Nathan Adams (programmer) the "Minecraft" server modification "CraftBukkit". Mojang then took full control of and hired the CraftBukkit team to work on a modding API, which allowed mod developers easier access to the "Minecraft" game files. He was hired on 28 February 2012 and started work on 27 March. He quit work on "Minecraft" in October 2015 to work on a new "Minecraft" application launcher, and joined back in February 2017. Nathan Adams (programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams is a British video game developer, who has been working on "Minecraft" since March 2012. Adams was born in Shrewsbury, England on 23 July 1991. He
Minecraft and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth, and various unpaid references in popular media such as the "Penny Arcade" webcomic. By April 2011, Persson estimated that "Minecraft" had made €23 million (US$33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game, and over 1 million sales of the beta version. In November 2011, prior to the game's full release, "Minecraft" beta surpassed 16 million registered users and 4 million purchases. By March 2012, "Minecraft" had become the 6th best-selling PC game of all time. , the game has sold 17 million copies