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Minecraft is an open world sandbox video game originally made by Markus "Notch" Persson. It was run by a company called Mojang before being sold to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars. [18] It is the most-sold video game ever. More than 200 million copies have been sold. [19]
Minecraft allows players to explore a blocky, 3D world. Many of these items are cubes, called "blocks". These include basic terrain as well as resources such dirt, stone or wood. You can also use crafting tables, blast furnaces and looms to make items such as stonecutters, stonecutters, and other interactable blocks. These can be used to create new items, such as tools and armor. [20] Players then have the option to create structures with these blocks, including buildings and statues as well as pixel art and other pixel art.
Minecraft has three versions, Java, Bedrock, and Education Edition. Java is the original Minecraft. However, Bedrock is a more popular version due to its multi-platform nature. Java Edition and Education Edition are written using C++, while Java Edition is written using Java.
1 History 2 Gameplay 2.1 Game modes 2.1.1 Survival mode 2.1.2 Hardcore mode 2.1.3 Creative mode 2.1.4 Spectator mode 2.1.5 Adventure mode 2.1.6 Education Edition
History[change | change source]
Minecraft was initially created to test random generation in caves. Infiniminer was a game by Zachary Barth that inspired Minecraft. Minecraft's first version was released on May 17, 2009 for PC users. It was called Cave Game. After testing beta and alpha versions, a final version of Minecraft was released on November 18, 2011. On October 7, 2011, an Android version and an iOS version were released. [21] Minecraft's original creator was Markus Persson. Persson created Mojang Specifications, an independently owned video game company. This was the beginning of other people working on Minecraft. Later, the company was renamed Mojang. In 2011, Mojang released a version of Minecraft called "Pocket Edition" (aka Bedrock Edition). It was available for Android and iOS devices. Persson appointed Jens "Jeb” Bergensten to be the main Minecraft developer in 2012.
Minecraft has also released on many video game consoles. Minecraft was made available as a download via Xbox Live Arcade on May 9, 2012. It was available for 1600 Microsoft Points ($19.99). Minecraft was released in 2013 as a disc for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 3. On December 10, 2013, a Windows Phone version was released. [22] Versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released in September 2014. [23] A version for the PlayStation Vita was released on October 14, 2014. The Wii U edition was released on December 17, 2015. Versions for the Nintendo Switch, and the New Nintendo 3DS were made available in 2017. The versions for the Xbox One (PS4) and Nintendo Switch (Nintendo Switch) were later combined to create Bedrock Edition.
Gameplay[change | change source]
Players are randomly placed in a location within the game world at the beginning of the game. They can begin breaking blocks to collect resources, such as wood and dirt, which can be used later in the game. You can make new tools with resources, such as pickaxes. This allows you to gather stone from the caves. Different resources require different tools to collect them. Diamonds, for instance, can only ever be collected using an iron pickaxe.
The game world is mostly infinite. The game generates new sections as the players explore the world. Different types of terrain are generated in different biomes. Different biomes will have different blocks. For example, a taiga Biome will have lots spruce and snow while a plains Biome will have a lot of grass. You can also find various structures around the world like villages and mountains.
The game has non-player characters called "mobs" (short for mobile entity). There are many mobs within Minecraft. Some are real-life animals such as cows, pigs and sheep. Some are based upon monsters such as zombies and skeletons. There are also some which do not exist in the real world in any way, and are unique to Minecraft, such as Creepers, zombie Piglins, and Endermen. Each mob is capable of doing different things. Players can slaughter cows to get leather. This can be used for items or beef that can then be cooked to make foods. The Creeper is a hostile mob that attempts to attack players. It will move near the player and then explode, usually causing so much damage that it will kill them. From it's name it slowly approaches you and explodes giving you instant death if it gets too close.
Minecraft has very little goals. Players can choose how they want to play. They can choose to face bosses like Ender Dragon and Wither Dragon, or explore the world and create. If the player defeats the Ender Dragon, they can see the credits of the game. [24] Minecraft also offers many Achievements, called "advancements". These can be as simple as sleeping in a new bed or discovering every biome in Minecraft. Both boss fights and advancements are optional.
There are two dimensions in Minecraft. The Nether and End are the default dimensions that the player starts in. Both can be accessed by special portals. The player can make Nether portals using obsidian and flint and steel, but End portals have to be found in strongholds. Although it is not necessary that you travel to these dimensions, there are many items and enemies that cannot be found in the Overworld. The Ender Dragon is only able to be fought in this area. The player then has the option of returning to the overworld, or going to the end islands to obtain an Elytra and find an end-city.
