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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 and 76,651 files are managed and maintained by 248 active contributors from the Minecraft community, along with the wiki's administration team. Anyone can contribute.
Minecraft is a sandbox construction game created by Mojang AB founder Markus Persson, and inspired by the Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper games. Gameplay involves players interacting with the game world by placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. In this environment, players can build creative 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). When purchased, singleplayer and multiplayer game modes can be played using the downloadable stand-alone 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 July 8, 2014, Minecraft for the computer reached 16 million sales and become the best-selling PC game of all time.
On August 16, 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for the Sony Xperia Play gaming smartphone. 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 April 2, 2014, Minecraft was released for the Amazon Fire TV. It contains all the same features as the Pocket Edition as well as support for the Fire TV's controller.
On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for US$20, where it subsequently broke every previous sales record.
On February 11, 2013, Minecraft: Pi Edition was released 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, 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.
On June 26, 2014, the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 editions' sales passed the number of sales for the PC edition of Minecraft, leaving the Minecraft series having sold more than 54 million copies world-wide and become third best-selling video game of all time.
Explanation of the various game modes and features used in Minecraft.
Recipes
- Achievements
- Information on achievements that can be collected in Minecraft.
- Blocks
- Detailed information on the various blocks available in Minecraft.
- Items
- Detailed information on the various items available in Minecraft.
- Biomes
- Information about all biomes 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.
- May 19, 2014
- Minecraft Realms Beta has released globally in all remaining countries.
- May 9, 2014
- Minecraft Realms Beta has launched in the Oceania region.
- May 6, 2014
- Minecraft Realms Beta has launched in more countries in Asia and Europe.
- April 24, 2014
- Minecraft Realms Beta has launched in the United States.
- April 2, 2014
- Minecraft: Pocket Edition released for the Amazon Fire TV.
Recent updates
- June 26, 2014
- Minecraft 1.7.10 released.
- May 28, 2014
- Minecraft 1.06 released for the PlayStation 3 Edition.
- May 19, 2014
- Minecraft Title Update 16 released for the Xbox 360 Edition.
- April 14, 2014
- Minecraft 1.7.9 released.
- April 2, 2014
- Minecraft Alpha 0.8.2 released for the Pocket Edition - Amazon Fire TV version.
Official links
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
- 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 history
- Computer –
- Pocket Edition –
- Console Edition –
- Pi Edition –
- Alpha
Upcoming features