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With the advancements in technology, everything around us is getting better day by day. With it, modern-day gaming has also come a long way; people familiar with the gaming scenario are aware of its progress and have heard of Minecraft. Many games played a vital role in where modern gaming is currently among them; one stands out tall from its release to this current day and its Minecraft.
Minecraft is
a sandbox video game created by Swedish developer Markus Persson, released by
Mojang in 2011 and purchased by Microsoft in 2014. It is the single
best-selling video game of all time, selling over 180 million copies across all
platforms by late 2019, with over 112 million monthly active players.
Before we
dive into the game, let us have a look at what the system requirements are for
running Minecraft across all platforms.
Minecraft Minimum Requirements
CPU: Intel
Core i3 3210 | AMD A8 7600 APU or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB
RAM
HDD: 180 MB
to 1 GB available space
GPU: Intel
HD Graphics 4000 or AMD Radeon R5 series | NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series or AMD
Radeon HD 7000 series
OS: 64-bit
Windows 7 or later
Screen
Resolution: 1024 x 768 or better
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Minecraft Recommended Requirements
CPU: Intel
Core i5 4690 | AMD A10 7800 or equivalent
RAM: 8 GB
RAM
HDD: 4 GB
(SSD recommended) available space
GPU: NVIDIA
GeForce 700 Series | AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series
OS: 64-bit
Windows 10
Screen
Resolution: 1024 x 768 or better
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Optimal
Hardware Suggestions
What Gaming PC Do We Recommend?
The recommended
specifications are a great starting point and should be more than enough for
most players to experience Minecraft in all its glory;
CPU: Intel
Core i5 4690
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: NVIDIA
GeForce 700 Series | AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series
If you need
a push in the right direction, we recommend our $500 PC build. It’s more than
powerful enough to handle everything. Even heavily-modded Minecraft can throw
its way. 16 GB of RAM, a versatile AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, and the great XFX
Radeon RX 570 make it a budget-friendly option that doesn’t skimp on
performance.
Now that
specifications are covered let us dive into what Minecraft is and discuss its
gameplay.
Minecraft is
a 3D sandbox game that has no specific goals set; it allows players a large
amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game. However, there is an
achievement system. The gameplay is by default set at a First-person
perspective but is also available from Third person perspective. The game world
is composed of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes and fluids and commonly called
“blocks”—representing various materials, such as dirt, stone, ores,
tree trunks, water, and lava. The core gameplay revolves around picking up and
placing these objects. These blocks are arranged in a 3D grid, while players
can move freely around the world. Players can “mine” blocks and then
place them elsewhere, enabling them to build things.
The game
world is virtually infinite and procedurally generated as players explore it.
There are limits on vertical movement, but Minecraft allows an infinitely large
game world to be created on the horizontal plane. Due to technical problems, it
is challenging to reach extremely distant locations. However, there is a
barrier preventing players from traversing to places beyond 30,000,000 blocks from
the center. The game achieves this by splitting the world data into smaller
sections called “chunks” that are created or loaded when players are
nearby. The terrain includes plains, mountains, forests, caves, and various
lava/water bodies. The in-game time system follows a day and night cycle, and
one full period lasts 20 real-time minutes.
Minecraft
has two alternate dimensions besides the overworld (which is the leading world
players start from): the Nether and the End. The Nether is a hell-like dimension
accessed via player-built portals; it contains many unique resources and can be
used to travel great distances in the overworld. The End is a barren land
consisting of many islands. A boss dragon called the Ender Dragon dwells on the
main island. They are killing the dragon cues the game’s ending credits, and
Irish novelist Julian Gough wrote a poem. Players are then spawned at the
starting point and can continue to play the game indefinitely.
The game
consists of five game modes: survival, creative, adventure, hardcore, and
spectator. It also has a changeable difficulty system of four levels. For
example, the peaceful difficulty prevents hostile creatures from spawning, and
the hard problem allows players to starve to death if their hunger bar depletes.
So now that
we discussed core gameplay, let us discuss some questions regarding gameplay
that is widely asked by players and fans alike.
HOW TO MAKE A SADDLE IN MINECRAFT?
In
Minecraft, a saddle is an item that you cannot make with a crafting table or furnace.
Instead, you need to find and gather this item in the game. Most commonly, a
saddle can be found inside a chest in a dungeon or Nether Fortress or you can
catch a saddle while fishing.
HOW TO TAME A HORSE IN MINECRAFT?
Steps to
Tame and Ride a Horse
- Find a Horse. In Minecraft when you
find a horse, you can tame it. … - Tame the Horse. First, select an
empty slot in your hotbar (because you must use your hand to tame the horse).
… - Put a Saddle on the Horse. …
- Mount the Horse. …
- Dismount the Horse.
HOW TO MAKE A SHIELD IN MINECRAFT?
In Minecraft, these are
the materials you can use to craft a shield:
TIP: You can use any type of wood plank! You don’t have to gather
them all.
How to craft a Shield in
Survival Mode
1. Open the Crafting Table
2. Add Items to make a Shield
In the
crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting
grid. To make a shield, place 1 iron ingot and 6 wood planks in the 3×3 crafting grid.
When
crafting with wood planks, you can use any kind of wood planks, such as oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, or dark oak wood planks. In our example, we are using oak wood
planks.
When making
a shield, it is important that the iron ingot and wood planks are placed in the
exact pattern as the image below. In the first row, there should be 1 wood
plank in the first box, 1 iron ingot in the second box and 1 wood plank in the
third box. In the second row, there should be 3 wood planks. In the third row,
there should be 1 wood plank in the second box. This is the Minecraft crafting
recipe for a shield.
