Minecraft is turning 15, so they're giving away some Character Creator items

Themed around the history of the game

Minecraftis turning fifteen years-old and to celebrate Mojang are running fifteen days of giveaways from May 15th until May 29th. Apparently each day will offer up “a new free Character Creator item representing a different year of Minecraft history.”

This also means I’ve been playing Minecraft for nearly fifteen years. Do I care for Character Creator items? No. Will I be signing in each day on my son’s account to get him the free thing? Absolutely.

Here’s a trailer announcing the anniversary shenanigans, which also promises other elements to the celebration:

Notch shared the first playable build of Minecraftvia the TIGSource forum on May 17th, 2009. It was 49 minutes and 25 seconds before someone shares the first screenshot of something they’ve built. The screenshot is broken now, but it was of a one-block wide bridge.

You’ll need to log-in in-game to collect the free items each day but they’ll also announce each freebie via theirInstagram Stories, Mojang say.