Minecraft:Seecret Updates

The Seecret UpdatesTemplate:Sic were a series of ten updates released by Minecraft:Notch during the Minecraft:Infdev and Alpha development stages of Minecraft:Minecraft, often without announcement. They were named after the day of the week on which they were released: nine Seecret Friday Updates were released on Fridays from June 18 to September 10, 2010, and a Seecret Saturday Update was released on Saturday, September 18, 2010. Seecret Updates usually included major new features: Minecraft:minecarts and Minecraft:boats, Minecraft:redstone, and Minecraft:sneaking were all introduced in these updates, along with a number of other significant features.

Notch sometimes announced or confirmed upcoming Seecret Updates on Twitter. On June 18, before the release of Seecret Friday Update 1, he tweeted that he was going to "do a seecret update".<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> On July 2, he announced that Seecret Friday Update 3 was coming that night.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> On July 29, he tweeted that there was "a real chance I might forget to do the update",<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> in reference to Seecret Friday Update 7, released the next day. On September 2, he refused to do a "Seecret Monday Update", instead confirming that "the secret update will be on friday as.. er.. "normal"",<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> in reference to Seecret Friday Update 9, which he subsequently confirmed on September 9 and 10 would be coming later on the 10th.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Seecret Updates were discontinued before the Minecraft:Halloween Update; Notch tweeted on October 7 that they were "postponed until we know what to do with them" and that he was "focusing on the Halloween update and lawyers".<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> The last mention of them on Minecraft:The Word of Notch was in a blog post made on September 24, where he wrote "I'd really like to do a Seecret Friday update, both to keep you guys happy and to actually get to do some programming myself, but I need to wind down",<ref>Recharging the batteries, bribing city states.</ref> and the last time he tweeted about them was on November 10, where he wrote "I liked the Friday updates, but Saturday fixes suck."<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Updates

Update	Date	Version	Features
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 1<ref>Seecret Friday update! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	June 18, 2010	Infdev 20100618	Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:Minecart and Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:rails
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 2<ref>Seecret Friday update 2! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	June 25, 2010	Infdev 20100625-1917	Template:EnvSprite Minecraft:Dungeons, Template:BlockSprite spawners and Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:saddles
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 3<ref>Seecret Friday update the third! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	July 2, 2010	Alpha v1.0.1	Template:BlockSprite Redstone ore, Template:ItemSprite redstone, Template:BlockSprite redstone torches, Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:levers, Template:BlockSprite stone Minecraft:button, Template:BlockSprite wooden and Template:BlockSprite stone pressure plates, Template:BlockSprite iron Minecraft:door
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 4<ref>Seecret Friday 4! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	July 9, 2010	Alpha v1.0.4	Template:EnvSprite Winter Mode, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:snowfall, Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:snow and Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:ice
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 5<ref>Seecret Friday 5! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	July 16, 2010	Alpha v1.0.6	Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:Boats, Template:BlockSprite cacti, Template:EnvSprite large Minecraft:trees
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 6<ref>Seecret Friday 6! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	July 23, 2010	Alpha v1.0.11	Template:ItemSprite Sugar cane, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:paper, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:books, Template:BlockSprite bookshelves, Template:ItemSprite clay, Template:BlockSprite clay blocks, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:brick, Template:EntityLink, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:slimeballs, Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:milk
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 7<ref>Seecret Friday 7! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	July 30, 2010	Alpha v1.0.14	Template:EntityLink Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:eggs, Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:jukeboxes, Template:ItemSprite music discs, Template:ItemSprite furnace minecarts and Template:ItemSprite chest minecarts
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 8<ref>Seecret Friday 8! OooooOOOoo!</ref>	August 20, 2010	Alpha v1.0.17	Template:BlockSprite Minecraft:Fences, Template:EntityLink and Template:EnvSprite Minecraft:multiplayer updates
Minecraft:Seecret Friday 9<ref>Seecret Friday 9! OooooOOOoo! And Minecraft Alpha 1.1.0! And Minecraft Server 0.2.0!</ref>	September 10, 2010	Alpha v1.1.0	Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:Compass and server-side Minecraft:inventory
Minecraft:Seecret Saturday<ref>Seecret Saturday update!? Also, tutorials.</ref><ref>Seecret Saturday 1! But I failed Biomes AGAIN!</ref>	September 18, 2010	Alpha v1.1.1	Template:EnvSprite Minecraft:Sneaking, new Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:paintings and Template:ItemSprite fishing rod

Trivia

• One of the Minecraft:splashes reads "Seecret Friday Update!".
• The first Seecret Friday update is the only version of Infdev to be available in the launcher.
• Of the ten Seecret updates, five (four Alpha and one Infdev) are available in the launcher, three are archived and two are lost.