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, that was bundled within issue 214 of PC Gamer Magazine. It provides 100 minutes (equal to five days in-game) of gameplay, after which it will tell the player to buy the game in other to continue playing on the current map.

Your save game will be saved in "%appdata%\Roaming\.minecraft\saves" and is fully compatible with the full version, making it playable after purchase. The demo uses seed 108181935, and spawns the player at: x: 166.5 y: 65.6 z: -56.5

The demo and information can be downloaded here.

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

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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

• Nether pc gamer demo.png

  The Nether is available in the demo, as seen on this picture.

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 your window is at it's smaller size while you are playing the demo and you enlarge 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.
• 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 you look hard enough, way out from the spawn point, in a desert, there is a chest with a saddle and other necessities. The chest is blocking a small spring from flowing all the way.

See also

• Classic
• Minecraft 4k