Minecraft.net

Minecraft.net is the official website for Minecraft. It allows users to sign up, play and buy the game, provides links to related community sites (including the Minecraft Wiki) and is also where players can download the Minecraft launcher and server client.

Pages
Minecraft.net currently has twelve pages. The seventh page, "Profile", is added when logged in. There is also a top news link at the top of all pages which is used to communicate important news relating to Minecraft. The pages are as follows:

Home
http://minecraft.net/ The home page of minecraft.net consists of the Minecraft logo and the "Official Minecraft Trailer" YouTube video. Below the video is a very short description of Minecraft. To the left of pages is a picture of a player holding a stone pickaxe standing in front of a pig, and a sheep.

The home page also contains Minecraft's Facebook page widget, as well as a Minecraft update news box and tweets from Jeb, which replaced the Word of Notch news box and the tweets from Notch in May 2012, respectively.

Game
http://minecraft.net/game

This section has text further describing the game, and the origins of Minecraft. It also gives some insights as to what Notch plans to do for the game in the future.

This page has 2 sub pages, 'Getting started' and 'Credits'.

Getting started
http://minecraft.net/game/howtoplay

You can access this page from Game&rarr;Getting started. The help page has multiple videos on how to survive your first night, and the basics of Minecraft. This page is mainly intended to help newer Minecraft players.

Credits
http://minecraft.net/game/credits

The credits of Minecraft.

Community
http://minecraft.net/community

This page consists of multiple links to Minecraft websites and resources including The Word of Notch, Notch's Twitter, and more.

Store
http://minecraft.net/store

You can buy Minecraft from this page, and also buy Minecraft merchandise.

Loot
http://www.minecraft.net/store/loot.jsp

This page was created as a gag on April Fools' Day 2011. It no longer exists, and now redirects to the actual store page.

Pocket Edition
http://minecraft.net/pocket

Short information about Pocket Edition.

Crash Help
http://hopper.minecraft.net/

This page lists all the Minecraft crash reports sent to Mojang.

Statistics
https://minecraft.net/stats

This page shows how many people that have bought the PC/Mac version of the game, as well as how many people that bought it over the previous twenty-four hours.

Pages shown when logged in
After logging in, these pages will become accessible.

Profile
http://minecraft.net/profile

The profile page allows you to change your Minecraft skin if you bought the game, change your account's password, and a gift code section that will display the gift codes bought and shows who redeemed those.

Redeem
http://minecraft.net/user/redeem

Contains options to redeem a gift code.

Demo
http://minecraft.net/demo

Contains a link to http://minecraft.net/download

First Home Page
The Minecraft home page was first located at https://mojang.com/notch/minecraft/, when it was sill in early development.

Mojang Support Center
http://help.mojang.com/

You can access this page from Help link of top of minecraft.net. Contains answers for frequently asked questions. This page also contains server statuses related to Minecraft but available from PC (not from smartphones).

Beta Version
http://beta.minecraft.net/en/

A beta version of the Minecraft website is in testing since Feburary 3, 2016.

Developer URLs
Developer calls and URLs found by googling "site:minecraft.net" (Also posted on minecraftforum):

http://assets.minecraft.net//

Used to download resources for the client and for the server up to version 1.5.2.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions//

Used to download resources for the client past version 1.6.2.

https://minecraft.net/haspaid.jsp?user=

Used to check if an account is premium or not. Returns true if the username is a premium Minecraft account, returns false otherwise.

http://session.minecraft.net/game/getversion.jsp?user=&password=&version=12

http://login.minecraft.net/?user=&password=&version=12

The Minecraft launcher uses this to authenticate logins. If the username and password are valid for a premium account, returns ": :::". If username and password are invalid, returns "Bad login". If the username and password are correct, but the account isn't premium, returns "User not premium". If the given version number is less than 12, returns "Old version". The username is not case-sensitive.

http://session.minecraft.net/game/joinserver.jsp?user=&sessionId=&serverId=

This link seems to be called when a server with online-mode=true checks if it should allow a player to join the game. The session ID is generated by the launcher when logging in (you can also generate them with the "getversion.jsp" link above). This URL will return "OK" if the given session ID is the last one to have been generated for that username; otherwise it will return a "Bad login" error.

http://minecraft.net/profile/skin/remote?url=

Directs the user to a page where they can choose if they want to change their skin to <URL>.

http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/<USERNAME>.png

Returns the skin for a given username. Case-sensitive, returns an XML access denied page if the skin doesn't exist.

http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftCloaks/<USERNAME>.png

Returns the cape for a given username. Behaves the same as above.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload

Returns a list of the latest game files that can be downloaded. The Minecraft launcher uses this to perform an update.

http://www.minecraft.net/heartbeat.jsp?port=27015&users=0&max=0&name=blah&public=false&version=7&salt=1234123412341234

This is most likely used to create the classic server list. How the parameters work is unknown. Returns a link to a classic server page.

http://launch.minecraft.net/test.html

A test page that Mojang asked people to use as they worked on a new launcher for Minecraft. Runs a few processes in the browser, then starts a new version of the launcher, which will be downloaded to /.minecraft/launcher as launcher.jar.No longer works in Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers.

http://launch.minecraft.net/join.html?serverip=<SERVER IP>

This link gives a glimpse at a future feature to Minecraft. This page says that, in the future, it will be possible to have Minecraft open and connect to the server IP specified in the URL when accessing this link.

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Picture used when Minecraft.net is being updated.

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Picture used when Minecraft.net is overloaded.