you craft mines and blow ♥♥♥♥ to pieces. you step on other people's mines and get blown to pieces as well. it's an explosive combination, a true mind-blowing experience that will make you c (the world) 4 what it really is.

It's a digital vacation simulator. Perfect game for escapism.

You go in and do what you want because it's a sandbox. There's no wrong way to spend your time in it. You're not forced to do any quests.

Explore, build a home, farm, trade, work on a large construction project, attempt to beat the game, the choice is yours.

I've played lego, but minecraft blocks are more fun because they aren't constrainted by irl physical limits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HroSfvsOqNs

I was one of the original backers way back when the game was just coming out of alpha.

I still fire it up occasionally if I feel like building a physics-defying tower or digging a truss-free mine that would haunt a geologist's darkest dreams, but it's changed a *lot* since those early days.

Come a long way from my first lava-vomiting chicken nearly twenty years back.

Minecraft is pretty open-ended.
For example, there is a circuitry system inside called Redstone, and you can design pretty complex computers, machines and systems.

The world is functionally infinite so you can explore, functionally, forever.

It's highly moddable so you can change pretty much any aspect.

You can change any aspect of the world outside the base layer of bedrock.

It's an open world survival game. With creative building that is on par with legos. I personally like the open world survival game mechanics. But it is undeniably the creative aspects of the game that has given it staying power.

Also, mods and the community gave the game an endless amount of content over the years. It's on par with the biggest of modding communities.

I played it for the fun but I couldn't pinpoint my 'home' so kept getting lost (or something)

This video will best describe it for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmB9b5njVbA

Minecraft is very addicting...So many sources online can tell you everything you have asked...Just utilize a search engine...Do not over-mod the game...It will get boring if you make things too easy...

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Minecraft is very addicting...So many sources online can tell you everything you have asked...Just utilize a search engine...Do not over-mod the game...It will get boring if you make things too easy...

People who played it can give opinion on a forum i am familiar with, I hate search engines.

All the replies here have given insight I still don't quite it its draw but it has nudged me into getting it later on. - Styx is currently on sale so that will be my current purchase whether i play it or not.

This has been helpful.

You get chased by some explosive green bush.

The java edition is good. I would not play the new version made by Microsoft.

Eventually they will shut it down. I think a new indie game will move in to take its place. In particular I wonder what Re-Logic is working on next? If they make a 3D version of Terraria I think all the Minecraft JE exiles will move on to that.

I haven't played it too much, makes my head hurt

I owned minecraft since beta.. I don't play it anymore.. the last was in the update before the update that added horses.
in that update they changed how things were rendered.. that made it lighter on potato pc.. but as a side effect it caused many people including me motion sickness and it did not matter if you altered the setting this change which basicly was like a laughing mirron bending instead of straight horizon.. could not be turned off....
it rendered the game totally unplayable for me..

I never was a fan when they started to add mobs.. fighting to me wass irrelevant.. and I played before the end existed (I remember it being added was one of the last things before I quit)
I also remember survival being the only mode.. there was no creative.. but due also no combat element.. also no true danger just the need to mine every block.. for what you wanted to craft..
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basicly i compared it to digital lego....

and if I look to todays minecraft.. i think it has gone astray from this idea just as todays lego has
-there used to be only 5 colours lego blocks each in just just these 20 types :
1x1 1x2 2x2 2x4
1x4 1x8
- all in full and 1/3d thickness
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-> + 6 special pieces
**a smooth 1/3d thickness in 2x2 and 1x1
**a standard window bend
**a wheel
**a axel bar
**a nut to slide on the bar
**a 1x1 with a pin on the side
**a 1x1 with a hole in the middle

thus with 20 pieces... in 5 colours.. 100 different in total EVERYTHING lego was made
and it was fantastic...

thats also why most sets had 3-7 manuals to show what you could build with it (and those were just suggestion

than they started to grow lazy and instead of making sets of standard bricks more and more bricks became custom for the set...
so now there are thousands of legobricks many only in 1 set.. and most sets utterly restrictive.. the whole freedom gone..

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minecraft also went a bit trough that path.. there have been added SO many different types of blocks.. that instead of having to use your creativity you just use another block..
**than there is the whole enchantment path.. turning it also much heavier in a combat/survival world.. which is I think a mistake.. as was adding mobs in the first place..

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so minecraft at it's core is.. you mine blocks.. than craft with those blocks.. the eifel tower, the star trek enterprise, the earth.. anything goes..
**you you not want to craft you can go survival and just focus on the building only no need to collect the blocks first..
**but there are those who make it all about survival.. in a brutal world.. survive... get the best gear.. enchant it with the best enchantments.. slay the endboss.... end game.. restart..

Because you can do basically everything you want to do, from simple houses to the functional chatGPT. You can create farms, amazing build, explore, sell and buy things, have your own animals and do amazing things with redstone

https://youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?si=-FgHN9EhZfvQnx1P

https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I?si=luJRdlR8EnOlB3Of

https://youtu.be/E5gEI9JYLHE?si=aYsb3FeGy7Kz8cPY

Minecraft is basically a blank paper where you can draw whatever you want

I had played 'Mine Craft' and built this huge castle into the outermost layer of the atmosphere and to get there you had to ride the train coaster and then find the 3 hidden switches that takes you up, up and away. Someone got lost one time and I had to kick them because they got annoying because I locked them into the wall, the rest is history.