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Minecraft
This article is about the game in general. For the game data folder, see .minecraft. For the
editions that use the title "Minecraft", see Bedrock Edition. For other uses, see Minecraft
(disambiguation).
Minecraft

 Mojang Studios (Credits)

 Xbox Game Studios (Bedrock and Education editions)
Author(s)  4J Studios (Bedrock Edition)
 SkyBox Labs (Bedrock Edition)

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition
Native
Platform(s)
Backwards Compatibility

Education Edition

 Java (Java Edition)

Written in  C++[1] (Bedrock and Education Editions)

Latest version  Java Edition: 1.16.5

(21w10a)
 Bedrock Edition: 1.16.210
(beta 1.16.220.51)
  Education Edition: 1.14.50

Java Edition
May 17, 2009 (Classic)
December 23, 2009 (Indev)
February 27, 2010 (Infdev)
June 28, 2010 (Alpha)
December 20, 2010 (Beta)
November 18, 2011 (Release)
Bedrock Edition
Android: August 16, 2011
iOS/iPadOS: November 16, 2011
Fire/Fire Phone: April 2, 2014
Windows Mobile: December 10, 2014
Windows 10: July 29, 2015
Gear VR: April 27, 2016
Apple TV and Fire TV: December 19, 2016
Release date
Xbox One: September 20, 2017
Nintendo Switch: June 21, 2018
PS4: December 10, 2019
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360: May 9, 2012
Xbox One: September 5, 2014
PS3: December 17, 2013
PS4: September 4, 2014
PS Vita: October 14, 2014
Wii U: December 17, 2015[2]
Nintendo Switch: May 11, 2017
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
September 13, 2017[3]
Education Edition
November 1, 2016[4]
Rating(s) See Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, Education Edition
Size See Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, Education Edition
License Terms of Use
Java Edition: Partial
Source available
Bedrock/Education Edition: No
 Website
Links

“ Explore your own unique world, survive the night, and create anything
you can imagine! „
 — minecraft.net on Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson. It is

maintained by Mojang Studios, a part of Xbox Game Studios, which in turn is part of Microsoft.

From its creation, Minecraft was developed almost exclusively by Notch until Jens "Jeb"
Bergensten started working with him, and has since become head of its development. It features
music by Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld and paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Initially released as
what is now known as Minecraft Classic on May 17, 2009, the game was fully released on
November 18, 2011. Since its release, Minecraft has expanded to mobile devices and consoles.
On November 6, 2014, Minecraft and all of Mojang Studios' assets were acquired by Microsoft
for US$2.5 billion.[5][6] Notch has since left Mojang, and is no longer working on Minecraft.

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-
generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment
features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting
hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the
game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork
on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone
circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious
underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel
to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.

Minecraft Trailer from 2011

Contents
 1 Purchase and availability
 2 Gameplay
o 2.1 Player
o 2.2 Blocks
o 2.3 Mining
o 2.4 Crafting and smelting
o 2.5 Brewing and enchanting
o 2.6 Mobs
o 2.7 The Nether
o 2.8 The End
o 2.9 Multiplayer
 2.9.1 Minecraft Realms
 3 Editions
 o 3.1 Java Edition
o 3.2 Bedrock Edition
o 3.3 Legacy Console Edition
o 3.4 Education Edition
o 3.5 New Nintendo 3DS Edition
o 3.6 Other
o 3.7 Edition comparison
 4 Game customization
o 4.1 Add-ons
o 4.2 Resource packs
o 4.3 Data pack
o 4.4 Skins
 4.4.1 Bedrock Edition
 4.4.2 Java Edition
o 4.5 Capes
o 4.6 Unofficial mods
o 4.7 Third-party programs
 5 Media
o 5.1 Film
 5.1.1 The Story of Mojang
 5.1.2 The Movie
o 5.2 Novels
 5.2.1 The Island
 5.2.2 The Crash
 5.2.3 The Lost Journals
 5.2.4 The End
 5.2.5 The Voyage
 5.2.6 The Shipwreck
 5.2.7 The Mountain
 5.2.8 The Dragon
o 5.3 Children's books
 5.3.1 Woodsword Chronicles
 5.3.2 Stonesword Saga
o 5.4 Other
 5.4.1 Minecraft Mini-Series
 5.4.2 Dark Horse Comics series
 5.4.3 Builders & Biomes
 6 Other games
o 6.1 Story Mode
o 6.2 Story Mode - Season Two
o 6.3 Dungeons
o 6.4 Earth
 7 Merchandise
o 7.1 LEGO Minecraft
 o 7.2 Minecraft Books
 8 Reception
o 8.1 Awards
 9 References in popular culture
o 9.1 Video games
o 9.2 TV shows and movies
 10 References

Purchase and availability

Java Edition can be purchased from the Minecraft website. Gift codes can be bought for others,
for the same price as buying the game for oneself. The demo version can be played for free.

