Dinnerbone
| Real name |
Nathan Adams |
|---|---|
| Date of birth |
July 23, 1991 (age 34)[1] |
| Occupation |
Software Engineer |
| Nationality | |
| Known for |
Bukkit |
| Website | |
| Minecraft Wiki name |
Dinnerbone-gpuser[note 1] |
| Reddit name | |
| Discord name | |
| X (Twitter) username | |
| Bluesky username | |
| Instagram name | |
| GitHub profile | |
| Bug tracker profile | |
| YouTube channel | |
| Minecraft names |
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Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams is a Software Engineer[6] at Mojang Studios who works on Java Edition and the Minecraft Launcher.
About
A common trope attributed to Dinnerbone is that he is commonly displayed as being upside-down.[7][8] His Twitter avatar is flipped[9] and his user model (as well as any mob named "Dinnerbone") is rendered upside-down.[8] Shortly after starting Bukkit, Dinnerbone was hired by Curse where he worked until joining Mojang Studios on February 28, 2012 to develop the mod API.[10][11] In October 2015, he announced that he would be "taking a break from Minecraft PC development for a few months."[12] Later, in February 2016, he further elaborated that though he would continue on other projects at Mojang, he had left the Minecraft team.[13] On February 6, 2017, Dinnerbone confirmed he had rejoined the Minecraft team.[14] On July 30, 2022, he claimed that he had been off work for 1.5 years for his health.[15] On February 18, 2025, he announced that he's coming back on developing Minecraft.[16]
Biography
Nathan Adams is originally from Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. He learned programming through creating MSN bots at age 10.[5][17] After finishing secondary school, Dinnerbone was rejected from college,[18] so he found a job with a tiny web development company, but was made redundant after a few years.
In 2013 he was engaged to Aleksandra 'Missmarzenia' Zając.[19] He announced on August 24, 2016 that he and Aleksandra were expecting a baby boy.[20][21] The baby was later born on October 2, 2016.[22] In some time between 2016 and 2021 they broke up.[23]
In 2019 he obtained Swedish citizenship.
Videos
Dinnerbone was face of migration campaign in 2020. During the campaign Minecraft account on Youtube released two videos featuring him as Minecraft character.
Quote
Dinnerbone is a super nice guy, and adds lots of fancy features to Minecraft. He wears ribbons in his hair, and smells of rich mahogany and leather-bound books. He is the co-president of the country of Bonerstan, along with Marc. If you kill him in Minecraft, he drops a kitten. Correction: he gently sets down a kitten, because why would he ever DROP a kitten? He's way too nice for that.
Trivia
- Dinnerbone is red-green colorblind, which is the most common type of colorblindness.[26]
- Dinnerbone's username is a tribute to an old friend of his named Teabone (T-bone).[28]
- Dinnerbone's favorite color is blue, his favorite foods are lasagna and pizza, and his "guilty pleasure" is milkshakes.[29]
- If the player uses a name tag titled "Dinnerbone", on most mobs it will turn upside-down. This naturally extends to himself. The same effect is applied when naming a mob "Grumm".
- Dinnerbone could sometimes be found on the MindCrack server with other YouTubers.
- Dinnerbone was a member of the Hermitcraft server during its early days.
- Dinnerbone's bodyguard in A Fun Announcement by Dinnerbone flipped him right side up. He remains this way throughout both migration videos.
- Dinnerbone makes an appearance in the trailer for Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack),[30] which would later be used for an April Fools' Day joke.
- Dinnerbone changed his Minecraft account name to “GormanRoddy” on January 7, 2026 before he changed it back 13 hours later.[31]
Gallery
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Old photo of Dinnerbone -
Dinnerbone with some other developers. -
Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2010–2016 -
Adams' old Twitter avatar -
Adams' official Mojang avatar from 2016–present -
![Adams' Minecraft skin[7]](./_assets_/5af80496508534f4cdd561aac15bbc50/Dinnerbone_Minecraft_skin.png)
Adams' Minecraft skin[7] -
His player model right side up -
Dinnerbone preparing to go door-knocking at players' doors in the Java Account Move video on the Minecraft YouTube channel. -
Dinnerbone getting trampled by a pig. -
Dinnerbone right side up (and the world upside down) -
All the games in Dinnerbone's Mojang account -
Notes
- ↑ Nathan's Minecraft wiki name automatically changed from "Dinnerbone" to "Dinnerbone-gpuser" during the Fandom account merge.
