More Players Than Pixels: Minecraft Reaches 8 Million Sales

Minecraft, the sandbox sensation that lets you build pixelated worlds, reached 8 million sales on 12 November 2012.

Indie developer Markus Persson (@notch) celebrated with a tweet stating “The PC version of Minecraft just passed 8 million sales! My face is making grinning sounds, so I assume it’s grinning!” Presumably he was unable to identify his exact expression due to a lack of facial pixels.

Development continues on Minecraft, adding further options and depth in the latest patch, Minecraft version 1.4.4.

Over 120 bugs have been hunted down and rectified including potentially game-shattering glitches such as:

• Lightning strikes can create client side fires. (Holy health and safety Batman!)

• Potatoes and carrots uprooting themselves. (Phew, the invasion of the killer vegetables has been averted.)

• Zombies can pick up items while dying. (Don’t they know severed zombie hands can live on?)

• Spinning while placing a bed creates a triangular bed. (Now available at Ikea.)

• Chicken head movement is inverted. (The stuff of ornithological nightmares.)

• Skeletons shoot arrows faster than humanly possible. (Animated skeletons do a lot of things that aren’t humanly possible, why is this a particular issue?)

• Squids spawning everywhere. (That’ll soon start to smell.)

• Falling anvils do not maintain orientation while falling. (Blame Wile E. Coyote).

• Shift (crouch) will not stop you falling off of an anvil. (Seriously, is Wile E. Coyote working as a Minecraft playtester?)

• Snow Golem won’t die. (Have you tried dropping an anvil on it?)