Bedrock Edition can be purchased in the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Fire/Fire Phone
App Store, Windows 10 Mobile Store, Windows 10 Store, Oculus Store, Fire TV App Store,
Xbox One Store and Nintendo Switch Nintendo eShop.

Minecraft: Java Edition does not run on Windows RT tablets or a Chromebook.[7]

The discontinued Legacy Console Edition can be purchased in the Xbox 360 Marketplace,
PlayStation 3 Store, PlayStation Vita Store, and the Wii U Nintendo eShop.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition can be purchased in the Nintendo eShop, however, this edition has
been discontinued.

Gameplay
Main article: Gameplay

A newly created Minecraft world.

Player

Main article: Player

One of the two default player characters, called Steve.

The player is the person that the user controls in the world. When the user starts a game, the
player is put in a world, generated by a random or specified seed, with an empty inventory. If the
bonus chest option is enabled, a chest filled with basic items generates near the player. The
player has a health bar with 10 hearts, and can be damaged by falls, suffocation, drowning, fire,
lava, lightning, cacti, sweet berry bushes, falling into the Void, falling anvils and being hit by
mobs and other players. Damage to health can be mitigated by armor or Resistance potion and
health can be restored by eating food and drinking specific potions, or if difficulty is set to
Peaceful, health regenerates on its own. Hunger is also a factor if the difficulty is not set to
Peaceful, depleting over time and even faster while sprinting, jumping or swimming. Food
replenishes the hunger level; however, eating rotten flesh and raw chicken has a chance of giving
the player a hunger effect. Depending on the difficulty level, starvation depletes a player's health,
and may even kill the player.

A player can change their skin on the profile page of Minecraft.net or in the launcher.

Blocks

Main article: Block

The world of Minecraft takes place within a three-dimensional grid of cubes, with each cube
being occupied by a certain type of block (not all of which are necessarily cubic). There are
different types of blocks; natural blocks such as grass, stone, and ores are randomly generated
within the world. There are also blocks that players can craft, such as a crafting table and a
furnace. Resources can be extracted from blocks by hand or by using tools. Some of these
resources are simply blocks in the player's inventory that can be placed elsewhere, while others
are used as material to create other blocks or tools. Others yield no practical use whatsoever.
Some blocks cannot be broken through normal survival means, e.g. bedrock, end portal frames,
command blocks, and barriers.

Mining

Main article: Mining

Various ores (in proximity of lava) that can be mined with a pickaxe.

Mining is one of the main aspects of Minecraft and is done to extract ore and other materials
mainly from below the surface of the map. These ores include coal, iron, gold, redstone,
diamond, lapis lazuli, and emerald. Mining can involve digging a hole from the surface or going
down through a cave. Mineshafts create extra areas that may contain resources, since they are
usually rich in ores.

Crafting and smelting

Main articles: Crafting and Smelting

A crafting table, used to create most of the blocks and items in Minecraft.

Crafting allows players to create new tools and blocks using items from their inventory.
Subsequent versions often contain crafting recipes for new blocks and items. To craft, a player
can use the 2×2 grid in the inventory or the 3×3 grid provided by a crafting table. Smelting
requires a furnace in addition to fuel, and processes blocks into a more useful form such as iron
ores into iron ingots.

Brewing and enchanting

Main articles: Brewing and Enchanting

An Enchantment Table with glyphs being absorbed into it.

Brewing creates potions from various ingredients and water using a brewing stand. They are
stored in a glass bottle and then consumed by the player or thrown at other mobs to generate a
certain effect based on the ingredients used to create the potion. Enchanting is also used to
upgrade armor, tools, or weapons with an enchanting table. More powerful enchantments can be
accessed by gaining experience and placing bookshelves around the enchanting table.

Mobs

Main article: Mobs

A creeper in a forest. Creepers stalk the player and then explode once they get near.

Mobs (short for "mobiles") are the animals and other creatures that inhabit the map. Hostile
mobs attack the player while passive mobs do not. Neutral mobs attack when provoked.

