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Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios where players interact with a fully modifiable three-dimensional environment made of blocks and entities. Its diverse gameplay lets players choose the way they play, allowing for countless possibilities. There are four actively maintained editions of Minecraft: Java Edition, Bedrock ...
- Overview
- Purchase and availability
- Gameplay
- Editions
- Game customization
- Reception
- References in popular culture
is a 3D sandbox game created by Swedish game developer Markus "Notch" Persson. It is maintained by Mojang Studios, a part of Xbox Game Studios, which in turn is part of Microsoft.
From its creation, Minecraft was developed almost exclusively by Notch until Jens "Jeb" Bergensten started working with him and has since become head of its development. It features music by Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld, Kumi Tanioka, Lena Raine and Aaron Cherof, as well as paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Initially released as what is now known as Minecraft Classic on May 17, 2009, the game was fully released on November 18, 2011. Since its release, Minecraft has expanded to mobile devices and consoles. On November 6, 2014, Minecraft and all of Mojang Studios' assets were acquired by Microsoft for US$2.5 billion. Notch has since left Mojang on November 5, 2014, and is no longer working on Minecraft.
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can be purchased from minecraft.net and Microsoft Store. Gift codes can be bought for others, for the same price as buying the game for oneself. The demo version can be played for free. Java Edition can not run on Windows RT, ChromiumOS/ChromeOS (unless "Linux development environment" is turned on), or on some non-PC devices that use Java, such as a car, a toaster, or an Android device.
can be purchased on Google Play (ChromeOS & Android), the Apple App Store (iOS & iPadOS), the Amazon Appstore (Fire), minecraft.net (Windows), Microsoft Store (Windows & Xbox One), Nintendo eShop (Nintendo Switch), and PlayStation Store (PlayStation 4).
Alternatively, Xbox Game Pass for Console provides access to Bedrock Edition on Xbox consoles, PC Game Pass provides access to Java Edition on PC and Bedrock Edition on Windows PCs, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate provides access to Java Edition on PC and Bedrock Edition on Windows PCs and Xbox consoles.
Legacy Console Edition can be purchased on physical media (excluding Nintendo Switch Edition) or on the respective platform's store, including Xbox Games Store for Xbox 360 Edition. The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita editions can only be purchased through the console. The Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch editions are no longer available for direct digital purchase.
The North American version of New Nintendo 3DS Edition can be purchased on physical media. It is no longer available for direct digital purchase.
Player
The player is the person that the user controls in the world. When the user starts a game, the player is put in a world, generated from a random or specified seed, with an empty inventory. If the bonus chest option is enabled, a chest filled with basic items generates near the player. The player has a health bar with 10 hearts and can be depleted when they are damaged. Damage to health can be mitigated by armor or the Resistance effect; while health can be restored by keeping the hunger bar full enough or by drinking specific potions. If the difficulty is set to Peaceful, health regenerates on its own. Each player can have a unique look via 9 default skins, or by creating their own custom skin. A player can change their skin on the profile page of minecraft.net or in the Minecraft Launcher in Java Edition and in the pause or main menus on Bedrock Edition.
Blocks
The world of Minecraft takes place within a three-dimensional grid of cubes, with each cube being occupied by a certain type of block, not all of which are necessarily cubic. There are different types of blocks; natural blocks such as grass, stone and ores that generate randomly within the world. There are also blocks that players can craft, such as a crafting table and a furnace. Resources can be extracted from blocks by hand or by using tools. Some of these resources are simply blocks in the player's inventory that can be placed elsewhere, while others are used as material to create other blocks or tools. Others yield no practical use whatsoever. Some blocks cannot be broken through normal Survival means, e.g. bedrock, end portal frames, command blocks, nether and end portals, barriers and air.
Mining
Mining is one of the main aspects of Minecraft and is done to extract ore and other materials mainly from below the surface of the map. These ores include coal, iron, gold, redstone, diamond, lapis lazuli, copper and emerald. Mining can involve digging a hole from the surface or going down through a cave. Mineshafts and ravines create extra areas that may contain resources, since they are usually rich in ores.
Java Edition
The original platform for Minecraft, running on Windows, macOS, and Linux and started through the Minecraft Launcher. The game was initially released for an "early private singleplayer alpha" on May 17, 2009, followed by several development stages (notably Classic, Indev, Infdev, Alpha, Beta) with the game finally being released on November 18, 2011. The Java Edition has seen many significant updates since its official release.
