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    Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters: Over 800 Amazing Facts and Insider Secrets
    Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters: Over 800 Amazing Facts and Insider Secrets
    Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters: Over 800 Amazing Facts and Insider Secrets
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    Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters: Over 800 Amazing Facts and Insider Secrets

    By Brian Boone and Amanda Brack

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    The Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters is the must-have book of more than 800 incredible facts for your favorite multiplayer video game! Test your brains and stump your friends about life in the Overworld and down in the Nether, where Minecraft came from, and hundreds of other tips and Minecraft gaming secrets! Become a master builder of your own Minecraft smarts with The Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters!

    Inside you will find awesome trivia such as:
  • Herobrine isn’t a real character programmed into the game. Urban legends insist that he’s a dead miner, or that Notch’s deceased brother haunts the game. It’s just a glitch that makes Steve sometimes appear to have spooky white eyes. They’re probably just bleary from playing too much Minecraft.
  • The name of the main miner character in the game is Steve, right? Well, sort of. He didn’t ever have one until someone asked Notch in an interview if the character had a name. Notch’s response: “Steve?” The name stuck. We still don’t know what his last name is, though.


    • This book is complete with silly illustrations to make becoming a master of Minecrafter facts even more fun. Whether you’re at home or school, you can have all your friends and family in awe of your Minecrafter knowledge!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSky Pony
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781510730991
    Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters: Over 800 Amazing Facts and Insider Secrets
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    Brian Boone

    Brian Boone is an editor and writer for the bestselling Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader line of trivia and humor books. He wrote I Love Rock n’ Roll (Except When I Hate It) and coauthored American Inventions: Big Ideas That Changed Modern Life and How to Make Paper Airplanes. He has contributed to How Stuff Works, Barnes & Noble Reads, McSweeney’s, Splitsider, Someecards, The Onion, Adult Swim, and Funny or Die. He lives in Oregon with his family.

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      Know-It-All Trivia Book for Minecrafters - Brian Boone

      INTRODUCTION

      We love Minecraft because of the endless possibilities. There are so many ways to explore, discover, and create. But there’s always more to know. So we’re taking you behind the scenes with amazing facts about how Minecraft was developed to how people around the world are mastering and learning from Minecraft today. You’ll also find little-known bits about famous Minecrafters and YouTubers; dive into all the craziest mods in existence; and pick up hundreds of other gaming tips and Minecraft secrets. Get ready to test your brain, stump your friends, and become a masterbuilder of your own Minecraft smarts!

      CHAPTER 1

      BUILDING BLOCKS

      THE GAME ’S BEGINNINGS

      Minecraft is the first popular sandbox game. This category means that players can create their own experiences and explore their world without following a set story.

      Minecraft was created by Markus Persson, otherwise known as Notch.

      Persson first used the nickname Notch at TIGSource, an online forum for independent (indie) game developers.

      What does the name Notch mean? Nothing in particular. Persson just liked the sound of it.

      Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1979, Notch started writing code at the age of seven and created his first game at eight years old.

      If he can do it, you can do it too!

      Notch made games as a kid on a primitive Commodore 128 and used the programming language called BASIC.

      Main designers of Minecraft: Notch from 2009 to 2011 and Jens Bergensten from 2011 to the present.

      Jens Bergensten is also known as Jeb or jeb_. He was with Minecraft from the beginning, but Notch picked him to take over as lead developer when Notch stepped away.

      No pressure, jeb_!

      jeb_ started programming at age 11 but says that he didn’t do anything useful until he was 17, which is when he started making his own games.

      Both Notch and jeb_ are Swedish and were born a few weeks apart in May/June 1979.

      It was a good year for programmers.

      Notch always wanted to make games for a living. When he told his career counselor in school, the counselor told Notch, That’s probably not going to happen.

      Wrong!

      Most every game in history is developed by a company, which hires a small army of programmers to bring to life the vision of one or two game designers. Not so with Minecraft. It was entirely Notch’s idea, and he developed the first edition of the game, released in 2009, completely by himself.

      Now that’s a do-it-yourself attitude!

      Minecraft started as a hobby project. Notch just thought it would be a fun thing to work on in his spare time.

      Notch designed the first version of Minecraft—the alpha version—in just six days in 2009. He released it online the very next day.

      Not bad for a week’s worth of work.

      Notch’s first name idea for Minecraft: Cave Game.

      Not as interesting but a pretty good description of Minecraft.

      Notch’s plan when he started: Take six months or as long as a year to develop Minecraft. He would then sell it, make enough money to work on one or two games, sell those, and just keep following that pattern forever. He wound up spending both less time and more time than that. The first version of Minecraft took six days to design … but two years to make updates.

      Notch’s second name idea for what would become simply Minecraft was Minecraft: Order of the Stone. That title was a reference to the online series Order of the Stick, of which Notch was a fan.

      The first version of Minecraft was quietly uploaded to the Internet on May 17, 2009.

      That was the last time anything Minecraft-related was released quietly.

      Notch’s comments about the first edition upon release: It’s an alpha version, so it might crash sometimes.

      Minecraft makes use of a computing technique called procedural generation. Instead of hand-making every single coastline, tree, mountain, or other features, a designer like Notch creates a system where he enters a few variables and the program fills in the details. That flexibility allows for the open worlds in which players can create their own stuff.

      Notch released the game so early because it encouraged him to finish it. He also started charging right away for the same reason. People who downloaded the game and paid for it early on were promised future updates at no extra cost.

      The early bird gets the worm, after all.

      Always ambitious, Notch released two things on the same day: Minecraft and the first official online Minecraft forum.

      The first place Minecraft was available: Minecraft.net. (That’s still the official website.) It was an independent (indie) game, so it wasn’t available on Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, or any other venue.

      Which makes its success all the more amazing!

      Early Minecraft players downloaded the game and paid Notch via PayPal. When the company saw $860,000 suddenly appear in Notch’s account, they froze it. They thought he might be doing something illegal.

      Nope—he just made

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