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Welcome to the Minecraft Wiki, a publicly accessible and editable wiki for information related to Minecraft. The wiki and its 7,425 articles are managed and maintained by 244 active contributors from the Minecraft community, along with the wiki's administration team. Anyone can contribute.

About Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox construction game, inspired by Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, created by Markus Persson, the founder of Mojang AB. The game involves players placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. The player takes on an avatar that can break and place blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations, and artwork, on multiplayer servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple game modes.

Minecraft is available to all players for €19.95 (US$26.95, £17.95). Singleplayer and multiplayer, when purchased, can be played in the user's web browser, or using the downloadable launcher. Minecraft Classic is available to play for free. Minecraft development started around May 10, 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on June 13, 2009. Minecraft's official release date was November 18, 2011. On April 5, 2013, Minecraft for the computer reached 10 million sales.

On August 16, 2011, Minecraft - Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play. After its exclusivity with Sony expired, it was released for Android devices on October 7, 2011, and iOS devices on November 17, 2011 for US$6.99.

On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for US$20, where it soon shattered every previous sales record.

On February 11, 2013, Minecraft: Pi Edition was released exclusively for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on the Pocket Edition and is available for free at Mojang's dedicated blog. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for novice programmers and users are encouraged to open and change the game's code using its API.

On December 17/18, 2013, Minecraft was released for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store for US$19.99. The release was almost identical to the Xbox 360 Edition and was developed in tandem with the Xbox 360 Edition from then on.

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Current versions

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Gameplay

Explanation of the various game modes and features used in Minecraft.

Current game modes

• Creative
• Survival
• Hardcore
• Adventure

Planned game modes

• Capture the Flag

Recipes

• Crafting
• Smelting
• Brewing

Tutorials

• New player
• General
• Mining
• Item farming
• Mob farming
• Enchanting & smelting
• Mechanism
• Technical

Popular and useful pages

Blocks

Detailed information on the various blocks available in Minecraft.

Items

Detailed information on the various items available in Minecraft.

Enchanting

Information about enchanting.

Mobs

Information about the various friendly and non-friendly creatures found in Minecraft.

Trading

Detailed information about villager trading.

Redstone circuits

Information about redstone circuits.

Resource packs

Various resource packs that alter the look and feel of the game.

Modifications

Various modifications that alter the gameplay.

News and events

News

December 19, 2013

Minecraft Realms Beta has launched in Sweden.

December 17/18, 2013

Minecraft released for the PlayStation 3.

November 9, 2013

Minecraft - Volume Beta, C418's new soundtrack album, is released.

August 20, 2013

Minecraft announced for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.

June 27, 2013

Minecon 2013 location announced.

June 10, 2013

Xbox One Edition announced.

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Recent updates

December 12, 2013

Minecraft Alpha 0.8.0 released for Pocket Edition.

December 10, 2013

Minecraft 1.7.4 released.

October 25, 2013

Minecraft 1.7.2 released.

September 19, 2013

Minecraft 1.6.4 released.

Links

Official links

• Minecraft
• Mojang
• Mojang support
• Developer blog
• Forums
• Twitter (Mojangster list)
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Pi Edition blog
• Realms website
• J!NX merchandise
• ThinkGeek merchandise

Reddit communities

• /r/Minecraft – All versions
• /r/MinecraftSuggestions – Suggestions
• /r/MCPE – Pocket Edition
• /r/MCPi – Pi Edition
• /r/PSMinecraft – PlayStation Editions
• /r/Minecraft360 – Xbox 360 Edition
• /r/MinecraftOne – Xbox One Edition

Minecraft Wiki partners

• Minecraft.de
• Minecraft Museum
• Minecraft Skins

Servers and development

Servers

Documentation on starting and maintaining a server.

Minecraft Realms

Information about paid Mojang-hosted servers, known as Realms.

Official issue tracker

Official issue tracker for tracking bug reports and fixes for the computer and Pocket editions.

Development resources

Documentation and information to develop applications to work with Minecraft.

Programs and editors

A list containing several third-party programs that are designed to work with Minecraft.

Custom servers

Documentation and information about custom servers, along with a list of them.

Version development

Version history

• Computer –
  • Official game
  • Development versions
  • Classic
  • Indev
  • Infdev
  • Alpha
  • Beta
• Pocket Edition –
  • Alpha
  • Development versions
• Xbox 360 Edition –
  • Official game
• Pi Edition –
  • Alpha

Upcoming features

• Computer –
  • Plugin API
  • Minecraft Realms
• Pocket Edition –
  • Online multiplayer
• Xbox 360 Edition –
  • Texture packs

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