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"footer": "<div style=\"display:inline-block\">\n\n<div style=\"display:inline-block;padding:0 .4em\">[[Halloween Update]] <span style=\"margin-right:-0.35em\">►</span>►</div>\n</div>"
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The Seecret Updates were a series of ten updates released by Notch during the Infdev and Alpha development stages of Minecraft, often without announcement. They were named after the day of the week on which they were released: nine Seecret Friday Updates were released on Fridays from June 18 to September 10, 2010, and a Seecret Saturday Update was released on Saturday, September 18, 2010. Seecret Updates usually included major new features: minecarts and boats, redstone, and sneaking were all introduced in these updates, along with a number of other significant features.
Notch sometimes announced or confirmed upcoming Seecret Updates on Twitter. On June 18, before the release of Seecret Friday Update 1, he tweeted that he was going to "do a seecret update".[1] On July 2, he announced that Seecret Friday Update 3 was coming that night.[2] On July 29, he tweeted that there was "a real chance I might forget to do the update",[3] in reference to Seecret Friday Update 7, released the next day. On September 2, he refused to do a "Seecret Monday Update", instead confirming that "the secret update will be on friday as.. er.. "normal"",[4] in reference to Seecret Friday Update 9, which he subsequently confirmed on September 9 and 10 would be coming later on the 10th.[5][6]
Seecret Updates were discontinued before the Halloween Update; Notch tweeted on October 7 that they were "postponed until we know what to do with them" and that he was "focusing on the Halloween update and lawyers".[7] The last mention of them on The Word of Notch was in a blog post made on September 24, where he wrote "I'd really like to do a Seecret Friday update, both to keep you guys happy and to actually get to do some programming myself, but I need to wind down",[8] and the last time he tweeted about them was on November 10, where he wrote "I liked the Friday updates, but Saturday fixes suck."[9]
Updates
| Update
|
Date
|
Version
|
Features
|
| Seecret Friday 1[10]
|
June 18, 2010
|
Infdev 20100618
|
 Minecart and  rails
|
| Seecret Friday 2[11]
|
June 25, 2010
|
Infdev 20100625-1917
|
 Dungeons,  spawners and  saddles
|
| Seecret Friday 3[12]
|
July 2, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.1
|
 Redstone ore,  redstone,  redstone torches,  levers,  stone button,  wooden and  stone pressure plates,  iron door
|
| Seecret Friday 4[13]
|
July 9, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.4
|
 Winter Mode,  snowfall,  snow and  ice
|
| Seecret Friday 5[14]
|
July 16, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.6
|
 Boats,  cacti,  large trees
|
| Seecret Friday 6[15]
|
July 23, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.11
|
 Sugar cane,  paper,  books,  bookshelves,  clay,  clay blocks,  brick,  slimes,  slimeballs,  milk
|
| Seecret Friday 7[16]
|
July 30, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.14
|
 chicken  eggs,  jukeboxes,  music discs,  furnace minecarts and  chest minecarts
|
| Seecret Friday 8[17]
|
August 20, 2010
|
Alpha v1.0.17
|
 Fences,  spider jockeys and multiplayer updates
|
| Seecret Friday 9[18]
|
September 10, 2010
|
Alpha v1.1.0
|
 Compass and server-side inventory
|
| Seecret Saturday[19][20]
|
September 18, 2010
|
Alpha v1.1.1
|
Sneaking, new  paintings and  fishing rod
|
Trivia
- One of the splashes reads "Seecret Friday Update!".
- The first Seecret Friday update is the only version of Infdev to be available in the launcher.
- Of the ten Seecret updates, five (four Alpha and one Infdev) are available in the launcher, three are archived and two are lost.
References
- ↑ "I think ill do a seecret update today! OooooOOOoo!" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), June 18, 2010
- ↑ "At birthday party now, the seecret update is coming tonight. It's a beautiful day for a badali. :)" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), July 2, 2010
- ↑ "@tinydimension There's a real chance I might forget to do the update. :D" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), July 29, 2010
- ↑ "@sw17ch No, the secret update will be on friday as.. er.. "normal"." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), September 2, 2010
- ↑ "@Maxifi There's definitely an update on friday, yes. =)" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), September 8, 2010
- ↑ "@aggettzz Yes, a friday update is coming today :D I'm currently confused about which way a compass turns when the player does" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), September 10, 2010
- ↑ "The secret friday updates are postponed until we know what to do with them. For now, I'm focusing on the Halloween update and lawyers." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), October 7, 2010
- ↑ Recharging the batteries, bribing city states.
- ↑ "@Brash_Endeavors I'll keep working on it after release. I liked the Friday updates, but Saturday fixes suck." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), November 3, 2010
- ↑ Seecret Friday update! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday update 2! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday update the third! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 4! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 5! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 6! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 7! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 8! OooooOOOoo!
- ↑ Seecret Friday 9! OooooOOOoo! And Minecraft Alpha 1.1.0! And Minecraft Server 0.2.0!
- ↑ Seecret Saturday update!? Also, tutorials.
- ↑ Seecret Saturday 1! But I failed Biomes AGAIN!
Navigation
Notch sneaking, a function added in the final Seecret Update.
Development
