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Dustin Bailey

13 years ago, Mojang canceled its Lego Minecraft game amid frustrations with the toy company's brand restrictions - now the original prototype has been found and preserved online

The Lego Minecraft set Baby Pig's Birthday Celebration.

Back in 2012, Mojang was working on a game called Brickcraft that would've essentially been the Lego-themed Minecraft spin-off we've always dreamed of. Unfortunately, the game was canceled largely due to the developer's frustrations with Lego's brand restriction, but now there's a silver lining: the original, in-development version of Brickcraft has been found and preserved, and you can now play it for yourself.

Omniarchive, a community website dedicated to "preserving all official Minecraft content," released the newly-preserved Brickcraft build this week. "The build dates to the 28th of June 2012," contributor DEJVOSS says, "around a month before the game's supposed cancellation (sourced from a Notch's tweet in July 2012 saying the game got cancelled). Tho I personally believe it may be one of, if not the last build ever."

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