Minecraft

Minecraft is an open-world survival, RPG and multiplayer game that was released by Mojang Studios on May 5, 2009 and is still in active development under parent company Microsoft. A controversial feature was censored during the development of the 1.12 update. The Texture Update removed blood from a status effect texture.

Censorship

International censorship

• Parrots were initially fed with cookies, but in real life, chocolate is toxic to parrots. Since a later snapshot, parrots are now fed with seeds instead and cookies kill the parrots instead.
• Blood was removed from the new Strength status effect icon in version 1.14 of Java Edition and 1.11.0 of Bedrock Edition.
• The splash text "Привет Россия" ("Privyet Rossiya", Russian for "Hello Russia") was removed in the 1.19 snapshot released on 27 April 2022. Given the timing of the removal, it is likely it was due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the splash could be misconstrued as support for Russia.

South Korean censorship (formerly)

Due to The Youth Protection Revision Act, known as Shutdown law or Cinderella law, which make it illegal for children under 16 to play online games between 00:00 and 06:00, but only for PC and consoles, which came into force by 2011, Microsoft migrated Minecraft into Xbox Live Account December 2020, which require ID Verify for those who are over 19 only in South Korea, causing Minecraft to get rated 19 in South Korea while it is rated All or 12 by GRAC. After the Shutdown law was repealed by August 2021, Minecraft is no longer rated 19 after Xbox Live Account has finally removed ID Verify for over 19s in South Korea.

Where to find it uncensored

Versions between 17w13a and 1.12 Pre-Release 3 allowed players to feed parrots with cookies without harm.

Moderation controversy

• Version 1.19.1 Pre-Release 1 introduced a UI for reporting (and banning) users for violating community guidelines, which was implemented by Microsoft due to Minecraft attracting younger players and concerns that the community was becoming toxic. Older conservative players were outraged at this new feature, and accused Microsoft of censorship and being "woke".