Forged your thoughts again to October 2012. Pokemon Black and White 2 had simply been launched. Resident Evil 6 launched and disenchanted many. And Dishonored arrived on the scene, incomes Arkane many accolades and awards. And in addition, a minor bug involving footsteps and blocks was launched into Minecraft. And now, in Might 2023, it’s lastly been fastened over a decade later.
Minecraft, first launched in 2009 as a really early and still-in-development sport, is a massively well-liked block-based crafting and survival sport. Its massive neighborhood continues to create mods for the sport, which has been launched on principally each platform below the solar together with Xbox 360, PS4, iPhone, PC, and extra. And again in October 2012—when Minecraft was nonetheless pretty new and two years earlier than Microsoft purchased the sport—a bug involving footsteps was logged on-line. And eventually, 10 years, 6 months, and three days later, the bug has been patched out of the sport.
On Might 3, Mojang posted a weblog asserting its subsequent replace for Minecraft on PC and all of the tiny modifications coming to the sport. However, it additionally identified that bug MC-1133 was lastly fastened after almost 11 years of it sitting within the official Mojang bug tracker database.
Earlier than in the present day’s snapshot, bug MC-1133 concerned how the sport calculated the place the participant was standing when close to the sting of a block. The best way Minecraft found out your place was incorrect, resulting in a bunch of tiny points, like lacking footsteps and with the ability to keep away from injury when on the sting of a lava block. Nothing game-breaking, however nonetheless, this isn’t how the sport ought to work, so round midday on October 29, 2012 it was logged by Mojang. And three,837 days later, the bug has been eliminated.
On Reddit, gamers celebrated the bug being fastened but in addition identified that there’s an excellent older bug lurking in Minecraft: MC-4. This bug involving dropped gadgets predates this just lately fastened footstep bug and seems to be the fourth bug ever logged within the sport’s bug tracker. Perhaps at some point, Mojang will repair this bug, too. Although it would take one other decade or so at this fee…