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The Minecraft Wiki is a publicly accessible and editable "wiki" for gathering useful information related to Minecraft. The wiki is managed and maintained by a massive group of contributors from the Minecraft community and the wiki's administration team. Everyone can contribute. The Wiki manages 8,971 articles. |
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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 placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. The player takes on an avatar that can break and place blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations, and artwork, on multiplayer servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple game modes.
Minecraft is available to all players for €19.95 (US$26.95, £17.95). 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 April 5, 2013, Minecraft for the computer reached 10 million sales.
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 US$6.99.
On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for 1600 Microsoft Points (US$20.00), 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.
- Current game modes
- Creative
- Survival
- Hardcore
- Adventure
- Planned game modes
- Capture the Flag
- Recipes
- Crafting
- Smelting
- Brewing
- Tutorials
- 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.
- July 8, 2013
- Minecraft 1.6.2 released.
- July 4, 2013
- Minecraft Alpha 0.7.2 released for Pocket Edition.
- July 1, 2013
- Minecraft 1.6.1, the Horse Update released.
- June 27, 2013
- Minecon 2013 location announced.
- June 10, 2013
- Xbox One Edition announced.
- Official links
- Reddit communities
- /r/MCPE - Pocket Edition
- /r/MCPi - Pi Edition
- /r/Minecraft - Computer edition
- /r/Minecraft360 - Xbox 360 Edition
- 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.
- Version history
- Computer – Classic • Indev • Infdev • Alpha • Beta • Official Game • Snapshots
- Pocket Edition – Alpha
- Xbox 360 Edition – Official Game
- Pi Edition – Alpha
- Upcoming features