Assuming you haven't been living under a gaming-proof rock over the last 8 years, Minecraft is a game where everything is blocks. You can place and destroy them, some fans calling them digital Legos. However, over the last 8 years, Mojang (the company that owns Minecraft) has lost many versions of Minecraft from their databases for unknown reasons. There are seven phases of Minecraft's development: Pre-classic (May 10, 2009 - May 16, 2009) Classic (May 16, 2009 - Dec 22, 2009), Indev (Dec 23, 2009 - Feb 23, 2010), Infdev (Feb 27, 2010 - June 28, 2010), Alpha (June 28, 2010 - Dec 20, 2010), Beta (Dec 20, 2010 - Nov 18, 2011) and Release (Nov 18, 2011 - present). The last three phases are mostly available in the launcher with one or two missing versions, but the first three are a different story. For one reason or another, most versions from these phases of Minecraft's development are no longer available to play. The following is a list of the missing versions, sorted by development phase:
Check out another community dedicated to finding lost versions, Omniarchive: https://discord.gg/h45wxnE
Note: If you find any of these lost versions, please contact me at mistersheep2business@gmail.com
Update: I am now part of a group of Minecraft Archivists known as the Lost Minecraft Miners. We have found a few versions so far. Our website is going up in a few hours as of writing this, we will edit this page once it is online.
Update December 17, 2017: Me and the rest of the Lost Minecraft Miners are now working with Mojang to get our lost versions into the launcher, and they will be there in 2018. For more information, click here.
Lost Pre-Classic Versions
- Pre 0.0.0 (Cave Game)
Lost Classic Versions
- 0.0.9a
- 0.0.12a
- 0.0.12a_01
- 0.0.12a_02
- 0.0.12a_03
- 0.0.13a_04
- 0.0.14a (Offset test)
- 0.0.14a_01
- 0.0.14a_02
- 0.0.14a_07 [Probably does not exist anymore]
- 0.0.14a_08
- 0.0.15a
- 0.0.15a_01
- 0.0.15a_02
- 0.0.15a_03
- 0.0.16a
- 0.0.16a_01
- 0.0.16a_02
- 0.0.17a
- 0.0.17a_02
- 0.0.18a
- 0.0.18a_01
- 0.0.18a_02
- 0.0.19a
- 0.0.19a_06
- 0.0.20a
- 0.0.20a_01
- 0.0.20a_02
- 0.0.21a [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.0.21a_01
- 0.0.22a
- 0.0.22a_01 [Unconfirmed]
- 0.0.22a_02 [Unconfirmed]
- 0.0.22a_03 [Possibly No Longer Exists]
- 0.0.22a_04 [Same as 0.0.22a_03]
- 0.0.22a_05
- 0.0.23a_01 [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.24
- 0.24_01
- 0.24_02
- 0.24_03
- 0.24_04
- 0.24_05
- 0.24_06
- 0.24_07
- 0.24 Resource Test [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_01
- 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_02
- 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_03
- 0.25 SURVIVAL TEST 1
- 0.25 SURVIVAL TEST 2
- 0.25_05 SURVIVAL TEST
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 2
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 3
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 4
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 5
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 6
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 7
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 8
- 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 9
- 0.27 SURVIVAL TEST 10 [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.27 SURVIVAL TEST 11
- 0.27 SURVIVAL TEST 12
- 0.28
- 0.28_01 [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.29
- 0.29_01
- 0.29_02 [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.30_02
- 0.30_03
Lost Indev Versions
This section is a work-in-progress and is not complete. Take its contents with a grain of salt.
- 0.31 Creative Mode (December 23, 2009)
- 0.31 Creative Mode (December 23, 2009)
- 0.31 (December 25, 2009)
- 0.31 (January 5, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 6, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 7, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 9, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 11, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.31 (January 13, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 22, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 24, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.31 (January 25, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.31 (January 26, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 28, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 29, 2010)
- 0.31 (January 30, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.31 (January 31, 2010)
- 0.31 (February 1, 2010)
- 0.31 (February 3, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- 0.31 (February 4, 2010)
- 0.31 (February 5, 2010)
Lost Infdev Versions
- Minecraft Infdev (February 27, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED] \Note: Notorious for a lot of crashes and bugs, probably the buggiest version of the game ever made./
- Minecraft Infdev (March 13, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (March 16, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (March 20, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (March 25, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (March 27, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (April 13, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (April 14, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Minecraft Infdev (April 20, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Minecraft Infdev (June 7, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 8, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Minecraft Infdev (June 11, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 15, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 16, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 17, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 18, 2010) [FOUND] \Note: This is the first version of Infdev in the Launcher, and is not put in by us./
- Minecraft Infdev (June 24, 2010)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 25, 2010) [Possibly No Longer Exists]
- Minecraft Infdev (June 25, 2010, Seecret Friday 2 Update)
- Minecraft Infdev (June 27, 2010) [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
Lost Alpha Versions
- Alpha 1.0.0 (6/28/2010) Offline client tech test (Possibly no longer exists)
- Alpha 1.0.0 (6/30/2010)
- Alpha 1.0.1
- Alpha 1.0.1_01 [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Alpha 1.0.2_01
- Alpha 1.0.3
- Alpha 1.0.5
- Alpha 1.0.6
- Alpha 1.0.6_01
- Alpha 1.0.6_03
- Alpha 1.0.7
- Alpha 1.0.8
- Alpha 1.0.9
- Alpha 1.0.10
- Alpha 1.0.12
- Alpha 1.0.13
- Alpha 1.0.13_01
- Alpha 1.0.13_02
- Alpha 1.0.14_01 [Existance Unconfirmed]
- Alpha 1.0.17
- Alpha 1.0.17_03
- Alpha 1.2.2 (Not to be confused with Alpha 1.2.2a and Alpha 1.2.2b)
- Alpha 1.2.4
Lost Beta Versions
- Beta 1.1a [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Beta 1.1b [FOUND, YET TO BE RELEASED]
- Beta 1.3a