PC Gamer Demo

A picture of the disc version of the demo

The PC Gamer Minecraft Demo is a limited version of Minecraft Beta 1.3. You can play on a world for up to 100 minutes. The demo was bundled with issue 214 of the PC Gamer magazine.

Your save game will be saved in "%appdata%\Roaming\.minecraft\saves" and will still be playable after purchase. The demo uses seed 108181935. Your spawn position is: x: 166.5 y: 65.6 z: -56.5

The demo and info can be downloaded here: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/19/download-the-minecraft-demo/

Screenshots

• 1 Demo Title Screen.png

  The demo title screen

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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, (Which the logo is made out of Snow, Red Wool and Black Wool

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  Unique cow skin found only in the demo

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  A complete world map for the demo

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  Message when starting a new world that teaches you how to move

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  Further explains basics, namely crafting

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  Explains how the full version and the demo handles worlds

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  Explains what happens when your time is up

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  Explains full version of the game

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Tells you to buy the game, shows creations

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  Chat message telling you that you can't interact with the world

Bugs

• If you are at or above layer 89 after the demo expires, you can still interact with the world at or above layer 89.
• If you go to sleep in a bed and skip the night, it will remove that time from your clock, decreasing your play time.
• If you have a bucket with you after the demo expires, you can use that bucket to milk a cow despite not being able to interact with anything else.

Version-Exclusive Features

• PC Gamer skin for cows

Trivia

• A purchased version of minecraft has unused code, like "demo.day.1=This demo will last five game days, do your best!".
• The demo has files for functions added in later updates, such as the sound effects for wolves, weather and pistons. However, they are not used.
• If you dig directly underneath the sign telling you how to open the chest, you can find a chest that contains 22 gunpowder.