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 creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. The player takes on an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations, and artwork, on multiplayer servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple game modes.
Minecraft is available to players for €19.95. 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 the 10th of May 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on the 13th of June 2009. Minecraft's official release date was the 18th of November 2011. On the 5th of May 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20.00), where it soon shattered all previous sales records.
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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 tutorials
- General tutorials
- Mechanism tutorials
- Technical tutorials
- 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.
- Redstone circuits
- Information about redstone circuits.
- Texture packs
- Various texture packs that alter the look and feel of the game.
- Modifications
- Various modifications that alter the gameplay.
- November 24, 2012 - The Redstone Update is announced at MineCon
- November 24 - 25, 2012 - MineCon 2012 is held at Disneyland Paris, France
- November 6, 2012 - Minecraft gift cards now available in the US
- October 25, 2012 - Minecraft 1.4.2 released
- PC : Classic - Indev - Infdev - Alpha - Beta - Official Game - Snapshots
- Pocket Edition : Alpha
- Xbox 360 Edition : Official Game
- Redstone Update
- Plugin API
- Capture the Flag game mode
- Minecraft links
- Minecraft Wiki partners
- Servers
- Documentation on starting and maintaining a server.
- Official bug tracker
- Official bug tracker for tracking bug reports and fixes for the PC, Pocket, and Xbox 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.
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