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Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally created by Swedish game custom Markus "Notch" Persson, and developed and published by Mojang later. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to develop constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Alternative activities in the overall game include exploration, source of information gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay methods are available, including survival setting where the player must acquire resources to create the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to generate with and the ability to fly, an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator setting where players can take flight around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or kill any. The Computer version of the game is noted for its modding scene, in which a dedicated community creates new gameplay mechanics, items, and belongings for the overall game.Minecraft received praise from critics upon release, and won numerous accolades and awards. As of 2016 June, over 106 million copies have been sold across all platforms, with an increase of than 40 million unique players each full month, making it the best-selling PC game up to now and the next best-selling gaming of all time, only behind the various releases of Tetris. In 2014 September, Microsoft released a deal to buy Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion, with the acquisition later being completed two months.

Minecraft is a three-dimensional sandbox game that has no specific goals for the participant to accomplish, allowing players a great amount of flexibility in choosing how that can be played the gameHowever, there is an achievements system. Gameplay by default is first person, but players have the choice that can be played in third person method. The core gameplay revolves around breaking and placing blocks. The overall game world is composed of 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 be put at fixed locations on the grid. Players can collect these materials place and blocks them anywhere else, allowing for various constructions thus.In the very beginning of the game, the player is put on the top of the procedurally made and almost infinite game world. The world is divided into biomes which range from deserts to jungles to snowfield. Players can walk across the terrain consisting of plains, mountains, forests, caves, and various water bodies. The in-game time system practices a full night and day circuit, with one full cycle lasting 20 real-time minutes. Through the entire course of the overall game, players face various non-player characters known as mobs, including pets, villagers and hostile creatures. 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 mentioned by reviewers, like the Creeper, an exploding creature that sneaks up on the player; and the Enderman, a creature having the ability to teleport and grab blocks.

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