Nathan Adams

Nathan Adams

Real name	Nathan Adams
Date of birth	July 23, 1991 (age 33)
Occupation	Software Engineer
Nationality	Swedish British
Known for	Bukkit Minecraft
Website	dinnerbone.com Twitch YouTube
Wiki name	Dinnerbone-gpuser
Reddit name	Dinnerbone
X (Twitter) username	@Dinnerbone
Bluesky username	@dinnerbone.com
GitHub profile	Dinnerbone
Bug tracker profile	Dinnerbone
YouTube channel	dinnerbone
Minecraft names	Dinnerbone Djinnibone

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“	Dinnerbone is a super nice guy, and adds lots of fancy features to Minecraft. He wears ribbons in his hair, and smells of rich mahogany and leather-bound books. He is the co-president of the country of Bonerstan, along with Marc. If you kill him in Minecraft, he drops a kitten. Correction: he gently sets down a kitten, because why would he ever DROP a kitten? He's way too nice for that.	„
	— Marc Watson

Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams is a Software Engineer at Mojang Studios who works on Java Edition and the Minecraft Launcher.

About

A common trope attributed to Dinnerbone is that he is commonly displayed as being upside-down. His Twitter avatar is flipped and his user model (as well as any mob named "Dinnerbone") is rendered upside-down. Shortly after starting Bukkit, Dinnerbone was hired by Curse where he worked until joining Mojang Studios on February 28, 2012 to develop the mod API. In October 2015, he announced that he would be "taking a break from Minecraft PC development for a few months." Later, in February 2016, he further elaborated that though he would continue on other projects at Mojang, he had left the Minecraft team. On February 6, 2017, Dinnerbone confirmed he had rejoined the Minecraft team. On July 30, 2022, he claimed that he had been off work for 1.5 years for his health. On February 18, 2025, he announced that he's coming back on developing Minecraft.

Biography

Nathan Adams is originally from Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. He learned programming through creating MSN bots at age 10. After finishing secondary school, Dinnerbone was rejected from college, so he found a job with a tiny web development company, but was made redundant after a few years.

Aleksandra Zajac (MissMarzenia) is his fiancée. He announced on August 24, 2016 that he and Aleksandra were expecting a baby boy. The baby was later born on October 2, 2016.

Videos

Dinnerbone in the Java Account Migration videos

Trivia

• Dinnerbone is red-green colorblind, which is the most common type of colorblindness.
  • This is why rubies were replaced by emeralds.
• Dinnerbone's username is a tribute to an old friend of his named Teabone (T-bone)
• Dinnerbone's favorite color is blue, his favorite foods are lasagna and pizza, and his "guilty pleasure" is milkshakes
• If the player uses a name tag titled "Dinnerbone", on most mobs it will turn upside-down. This naturally extends to himself. The same effect is applied when naming a mob "Grumm".
• Dinnerbone could sometimes be found on the MindCrack server with other YouTubers
• Dinnerbone was a member of the Hermitcraft server during its early days
• Dinnerbone's bodyguard in A Fun Announcement by Dinnerbone flipped him right side up. He remains this way throughout both migration videos.
• Dinnerbone makes an appearance in the trailer for Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack), which would later be used for an April Fools' Day joke.

Gallery

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  Old photo of Dinnerbone

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  Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2010–2016

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  Adams' old Twitter avatar

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  Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2016–present

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  Adams' Minecraft skin

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  His player model right side up

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  Dinnerbone preparing to go door-knocking at players' doors in the Java Account Move video on the Minecraft YouTube channel.

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  Dinnerbone getting trampled by a pig.

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  Dinnerbone right side up (and the world upside down)

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  All the games in Dinnerbone's Mojang account