Jens Bergensten (née Thornell). Jens Bergensten Jens "Jeb" Bergensten is a Swedish video game designer. Since December 2010, he has worked for the video game developer Mojang as a programmer and game designer. He became the lead designer and lead developer of the indie sandbox game "Minecraft", after Markus "Notch" Persson stepped down from his position in December 2011. He is known by his in-game name "jeb_". Bergensten started programming his first games at age 11 using BASIC and Turbo Pascal. By age 21, he was a mapper and modder for the first-person shooter "Quake III Arena". Later he worked as a
MineCon came the introduction of 'Official Community Events', which allow events such as Minefaire, Minevention and Multiplay's BlockFest to be considered 'Official Minecraft Conventions'. During MINECON Earth, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten announced the next update, the 1.13 "The Update Aquatic" update. This update was released in July 2018. Vu Bui, Mojang COO, also announced the winner mob based on vote, "The Monster of The Night Skies". On 10 April 2018, Mojang announced that MINECON EARTH will be taking place on 29 September 2018 for 90 minutes on stream. It is claimed to be the biggest Minecraft celebration ever, with panels, community highlights,