Minecraft

Minecraft
Logo used since 2022
Developer(s)	Mojang Studios[a]
Publisher(s)	Mojang Studios[b] Xbox Game Studios[c] Sony Interactive Entertainment[d] Entertainment One
Designer(s)	Markus Persson[e] Jens Bergensten[f]
Artist(s)	Markus Toivonen Jasper Boerstra
Composer(s)	C418[g]
Series	Minecraft
Platform(s)	Windows, macOS, Linux Android ChromeOS iOS iPadOS Xbox 360 Raspberry Pi Windows Phone PlayStation 3 Fire OS PlayStation 4 Xbox One Xbox One X Xbox One S PlayStation Vita Wii U Apple TV tvOS Nintendo Switch New Nintendo 3DS Xbox Series S Xbox Series X PlayStation 5
Release	18 November 2011[h] Windows, macOS, Linux WW: 17 May 2009[3] Android WW: 7 October 2011[4] iOS WW: 17 November 2011[5] Xbox 360 WW: 9 May 2012[6] Raspberry Pi WW: 11 February 2013[7] PlayStation 3 NA: 17 December 2013 EU: 18 December 2013 Fire OS WW: 2 April 2014[8] PlayStation 4 WW: 4 September 2014[9] Xbox One WW: 5 September 2014[10] PlayStation Vita NA: 14 October 2014[11] EU: 15 October 2014 Windows Phone WW: 10 December 2014[12] Windows 10 WW: 29 July 2015[13] Wii U WW: 17 December 2015[14] tvOS WW: 19 December 2016[15] Nintendo Switch NA: 11 May 2017 PAL: 12 May 2017 New Nintendo 3DS WW: 13 September 2017[16] EU: 20 September 2018 ChromeOS WW: 8 June 2023
Genre(s)	Sandbox, survival
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Minecraft is a sandbox video game first made by Markus "Notch" Persson, It was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars.^[18] Over 300 million copies of the game have been sold.^[19] This makes it the best-selling video game of all time.

In Minecraft, players explore a free walkable world filled with many 3D items. Many of these items are cubes, called "blocks". These include basic terrain and resources such as dirt, stone, wood, and sand. There are also items the player can use, such as crafting tables, furnaces, blast furnaces, looms, and stonecutters among others. Players can use these to make new items such as tools and armor, as well as different kinds of blocks.^[20] Players can then build structures using these blocks, such as buildings, statues, pixel art, and more.

Minecraft has a large community. It has a lot of user-generated content (things made by players) like mods, servers, skins, resource packs, and custom maps, which add new gameplay features and game modes to the base game.

Minecraft has three main versions: Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, and Education. Java Edition is the first version of Minecraft made, but Bedrock Edition is now used more due to it being multi-platform. Bedrock Edition and Education are written in C++, and Java Edition is written in Java. In the past, special versions of Minecraft were made just for video game consoles.

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15. ↑ Jones, Owen (19 December 2016). "minecraft.net – Apple TV Edition released!". Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
16. ↑ Pereira, Chris (13 September 2017). "New 3DS Version Of Minecraft Announced, Release Date Set For Today". GameSpot. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
17. ↑ Persson, Markus (17 May 2009). "Minecraft 0.0.11a for public consumption : The Word of Notch". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
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19. ↑ Boddy, Zachary (2023-10-15). "Minecraft crosses 300 million copies sold as it prepares to celebrate its 15th anniversary". Windows Central. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
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