History VideoGame / MineCraft

The three main modes in ''Minecraft'' are '''Creative''', '''Survival''', and '''Hardcore'''. In Creative, the players can destroy and place blocks with a single click. They can use any block in the game, cannot die[[note]]Barring using the "/kill" command or falling below Y=-128 in the void[[/note]], and can fly. For the most part, it's focused solely on building, and can be used to easily make very large structures or pixel art. Monsters and animals still spawn in the game world, but are passive and will not attack the player. On the other hand, survival forces the players to manually collect the blocks they want to use and give them a health bar and the possibility of death. It also introduces crafting and [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly hunger systems]], and monsters will be aggressive and attempt to kill players. The players are forced to scrounge for supplies, building up a base to protect themselves from monsters while also mining deep underground for valuable materials. Players must craft various equipment to help them survive, such as pickaxes to make mining blocks quicker, or swords and armor to help fend off the monsters that come each night. Hardcore mode is almost identical to Survival except for the fact that [[HarderThanHard the difficulty is locked on hard]], and if you die, [[FinalDeathMode you'll respawn in Spectator Mode, which cannot interact with the world]].

''Minecraft'' is notable in that it follows an MMO-style support model despite being largely single-player and receives updates from time to time. The game also began as an indie game and was created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson as a SpiritualAdaptation of a [[FreewareGames freeware]] game from Creator/ZachtronicsIndustries called ''Infiniminer''. First released in 2009, ''Minecraft'' started very basic and only had the equivalent of Creative mode. Various other modes, such as Survival Test, Indev, and Infdev were slowly added in and refined/renamed, as well as many of the now-standard features (like the day/night cycle). In the summer of 2010, it was updated to [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest Alpha]] status and moved to Beta status later that year. Despite the game being "officially" released in 2011, many new features have continued to be added. As previously mentioned, in 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang (and thus ''Minecraft'') but assured fans they planned to continue the game's ongoing development, which they have by releasing one to two updates per year, save for 2015 where it was not updated. As of 2022, the game is on version 1.19. Mojang has confirmed at least one more major update and likely has many more in development.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (2010-2018): The 2018 episode "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS9E14DiamondsAndLemons Diamonds and Lemons]]" was a crossover special produced in collaboration with Mojang.

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftLegends'' (2023): An upcoming {{action|Game}}-{{strategy|Game}} game being developed by Mojang and Blackbird Interacive.

* ''Minecraft Legends'' (2023): An upcoming {{action|Game}}-{{strategy|Game}} game being developed by Mojang and Blackbird Interacive.

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* [[AwesomeButImpractical/{{Minecraft}} Awesome, But Impractical]]
* [[GoodBadBugs/{{Minecraft}} Good Bad Bugs]]
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The game can be played in single-player or multiplayer. Multiplayer servers feature shared persistent worlds, allowing multiple players to either collaborate on grand projects or compete against each other. The game also features a very active mod community and has launched many popular Website/YouTube LetsPlay channels, shows and personalities, such as the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}, Creator/AchievementHunter's ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]'', WebVideo/{{Stampylonghead}}, ''Minecraft'' channels from ''Little Kelly'' (and her sister, ''Little Carly''), an upcoming Minecraft channel from ''Oceane Marie'' and LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft.

* ''Minecraft Legends'' (2023): An upcoming {{action|Game}}-{{strategy|Game}} game being developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interacive.

The three main modes in ''Minecraft'' are '''Creative''', '''Survival''', and '''Hardcore'''. In Creative, the players can destroy and place blocks with a single click. They can use any block in the game, cannot die[[note]]Barring using the "/kill" command or falling below Y=-64 in the void[[/note]], and can fly. For the most part, it's focused solely on building, and can be used to easily make very large structures or pixel art. Monsters and animals still spawn in the game world, but are passive and will not attack the player. On the other hand, survival forces the players to manually collect the blocks they want to use and give them a health bar and the possibility of death. It also introduces crafting and [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly hunger systems]], and monsters will be aggressive and attempt to kill players. The players are forced to scrounge for supplies, building up a base to protect themselves from monsters while also mining deep underground for valuable materials. Players must craft various equipment to help them survive, such as pickaxes to make mining blocks quicker, or swords and armor to help fend off the monsters that come each night. Hardcore mode is almost identical to Survival except for the fact that [[HarderThanHard the difficulty is locked on hard]], and if you die, [[FinalDeathMode you'll respawn in Spectator Mode, which cannot interact with the world]].

