The future of Minecraft

is one of the most successful games created by the developer Mojang who has always been very open with letting users try out future features of the game. Anyone with Minecraft can easily install the pre-release.

Now easier to use

You really have nothing to lose in trying the Minecraft pre-release if you already own the game. You can easily switch between that and the official release and not be in danger of losing your saved games.

To install the Minecraft pre-release, simply download the file. Then open your Minecraft launcher and click the 'New Profile' button, give it the name 'snapshots', and look for a box that says 'Enable experimental development snapshots'.

Nothing to lose

Minecraft Pre-release is really like a nice extra feature of the official game. It's free, and a great way to see how the game is developing.

To play Minecraft you need to download a license from the developer's site.