Newton the tuxedo cat sitting on a grass block at sunset, overlooking a blocky kingdom

A MINECRAFT CAT'S LEGACY

MEET NEWTON THE MINECRAFT LEAD DEVELOPER'S CAT

Not just any cat. Newton was the real-life cat of Jens "Jeb" Bergensten, the lead developer of Minecraft, one of the best-selling games of all time.

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NEWTON A real cat.
A real story.
A real legacy.

PHASE 01 · THE RECEIPTS

REAL POSTS. REAL CAT.
REAL HISTORY.

Minecraft's lead developer spent ten years posting about his cat, and he still replies about her today. Every screenshot below is public.

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Minecraft's lead developer replied to the Newton game.

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A decade of love, memories, and a community that still remembers.

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PHASE 02 · THE ORIGIN STORY

HOW NEWTON BECAME PART OF
MINECRAFT HISTORY

1THE CREATOR

Jens "Jeb" Bergensten

A Swedish game developer, and one of the most important figures in Minecraft's history. He joined Mojang during Minecraft's early development and worked alongside its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson.

As Notch stepped back, Jeb became Minecraft's lead designer, then Chief Creative Officer at Mojang Studios. For over a decade, the direction of the best-selling video game ever made ran through him.

BORN
18 May 1979 · Örebro, Sweden
KNOWN FOR
Lead developer of Minecraft
2HIS REAL CAT

The Real Newton

Newton was Jeb's real-life pet cat, a black-and-white tuxedo born in 2004. She sat on laptops, lost fights with a plush flamingo, and spent ten years being an entirely ordinary house cat in Sweden.

When cats were being developed for Minecraft, Newton's tuxedo markings became the real-life model for the game's tuxedo cat. No design brief. She was simply the cat in the room.

LIVED
4 Mar 2004 to 21 May 2014
COAT
Black & white tuxedo
3IMMORTALIZED IN MINECRAFT

The Minecraft Cat

When cats were first introduced into Minecraft as a tamable mob, the developers modeled the default tuxedo cat skin directly after Newton.

Black body. White chest. White socks. A pale tip on the tail. Look at the mob, then look at the photograph beside it. The markings line up exactly.

Every tamed tuxedo cat in every world is a copy of her.

ADDED
2012 · Passive mob
FOUND IN
Villages & swamp huts

PHASE 03 · THE NEXT CHAPTER

NEWTON: THE GAME

The world you've been watching is about to become playable.

TRAILER · 01 NEWTON'S WORLD

COMING SOON

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Newton looking up at the camera on a red patterned rug

PHASE 04 · THE CAT

MEET NEWTON

2004  /  2014

She was a house cat with a physicist's name and absolutely no interest in physics. She sat on laptops. She lost fights with a plush flamingo. She was, by every available account, extremely normal.

And then one day the man whose lap she was occupying needed to know what a cat looked like. The shape of the head, where the white starts, how the tail ends in a pale tip. He looked down.

That's the whole secret. There was no design brief. Minecraft's cat looks like Newton because Newton was there.

"Once she was my model for the Minecraft cat, and now she's gone. R.I.P Newton :(" @JEB_ · 22 MAY 2014

PHASE 05 · THE CONNECTION

THE CAT BECAME PIXELS. THE PIXELS BECAME HISTORY. THE HISTORY BECAME LORE. NOW THE LORE HAS A WORLD.

ONE CAT. TWO WORLDS.

The real Newton
THE REAL ONEÖREBRO, SWEDEN
RESOLUTION: 1:1
The Minecraft tuxedo cat render
THE MOBMINECRAFT

THE RECORD

Still on file, a decade later.

The Minecraft Wiki page for the Cat mob

MINECRAFT WIKI · CAT · PASSIVE MOB

Search results showing Jeb's posts about Newton

THE ARCHIVE · "NEWTON MINECRAFT CAT"

PHASE 07 · THE WORLD

WELCOME TO
NEWTON'S WORLD

A lantern left on. A fire that never quite goes out. Somewhere in here is a rug with a cat on it.

A warmly lit blocky cabin interior with a fireplace, lanterns, bookshelves and a paw-print banner
THE HEARTH
Warm light, one chair too many, and a fire kept going for someone who isn't cold anymore.
THE BANNER
A paw print hung above the mantel. No explanation offered to visitors.
THE WINDOW
The world outside is still loading chunks. It always is.
THE RUG
Occupied. Permanently. Do not attempt to move it.

PHASE 08 · THE FULL TIMELINE

NEWTON'S JOURNEY

2004

Newton is born.

4 March 2004. A black-and-white tuxedo kitten in Sweden. Nothing about this is historically significant yet.

2011

The internet meets her.

16 October 2011. Jeb posts a photo of the cat asleep on him: "Sitting awkwardly with lapcat :) Her name is Newton." Fifty people like it. Nobody knows what they're looking at.

2012

The cat becomes a mob.

Cats arrive in Minecraft. Black body, white chest, white paws, pale tail tip. Newton becomes part of the story behind Minecraft's cat, and millions of players start taming a copy of her.

2014

The world says goodbye.

21 May 2014. Within days, players are building memorials and shrines to a cat they never met, in worlds she was already living in.

TODAY

Her legacy lives inside Minecraft.

Every tuxedo cat that follows a player home carries a little of her. Newton is the rarest kind of legend: the accidental kind.

PHASE 09 · THE COMMUNITY

KEEP THE STORY ALIVE

Stories don't survive because they're written down. They survive because people keep telling them.

WHY THE LORE IS SO STRONG

  • Real cat, real developer, real connection
  • Featured in Jens' life for over a decade
  • The model for Minecraft's tuxedo cat
  • Remembered by the Minecraft community
  • Old posts, photos & videos to prove it

THIS ISN'T MADE UP.
THIS IS MINECRAFT HISTORY.

BEFORE THERE WAS A TOKEN,
THERE WAS NEWTON.

A REAL CAT A REAL STORY A REAL LEGACY A WORLD BUILT TO HONOR HER
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THE END OF THE DAY

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