PC Gamer Demo

Minecraft Demo (PC Gamer)

1 Demo Title Screen.png: Infobox image for Minecraft Demo (PC Gamer) the version in Minecraft

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	June 2011
Downloads	Installer
Resource pack format	Pending
Data pack format	Pending
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5

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The demo disc packaged with issue 214 of PC Gamer.

The PC Gamer demo is a demo version of Java Edition Beta 1.3, that was bundled with the June 2011 issue of PC Gamer magazine (American edition, issue 214). It provides 100 minutes (equal to five days in-game) of gameplay, after which it tells the player to buy the game in order to continue playing on the current map.

The demo gives access to all the features found in the full version of the game, except that the player can access one world called the demo world. The demo world, which uses the seed "glacier" (or 108181935 when hashed), has been altered slightly to help guide newcomers to Minecraft. The demo spawns the player at x = 166, y = 65, and z = -57.

The player's save game is saved in the standard game directory and is fully compatible with the full version, making it playable after purchase. The demo and information can be downloaded here.

The demo contains an exclusive cow skin branded with the PC Gamer logo.

Bugs

• If the player is at or above y=89 at time of demo expiration, they can continue to interact with the world.
• If the player's game window is at its smallest size at time of playing, upon enlargement of said window, all blocks become transparent until the mouse is moved or until the player interacts with their keyboard. This reveals all underground caves, thus revealing where ores and other valued blocks can be found without the need to dig.
• If the player opens two windows of the demo, one of them playing the world, but paused, and the other one, on the home menu, reset the demo world and then click back to game on the other window, an error message occurs, and if the player plays the demo, the time is reset, but not the world, and their inventory items are lost, but not the items in the block entities.

Trivia

• Purchased versions of Minecraft have code from the demo, which was not used until Java Edition 1.3.
• The demo adds the following to the world: 54 red wool, 90 snow blocks, 122 black wool, 3 chests, a sign, 22 gunpowder, a nearly broken iron pickaxe, a nearly broken iron axe, a nearly broken flint and steel, 4 coal, 5 bread, 4 string, 12 torches, 2 sticks, and 3 compasses.
• If the player digs directly underneath the sign telling them how to open the chest, they can find a chest that contains 22 gunpowder.
• The amount of gunpowder in this chest is supposed to be randomly determined (anywhere from 1 - 88), but the random number generator that determines how much gunpowder is given is seeded with the same number (19) for each new world, thus meaning that it generates the same amount of gunpowder in the same positions each time. It is unknown whether this is a developer oversight, or intentional behaviour.
• If the player goes to sleep in a bed and skips the night, it removes that time from their clock, decreasing their play time.
• If the player has a bucket with them after the demo expires, they can use that bucket to milk a cow despite not being able to interact with anything else.
• The player can also interact with boats after the demo expires.
• If a player goes left when they reach the PC Gamer sign, they find a skeleton dungeon. The dungeon is located in a rectangular pit with cobblestone walls and fallen sand filling it. One chest is visible, blocking a stream of water and the other chest and the skeleton spawner are buried in the sand.
• While mining, if the player presses E, then keeps mining, the pickaxe does not move until they stop mining.
• The "PC Gamer" logo can be mined. It is composed of snow blocks, red wool and black wool.
• If the player digs straight down at the spawn point, at bedrock level, there is 1 diamond ore.
• The game files can be modified in such a way, so that the player can receive unlimited play time.
• There is no Debug screen in the demo. The reason is most likely that new players might get confused by it.
• Additionally, using F8 to activate the cinematic camera has been disabled, as well as F2 + Shift to take an extremely high resolution screenshot. In retail versions of Minecraft between Beta 1.2_2 and Beta 1.5, F2 + Shift would trigger this experimental feature.
• The message showing your score upon death has been removed.
• Due to the developers forgetting to remove debug code, if the Demo is able to print to a log or is launched from a command line, the message "Spawnpos: (a number which is the X location that you spawn at), (a number which is the Z location that you spawn at)" is output to the log every time the player is spawned. An example of this message is "Spawnpos: 166, -57" when spawning into the demo world for the first time.
• The second hint message has the old Minecraft Wiki link, at http://www.minecraftwiki.net.

Gallery

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  Menu screen logo.

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  The chest and sign next to spawn.

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  The chest items.

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  The secret Gunpowder chest unveiled.

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  The giant "PC Gamer" logo, found across the lake from the starting area.

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  Unique cow skin found only in the demo.

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  A map of the area around the spawn point in the demo world.

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  Message when starting a new world that teaches the player how to move.

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  Further explains basics, namely crafting. It uses the old Minecraft Wiki link, https://www.minecraftwiki.net.

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  Explains how the full version and the demo handles worlds.

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  Explains what happens when the player's time is up.

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  Explains full version of the game.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Tells the player to buy the game, shows creations.

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  Chat message telling the player that they cannot interact with the world, but they can still interact with some items.

• The texture used for the Cow in this version.

  The texture used for the Cow in this version.

See also

• Classic
• Minecraft 4k
• Demo mode