The Overworld contains many passive mobs that may be killed for food or bred with one
another; these include:

 Pigs: drop porkchops upon death and can be ridden using a saddle.
 Cows: drop beef upon death and can be milked using a bucket.
 Sheep: drop mutton and 1 wool upon death and can be shorn to produce 1–3 wool.
 Chickens: drop chicken meat and feathers upon death and lay eggs.
 Horses: drop leather upon death and can be ridden using a saddle, traveling much faster
than pigs.
 Bats: ambient mobs that fly around caves.

Common hostile mobs found throughout the Overworld include:

 Zombies: attack by melee damage.

 Skeletons: have a bow and infinitely many arrows.
 Spiders: jump large distances and can climb walls.
  Witches: use potions.
 Creepers: explode when near the player.
 Endermen: tall, black creatures with purple eyes and turn aggressive when the player
looks at them.

The Overworld also contains some rarer mobs that spawn only on occasion or in specific biomes:

 Spider jockeys: a skeleton riding a spider.

 Chicken jockeys: a baby zombie riding a chicken.
 Slimes: spawn deep within the map and in swamplands.
 Villagers: inhabit villages and can trade with the player.
 Parrots: can imitate the sounds of nearby mobs.
 Wolves: can be tamed by the player and attack enemy mobs if the player engages or is
attacked by them.
 Mooshrooms: mushroom variants of cows that spawn in mushroom field biomes.
 Vindicator: spawn in woodland mansions.
 Pillager: spawn in pillager outposts.
 Evoker: spawn in Woodland Mansions.

Some mobs can be found exclusively in the Nether, including:

 Ghasts: flying mobs that shoot exploding fireballs at the player.

 Zombified piglins: wield golden swords and attack in hordes if provoked.
 Wither skeletons: tall, black variants of regular skeletons that wield stone swords and
drop coal and, occasionally, wither skeleton skulls that can be used to summon the
wither.
 Blazes: shoot fireballs at players and hover above the ground.
 Magma cubes: similar to Overworld slimes.

The End contains the ender dragon, which is the main boss mob in Minecraft and allows the
player to exit back to the Overworld when it dies.

Withers are the second boss mob in Minecraft, and are created by the player by placing wither
skeleton skulls on top of soul sand in a specific pattern. When spawned, they shoot wither skulls
at nearby non-undead mobs.

The Nether

Main article: The Nether

The Nether.
The Nether is a dimension in Minecraft, accessible from the Overworld by a nether portal. It
consists of five unique biomes, those being the Nether Wastes, the Basalt Deltas, the Crimson
and Warped Forests and the Soul Sand Valleys: each biome has unique generation and terrain. It
is populated by zombified piglins, blazes, ghasts, wither skeletons, magma cubes, piglins and
hoglins. The nether also has massive lava lakes that have striders walking on them.

The End

Main article: The End

The End.

The End is another dimension of the game where the player battles the ender dragon. The End is
accessible by entering an end portal found in a stronghold. The End is composed of end stone
and is inhabited by endermen. It also contains tall obsidian pillars on top of which are end
crystals that heal the ender dragon. Once the ender dragon is slain, the exit portal is created in the
center of the map, and an end gateway portal is created near an edge of the map, which transports
the player to the expansive outer end islands.

Multiplayer

Main articles: Server and Multiplayer

PvP on a multiplayer server.

Minecraft multiplayer servers have developed to include their own rules and customs, guided by
their administrators and moderators. The term griefer, meaning a player who causes grief, is a
typical term on the Internet but has taken up its definition on Minecraft servers: a person who
destroys or defiles other users' creations on servers.

Griefers are the reason many server administrators make rules, but this has been taken a step
further with modifications to the Minecraft server and even plugin-based replacement servers
such as Bukkit. Because of these plugin-based servers, new user-created features have shown up
in Minecraft. This includes features like money, vehicles, protection, RPG elements and more.
These features normally do not require modification to a user's client and can be accessed by
using chat commands. With the default controls, the chat screen is brought up by pressing T .
One popular game on multiplayer servers is Spleef (a play on the word "grief"), a game where
the player aims to make another player drop through the floor by destroying blocks beneath the
opponent's feet. This is typically played in a designated area and is usually run automatically
using server plugins.

Many popular multiplayer servers exist that may contain custom minigames or large Survival or
Creative worlds.

