What version of Minecraft am I playing?

Question

I finally decided to go ahead and buy Minecraft. I purchased a premium account via paypal, downloaded the client, logged in, and am at a main menu screen:

Single-Player
Multi-Player
Play Tutorial (grayed out)Options

If I press "Single-Player" what version of minecraft am I playing? (Alpha, Survival, Classic, etc.)

Unless I'm missing something glaringly obvious, (and the variety of different minecraft versions is clearly not helping) how can I tell which of the many modes I'm in? (or will be in?)

Asked by Raven Dreamer

Answer

You're playing Alpha (aka Survival).

"Survival test" is here and Classic (aka Creative) is here. Neither needs a premium account.

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Here's a bonus chart of what version added what in Minecraft:

   Classic    Graphics, Water, Lava, Fog, Mobs, Saving, Clouds (free)
      ↓
SurvivalTest  Health bar, Enemies, Weapons, Finite inventory, Cracking (free)
      ↓
    Indev     Crafting, Dynamic light, Night, Armor, Healing, Hell (unavail)
      ↓
   Infdev     Infinite maps, improved caves, finite water (unavail)
      ↓
    Alpha     Redstone, Boats, Carts, Biomes, Portals, Survival Multiplayer
              (currently in development)

The Minepedia has more information (Classic, Survival Test, Indev, Infdev, Alpha, Version history).

Answered by badp

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