Mojang Mojang Mojang AB ( "gadget") is a Swedish video game developer and publisher founded in May 2009 under the name Mojang Specifications by game programmer Markus Persson, best known for creating the popular independent game "Minecraft", a sandbox game. Mojang's company headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden. In September 2014, Microsoft acquired Mojang at a valuation of 2.5 billion USD. Following a paid trip and employment offer from Valve Corporation in early September 2010, Markus Persson founded Mojang alongside Jakob Porsér, with Carl Manneh later brought in as a CEO, as Persson desired to run a self-made independent studio for
Minecraft mods (the Bedrock Edition), in the form of add-ons. Mods have influenced the main "Minecraft" game on three occasions. Mod developer Dr. Zhark added horses to the game through the "Mo' Creatures" mod. Later on he helped Mojang adapt horses for use in standard issue "Minecraft". Pistons were also originally a part of a mod too, but impressed "Minecraft"s creators so much that they added the feature to the main game. Mojang also admitted that they admired all of the work done on server side modding API Bukkit. In 2012, the Swedish company ended up hiring the lead developers of the