Minecraft Realms

Main article: Realms

Minecraft Realms is an official subscription-based server hosting service that allows players to
create and manage their own private Minecraft servers. Hosted by Mojang Studios, Realms
provides an easy and fast way to create servers and allows the owner to manage them from inside
the game, without prior knowledge of the concepts for hosting on the Internet. However, Realms
are not intended for large public servers, but for groups of friends or as a family server.[8] Private
Realms servers are easy to set up and available 24/7 as long as the owner pays for it.

Editions

Minecraft sales data, up to December, 2015.

Main article: Edition

Java Edition

Main article: Java Edition

The original platform for Minecraft, running on Windows, macOS, and Linux and started
through the launcher. The game was initially released for an "early private singleplayer alpha" on
May 16, 2009, followed by several development stages (notably Classic, Indev, Infdev, Alpha,
Beta) with the game finally being released on November 18, 2011. The Java Edition has seen
many significant updates since its official release.

Bedrock Edition

Main article: Bedrock Edition

Notch with the Pocket Edition of Minecraft.

The Bedrock Edition (also known as the Bedrock Platform, Bedrock Codebase or Bedrock
Engine) refers to the multi-platform family of editions of Minecraft developed by Mojang
Studios and Xbox Game Studios. Prior to this term, as the engine originated with Pocket Edition,
this entire product family has been referred to using as "Pocket Edition", "MCPE", or
"Pocket/Windows 10 Edition".

Minecraft, with no subtitle, is the title of all Bedrock editions of Minecraft. Before the Better
Together Update, it had different subtitles on different platforms including Pocket Edition (for all
mobile platforms), Windows 10 Edition, Gear VR Edition, and Fire TV Edition.

The Pocket Edition was initially launched exclusively for the Xperia PLAY on Google Play[9] for
US$6.99 on August 16, 2011. It was later released for other Android devices on October 7, 2011,
[10]
and iOS on November 17, 2011.[11] On September 13, 2012, the Pocket Edition was made
available for purchase on the Amazon Appstore. The Windows Phone version was released on
the Windows Store on December 10, 2014,[12] for which the Pocket Edition 1.0.0 release and
newer are available only for Windows 10 Phone and newer. Since then, four adaptations of
Pocket Edition have been released; for Windows 10 on July 29, 2015, the Samsung Gear VR on
April 27, 2016, the Apple TV on December 19, 2016, and the Amazon Fire TV on December 19,
2016.[13][14][15][16] As of September 24, 2018, the Apple TV Edition has been discontinued.

Legacy Console Edition

Main article: Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition refers to the edition of Minecraft for consoles. The game had been
continuously updated by its developers, 4J Studios.

The Legacy Console Edition was initially released on the Xbox 360 on May 9, 2012 followed by
the unveiling on June 7, 2011 at E3 and the release date announcement on March 22nd through
PlayXBLA's Twitter account. Console Edition was further released on the PlayStation 3 on
December 17, 2013 (announced August 20, 2013), the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, the
PlayStation Vita, the Wii U, and the Nintendo Switch. As of December 10, 2019, all versions
have been discontinued, though Bedrock Edition is continuing to be updated on the Xbox One,
Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

Education Edition
Main article: Education Edition

Minecraft: Education Edition is an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for

classroom use. It is developed by Mojang AB and Xbox Game Studios and contains features that
make Minecraft easy to use in a classroom setting. The full game was released on November 1,
2016.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Main article: New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition was released on September 13, 2017. It is a unique port
developed by Other Ocean Interactive. It is available on the Nintendo eShop, but only for the
New 3DS and New 2DS. Multiplayer is limited to local play. This edition was discontinued on
January 15, 2019.

Other

There are a number of other versions of Minecraft. Minecraft 4k is a simple version of Minecraft
in the style of other "4k" Java games (everything is packaged in 4 kilobytes) that Notch has
entered in contests. The Pi Edition was a free ported version of the 0.5.0 version of Pocket
Edition for the Raspberry Pi,[17] which was intended as an educational tool for novice
programmers. It allowed users to manipulate the game code and supported multiple
programming languages, however was discontinued in January 2016.

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Game customization
Add-ons

Main article: Add-on

Add-ons are the first step toward bringing customization to all editions of Minecraft and are
officially supported by Mojang Studios/Minecraft. Currently, add-ons are supported only on
Bedrock Edition platforms, including Windows 10, Gear VR, and Fire TV editions. They
currently allow players to transform the look of their worlds and change the behavior of mobs.

