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Minecraft is an awesome Java-based sandbox game where you are given a large procedurally generated landscape made up of cubes and you're pretty much left to your own devices. You're free to explore the mountains, forests, plains and oceans, or you can go spelunking into caverns, avoiding lava and finding secret treasures. As the name suggests, you can go mining for materials such as stone, coal, iron, which can then be used to craft various tools and building materials. Any cube in the landscape can be dug or mined and be picked up to use in whatever bizarre creations (usually buildings to be fair) that your mind can conjure up.
There is a free creative mode available, which is based on a very early version, but is still reasonably fun, but the real fun can be found if you pay 10 euros and gain access to the survival mode, which brings the game up to date with the latest features. Notch, the creator of Minecraft, is adding new features to the game fairly regularly, as well. Some of the features in survival mode include:
Links of interest:
Notch's development blog - Notch's Twitter - Minecraft Wiki
If you're just getting into the game, the wiki has a nice starting out guide here.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss the game and show off your creations or discoveries.
In conclusion, BUY THIS GAME. It is awesome.
Minecraft is an awesome Java-based sandbox game where you are given a large procedurally generated landscape made up of cubes and you're pretty much left to your own devices. You're free to explore the mountains, forests, plains and oceans, or you can go spelunking into caverns, avoiding lava and finding secret treasures. As the name suggests, you can go mining for materials such as stone, coal, iron, which can then be used to craft various tools and building materials. Any cube in the landscape can be dug or mined and be picked up to use in whatever bizarre creations (usually buildings to be fair) that your mind can conjure up.
There is a free creative mode available, which is based on a very early version, but is still reasonably fun, but the real fun can be found if you pay 10 euros and gain access to the survival mode, which brings the game up to date with the latest features. Notch, the creator of Minecraft, is adding new features to the game fairly regularly, as well. Some of the features in survival mode include:
- Near-infinite landscape generation. The world generates as you go along, and pretty much goes on forever, hard-drive space forbidding.
- Biomes are being added soon, so the landscape will have different areas with different climates, like snow, desert etc.
- Minecarts! Construct entire rail/transport systems, or just rollercoaster type stuff for a lark.
- Use redstone ore as wires to activate doors and lights.
- Build a boat and go sailing the seas.
- Monsters that lurk around in caves or at night. Watch out for Creepers, those things will wreck your ****.
Links of interest:
Notch's development blog - Notch's Twitter - Minecraft Wiki
If you're just getting into the game, the wiki has a nice starting out guide here.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss the game and show off your creations or discoveries.
In conclusion, BUY THIS GAME. It is awesome.
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