Game modes[change | change source]
Survival mode[change | change source]
Survival mode allows players the ability to find resources and make many different items. Some of the items players can make include new blocks, tools, and armor. For example, players can turn wood into planks at the start of the game, which lets them make lots of things, like crafting tables and tools. To build things, players can also use these planks.
In this mode, players have a health and a hunger bar. The health bar can be represented by 10 hearts and the hunger bars as 10 steaks. Each steak and each heart is worth two points of health and two points of hunger. When players are attacked by monsters, lose their air underwater, fall from high places, fall into the Void, or their hunger bar is completely depleted, their health bar will decrease. Players can heal themselves by sitting still, drinking healing potion, and/or if their hunger bar is full. Players will experience hunger if they move too fast, sprint too much, or walk too little. They will not be capable of sprinting if they are hungry. They can eat food to satisfy their hunger.
Monsters may attack the player during the night. However, players can build a home to protect themselves from them. If a player falls asleep in a bed, they can skip the night and move on to the next day. Monsters close to the bed can make it impossible for them to fall asleep.
Players can only carry a certain number of items at any time, by holding them in their inventory. If the player dies, they drop their items, unless they have turned on Keep Inventory. If they find their items before they disappear, players can get their items back. They can then respawn, which sends them back to their spawn point, or the place they started the game at. You can use items such as beds to change your spawn point. To respawn in their house, a player can place a mattress in it. In the Nether, players have a special block called a respawn Anchor that allows them to respawn in their area.
Players can play Survival Mode in four levels of difficulty: Peaceful, Easy, Normal and Hard. The more damage that monsters cause, the higher the difficulty. Certain mobs can gain certain abilities at higher difficulty levels. The default difficulty level is set to normal when a player creates an entirely new world. No monsters will spawn on peaceful difficulty. Players can only die from deaths that aren’t caused by mobs such as falling from high places, being in fire orlava, drowning or being trapped inside a block or falling into the void.
Mode of hardcore [change
Hardcore mode can be described as survival mode. However, the game defaults to the most difficult difficulty. The player also cannot enable cheats when they create the world and can only do so if they use the "Open to LAN" option in the game menu while they are playing. If a player dies in hardcore mode, they can not respawn, and can only play the world in Spectator Mode. Cheats enable cheats so the player can use commands to change the game's mode to play survival mode again. This game mode can only be found in Java Edition.
Ultra Hardcore Mode can also be played. My cms It is basically the same mode as hardcore mode, except that players don't naturally regenerate their health. This mode can be accessed through creating a world in Hardcore mode and enabling cheats by using the "Open To LAN" option in game menu. You can also use commands to disable natural health regeneration. This game mode doesn't allow the player to regenerate his health.
Creative mode[change | change source]
In creative mode, players can create infinite items. This allows them to create whatever they want, rather than having to search for resources.
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In spectator mode, players become a "spectator". Spectators have the ability to look at the world but can't interact with it. They are invisibility to other players.
Spectators have two options: they can fly freely around the world or they can view it through the eyes of other players or mobs. This allows them to see what the player or mob sees as if they were looking through the same eyes. This game mode only exists in Java Edition and Bedrock Developer Edition.
Adventure mode[change | change source]
Adventure mode is meant for community maps. By default, the player cannot place or break any blocks or do anything.
Education Edition[change
Education Edition is a version of the game mostly used for schools. Bedrock Edition includes some features.
Multiplayer[change | change source]
Players can play on the same Minecraft world together by using the multiplayer mode. They can connect to an online server by typing in the server's address (usually an IP address), or by making a game on the local area network (LAN). Only players from the same network can play in a LAN-based game. Much like the rest of Minecraft, players can choose what they want to do. You can choose to either fight each other or work together to survive. Multiplayer is available for all game types.
Minecraft Realms[change | change source]
Minecraft Realms is a special version of the original multiplayer. Mojang hosts realms, which is a multiplayer server. Players can rent them for a small fee. In Minecraft Realms, there are several "mini-games", which are maps/games created by popular Minecraft users.
Community[change | change source]
Minecraft has a very large community, with many fan forums and multiplayer servers such as Hypixel. The Minecraft community is also one of the largest on YouTube. Many people upload various types of Minecraft content to YouTube, such as parody songs, animations, gameplay, and more. Platforms such as Forge allow you to upload your content.
Updates[change | change source]
Minecraft has had many new updates since it first released. These updates are often announced before being released. They add lots of new features into the game, such as new blocks, enemies, and items.
Mojang releases smaller development versions called "snapshots" which players can choose to play on Minecraft Launcher. These snapshots include a few new features, and are released while the developers are working on the new version. This is to allow players to try new features before the full release.
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