Resource packs
Main article: Resource pack

The game officially supports changing most of its various textures, sounds, and texts through
resource packs. Resource packs must contain a certain structure of files and folders placed in the
.minecraft/resourcepacks folder. Installed resource packs, as well as the folder in
which resource packs are placed, can be accessed in the options menu. The extent to which the
resources are changed is dependent on how many files are contained in the resource pack.

Data pack

Main article: Data pack

Data packs‌[Java Edition only] provide a way for players to further customize vanilla worlds in a similar
way to resource packs. Unlike resource packs, which modify the game's resources, data packs
can be used to override or add new advancements, functions, loot tables, structures, recipes and
tags without any code modification.

Skins

Main article: Skin

Skin refers to the texture that is placed onto a player model or mob. The skin is divided into areas
that act as the surface area of the character (for example, the front head area, left leg area, etc.).
A skin allows only solid color; transparency is not allowed on the skin file except on the second
layer, which is transparent by default; playing offline, pixels can be left free resulting in "holes"
in the skin. The second layer can be used to give the character glasses, hats, or other accessories.
Players can also change the arm size to be slim or normal. The slim variant is 3 pixels wide while
the normal variant is 4 pixels wide.

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, there are many more types of skin customization. Players can add 3D
custom hair, eyes, mouths, arms, legs and more. Players can also change the size of a character.
Players can also get many different accessories for the skin. However, the player cannot do this
with a custom skin, only with an in-game skin. Players can also buy accessories and skins in
Bedrock Edition. Having a skin that is smaller than normal or larger does not affect the hitbox
size, but can still give an advantage in multiplayer servers because if how much harder it is to see
them. Some of the skins also do not show their armor or hand-held items.

Java Edition

In Java Edition, there are no special features in the skins. This version has only the features
listed in the first part of this section.

Capes
Main article: Cape

Capes are an extremely rare vanity item can be equipped to the back of a player. The player can
have a custom cape using mods or hacks, but only the player or sometimes other players using
the mod/hack can see it. In Bedrock Edition, players start with a cape that is not equipped by
default. In Bedrock Edition, some skins come with capes.

Capes also flail around when the player runs. When the player equips elytra, the texture of the
elytra changes to an equipped cape.

Unofficial mods

Main article: Mods

Minecraft can be modified by replacing or adding Java class files to minecraft.jar in Java
Edition. This method of making modifications is not supported by Mojang as it can break the
game if the mod is outdated, defective, or in conflict with another mod. Some such modifications
impressed Notch or Jeb sufficiently that they were added to the game and the authors were
credited under Additional Programming. Some examples of mods being implemented into the
main game include Hippoplatimus' Piston Mod and horses from Dr. Zhark's Mo' Creatures mod
were added in Beta 1.7 and 1.6.1 respectively.

Third-party programs

Main article: Programs and editors

There are many programs designed for Minecraft. These include 3D map editors and viewers,
game modifiers, various informational programs (such as crafting recipes), and server wrappers,
and other specialty programs. As with mods, these too are not supported by Mojang.

Media
Film

The Story of Mojang

Main article: Minecraft: The Story of Mojang

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a 2012 documentary created by 2 Player Productions about
the history and development of Mojang Studios. It was directed by Paul Owens and produced by
Paul Levering, Peter De Bourcier and Burnie Burns, with additional funding given through a
Kickstarter campaign. The movie was announced on February 21, 2011, was streamed on Xbox
Live on December 22, 2012, and publicly released on other platforms, including The Pirate Bay,
the next day.
The Movie

Main article: Minecraft: The Movie

Minecraft: The Movie is an upcoming live-action American-Swedish film based on the video
game of the same name. It was originally being directed by Rob McElhenney and written by
Jason Fuchs, but have now been replaced by Peter Sollett and Allison Schroeder. Originally
slated to be released on March 4, 2022, the release date is now unknown due to the COVID-19
pandemic.

Novels

The Island

Main article: Minecraft: The Island

Minecraft: The Island is a novel by American author Max Brooks. It was published by Del Rey
Books on July 18, 2017.

The Crash

Main article: Minecraft: The Crash

Minecraft: The Crash is a novel by Trinidadian author Tracey Baptiste. It was published by Del
Rey Books on July 10, 2018.

The Lost Journals

Main article: Minecraft: The Lost Journals

Minecraft: The Lost Journals is a novel by American author Mur Lafferty. It was published by
Del Rey Books on July 9, 2019.

