Pi Edition

Minecraft: Pi Edition is the upcoming version of Minecraft developed for the Raspberry Pi. It will be based on the already existing Pocket Edition but will be slightly cut down, contain a revised feature set and support for multiple programming languages. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for novice programmers. It will be available to download for free, and users are encouraged to open and change the game's code using its API.

It is being developed by Aron Nieminen - one of the developers of the Pocket Edition, as well as Daniel Frisk.

A hacker with access to Mojang's internal database says it should be released by the 24th of December, as there is a compiled build labelled 0.1 on the Mojang repository but it is encrypted so nobody can access it. There are also records of Mojang either blocking or deleting a post announcing the release of the Pi Edition created on the 20th of December, and trying to access the post now produces a 404 error. However, players can still access a cached version of the blog post. There is a pi edition blog at pi.minecraft.net which will hopefully have the download.