: Small, 3x3 bedrock crosses or sand pyramids spawn in newly generated chunks without player intervention.
Released on December 3, 2010, this version lasted less than 72 hours before being replaced. To the untrained eye, it was a bug-fix patch. To historians of Java Edition, however, Alpha 1.2.7 represents the moment Notch stopped building a tech demo and started building a cultural infrastructure. minecraft 1.2.7 alpha