MineCon and a costume competition. The event is also featuring info and pre/post show events. During the event, Mojang announced "", a dungeon-crawler spin-off of "Minecraft". At some MINECONs, attendees have received an exclusive in-game cape. MineCon MineCon is a convention for the video game "Minecraft", hosted by Mojang. The first gathering in 2010 was known as MinecraftCon. The MINECON 2011 convention was held in Las Vegas and celebrated the launch of the game with "Minecraft"-related discussion panels and gaming areas. The most recent convention, held in Anaheim, had 12,000 attendees. The latest event, known as MineCon Earth, took place on
Mojang year 281,474,976,712,644 AD of a parallel universe. In April 2013, Persson announced that the game was shelved, due to a creative block. In August of that year, he claimed that the game was indefinitely postponed, with the incentive that other Mojang staff members could continue its production should they desire. In September 2012, Mojang began the "Block by Block" charity project in cooperation with UN-Habitat to create and design real-world environments in "Minecraft". The project allows young people who live in those environments to participate in designing the changes they would like to see and involve them in urban planning.