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.

On 2nd May 2016, it was given a major redesign to include information about more products.

Pages
Minecraft.net currently has ten pages. There is a hamburger menu at the top of every page leading to almost every page on the site, although the download and store pages are available without opening the menu. The pages are as follows:

Home
https://minecraft.net/

The home page of minecraft.net consists of the Minecraft logo and a carousel featuring links to buy Minecraft, Minecraft Realms and Minecraft: Story Mode. A very short description of Minecraft is seen below. The home page also contains a section which shows viewers all the different editions of Minecraft that are available.

Download
https://minecraft.net/download/

You can download Minecraft for PC/Mac and the server application here.

Store
https://minecraft.net/store

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

Realms
https://minecraft.net/realms/

You can learn about Minecraft Realms from this page and also buy a realm.

Minecon
https://minecraft.net/minecon/

This page has information about Minecon.

Help
https://minecraft.net/help/

If you are having trouble with Minecraft, this page should help you out.

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

The credits of Minecraft.

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

Profile
https://minecraft.net/profile

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

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

Contains options to redeem a gift code.

Demo
https://minecraft.net/demo

Contains available demos for all editions currently available.

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).

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

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

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 brings up a 404 error.

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.

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= OR http://minecraft.net/profile/skin/remote?url=&model=3pxarm

Directs the user to a page where they can choose if they want to change their skin to <URL>, Adding "&model=3pxarm" will auto select the 3px-arm model type.

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.