Minecraft

Minecraft is one of the most popular games out there. One of the interesting things about Minecraft is that it was first created by only guy. He was a Swedish programmer named Markus Persson who gave himself the nickname Notch. He then founded a company called Mojang which worked on Minecraft. He decided to leave Notch after they got bought out by Microsoft.

                Minecraft is a sandbox game that gives its players the ability to build anything that they want. Minecraft is split into two main game modes, survival and creative. Survival mode is what Minecraft was originally created as. In survival mode, players have to collect resources and build items or shelters using the resources that you collect. The first resource that you want to start collecting is wood. You use wood to build the starting tools that you need to collect other resources. You can build a pickaxe to mine stone and then you can use that stone to build a stronger pickaxe that can mine more materials. One thing that is special about survival mode is that at night monsters come out. If you get too close to one of the monsters they will start attacking you. Some examples of these monsters are zombies, skeletons, or the infamous creeper. Creepers come at you and will explode when they get close. This can destroy anything that you happen to be working on.

                Creative mode is a mode where players get an infinite amount of resources and the ability to fly. Creative mode allows the player to focus on building things and gives players the ability to create very large structures in a relatively short amount of time. Players don’t have a health bar so they can’t be damaged by monsters or falling. In survival mode players have a food bar so they have to eat food constantly but in creative mode players don’t need to worry about that. Another mode that you can play is called adventure mode. Adventure mode is used to play custom maps made by other players. Adventure mode is similar to survival mode but restricts some of the other things players can do which lets them play as the mapmaker intended. Another mode is hardcore mode. Hardcore mode is exactly like survival mode except you can’t respawn. In survival mode if you die you come back at the last bed that you slept in. However in hardcore mode you can’t come back and if you die then your world is deleted.

                Minecraft is a very fun game when you first start it out. There is a very steep learning curve to this game. There is no tutorial so you have to just try and figure things out for yourself. There are many times that will surprise you. The first time you meet a creeper will freak you out. Also your first time finding diamond can be very exciting. However after you play for a little while and figure everything out this game can get kind of boring. You pretty much just do the same thing over and over again. Creative mode can continue to be fun though if you are creative enough to build cool structures.

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