The earliest public version of Minecraft for Android was officially designated as Alpha 0.1.0 (and its subsequent hotfixes like 0.1.1).
According to internet lore, Minecraft Alpha 0.0.0 is a "haunted" or "lost" version of the game that contains disturbing anomalies. Players who claim to have found this version describe a world that begins normally but quickly descends into a horror experience.
Now, imagine that same philosophy compressed into a mobile APK labeled Alpha 0.0.0 . In early 2011, long before the official Minecraft Pocket Edition Lite , developers at Mojang experimented with running the game on phones like the Xperia PLAY. Those internal builds likely had no textures, no sound, and only basic block placement — just a player, a grass block, and the sun rotating in a buggy sky. No inventory, no crafting, no saving. It was a tech demo, not a game. Yet for those who dreamed of carrying a world in their pocket, that hypothetical APK was a promise.