
Depending on the version of Minecraft, players have a chance of spawning as either Steve or Alex when creating a new account.


His feminine counterpart, Alex, was first introduced in August 2014 for PC versions of Minecraft, with the other seven first debuting in the Java edition of the game in October 2022. Steve lacks an official backstory by the developers of Minecraft as he is intended to be a customizable player avatar as opposed to being a predefined character. Created by Swedish video game developer Markus "Notch" Persson and introduced in the initial Java-based version of Minecraft which was publicly released on May 17, 2009, Steve is one of nine default player character skins available for players of contemporary versions of Minecraft. Steve is a fictional character from the 2011 video game Minecraft.
