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{{redirect|Nathan|the previous Mojang employee|Nathan Gilbert}}
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|title           = Nathan Adams
|image           = Dinnerbone.jpg
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|real_name       = Nathan Adams
|date_of_birth   = {{Birth date and age|1991|7|23|mf=yes}}<ref>[[Special:Diff/454363]]</ref>
|occupation      = Software Engineer
|nationality     = Swedish<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|1108770001660579841|I'm a Swedish citizen! Omg!|March 21, 2019}}</ref><br>British<ref>{{Tweet|Dinnerbone|1058396032000770048|People always expect that I'm Swedish. Surprise, I'm British, I moved to Sweden! That makes me one of those scary immigrant people ;)|November 2, 2018}}</ref>
|languages       =
|website         = [http://dinnerbone.com Bluesky]<br>[https://twitch.tv/dinnerbone Twitch]<br>[https://youtube.com/c/NathanDinnerboneAdams YouTube]
|known_for       = Bukkit<br>Minecraft
|also_known_as   = 
|wiki_name       = Dinnerbone-gpuser
|wiki_name_ref   = <ref group="note">Nathan's Minecraft wiki name automatically changed from "Dinnerbone" to "Dinnerbone-gpuser" during the Fandom account merge.</ref>
|reddit          = Dinnerbone
|twitter         = Dinnerbone
|bluesky         = dinnerbone.com
|discord         = dinnerbone
|instagram       = dinnerbone
|youtube         = [https://www.youtube.com/@dinnerbone dinnerbone]
|github          = Dinnerbone
|bug_tracker     = Dinnerbone
|minecraft_names = [https://namemc.com/profile/Dinnerbone.1 Dinnerbone]<br />[https://namemc.com/profile/Djinnibone.1 Djinnibone]<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|357140827635589123|Achievement get: First person to have multiple Minecraft games on his Mojang account. dinnerbone.com/media/uploads…|Jul 16, 2013}}</ref><ref name=djinnibone>{{Reddit|1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me|ce4xre4}}</ref>
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'''Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams''' is a Software Engineer<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/credits</ref> at [[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]] who works on ''[[Minecraft:Java Edition]]'' and the ''[[Minecraft:Minecraft Launcher]]''. 

== About ==

A common trope attributed to Dinnerbone is that he is commonly displayed as being upside-down.<ref name="skin">{{tweet|Dinnerbone|252373552840462336|So I'm thinking it's time for me to actually have a real Minecraft skin, and not this silly upside down one. To the pixelmakingmachine!|Sep 30, 2012}}</ref><ref name="upsidedown">{{Reddit|1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce4vtm7}}</ref> His Twitter avatar is flipped<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|378567077793382400|Things I've learned this week: Turn your avatar upside down, and you'll get lots of messages from helpful people pointing it out to you.|Sep 13, 2013}}</ref> and his user [[Minecraft:model]] (as well as any [[Minecraft:mob]] named "Dinnerbone") is rendered upside-down.<ref name="upsidedown" /> Shortly after starting [[Minecraft:mcservers:Bukkit|Bukkit]], Dinnerbone was hired by [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Curse LLC|Curse]] where he worked until joining [[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]] on February 28, 2012 to develop the mod API.<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/s0pqt/i_am_nathan_adams_aka_dinnerbone_developer_of/c4a68cn?context=1</ref><ref>http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.62489/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120302070401/http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.62489/</ref> In October 2015, he announced that he would be "taking a break from ''Minecraft'' PC development for a few months."<ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|654680133660311553|After that I'm taking a break from Minecraft PC development for a few months. I will be focusing on the new launcher & other cool projects!|Oct 15, 2015}}</ref> Later, in February 2016, he further elaborated that though he would continue on other projects at Mojang, he had left the ''Minecraft'' team.<ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|700803356449574912|@half_decent I don't work on Minecraft anymore :)|Feb 19, 2016}}</ref> On February 6, 2017, Dinnerbone confirmed he had rejoined the ''Minecraft'' team.<ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|828601917639184384|Spent today moving desks at Mojang... Oh hey, I'm rejoining the Minecraft PC team! It's been so long, so much has changed!|February 6, 2017}}</ref> On July 30, 2022, he claimed that he had been off work for 1.5 years for his health.<ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|1553226276844048385|To those mailing/tweeting/DMing/etc me blaming & insulting me about some Minecraft stuff: I've been off work for 1.5 years for my health. I physically can't get out of bed most of the time and it's getting worse by the day. I have nothing to do with anything you're upset over.|Jul 30, 2022}}</ref> On February 18, 2025, he announced that he's coming back on developing ''Minecraft.''<ref>{{Bluesky|dinnerbone.com|3lihzvfzgxk2n|Hello world! 🙃
I'm alive! Kinda! Ish!
I've managed to go to the mojang office 5 whole times this year! That's a big achievement for my health and I'm pretty proud.

Now I'm hard at work doing [things] on Minecraft, and I feel like it's going pretty well so far! So many deleted lines of code!|February 18, 2025}}</ref>

== Biography ==

Nathan Adams is originally from [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Shrewsbury|Shrewsbury]], [[Minecraft:wikipedia:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]. He learned programming through creating [[Minecraft:wikipedia:MSN|MSN]] bots at age 10.<ref name=djinnibone/><ref>http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/02/20/chatting-with-nathan-adams-and-erik-broes-of-minecraft/</ref> After finishing secondary school, Dinnerbone was rejected from college,<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce5pwb1?context=1</ref> so he found a job with a tiny web development company, but was made redundant after a few years. 

