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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 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 10^th of May 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on the 13^th of June 2009. Minecraft's official release date was the 18^th of November 2011. On the 5^th 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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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 tutorials; General tutorials; Mechanism tutorials; Technical tutorials

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.
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.

Updates, news and events

News

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

Version history

PC : Classic - Indev - Infdev - Alpha - Beta - Official Game - Snapshots
Pocket Edition : Alpha
Xbox 360 Edition : Official Game

Upcoming features

Links

Minecraft links

Minecraft Wiki partners

Servers and development

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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-'''''[[Minecraft]]''''' is a [[Wikipedia:Open world|sandbox]] construction game, inspired by ''[[Infiniminer]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Dwarf Fortress|Dwarf Fortress]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Dungeon Keeper|Dungeon Keeper]]'', created by [[Markus Persson]], the founder of [[Mojang AB]]. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a [[The Overworld|three-dimensional environment]]. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create [[blocks]], forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various [[multiplayer]] servers in multiple [[Gameplay|game modes]].
+'''''[[Minecraft]]''''' is a [[Wikipedia:Open world|sandbox]] construction game, inspired by ''[[Infiniminer]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Dwarf Fortress|Dwarf Fortress]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Dungeon Keeper|Dungeon Keeper]]'', created by [[Markus Persson]], the founder of [[Mojang AB]]. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of [[blocks]] in a [[The Overworld|three-dimensional environment]]. The player takes on an [[The Player|avatar]] that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations, and artwork, on [[multiplayer]] servers and singleplayer [[world]]s across multiple [[Gameplay|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 client. ''Minecraft'' [[Classic]] is available to play <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.minecraft.net/classic/play for free]</span>. ''Minecraft'' development started around the 10<sup>th</sup> of May 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on the 13<sup>th</sup> of June 2009. ''Minecraft's'' official release date was the 18<sup>th</sup> of November 2011. On the 5<sup>th</sup> of May 2012, ''Minecraft'' was released for the [[Xbox 360 Edition|Xbox 360]] on Xbox Live Arcade (for 1600 points, about $20), where it soon shattered all previous sales records.
+''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 [[Minecraft launcher|launcher]]. ''Minecraft'' [[Classic]] is <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.minecraft.net/classic/play available to play]</span> for free. ''Minecraft'' development started around the 10<sup>th</sup> of May 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on the 13<sup>th</sup> of June 2009. ''Minecraft's'' official release date was the 18<sup>th</sup> of November 2011. On the 5<sup>th</sup> of May 2012, ''Minecraft'' was released for the [[Xbox 360 Edition|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''.
 ; [[Gameplay|Current game modes]]
-: [[Creative (Game Mode)|Creative]] • [[Survival (Game Mode)|Survival]] • [[Hardcore (Game Mode)|Hardcore]] • [[Adventure]]
+: [[Creative (game mode)|Creative]] • [[Survival (game mode)|Survival]] • [[Hardcore (game mode)|Hardcore]] • [[Adventure]]
 ; Planned game modes
 : [[Capture the Flag]]
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 ; [[Tutorials]]
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+: [[Tutorials#Newcomers|New player tutorials]]
-: [[Tutorials#General Tutorials|General Tutorials]]
+: [[Tutorials#General Tutorials|General tutorials]]
-: [[Tutorials#Mechanisms|Mechanism Tutorials]]
+: [[Tutorials#Mechanisms|Mechanism tutorials]]
-: [[Tutorials#Technical Tutorials|Technical Tutorials]]
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-; [[Timeline of Events|News]]
+; [[Timeline of events|News]]
-* November 6, 2012 - Minecraft Gift Cards now available in the US
+* '''November 24, 2012''' - The [[Redstone Update]] is announced at MineCon
+* '''November 24 - 25, 2012''' - [[MineCon#2012|MineCon 2012]] is held at Disneyland Paris, France
-* October 25, 2012 - ''Minecraft'' 1.4.2 released
-* October 24, 2012 - ''Mojang'' starts the Minecraft Bug Tracker
+* '''November 6, 2012''' - ''Minecraft'' gift cards now available in the US
+* '''October 25, 2012''' - ''Minecraft'' 1.4.2 released
 ; [[Version history]]
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+* [[Redstone Update]]
-* [[wordofnotch:4955141617/the-plan-for-mods|Official mod support]]
+* [[Plugin API]]
-* Online sync for [[statistics]] and [[achievements]]
-* New game mode: [[Capture the Flag]]
+* [[Capture the Flag]] game mode
-* Ability to change your in-game name
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 ; Minecraft links
-* [http://www.minecraft.net Main Site]
+* [http://www.minecraft.net Main site]
 * [http://minecraftforum.net/ Forums]
-* [http://notch.tumblr.com/ Development blog]
+* [http://dev.minecraft.net/blog/ Development blog]
 * [http://www.facebook.com/minecraft Facebook]
 * [http://help.mojang.com/ Mojang Support]
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 ; [[Server]]s
 : Documentation on starting and maintaining a server.
+; [http://mojang.atlassian.net Official bug tracker]
-; [[Development Resources|Development resources]]
+: 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''.
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 ; [[Minecraft Wiki:Community portal|Community portal]]
-: [[Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently asked questions]]
+: [[Frequently asked questions]]
 ; [[Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox|Wiki sandbox]]
 : Propose pages here!
-; Wiki Pages
+; Wiki pages
 : [[Minecraft Wiki:Welcome|New users come here]].
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