Bedrock Edition
The Bedrock Edition (also known as the Bedrock Platform, Bedrock Codebase or Bedrock Engine) refers to the multi-platform family of editions of Minecraft developed by Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios. Prior to this term, as the engine originated with Minecraft: Pocket Edition, this entire product family has been referred to using as "Pocket Edition", "MCPE" or "Pocket/Windows 10 Edition". , with no subtitle, is the title of all Bedrock editions of Minecraft. Before the Better Together Update, it had different subtitles on different platforms including Pocket Edition (for all mobile platforms), Console Edition, Windows 10 Edition, Gear VR Edition, and Fire TV Edition. was initially launched exclusively for the Xperia PLAY on Google Play for US$6.99 on August 16, 2011. It was later released for other Android devices on October 7, 2011, and iOS on November 17, 2011. On September 13, 2012, the Pocket Edition was made available for purchase on the Amazon Appstore. The Windows Phone version was released on the Windows Phone Store on December 10, 2014, for which the Pocket Edition 1.0.0 release and newer are available only for Windows 10 Phone and newer. Since then, four adaptations of Pocket Edition have been released; for Windows 10 on July 29, 2015, the Gear VR on April 27, 2016, tvOS on December 19, 2016, and the Fire TV on December 19, 2016. As of September 24, 2018, the Apple TV Edition has been discontinued.
Legacy Console Edition
Legacy Console Edition refers to the editions of Minecraft for consoles that are developed and updated by 4J Studios. The Legacy Console Edition was initially announced for the Xbox 360 on June 7, 2011, during E3 2011. Xbox 360 Edition released digitally on May 9, 2012 followed by a physical release on June 4, 2013. The game was later released on additional platforms as PlayStation 3 Edition on December 17, 2013, PlayStation 4 Edition on September 4, 2014, Xbox One Edition on September 5, 2014, PlayStation Vita Edition on October 14, 2014, Wii U Edition on December 17, 2015, and Nintendo Switch Edition on May 11, 2017. As of December 10, 2019, no further feature updates have been released for these versions, and the newest available update depends on the platform. The most recent update on Xbox One Edition and Nintendo Switch Edition is the World of Color Update, while Xbox 360 Edition, PlayStation 3 Edition, PlayStation Vita Edition, and Wii U Edition have access to Update Aquatic. PlayStation 4 Edition is the most up-to-date version with Village & Pillage.
Add-ons
Add-ons[Bedrock Edition only] are the first step toward bringing customization to all editions of Minecraft and are officially supported by Mojang Studios/Minecraft. They currently allow players to transform the look of their worlds, change the behavior of mobs, and add entities, items and blocks, structures, functions and biomes.
Behavior packs
Behavior packs[Bedrock Edition only] change how vanilla mobs and fogs behave. They are still in development, and will soon also be able to modify how blocks and items work[citation needed].
Resource packs
The game officially supports changing most of its various textures, sounds, and texts through resource packs. Resource packs must contain a certain structure of files and folders placed in the .minecraft/resourcepacks folder. Installed resource packs, as well as the folder in which resource packs are placed, can be accessed in the options menu. The extent to which the resources are changed is dependent on how many files are contained in the resource pack.
Awards
Since release Minecraft has won numerous awards including: •PC Gamer's "Game of the Year" •Independent Games Festival's Grand Prize and "Audience Award" •Good Game's "Best Downloadable Game of 2010" •Rock Paper Shotgun's "Game of the Year" •Indie DB's "Indie of the Year", "Most Innovative and Best Singleplayer Indie" •Game Developers Choice Awards's "Best Debut Game", "Best Downloadable Game" and "Most Innovative Game Award"
Video games
•In Super Meat Boy, Steve? is an unlockable character. He is known as Mr. Minecraft in this game. •In Battlefield Heroes, players could get a Royal Minecraft T-Shirt or a National Minecraft T-Shirt from the 29th to the 31st of July, 2011. •In Team Fortress 2, there is a hat called Top Notch that resembles Notch's avatar in a cubic form. Notch is the only person to have this hat. •In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Binding of Isaac, an item called the "Notched Pickaxe" can be found and used, referencing the game's creator Notch and the pickaxes that feature prominently in Minecraft. •In The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, there is another item called "Mine Crafter" based on TNT. The item "TNT" in Soul Knight is also based on Minecraft TNT. •In ChopLifter HD, there is a hidden island with Steve and chickens in the "Operation Charlie Takedown" mission. When he is saved, players unlock an in-game achievement. It should be noted that Steve is called "Blockhead" in this game. •In the PlayStation 3 game, PixelJunk Shooter 2, there's a small Creeper in the title screen hidden among other enemies native to Shooter 2. •In Borderlands 2, there is a hidden section of the game with blocks in the style of Minecraft's stone and breakable ore blocks. There are also enemy Creepers in this same area. One of the Creepers also can drop two Minecraft themed weapons, including a Sniper Rifle which fires projectiles shaped like the arrows featured in Minecraft. •In Torchlight 2, there is an area called "Notch's Mine." In it are Creepers, that can be killed for loot. There are also hidden swords in the game with the same graphics as swords in Minecraft. •In Patch 1.13 of Awesomenauts, one of the new skins for the character Clunk was added known as Creeper Clunk. It is unlocked by killing a player using the Creeper Clunk skin. •A vehicle card in Dusk of D.A.W.N. is called "Mine Craft". The description at the bottom says "The