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
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