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 ($26.95 USD). 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 May 10, 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on June 13, 2009. Minecraft's official release date was November 18, 2011.
On August 16, 2011, Minecraft - Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play. After its exclusivity with Sony expired, it was released for Android devices on October 7, 2011, and iOS devices on November 17, 2011 for $6.99 USD.
On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20.00 USD), where it soon shattered every previous sales record.
On February 11, 2013, Minecraft: Pi Edition was released exclusively for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on the Pocket Edition and is available for free at Mojang's dedicated blog. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for novice programmers and users are encouraged to open and change the game's code using its API.
Explanation of the various game modes and features used in Minecraft.
- 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.
- Trading
- Detailed information about villager trading.
- 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.
- March 21, 2013 - Minecraft 1.5.1 released.
- March 13, 2013 - Minecraft 1.5 released.
- February 11, 2013 - Pi Edition 0.1.1 for Raspberry Pi released.
- February 2, 2013 - Pocket Edition 0.6.1 for iOS released.
- January 31, 2013 - Pocket Edition 0.6.1 for Android released.
- January 30, 2013 - Xbox 360 Edition 1.3.1 and Pocket Edition 0.6.0 released.
- Computer - Classic • Indev • Infdev • Alpha • Beta • Official Game • Snapshots
- Pocket Edition - Alpha
- Xbox 360 Edition - Official Game
- Pi Edition - Alpha
- Upcoming features
- Computer - Plugin API • Minecraft Realms
- Pocket Edition - Online Multiplayer
- Xbox 360 Edition - The End
- Official links
- Minecraft Wiki partners
- Servers
- Documentation on starting and maintaining a server.
- Minecraft Realms
- Information about paid Mojang-hosted servers, known as Realms.
- Official issue tracker
- Official issue tracker for tracking bug reports and fixes for the computer and Pocket 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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