft for nearly fifteen years. Do I care for Character Creator items? No. Will I be signing in each day on my son’s account to get him the free thing? Absolutely.
Here’s a trailer announcing the anniversary shenanigans, which also promises other elements to the celebration:
Minecraft is turning 15 | Come celebrate with us!Minecraft’s 15th anniversary trailer.Watch on YouTube
Minecraft is turning 15 | Come celebrate with us!
Notch shared the first playable build of Minecraftvia the TIGSource forum on May 17th, 2009. It was 49 minutes and 25 seconds before someone shares the first screenshot of something they’ve built. The screenshot is broken now, but it was of a one-block wide bridge.
Fifteen years later, I pay a monthly Realms Plus subscription so I can adminstrate a server for my kid and I to play on, and so I can access some Marketplace mods in the Bedrock version of the game. (I also pay separately for individual mods not included in the subscription as-and-when). I then pay a second, separate Marketplace subscription so my kid can access a bunch of skins on the Switch version of the game. The Switch version of the game crashes constantly, fails to connect to Microsoft’s account system and thus denies him access to his owned items, and the Marketplace is riddled with paid-for mods that simply no longer work. Its near-total technical inadequacy has, on several occasions, reduced my son to tears of despair and frustration. I hope Game Pass fails and Microsoft sinks into the ocean.
You’ll need to log-in in-game to collect the free items each day but they’ll also announce each freebie via theirInstagram Stories, Mojang say.
