Minecraft
Explore infinite worlds and build everything from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off dangerous mobs. Create, explore and survive alone or with friends on mobile devices or Windows 10.
EXPAND YOUR GAME:
Marketplace – Discover the latest community creations in the marketplace! Get unique maps, skins, and texture packs from your favorite creators.
Slash commands – Tweak how the game plays: you can give items away, summon mobs, change the time of day, and more.
Add-Ons – Customize your experience even further with free Add-Ons! If you’re more tech-inclined, you can modify data-driven behaviors in the game to create new resource packs.
MULTIPLAYER
Realms – Play with up to 10 friends cross-platform, anytime, anywhere on Realms, your own private server that we host for you. Try a free 30-day trial in-app.
Multiplayer – Play with up to 4 friends with a free Xbox Live account online.
Servers – Join free massive multiplayer servers and play with thousands of others! Discover gigantic community-run worlds, compete in unique mini-games and socialize in lobbies full of new friends!
Description
MINECRAFT: WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
MINECRAFT is a virtual sandbox that gives players all the tools they need to explore a vast world. Harvest resources and create nearly everything that they can possibly imagine.
The story in Minecraft is whatever the player wants it to be, as players customize their worlds and the creatures in it and how they choose to interact.
One world might feature the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, with players forced to build a mighty fortress to withstand the nightly onslaught of the undead hordes.
While another world may be a peaceful Zen garden that encourages visitors to find tranquility. Throughout Minecraft, the multiverse is infinite possibilities. And it’s up to you to create your own.
What Parents Should Know
Parents need to know that Minecraft is a multiplatform sandbox adventure game. Players explore the world and use the building blocks of the game to customize that world to create nearly anything they can imagine.
That also means other players can create whatever they can imagine as well, which could potentially lead to younger players coming across potentially offensive content while exploring random worlds online.
The game is relatively simple to pick up and play. But is still complicated when it comes to building more complex items and structures.
It also, most impressively, includes an authentic Minecraft experience, whether you’re on the go or holding still. This is an edge over previous portable versions, in that you can play split-screen with up to four players.
IS IT ANY GOOD?
There’s a saying that, in life, you’ll only get out of it what you’re willing to put into it, and that’s completely true with this creative adventure. You’re literally dropped in the middle of nowhere with nothing more than your wits.
Starting off, you’ll pick up some wood from a tree, which you’ll use to make a batch of sticks. Then you’ll attach some more wood to those sticks and make a pickaxe.
Using that pickaxe, you can mine some stone to help build a house. And so goes the cycle of the game. You’ll spend your time exploring the world around you and harvesting what you can to help create what you need.
Over time, you’ll learn more about how to find and build more complex materials and tools, combining them to craft new, intricate creations.
Minecraft does its best to be all things to all people. If you’re the type of person who wants a gaming experience with heroes fighting villains, the game’s Survival and Adventure modes offer a classic adventure with players battling the forces of evil while trying to maintain their homesteads.
Zombies, skeletons, creepers, endermen, and more come out in force when the sun goes down, forcing the players to craft strong defenses if they hope to see the next sunrise.
And, for those gamers who are less about using an arsenal and more about using a toolbox, there’s Creative mode; this is essentially the game’s God mode.
More About Minecraft
Where you get full access to everything in the Minecraft wheelhouse without having to worry about such things as hostile mobs, hunger, or other things that might cut short your time in the world. Here, players can build to their hearts’ content, crafting and testing extravagant projects before sharing them with the world. One thing to keep in mind, though, is the fact that, at any given moment, there are thousands of other people thinking up things to build as well.
For every intricate, highly detailed re-creation of some building, game, or other such massive undertakings, there’s going to be someone who has used the tools at their disposal to make something juvenile, obscene, or otherwise offensive.
And unfortunately, there’s no way to really know what you’re getting into until you’ve joined another player’s game. This is definitely one time parents should keep an eye on where their kids are visiting online.
But once you know what you’re doing, you’ll be hard-pressed to leave your computer without placing just one more block.
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