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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 8 Feb 2021, Minecraft has over 131 million active users and sold over 217 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 30th.
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 cakes were added as a response to Minecraft winning the 2010 Indie of the Year Awards?
- ... that the End's original biome name was "Sky"?
- ... that before Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4, the sun and the moon rose in the north and set in the south?
- ... that the nearest 3 strongholds are on average twice as far in Java Edition than in Bedrock Edition?
- ... that there was Hoglin meat as an unused texture in Bedrock Edition?
- ... that there was a hoax announcement about a Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device by Mojang?
- ... that as of Java Edition 1.16, there are 16,777,216 different ways to craft a chest, note block, or jukebox?
- ... that in Bedrock Edition, using an Overworld locator map in the Nether (and vice versa) shows the player's corresponding location between the two dimensions?
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
