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Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally created by Swedish game developer Markus "Notch" Persson, and later developed and shared by Mojang. The creative and building areas of Minecraft allow players to create constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Alternative activities in the overall game include exploration, learning resource gathering, crafting, and fight. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to make the global world and keep maintaining health, a creative setting where players have unlimited resources to construct with and the capability to fly, an trip setting where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator setting where players can soar around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or eliminate any. The PC version of the game is noted because of its modding scene, where a dedicated community creates new gameplay technicians, items, and belongings for the overall game.Minecraft received compliment from critics upon release, and received numerous accolades and accolades. As of 2016 June, over 106 million copies have been sold across all platforms, with more than 40 million unique players every month, making it the best-selling PC game thus far and the next best-selling gaming of all time, only behind the various releases of Tetris. In September 2014, Microsoft declared a offer 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 ball player to perform, allowing players plenty of freedom in choosing how to learn the gameHowever, there can be an achievements system. Gameplay by default is first person, but players have the choice to experiment with in third person function. The core gameplay revolves around breaking and inserting blocks. The overall game world is composed of rough 3D objects--mainly cubes--arranged in a set grid pattern and representing different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, lava, tree trunks, etc. While players can move openly around the world, objects can only just be located at preset locations on the grid. Players can accumulate these material blocks and place them anywhere else, allowing for various constructions thus.In the very beginning of the game, the gamer is put on the surface of any procedurally generated and practically infinite game world. The global world is split into biomes ranging 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 follows a full day and night pattern, with one full pattern lasting 20 real-time minutes. Through the entire course of the overall game, players come across various non-player characters known as mobs, including pets or animals, villagers and hostile animals. Non-hostile animals--such as cows, pigs, and chickens--can be hunted for food and crafting materials, and spawn in the day time. By contrast, 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, such as the Creeper, an exploding creature that sneaks up on the participant; and the Enderman, a creature having the ability to teleport and pick up blocks.

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