References
- ↑ Special:Diff/454363
- ↑ "I'm a Swedish citizen! Omg!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), March 21, 2019
- ↑ "People always expect that I'm Swedish. Surprise, I'm British, I moved to Sweden! That makes me one of those scary immigrant people ;)" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), November 2, 2018
- ↑ "Achievement get: First person to have multiple Minecraft games on his Mojang account. dinnerbone.com/media/uploads…" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), July 16, 2013
- ↑ a b https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce4xre4?context=1
- ↑ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/credits
- ↑ a b "So I'm thinking it's time for me to actually have a real Minecraft skin, and not this silly upside down one. To the pixelmakingmachine!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), September 30, 2012
- ↑ a b https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce4vtm7/
- ↑ "Things I've learned this week: Turn your avatar upside down, and you'll get lots of messages from helpful people pointing it out to you." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), September 13, 2013
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/s0pqt/i_am_nathan_adams_aka_dinnerbone_developer_of/c4a68cn?context=1
- ↑ http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.62489/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120302070401/http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.62489/
- ↑ "After that I'm taking a break from Minecraft PC development for a few months. I will be focusing on the new launcher & other cool projects!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), October 15, 2015
- ↑ "@half_decent I don't work on Minecraft anymore :)" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), February 19, 2016
- ↑ "Spent today moving desks at Mojang... Oh hey, I'm rejoining the Minecraft PC team! It's been so long, so much has changed!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), February 6, 2017
- ↑ "To those mailing/tweeting/DMing/etc me blaming & insulting me about some Minecraft stuff: I've been off work for 1.5 years for my health. I physically can't get out of bed most of the time and it's getting worse by the day. I have nothing to do with anything you're upset over." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), July 30, 2022
- ↑ [https://bsky.app/profile/dinnerbone.com/post/3lihzvfzgxk2n "Hello world! 🙃 I'm alive! Kinda! Ish! I've managed to go to the mojang office 5 whole times this year! That's a big achievement for my health and I'm pretty proud. Now I'm hard at work doing [things] on Minecraft, and I feel like it's going pretty well so far! So many deleted lines of code!"] – @dinnerbone.com on Bluesky, February 18, 2025
- ↑ http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/02/20/chatting-with-nathan-adams-and-erik-broes-of-minecraft/
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce5pwb1?context=1
- ↑ "@Evangeder @KebabuTurka My fiancee, @MissMarzenia, is polish :)" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), May 7, 2013
- ↑ "Lots of people asking why I won't be going to Minecon. It's because I'll be too busy learning how to use these!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 24, 2016
- ↑ "(It's gonna be a boy. If it were a girl, it'd be "Wednesday Adams" no question.)" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 24, 2016
- ↑ "Hello, world." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), October 2, 2016
- ↑ https://missmarzenia.blogspot.com/2021/01/it-has-been-5-years.html Aleksandra Zając in her blog on January 20, 2021
- ↑ Special:Diff/329409
- ↑ "Learned how to edit the Minecraft wiki. Am I doing it right?" – @Marc_IRL (Marc Watson) on X (formerly Twitter), June 18, 2012
- ↑ http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/future-updates/384441-1-5-new-blocks-items?comment=11
- ↑ https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/future-updates/384441-1-5-new-blocks-items?page=2
- ↑ "@XxzJackozxX I once, long ago when I was new to the whole interwebs thing, knew a cool guy named Teabone. I took this name in respect to him" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), September 19, 2012
- ↑ "My guilty pleasure is milkshakes. I love milkshakes.
Today I went to go get a nice strawberry milkshake at this new place that opened near me. They accidentally used ketchup instead of strawberry jam and oh my gosh do I hate ketchup. What a mistake to make! 🤢" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), December 1, 2018 - ↑ "The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack (T.E.A.V.S.R.P.)" – Element Animation on YouTube, February 8, 2014
- ↑ https://namemc.com/profile/Dinnerbone.1
