Minecraft Wiki
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Minecraft is a sandbox construction video game developed by Mojang Studios. 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. As of April 2021, Minecraft has over 140 million monthly active users and sold over 238 million copies across all platforms, making it the best-selling video game of all time, and the ninth best-selling video game franchise of all time.
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure role-playing video game where up to four players travel through procedurally generated levels, fight monsters and face off against the main antagonist, the Arch-Illager.
Minecraft Earth is an augmented reality mobile game where players travel to real-life locations to build structures and collect resources. It features many unique gameplay aspects and interactions similar to the main game. It will be discontinued on June 30, 2021.
Discontinued
Minecraft: Story Mode was an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video games based on the sandbox video game Minecraft, where player choices and actions had significant effects on later story elements.
- ... that the music disc "11" is exactly 1:11.111 long, emits power level 11 via comparator, and displays a Steve face and the text "12418" ("C418") at the end when viewed through a spectrogram?
- ... that crying obsidian was originally planned to set the spawn point, but beds were added instead?
- ... that the sound of a minecart falls into the category of "friendly creatures"?
- ... that before the release of the bug tracker, bugs were originally reported on this wiki?
- ... that there are armor stands equipped with iron armor in taiga villages?
- ... that the Farther Lands existed before Java Edition Beta 1.8?
- ... that the Nether was originally proposed to be called "The Nexus" or "The Slip"?
- ... that the obsidian pillars of the End extend through the island all the way down to Y level 0?
Minecraft
Minecraft Dungeons
Mechanics
Minecraft
- Achievements/Advancements
- Various challenges and goals that the player can complete.
- Blocks
- Detailed information on the various blocks that make up the world.
- Items
- Detailed information on the various items that the player can collect and use.
- Biomes
- Different regions in a world with varying geographical features.
- Enchanting
- Tools and weapons can be enchanted to improve the item's abilities.
- Status effects
- Information about various effects that can be applied to mobs.
- Mobs
- Information about the various friendly and non-friendly creatures found in-game.
- Resource packs
- A user-created system that alters the look and feel of the game.
- Add-ons
- Various user-created modifications that can alter gameplay.
- Tutorials
- Different user-created guides on various aspects of gameplay.
Minecraft Dungeons
- Achievements
- Various challenges and goals that the player can complete.
- Items
- Detailed information on the various items that the player can collect and use.
- Locations
- Information about locations in general.
- Enchanting
- Tools and weapons can be enchanted to improve the item's abilities
- Status effects
- Information about various effects that can be applied to mobs.
- Mobs
- Information about the various friendly and non-friendly creatures found in-game.
- Tutorials
- Different user-created guides on various aspects of gameplay.
- March 5, 2021
- Mojang and Play Mechanix announce Minecraft Dungeons Arcade.
- March 2, 2021
- Minecraft: The Mountain released.
- February 24, 2021
- Minecraft Dungeons Ancient Hunts and the Flames of the Nether DLC are released.
- January 5, 2021
- Mojang releases the final update for Minecraft Earth and announces that the game is set to be shut down on June 30, 2021.
- December 18, 2020
- The new Chills and Thrills event for Minecraft Dungeons launches, lasting until December 30.
- December 6, 2020
- Mojang Studios announce the Community Celebration event, gifting character creator items and Marketplace maps for free, every day until January 7.
- November 19, 2020
- Servers and Realms are now available on PlayStation.
- November 18, 2020
- Minecraft Dungeons is nominated for "Best Family Game" at The Game Awards.
- October 31, 2020
- Minecraft is officially discontinued for Samsung Gear VR and Windows 10 Mobile.
Recent updates
- March 24, 2021
- Minecraft Dungeons 1.8.6.0 released.
- March 9, 2021
- Bedrock Edition 1.16.210 released.
- March 1, 2021
- Minecraft Dungeons 1.8.1.0 released on Xbox Series X|S.
- February 24, 2021
- Minecraft Dungeons 1.8.0.0 released.
- January 15, 2021
- Java Edition 1.16.5 released.
- January 5, 2021
- Minecraft Earth 0.33.0 released as the final version of the game.
- December 15, 2020
- Bedrock Edition 1.16.201 released.
- December 14, 2020
- Minecraft Earth 0.32.0 released.
- December 8, 2020
- Bedrock Edition 1.16.200 released.
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- Servers
- Documentation on starting and maintaining a server in Java Edition.
- Minecraft Realms
- Information about paid Mojang Studios-hosted servers in Java Edition, known as Realms.
- Minecraft Realms Plus
- Information about paid Mojang Studios-hosted servers in Bedrock Edition, known as Realms Plus.
- Official issue tracker
- Submit and track bug reports and fixes to Minecraft.
- Official feedback website
- Submit feedback or suggest changes to Minecraft.
- 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.
- Featured servers
- Documentation and information about Bedrock Edition featured servers, along with a list of them.
- Java Edition
- Bedrock Edition
- Minecraft Dungeons
- Minecraft Earth
- Education Edition
- Minecraft China
Mentioned features
