The indie world-building game sensation now has an official release date.

Mojang AB's sandbox building sensation which allows players to build, construct and craft objects in a cubic world is finally ditching the beta label and has finally been given a proper release date.  

"We picked November 11," reveals Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson.

"It’s a bit tricky to really do a release for Minecraft as we keep updating it all the time," he explained. "For one, the version we deem as the “full version” won’t be very different at all from what the game was like a week ago, and we’ll keep adding features after the release as well, so it’s really more of a milestone when we finally get rid of the Beta label, and some kind of goal for us to work towards. The plan is to be open with this and try to get people to cheer us on as much as possible, but to be open with the fact that the game won’t change much at the actual release day. (It’s more a progress up until that point)."

In addition, Notch also revealed some details about Minecraft's upcoming 1.5 update which will include a weather feature, with "periodic downfall (snow in snowy areas, rain in others, nothing in deserts) that make the sky darker, hides the sun, moon and stars, and makes everything wet. Ice grows back in cold regions, and snowfall covers the ground when it’s snowing. During rain/snow, there can be occasional thunderstorms with lightning. I haven’t finished the actual lightning bolt yet, but everything else is fairly done."


Via [Notch blog]

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