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
Crown and Council "Crown and Council" was not originally intended for public release; Pettersson, an artist who joined Mojang to work on Scrolls in 2011, used the relatively simple project to learn to code. He believed that even if the game was to be distributed one day, it would be rebuilt by "real programmers". The game was worked on over multiple months and used bits of code taken from other Mojang projects. Pettersson credits "Minecraft Pocket Edition" programmer Aron Nieminen as his programming mentor. It is the first game developed by Mojang that is released on Steam, although Mojang published Oxeye Game Studio's