Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26296200-20160206175743/@comment-25330335-20160206181004

Correction, Alpha is the first stage, not the second. The mod underwent three months of closed Alpha development before being publicly released. The mod has now been in open beta for 3 years. Minecraft is still in beta development. If we were done with the beta stage, all we'd get is bugfix updates for eternity.