In 2013 he was engaged to [[Minecraft:Aleksandra Zając|Aleksandra 'Missmarzenia' Zając]].<ref name="polish">{{tweet|dinnerbone|331838325629538304|@Evangeder @KebabuTurka My fiancee, @MissMarzenia, is polish :)|May 7, 2013}}</ref> He announced on August 24, 2016 that he and Aleksandra were expecting a baby boy.<ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|768464749533114368|Lots of people asking why I won't be going to Minecon. It's because I'll be too busy learning how to use these!|August 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|dinnerbone|768467806320865280|(It's gonna be a boy. If it were a girl, it'd be "Wednesday Adams" no question.)|August 24, 2016}}</ref> The baby was later born on October 2, 2016<!--no other tweets by both of them speak about birth date - the tweet likely implies he was just born, so the birth date is set at October 2, 2016-->.<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|782527672010276864|Hello, world.|October 2, 2016}}</ref> In some time between 2016 and 2021 they broke up.<ref name=":0">https://missmarzenia.blogspot.com/2021/01/it-has-been-5-years.html Aleksandra Zając in her blog on January 20, 2021</ref>


In 2019 he obtained Swedish citizenship.

== Videos ==
Dinnerbone was the face of the [[Minecraft:Dinnerbone migration campaign|migration campaign]] in 2020. During the campaign Minecraft account on Youtube released two videos featuring him as Minecraft character.{{yt|i9cqIwrgz7w}}
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== Quote ==
{{q|Dinnerbone is a super nice guy, and adds lots of fancy features to Minecraft. He wears ribbons in his hair, and smells of rich mahogany and leather-bound books. He is the co-president of the country of Bonerstan, along with Marc. If you kill him in Minecraft, he drops a kitten. Correction: he gently sets down a kitten, because why would he ever DROP a kitten? He's way too nice for that.|[[Minecraft:Marc Watson]]<ref>[[Special:Diff/329409]]</ref><ref>{{tweet|Marc_IRL|214903429917712385|Learned how to edit the Minecraft wiki. Am I doing it right?|June 18, 2012}}</ref>}}

== Trivia ==
* Dinnerbone is red-green [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Color blindness|colorblind]], which is the most common type of colorblindness.<ref>http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/future-updates/384441-1-5-new-blocks-items?comment=11</ref>
** This is why rubies were replaced by [[Minecraft:emerald]]s.<ref>https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/future-updates/384441-1-5-new-blocks-items?page=2</ref>
* Dinnerbone's username is a tribute to an old friend of his named Teabone (T-bone).<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|248379944101609472|@XxzJackozxX I once, long ago when I was new to the whole interwebs thing, knew a cool guy named Teabone. I took this name in respect to him|Sep 19, 2012}}</ref>
* Dinnerbone's favorite color is blue, his favorite foods are lasagna and pizza, and his "guilty pleasure" is milkshakes.<ref name=MilkshakeKetchup>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|1068931314227822593|My guilty pleasure is milkshakes. I love milkshakes.<br><br>Today I went to go get a nice strawberry milkshake at this new place that opened near me. They accidentally used ketchup instead of strawberry jam and oh my gosh do I hate ketchup. What a mistake to make! 🤢|December 1, 2018}}</ref>
* If the [[Minecraft:player]] uses a [[Minecraft:Name Tag|name tag]] titled "Dinnerbone", on most [[Minecraft:mob|mobs]] it will turn upside-down. This naturally extends to himself. The same effect is applied when naming a mob "[[Minecraft:Grumm]]".
* Dinnerbone could sometimes be found on the MindCrack server with other [[Minecraft:YouTube]]rs.
* Dinnerbone was a member of the Hermitcraft server during its early days.
* Dinnerbone's bodyguard in [[Minecraft:A Fun Announcement by Dinnerbone]] flipped him right side up. He remains this way throughout both migration videos.
* Dinnerbone makes an appearance in the trailer for [[Minecraft:Element Animation]]'s "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack),<ref>{{YouTube link|yG_Y52bK6Ec|The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack (T.E.A.V.S.R.P.)|Element Animation|February 8, 2014}}</ref> which would later be used for an [[Minecraft:April Fools' Day jokes|April Fools' Day joke]].
* Dinnerbone changed his Minecraft account name to “GormanRoddy” on January 7, 2026 before he changed it back 13 hours later.<ref>https://namemc.com/profile/Dinnerbone.1</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Dinnerbone.png|Old photo of Dinnerbone
12million-copy.jpg|Dinnerbone with some other developers.
Dinnerbone - Mojang avatar.png|Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2010–2016
Dinnerbone-twitter.png|Adams' old Twitter avatar
Nathan Adams Mojang avatar.png|Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2016–present
Dinnerbone Minecraft skin.png|Adams' ''Minecraft'' skin<ref name=skin/>
Dinnerbone Skin Upright.png|His player model right side up
A Fun Visit from Dinnerbone.png|Dinnerbone preparing to go door-knocking at [[Minecraft:player|players']] doors in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpF8AaPyqhQ Java Account Move video] on the Minecraft YouTube channel.
Dinnerbone Trampled.png|Dinnerbone getting trampled by a pig.
Dinnerbone World.png|Dinnerbone right side up (and the world upside down)
Mojang Games.png|All the games in Dinnerbone's Mojang account
Incorrect mob armor.jpeg
DinnerBanner.jpg|Dinnerbone's Twitter banner.
</gallery>

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