The End

Main article: Minecraft: The End

Minecraft: The End is a novel by American author Catherynne M. Valente. It was published by
Del Rey Books on December 3, 2019.

The Voyage

Main article: Minecraft: The Voyage

Minecraft: The Voyage is a novel by American author Jason Fry. It was published by Del Rey
Books on May 5, 2020.
The Shipwreck

Main article: Minecraft: The Shipwreck

Minecraft: The Shipwreck is a novel by Chinese-Vietnamese-American author C.B. Lee. It was

published by Del Rey Books on November 3, 2020.

The Mountain

Main article: Minecraft: The Mountain

Minecraft: The Mountain is an novel by American author Max Brooks. A sequel to Minecraft:
The Island, it was published by Del Rey Books on March 2, 2021.

The Dragon

Main article: Minecraft: The Dragon

Minecraft: The Dragon is an upcoming novel by American author Nicky Drayden. It is slated to
be published by Del Rey Books on July 6, 2021.

Children's books

Woodsword Chronicles

Main article: Minecraft: Woodsword Chronicles

Minecraft: Woodsword Chronicles is a series of children's books written by Nick Eliopulos and
illustrated by Luke Flowers and Alan Batson.

Stonesword Saga

Main article: Minecraft: Stonesword Saga

Minecraft: Stonesword Saga is an upcoming series of children's books written by Nick

Eliopulos.

Other

Minecraft Mini-Series

Main article: Minecraft Mini-Series

The Minecraft Mini-Series is an action/adventure animated web series based on Mojang

Studios's Minecraft. The series is produced by Mojang AB and Xbox Game Studios in
collaboration with Atomic Cartoons and Mattel Creations, with Christopher Keenan serving as
executive producer, and premiered on October 26, 2017, on the Mattel Action YouTube channel,
with the final episode being released on May 10, 2018.

Dark Horse Comics series

Main article: Minecraft (Dark Horse Comics)

Minecraft is a graphic novel series based on the video game of the same name, published by
Dark Horse Comics in partnership with Mojang Studios.

Builders & Biomes

Main article: Minecraft: Builders & Biomes

Minecraft: Builders & Biomes is a board game published by Mojang Studios and Ravensburger.
In the game, players explore the Overworld and build structures while defeating hostile mobs,
with the goal being to score as many experience points as possible. Players are also allowed to
collect blocks and weapons.

Other games
Story Mode

Main article: Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode was an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video
game based on the sandbox video game Minecraft, released in October 2015 across multiple
platforms with a Windows 10 release on December 16, 2015, a Wii U release on January 21,
2016, and Apple TV release on August 24, 2016, a Nintendo Switch release on August 22, 2017,
and a Netflix release on November 27, 2018. The game was developed by Mojang Studios, the
developer of Minecraft, in collaboration with Telltale Games. Music for the game was composed
by Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in California. The game follows the episodic format
that Telltale has used for its previous titles, where player choices and actions have significant
effects on later story elements. The game is discontinued as of June 25, 2019, due to the closure
of Telltale Games on October 11, 2018.

Story Mode - Season Two

Main article: Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two was an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic
adventure video game based on the sandbox video game Minecraft, released in July 2017 across
multiple platforms, with a Nintendo Switch released on November 6, 2018. The game was
developed by Mojang Studios, the developer of Minecraft, in collaboration with Telltale Games.
Music for the game was composed by Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in California. The
game follows the episodic format that Telltale has used for its previous titles, where player
choices and actions have significant effects on later story elements. The game is discontinued as
of June 25, 2019, due to the closure of Telltale Games on October 11, 2018.

Dungeons

Main article: Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons is an action/adventure role-playing game developed by Mojang Studios,

Xbox Game Studios and Double Eleven. It released May 26, 2020 release for Windows,
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Earth

Main article: Minecraft Earth

Minecraft Earth is an augmented reality mobile game that was released in October 17, 2019,
and is available on iOS (iOS 13 and later), iPadOS, and Android (8.0 and later) The Both iOS
Must support ARKit And ARCore and it also needs Wi-Fi Internet access.

