Java Edition pre-Classic

Pre-classic is the name given to versions released before Classic. It was part of the first development phase in Minecraft. The phase was originally named Cave Game until the game was changed to Minecraft.

History
Pre-classic began when Notch started working on a game named Cave Game. He was influenced to create Minerals by Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, and Notch's previous game RubyDung.

The game used textures for Grass blocks and Cobblestone blocks from RubyDung, then other blocks and items were added, such as Saplings, Dirt, Stone, Wooden Planks, and more.

Eventually, after 6 days of development, Minecraft was first publicly released on the 17th of May 2009 with 0.0.11a, the first version in the Classic development phase.

Little is known about this development phase, since it was never publicly released, and only Notch could test the versions. Every version in this phase can be seen in a few of the videos by Nizzotch, Notch's YouTube channel.

The most well known version in this phase was probably the May 13th 2009 version of Pre 0.0.9a, as it was shown in Nizzotch's Cave Game Tech Test video.

Trivia

 * You could spawn Human mobs by pressing the G button.
 * It was possible to respawn someplace on the world by pressing R.
 * This development phase lasted only 6 days.
 * This phase was named Cave Game until the game was renamed Minecraft: Order Of The Stone, later changed to Minecraft.