Minecraft: The Story of Mojang premiered on Xbox Live on December 22, 2012, and was made available for download and streaming the following day. 2 Player Productions also uploaded the documentary to torrent index The Pirate Bay, but urged people to consider purchasing the film. Minecraft is the second feature from game culture archivists 2 Player Productions (Reformat the Planet, Penny Arcade: The Series - Season 1, Double Fine Adventure!). The documentary follows "Minecraft" developer Mojang through the development process of the game. The film also features insights from many people in the video gaming industry to discuss "Minecraft"s popularity and influence. Interviews from Persson
Minecraft mods Around November 2011, the mod "Forge" was released. Rather than adding new gameplay features to "Minecraft", "Forge" allowed players to be able to run several client-side mods simultaneously. Before becoming compatible with "Forge", "IndustrialCraft" and "BuildCraft" would not run side-by-side, because both of them needed to overwrite the same "Minecraft" base Java files. "Forge" ended the necessity to manipulate these files, allowing separate mods to run together without requiring them to touch the base source code. After "Minecraft" received its first full release in November 2011, the game's modding community continued to grow. In February 2012, Mojang hired developers of