Some people building in one of AVMs rooms
Multiplayer Minecraft was released officially on the 8th June 2009, after many beta trials. Users can download [1] and run the server package that allows other players to connect to and play on their server. Future versions will have multiple Game Modes.
A multiplayer chat snippet
Community spirit
In multiplayer, players can press 'T' to chat to others.
Multiplayer nurtures the community spirit; people work together to build things, and unite in the face of griefers. It is the strong policing of these rooms, powered by a "patriotic" attachment to the game, (or one's favorite server) that makes the game very hard for griefers.
Technical
The server saves the level to the server_level.dat file every minute.
Known Issues
- It is possible in the current version to duplicate blocks easily, using chests and latency.