Mine Craft

Posted by Glen on Jan. 17, 2011, 9:37 a.m.

Explain it to me. Never played. What's the purpose? Why is the community obsessed with it? What do you do in the game? I never got around to playing it, but 64D is not the only community I've seen play MC all the time. So what's the hype about?

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AlexIsBeast 13 years, 10 months ago

It's a survival evolution game, you start off with nothing and you have to start collecting resources. At night zombies and other evil things come out that ttry and kill you, which is why you have to build a shelter out of things you collected. Over all its a pretty good game and you should give it a try. Although its now subscription as its BETA.

:D hope that helped.

JID 13 years, 10 months ago

Pretty much what Alex said.

But he forgot one thing.

He forgot to mention that it's pretty much the best video game idea evar. :D

PY 13 years, 10 months ago

Subscription? There's no subscription fee for minecraft, what are you talking about.

Minecraft is pretty much an infinite, randomly generated landscape of lego, with different types of blocks that you can combine in dozens of different ways to create new blocks, or tools, or items. That is the "craft". The "mine" is that some materials are found deep underground, which means you have to go into caves, or make your own, to find it.

A lot of the appeal is that it is, effectively, unlimited within it's own world. Anything you can see, you can use, or take, or destroy. You can level mountains, or build new ones. You can drain a sea, or simply move it underground. You can build any structure you can imagine, stretching over an area larger than the earth.

Scott_AW 13 years, 10 months ago

It's also apparently addictive, I haven't really played it because I can't afford to get hooked.

Lapixx 13 years, 10 months ago

It's a Christian game that is mainly used to convert non-believers: http://objectiveministries.org/zounds/review-minecraft.html

Mush 13 years, 10 months ago

Scott_AW 13 years, 10 months ago

Bah, that sucked.

Glen 13 years, 10 months ago

Can you see everything that other people have made and interact with them in the online world?

DFortun81 13 years, 10 months ago

Yes.

PY 13 years, 10 months ago

Sort of. There's a singleplayer mode, where no, you can't, but there's also multiplayer mode which is a traditional server-based thing where you all inhabit one persistent world that acts just like the SP world (as in, ~infinite in all directions except up and down) where yes, everybody on that server shares the same world. Not MMO-style, though.