Mine Craft is truly top-notch". Notch's X picture is hidden on the card. •One of the many paths in The Stanley Parable eventually takes the player to a Minecraft world. The world is removed in Ultra Deluxe, but have a photo in Memory Zone. •In Plague Inc, a popular multiplatform game, there is a chance for a message in the news to appear with the headline: "Top notch mine opens in Sweden" and the caption "Miners and crafters look forward to the opening of a new, top notch diamond mine which is expected to revitalize the Swedish economy". This is a reference to the value of diamonds, Notch, Mojang's headquarters in Sweden, and the game itself. Other messages include "Creeper arrested for destruction of virtual property" and "Microsoft saves sheepish miner, rides into sunset", which refers Microsoft's acquisition. •In Terraria, there is a wearable creeper costume. •In Cookie Clicker, the name of achievement "Never dig down" is a reference a well-known Minecraft tip. •In The Henry Stickmin Collection, there are multiple references to Minecraft throughout the chapters. •In the prologue, Breaking the Bank, if the player chooses the "shovel" option, Henry tries to get inside the bank by digging under the walls, but hits and ignites a gas main; the failure message is "Never dig straight down.", a well-known Minecraft tip. •In chapter 2, Stealing the Diamond, if the player selects the "sneak in" option and then the "pickaxe", Henry begins to mine the wall of the museum the diamond is in, only for a creeper to come up behind him and explode. Henry survives, however, and the explosion gave the entrance that Henry needed. •In chapter 5, Completing the Mission, there are multiple references to Minecraft throughout the routes. •If the player launches with the "Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Convict Allies" ending, and then selects the "jetpack" option, the player can select the "build" option, in which Henry begins building a bridge out of dirt blocks from the building he is standing on to the Toppat rocket. However, Henry runs out of dirt blocks and accidentally walks off the edge, and falls to his death, dropping a stick, steak and leather boots, with the fail message saying "You died!", similar to the Minecraft death screen. •If the player launches with the "Pure Blooded Thief" and "Presumed Dead" ending, and then selects the "Stop" option, then does nothing, then selects the "Spiked Wheels" and "Hammer (Left)" options, Henry attempting to "mine" glass in a similar manner to Minecraft, but he is shot down. Additionally, if player selects "Hammer (Right)" then does nothing, Henry's rocket runs out of fuel and falls back to the ground, with the fail message saying "Return to Sender", may related with the Minecraft achievement. •If the player launches with the "Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Ghost Inmate" ending, and then selects the "Magic Hat" and "Free Transform" options, the player can select the "Leafmöde" option, and a diamond block can be seen near the painting and a diamond helmet can be seen somewhere. •In Epic Battle Fantasy 4 there is dialogue in the Crystal Cave that alludes to Minecraft. A snowman in Whitefall Town is in the form of a Creeper. In the expansion and the Steam version, you will encounter the Diamond Golem. Matt would like to use this to make a diamond sword. •In The Talos Principle, there is a hidden easter egg room that contains various well-known blocks from games, including the grass block from Minecraft. •In Life is Strange 2 one of the characters plays Minecraft. There are also other references to Minecraft throughout the game. •In There Is No Game : Wrong Dimension, there is a RPG Dimension called Legend of the Secret and its Free2Play variant Legend of the Secret: Ultimate Clicker V.I.P. Edition Deluxe 4.2 Free with lootboxes that contain parody ads. One of those ads is Ninecraft with C418-like BGM, and player can break the title, get nine puzzle pieces and combine them in a 3x3 grid to make a pickaxe useful in gameplay. Game (a narrator-like character) comments on Ninecraft as "another one of those 'indie games' that's doomed to fail". •In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Steve, Alex, a zombie, and an enderman are featured fighters included in its DLC, as well as themed stages and remixed music. •In Genshin Impact, the blacksmith in Mondstadt, named 'Wagner', gives the player a quest called "Mine Craft". •In Transformice, there is a wearable creeper mask, diamond pickaxe, diamond sword, and Moobloom fur.
TV shows and movies
•In season 17 of South Park, the 2nd episode depicted a kid teaching Minecraft to adults. •In the The Walking Deceased movie trailer, the Minecraft zombie sound can be heard at 0:30. •In season 25 of The Simpsons, the 17th episode had a couch gag known as SimCraft, complete with Bartender Moe as a creeper blowing up the house. •In Season 3 Episode 10 of Rick and Morty, the title characters mention or are seen playing Minecraft throughout parts of the episode. •In Season 4 Episode 3, Rick returns to the game by opening a laptop and saying "Ok now I'm going to play some more Minecraft". •In Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg), the opening scene in the Oasis shows a Minecraft planet. •In season 10 of Adventure Time, the episode Diamonds and Lemons portrays the characters in a Minecraft-like universe. •A model of a Spider-Man Minecraft skin made of fusible plastic beads can be seen in the background in the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Minecraft: Java Edition (formerly just Minecraft) is the original version of Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Notch began development on May 10, 2009, publicly releasing Minecraft on May 17, 2009. The full release of the game (version 1.0.0) was on November 18, 2011, at MINECON 2011. Updates are managed directly by the Minecraft Launcher, so it does not ...
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