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Minecraft is a sandbox gaming formerly created by Swedish game developer Markus "Notch" Persson, and later developed and posted by Mojang. The creative and building areas of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally made world. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and battle. Multiple gameplay settings are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to make the world and keep maintaining health, a creative method where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an experience method where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator method where players can travel around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or eliminate any. The Personal computer version of the game is noted for its modding scene, where a dedicated community creates new gameplay technicians, items, and possessions for the game.Minecraft received reward from critics after release, and gained numerous accolades and honors. As of 2016 June, over 106 million copies have been sold across all platforms, with more than 40 million unique players every month, rendering it the best-selling PC game to date and the next best-selling video game ever, only behind the many releases of Tetris. In 2014 September, Microsoft announced a offer to buy Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion, with the acquisition being completed two months later.

Minecraft is a three-dimensional sandbox game that does not have any specific goals for the player to accomplish, allowing players plenty of flexibility in choosing how to experiment with the gameHowever, there can be an success system. Gameplay by default is first person, but players have the choice to play in third person function. The core gameplay revolves around breaking and placing blocks. The game world comprises rough 3D objects--mainly cubes--arranged in a fixed grid pattern and representing different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, lava, tree trunks, etc. While players can move around the world freely, objects can only just be located at resolved locations on the grid. Players can accumulate these material blocks and place them somewhere else, allowing for various constructions thus.In the beginning of the game, the player is placed on the surface of the procedurally generated and practically infinite game world. The world is divided into biomes ranging from deserts to jungles to snowfield. Players can walk across the terrain consisting of plains, mountains, forests, caves, and different water bodies. The in-game time system comes after a day and night pattern, with one full pattern prolonged 20 real-time minutes. Throughout the course of the game, players come across various non-player personas known as mobs, including family pets, villagers and hostile animals. Non-hostile animals--such as cows, pigs, and chickens--can be hunted for crafting and food materials, and spawn in the day time. In comparison, hostile mobs--such as large spiders, skeletons, and zombies--spawn during nighttime or in dark places, such as caves. Some Minecraft-unique creatures have been noted by reviewers, like the Creeper, an exploding creature that sneaks through to the gamer; and the Enderman, a creature having the ability to teleport and pick up blocks.

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