* ''Minecraft Earth'' (2019-2021): A free-to-play AugmentedReality game for mobile devices. Defunct as of June 2021.

* [[AwesomeButImpratical/{{Minecraft}} Awesome, But Impractical]]

** [[GoodBadBugs/{{Minecraft}} Good Bad Bugs]]

The game can be played in single-player or multiplayer. Multiplayer servers feature shared persistent worlds, allowing multiple players to either collaborate on grand projects or compete against each other. The game also features a very active mod community and has launched many popular Website/YouTube LetsPlay channels, shows and personalities, such as the [[LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Yogs]][[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries cast]], Creator/AchievementHunter's ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]'', WebVideo/{{Stampylonghead}}, ''Minecraft'' channels from ''Little Kelly'' (and her sister, ''Little Carly''), an upcoming Minecraft channel from ''Oceane Marie'' and LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft.

''Minecraft'' is notable in that it follows an MMO-style support model despite being largely single-player and receives updates from time to time. The game also began as an indie game and was created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson as a SpiritualAdaptation of a [[FreewareGames freeware]] game from Creator/ZachtronicsIndustries called ''Infiniminer''. First released in 2009, ''Minecraft'' started very basic and only had the equivalent of Creative mode. Various other modes, such as Survival Test, Indev, and Infdev were slowly added in and refined/renamed, as well as many of the now-standard features (like the day/night cycle). In the summer of 2010, it was updated to [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest Alpha]] status and moved to Beta status later that year. Despite the game being "officially" released in 2011, many new features have continued to be added. As previously mentioned, in 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang (and thus ''Minecraft'') but assured fans they planned to continue the game's ongoing development, which they have by releasing one to two updates per year, save for 2015 where it was not updated. As of 2021, the game is on version 1.18. Mojang has confirmed at least one more major update and likely has many more in development.

* ''Untitled Minecraft film'': [[TheMovie A film based on the game]] is in the works and is set to be released by Creator/WarnerBros.

The game's popularity cannot be overstated. With over 238 million copies sold, it is the number one best-selling game of all time, surpassing the previous record-holder ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. The game's popularity is so high and its fanbase so large that [[Creator/XboxGameStudios Microsoft]] bought ''Minecraft'' for over two billion dollars in 2014. Part of the game's success can be credited to its deep and open-ended gameplay that encourages creativity and exploration: there is no fixed or structured storyline or narrative, and players are given utter freedom to decide how they want to interact with the world, as well as make their adventures within the game.

* ''ComicBook/{{Minecraft}}'' (2019-): A GraphicNovel series published by Creator/DarkHorseComics about a kid called Tyler who grows closer to his buddies on ''Minecraft'' after he moves to a new town.%%the page may be created as ComicBook/MinecraftDarkHorse or ComicBook/MinecraftDarkHorseComics so that it has its subpages

** [[GoodBadBugs/Minecraft Good Bad Bugs]]

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''Minecraft'' is notable in that it follows an MMO-style support model despite being largely single-player and receives updates from time to time. The game also began as an indie game and was created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson as a SpiritualAdaptation of a [[FreewareGames freeware]] game from Creator/ZachtronicsIndustries called ''Infiniminer''. First released in 2009, ''Minecraft'' started very basic and only had the equivalent of Creative mode. Various other modes, such as Survival Test, Indev, and Infdev were slowly added in and refined/renamed, as well as many of the now-standard features (like the day/night cycle). In the summer of 2010, it was updated to [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest Alpha]] status and moved to Beta status later that year. Despite the game being "officially" released in 2011, many new features have continued to be added. As previously mentioned, in 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang (and thus ''Minecraft'') but assured fans they planned to continue the game's ongoing development, which they have by releasing one to two updates per year, save for 2015 where it was not updated. As of 2021, the game is on version 1.17. Mojang has confirmed at least two more updates and likely has many more in development.

''[[https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ Minecraft]]'' is a block-based [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox]] [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] game. The game drops players into a wide-open [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated world]] where everything is made of blocks that the players can break down and place elsewhere, rearranging things as they see fit. The game is noted for its creative appeal, often described as "Digital [[BuiltWithLego Lego]]".[[note]]Incidentally, LEGO [[http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=1982 currently offers ''Minecraft''-themed sets by popular demand.]][[/note]] ''Massively'' popular, the game was originally released on PC by developer Creator/{{Mojang}} but has since moved to every major video game console and mobile platform.

