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Minecraft-demo-disc

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

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.
  • You can also interact with boats after the demo expires.
  • If your window is at it's smaller size while you are playing the demo and you enlargen the window all of the blocks become transparent revealing underground caverns.

Version-Exclusive Features

  • PC Gamer skin for cows

Trivia

  • A purchased version of minecraft has unused code from the demo, like "demo.day.1=This demo will last five game days, do your best!".
  • The following shows what PC Gamer changed to the world: 53 Red Wool, 90 Snow Blocks, 112 Black Wool, 2 Chests, A Sign, 22 Gunpowder, A nearly broken iron pickaxe, A nearly broken iron axe, A nearly broken flint and steel, 4 Coal, 5 Bread, 4 String, 12 Torches, 2 Sticks, and 3 Compasses.
  • 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.
  • The Nether is available in the demo. An easy way to access it is to make it by creating casting lava into obsidian directly in the shape of a portal since five Minecraft days aren't necessarily enough to find 3 diamonds in order to make a diamond pickaxe.
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