Merchandise
LEGO Minecraft

Main article: LEGO Minecraft

In December 2011, Mojang submitted the concept of Minecraft merchandise to LEGO for the
LEGO Ideas (then known as LEGO Cuusoo) program, from which it quickly received 10,000
votes by users, prompting LEGO to review the concept.[18] On January 24, 2012, LEGO Ideas
announced the concept was approved and they would develop sets based around Minecraft. In
February 2012, the first LEGO Minecraft set of Micro World was showcased and made available
for pre-order, with a release set for mid-2012.[19]

Minecraft Books

Main article: Minecraft Books

The Official Minecraft Books are a series of guidebooks for Minecraft, written for new and
inexperienced players while being high-quality enough for collectors. The books are written by
various authors; a few of them being well-known Minecraft personalities such as Jordan Maron
and Paul Soares Jr. Originally published by Scholastic beginning in 2013, publishing rights were
later transferred to Del Rey Books in 2016, who have continued publishing various Minecraft
books to this day.

Reception
Awards

Mojang Studios' trophies.

Since release Minecraft has won numerous awards including:

 PC Gamer's "Game of the Year"[20]

 Independent Games Festival's Grand Prize and "Audience Award"[21]
 Good Game's "Best Downloadable Game of 2010"[22]
 Rock Paper Shotgun's "Game of the Year"[23]
 Indie DB's "Indie of the Year", "Most Innovative and Best Singleplayer Indie"[24]
 Game Developers Choice Awards's "Best Debut Game", "Best Downloadable Game" and
"Most Innovative Game Award"[25]

References in popular culture

Many references have been made in culture in response to the popularity of Minecraft, this
includes many memes and also references in these video games, TV shows, and movies.

Video games

 In Super Meat Boy, Steve?[26] is an unlockable character. He is known as Mr. Minecraft in

this game.
 In Battlefield Heroes, players could get a Royal Minecraft T-Shirt or a National
Minecraft T-Shirt from the 29th to the 31st of July, 2011.[27]
 In Team Fortress 2, there is a hat called Top Notch that resembles Notch's avatar in a
cubic form.[28] Notch is the only person to have this hat.
 In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Binding of Isaac, an item called the "Notched
Pickaxe" can be found and used, referencing the game's creator Notch, and the pickaxes
that feature prominently in Minecraft.[29][30]
 In ChopLifter HD, there is a hidden island with Steve and chickens in the "Operation
Charlie Takedown" mission.[31] When he is saved, players unlock an in-game
achievement. It should be noted that Steve is called "Blockhead" in this game.
 In the PlayStation 3 game, PixelJunk Shooter 2, there's a small Creeper in the title screen
hidden among other enemies native to Shooter 2.[32]
 In Borderlands 2, there is a hidden section of the game with blocks in the style of
Minecraft's stone and breakable ore blocks. There are also enemy Creepers in this same
area.[33]
  In Torchlight 2, there is an area called "Notch's Mine." In it are Creepers, that can be
killed for loot. There are also hidden swords in the game with the same graphics as
swords in Minecraft.[34]
 In Patch 1.13 of Awesomenauts, a new skin for the character Clunk was added known as
Creeper Clunk. It is unlocked by killing a player using the Creeper Clunk skin.[35]
 A vehicle card in Dusk of D.A.W.N. is called "Mine Craft". The description at the bottom
says "The Mine Craft is truly top-notch".[36] Notch's Twitter picture is hidden on the card.
 One of the many paths in The Stanley Parable eventually takes the player to a Minecraft
world.[37]
 In Plague Inc, a popular multiplatform game, there is a chance for a message in the news
to appear with the headline: "Top notch mine opens in Sweden" and the caption "Miners
and crafters look forward to the opening of a new, top notch diamond mine which is
expected to revitalize the Swedish economy". This is a reference to the value of
diamonds, Notch, Mojang's headquarters in Sweden, and the game itself.[38]
 In Terraria, there is a wearable creeper costume.[39]
 In The Henry Stickmin Collection, there are multiple references to Minecraft throughout
the chapters. In the prologue, Breaking the Bank, if the player chooses the "shovel"
option, Henry tries to get inside the bank by digging under the walls, but hits and ignites
a gas main; the failure message is "Never dig straight down.", a well-known Minecraft
tip. In chapter 2, Stealing the Diamond, if the player selects the "sneak in" option and
then the "pickaxe", Henry begins to mine the wall of the museum the diamond is in, only
for a creeper to come up behind him and explode. Henry survives, however, and the
explosion gave the entrance that Henry needed. In chapter 5, Completing the Mission, if
the player launches with the "Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Convict
Allies" ending, and then selects the "jetpack" option, the player can select the "build"
option, in which Henry begins building a bridge out of dirt blocks from the building he is
standing on to the Toppat rocket. However, Henry runs out of dirt blocks and accidently
walks off the edge, and falls to his death, with the fail message saying "You died!",
similar to the Minecraft death screen. Additionally, if the player launches with the
"Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Ghost Inmate" ending, and then
selects the "Magic Hat" and "Free Transform" options, the player can select the
"Leafmöde" option, and a diamond block can be seen near the painting.
 In There Is No Game : Wrong Dimension, there is a RPG Dimension called Legend of
the Secret and its Free2Play variant Legend of the Secret Ultimate Clicker VIP Deluxe
4.2 Free with lootboxes contain parody ads. One of those ads is Ninecraft with C418-like
BGM, and player can break the title, get nine puzzle pieces and combine them in a 3x3
grid to make a pickaxe useful in gameplay. Mr. Game comments Ninecraft as "another
one of those 'indie games' that's doomed to fail".
 In Ark: Survival Evolved, Ovis commonly makes a variety of sheep sounds.
 In Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Steve, Alex, the Zombie, and the Enderman are featured
fighters included in its DLC, as well as themed stages and remixed music.

