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GrindCraft is a Minecraft-inspired Idle Game by JetSpice. The player collects resources to build items to help progress through the game. Just like in Minecraft, several items and mobs are pulled directly from the game, although there are a number that are unique to it.

The plot starts out with creating your own city and trading post, followed by venturing into the Nether to amass unzombified Pig Man allies, helping to build a Wizarding School, and eventually amassing an army.

The game can be played here on Kongregate.


This game contains the following tropes:

  • Battleship Raid: The Ender Dragon is a rather unique example: Its body is divided into multiple "segments" that count as "items" and one of them starts out with a few stacks. When a segment with stacks is attacked with either slashes or arrows, it loses stacks and another segment gains stacks. The battle ends when all stacks are sent to the front of the head, allowing you to kill it and collect the Dragon Egg.
  • Cool Boat: Near the end of your game, your ships get fitted with TNT cannons to blow up Strongs Isle to find the portal to the End.
  • Damage-Sponge Boss: The Ender Dragon at the end of the game requires a massive amount of slashes or arrows on each segment of its body to go down.
  • Early Game Hell: The very first level, City State, is the longest level in the game and starts out with having to manually farm for resources. Once you get iron to make water buckets and build wheat fields in order to get villagers to automate, resource gathering gets much easier. Still, you will need a huge amount of resources and crafting just to finish the first area of the game.
  • Gameplay Automation: Villagers and later on un-zombified Pigmen will help you collect resources without having to manually click on them.
  • Mook Maker: Finding a mob spawner will cause you to have to face off a huge string of mobs before it is destroyed.
  • Pegasus: They're made from giving regular horses enchanted golden apples, and are required for your air cavalry.
  • Pig Man: Unzombified Pigmen are one of the helper types in the game. Interestingly enough, as the game came out before the Nether Update, they're pretty friendly unlike Piglins.
  • Punny Name:
    • Hogquartz is a Wizarding School built out of quartz mined by unzombified Pig Men.
    • Lie Bury is a library buried undersea and requires potions of water breathing to access.
  • Shout-Out: The Wizarding School you build is called Hogquartz.
  • Underwater Ruins: The appropriately-named Lie Bury is submerged underwater, requiring you to use Water Breathing potions to enter it. Said potions are on a timer as well, giving you a limited amount of time for you to mine bookshelves from it.
  • Wizarding School: At one point, you're required to help build one out of Quartz mined by un-Zombified Pig Men. It's appropriately enough named Hogquartz.
  • You Don't Look Like You: Several blocks and mobs look very different from their original Minecraft counterparts. This wasn't always the case as the game used to have Minecraft's graphics, but presumably updated the looks to avoid copyright infringement.

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