In ''Minecraft'', nearly everything in the game is made up of similarly-sized cubes. From dirt to rock, to tree trunks. The "world" of ''Minecraft'' is nigh-infinite and constantly generates new and unique landscapes as the player explores. Players can scale blocky mountains, swim across bodies of water, or explore any one of the many caves winding through the ground underneath them. The world is bound by unbreakable "bedrock" at the bottom and a height limit at the top where players can no longer place blocks. There are also two alternate realms players can travel to the "Nether", a hell-like dimension, and "The End", barren land where a terrible dragon awaits.

The three main modes in ''Minecraft'' are '''Creative''', '''Survival''' and '''Hardcore'''. In Creative, the players can destroy and place blocks with a single click. They can use any block in the game, cannot die[[note]]Barring using the "/kill" command or falling below Y=-64 in the void[[/note]], and can fly. For the most part, it's focused solely on building, and can be used to easily make very large structures or pixel art. Monsters and animals still spawn in the game world, but are passive and will not attack the player. On the other hand, survival forces the players to manually collect the blocks they want to use and give them a health bar and the possibility of death. It also introduces crafting and [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly hunger systems]], and monsters will be aggressive and attempt to kill players. The players are forced to scrounge for supplies, building up a base to protect themselves from monsters while also mining deep underground for valuable materials. Players must craft various equipment to help them survive, such as pickaxes to make mining blocks quicker, or swords and armor to help fend off the monsters that come each night. Hardcore mode is almost identical to Survival except for the fact that [[HarderThanHard the difficulty is locked on hard]], and if you die [[FinalDeathMode you'll respawn in Spectator Mode, which cannot interact with the world]].

''Minecraft'' is notable in that it follows an MMO-style support model despite being largely single-player and receives updates from time to time. The game also began as an indie game and was created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson as a SpiritualAdaptation of a [[FreewareGames freeware]] game from Creator/ZachtronicsIndustries called ''Infiniminer''. First released in 2009, ''Minecraft'' started very basic and only had the equivalent of Creative mode. Various other modes, such as Survival Test, Indev, and Infdev were slowly added in and refined/renamed, as well as many of the now-standard features (like the day/night cycle). In the summer of 2010, it was updated to [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest Alpha]] status and moved to Beta status later that year. Despite the game being "officially" released in 2011, many new features have continued to be added. As previously mentioned, in 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang (and thus ''Minecraft'') but assured fans they planned to continue the game's ongoing development, which they have by releasing one to two updates per year, save for 2015 where it was not updated. As of 2021, the game is on version 1.17. Mojang has confirmed at least one more update and likely has many more in development.

''[[https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ Minecraft]]'' is a block-based [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox]] [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] game. The game drops players into a wide-open [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated world]] where everything is made of blocks that the players can break down and place elsewhere, rearranging things as they see fit. The game is noted for its creative appeal, often described as "Digital [[BuiltWithLego Lego]]".[[note]]Incidentally, LEGO [[http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=1982 currently offers ''Minecraft''-themed sets by popular demand.]][[/note]] ''Massively'' popular, the game was originally released on PC by Swedish developer Creator/{{Mojang}} but has since moved to every major video game console and mobile platform.

''[[https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ Minecraft]]'' is a block-based [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox]] [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] game. The game drops players into a wide-open [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated world]] where everything is made of blocks that the players can break down and place elsewhere, rearranging things as they see fit. The game is noted for its creative appeal, often described as "Digital [[BuiltWithLego Lego]]".[[note]]Incidentally, LEGO [[http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=1982 currently offers ''Minecraft''-themed sets by popular demand.]][[/note]] ''Massively'' popular, the game was originally released on PC by developer Creator/{{Mojang}} but has since moved to every major video game console and mobile platform.

The game can be played in single-player or multiplayer. Multiplayer servers feature shared persistent worlds, allowing multiple players to either collaborate on grand projects or compete against each other. The game also features a very active mod community and has launched many popular Website/YouTube LetsPlay channels, shows and personalities, such as the [[LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Yogs]][[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries cast]], Creator/AchievementHunter's ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]'', WebVideo/{{Stampylonghead}}, ''Minecraft'' channels from ''Little Kelly'' (and her sister, ''Little Carly''), a upcoming Minecraft channel from ''Oceane Marie'' and LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft.

->''"Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and protect yourself against the creatures of the night. No one can tell you what you can or can not do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you."''