TV shows and movies

 In season 17 of South Park, the 2nd episode depicted a kid teaching Minecraft to adults.
[40]
  In the The Walking Deceased movie trailer, the Minecraft zombie sound can be heard at
0:30.[41]
 In season 25 of The Simpsons, the 17th episode had a couch gag known as SimCraft,
complete with Bartender Moe as a creeper blowing up the house.[42]
 In Season 3 Episode 10 of Rick and Morty, the title characters mention or are seen
playing Minecraft throughout parts of the episode.[43]
 In Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg), the opening scene in the Oasis shows a
Minecraft planet.
 In season 10 of Adventure Time, an episode named Diamonds and Lemons shows the
characters in a Minecraft-like universe.

References
1.

 https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/122350670648066049
  http://www.mojang.com/2015/12/minecraft-coming-to-nintendo-wii-u
  "Minecraft on new 3DS!" – Minecraft.net
  http://www.mojang.com/2016/11/minecraft-education-edition-has-launched
  http://www.mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft
  https://twitter.com/xboxp3/status/530368089418784768
  https://help.minecraft.net/hc/articles/360035131371
  https://twitter.com/danfrisk/status/311725356434460672
  https://play.google.com/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe
  https://twitter.com/Kappische/status/122246496941899776
  http://appleinformer.org/2011/11/minecraft-pocket-edition-for-ios-now-available-for-
download
  https://windowscentral.com/minecraft-pocket-edition-comes-windows-phone
  http://www.mojang.com/2015/07/announcing-minecraft-windows-10-edition-beta
  https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/blog/minecraft-now-available-on-oculus-for-gear-vr
  https://minecraft.net/article/apple-tv-edition-released
  https://amazon.com/dp/B01NCJDPER
  http://www.mojang.com/2012/11/minecraft-is-coming-to-the-raspberry-pi
  https://kotaku.com/5878848
  https://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57379791-1
  https://pcgamer.com/2010/12/31/pc-gamer-uks-game-of-the-year
  https://indiegamesplus.com/2011/01/2011_independent_games_festiva_10
  https://abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s3085956.htm
  https://rockpapershotgun.com/2010/12/24/the-games-of-christmas-%E2%80%9910-day-
24
  https://indiedb.com/events/2010-indie-of-the-year-awards/winners
  https://gamechoiceawards.com/archive/gdca_11th.html
  https://twitter.com/notch/status/6825860292157440
  http://www.mojang.com/2011/07/30/collaboration-with-our-neighbors-battlefield-heroes
  wordofnotch:13353738451
  https://skyrim.gamepedia.com/Notched_Pickaxe
  https://bindingofisaacrebirth.gamepedia.com/Notched_Axe
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=xF4bWOu0Hn0
  http://archive.beefjack.com/files/2011/03/creeper2.jpg
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=1xI4deYmDNQ
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlqBPeV8uuw
  https://imgur.com/a/WzQI3#bm2rLCQ
 
https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1kji7a/mine_craft_from_dusk_of_dawn_a_small_tribut
e
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULxvda_REuQ
  https://i.imgur.com/qKCIxPZ.jpg
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=7g2WcnvUtiY
  https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/4sa1hk/south-park-informative-murder-
porn-season-17-ep-2
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=eEJzl3GX0P8#t=0m28s
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=XheEGpNegbQ

43.  https://youtube.com/watch?v=wwqvG_5iQSQ

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