Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang Studios. Following its initial public alpha release as an early access title on 17 May 2009, it was formally released on 18 November 2011 for personal computers. The game has since been ported to numerous platforms, including mobile devices and various video game consoles. In Minecraft, players explore a procedurally generated world with virtually infinite terrain made up of three-dimensional blocks represented as voxels. They can discover and extract raw materials, craft tools and items, build structures, fight hostile mobs, and cooperate with or compete against other players in multiplayer. In addition, the game's large community offers a wide variety of user-generated content, such as modifications, servers, player skins, texture packs, and custom maps, which add new game mechanics and possibilities. Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten was handed control over the game's development following its full release. In November 2014, Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property were purchased by Microsoft for billion; Xbox Game Studios holds the publishing rights for the Bedrock Edition, the unified cross-platform version which evolved from the Pocket Edition codebase and replaced the legacy console versions.…

Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang Studios. Following its initial public alpha release as an early access title on 17 May 2009, it was formally released on 18 November 2011 for personal computers. The game has since been ported to numerous platforms, including mobile devices and various video game consoles. In Minecraft, players explore a procedurally generated world with virtually infinite terrain made up of three-dimensional blocks represented as voxels. They can discover and extract raw materials, craft tools and items, build structures, fight hostile mobs, and cooperate with or compete against other players in multiplayer. In addition, the game's large community offers a wide variety of user-generated content, such as modifications, servers, player skins, texture packs, and custom maps, which add new game mechanics and possibilities. Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten was handed control over the game's development following its full release. In November 2014, Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property were purchased by Microsoft for billion; Xbox Game Studios holds the publishing rights for the Bedrock Edition, the unified cross-platform version which evolved from the Pocket Edition codebase and replaced the legacy console versions. Bedrock is updated concurrently with Mojang's original Java Edition, although with numerous, generally small, differences. Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time with over 400 million copies sold. It has received critical acclaim, winning several awards and being cited as one of the best video games ever made. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise, and annual Minecon conventions have played prominent roles in popularizing it. A film adaptation, titled A Minecraft Movie, was released in 2025¹ and became the second highest-grossing video game film at the time of its release. as well as some other blocks and items in the player's inventory|alt=The player attempting to make a wooden sword by placing the required materials into the crafting grid, a 3x3 block of item spaces hovering over the standard inventory, which is filled with other items.]] In Survival mode, players gather natural resources such as wood and stone to craft blocks and items. Depending on the difficulty setting, monsters spawn in darker areas outside a radius of the character, requiring players to build shelter to survive at night. The mode has a health bar that depletes from mob attacks, falls, drowning, burning, suffocation, starvation, and other hazards, while a hunger bar must be periodically refilled by eating unless playing on peaceful difficulty. At 6 units or lower on the hunger bar, players can no longer sprint, at zero they starve, and at 18 or higher, health passively regenerates. Losing all health kills the player, dropping their inventory items unless the game is reconfigured otherwise, and respawning them at their spawn point, which is, by default, set at the place where players first spawn in the world, but which can be changed by sleeping in a bed, using a respawn anchor, or via commands. Dropped items can be recovered within five minutes before they despawn. Players earn experience points ("xp" or "exp") by killing mobs, mining, smelting ores, breeding animals, and cooking, which can be spent on enchanting tools, armor, and weapons for added power, durability, or special effects. Two related modes build on Survival: Hardcore mode locks the difficulty setting to "Hard" and adds permadeath, forcing players to delete the world or continue as a spectator after dying. Adventure mode, added in a post-launch update, prevents players from modifying the world directly and was designed for custom maps, letting designers control how players experience them.

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