Minecraft Alpha 1.2.6-01

To the modern player spawning into a lush cave with a trade menu and a suspicious stew recipe, Alpha 1.2.6_01 looks like a prehistoric fossil. The inventory is a mess. There are no beds. The Nether is a hellish, empty maze with no purpose. But to those who were there in late 2010, this version—a minor bug-fix update to a larger release—was the last true Alpha experience .