Now that you have filled the crafting area with the correct pattern, the shield will appear in the box to the right.
3. Move the Shield to Inventory
Once you have crafted a
shield, you need to move the new item to your inventory.
Congratulations, you have made a shield in Minecraft! Now customize it with patterns, stripes, and colors.
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK IN MINECRAFT?
In the
crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting
grid. To make a book, place 3 papers and 1 leather in the 3×3 crafting grid.
When making a book, it is important that the papers and leather are placed in
the exact pattern
HOW TO ALLOCATE MORE RAM TO MINECRAFT?
- Check your computer’s available RAM.
… - Open the Minecraft launcher. …
- Click the Launch options tab. …
- Make sure the Advanced settings
switch is on. … - Click the profile you want to change.
… - Turn on the JVM arguments switch. …
- Edit the amount of RAM that Minecraft
can use. … - Click SAVE.
HOW TO BREED HORSES IN MINECRAFT?
Select each horse.Right-click or left-trigger each of the horses with the golden apples equipped. Doing so will prompt red hearts to appear over each horse’s head, signifying that they’re ready to breed. On Minecraft PE, you’ll face each horse and tap Feed at the bottom of the screen.
HOW TO MAKE A FENCE IN
MINECRAFT?
In the crafting menu,
you should see a crafting area made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make an oak
fence, place 4 oak wood planks and 2 sticks in the 3×3 crafting grid.
HOW TO MAKE A LEAD IN
MINECRAFT?
To make a lead, place
4 string and 1 slimeball in the 3×3 crafting grid. When making a lead, the
strings and slimeball placed in the exact pattern, there should be 1 string in
the first box and 1 string in the second box.
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So now that we
discussed some core gameplay, let us have a look at what critics had to say and
the awards Minecraft has received.
Critic Review and
Awards:
In July 2010, PC Gamer
listed Minecraft as the fourth-best game to play at work. Gamasutra named it
the eighth-best game of the year as well as the eighth-best indie game of the
year, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun called it the “game of the year.” Indie
DB awarded the game the 2010 Indie of the Year award as chosen by voters, in
addition to two out of five Editor’s Choice awards for Most Innovative and Best
Singleplayer Indie. PC Gamer UK also awarded it Game of the Year. The game was
also nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Technical Excellence, and
Excellence in Design awards at the March 2011.
At Game Developers Choice Awards 2011,
Minecraft won awards in the categories for Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable
Game and Innovation Award, winning every award for which it got nominated. It
also won GameCity’s video game arts award. On 5 May 2011, Minecraft became one
of the 80 games that got displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum as
part of The Art of Video Games exhibit that opened on 16 March 2012.
At the 2011 Spike
Video Game Awards, Minecraft won the award for Best Independent Game and got
nominated in the Best PC Game category. In 2012, at the British Academy Video
Games Awards, Minecraft was nominated in the GAME Award of 2011 class, and
Persson received The Special Award. In 2012, Minecraft XBLA was awarded a
Golden Joystick Award in the Best Downloadable Game category, and a TIGA Games
Industry Award in the Best Arcade Game category. In 2013 it was nominated as
the family game of the year at the British Academy Video Games Awards.
Minecraft Console Edition won the award for TIGA Game of the Year in 2014. In
2015, the game placed 6th on USgamer’s The 15 Best Games Since 2000 list. In
2016, Minecraft placed 6th on Time’s The 50 Best Video Games of All Time list.
Minecraft was
nominated for the 2013 Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite App but lost. It got
nominated for the 2014 Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite Video Game. They later
won the award for the Most Addicting Game at the 2015 Kids’ Choice Awards.
Besides, the Java Edition was nominated for “Favorite Video Game” at
the 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards, while the game itself won the “Still
Playing” award at the 2019 Golden Joystick Awards.
Below are the
streamers who stream Minecraft on twitch daily and are very popular
TOP 10 STREAMERS:
- ThatMumboJumbo
- AntVenom
- JonBams
- ElRichMC
- falsesymmetry
- Bacon_Donut
- Sevadus
- iJevin
- PewDiePie
- Wyld
It may be up for
debate who is number one on the list, but this is strictly our opinion, and it
is subject to change.
Now that we had a look
at how you can learn more about the game and get entertainment via popular
streamers, let us have a look at how much the game costs.
The price for
Minecraft varies, depending on where you buy it. If you buy it for a PC from
the Minecraft.net website, expect to pay around $27 as of July 2017. You can
also buy gift cards on the website. If you want to download Minecraft to your
favorite console, expect to pay $20 to $30 for the base game, and about $30 or
more on the Wii U if you opt to buy the Favorites Pack. Minecraft: Pocket
Edition allows you to play the game on a variety of mobile devices and costs
about $7 for the app.
Above, we discussed
all the progress Minecraft has made over the years, but now let us look at some
fun facts about this game.
FUN FACTS ABOUT
MINECRAFT:
1. THE FIRST VERSION
OF MINECRAFT RELEASED IN JUST SIX DAYS.
In 2009, Swedish
programmer and designer Markus Persson (known affectionately to fans as
“Notch”) set out to create a sandbox game—one that allows for free and organic
exploration of a virtual world. Persson began work on what is now Minecraft on
May 10 of that year, amending the product in increments until May 16. The
“alpha version” of Minecraft made its public debut the very next day.
2. THE GAME WASN’T
DEEMED COMPLETE FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS.
Following Minecraft’s
release on PC, Mojang would periodically update and tweak the game until
delivering what the company considered its full version on November 18, 2011.
3. THE GAME’S FIRST
NAME WAS MUCH MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD.
When Persson kicked
off the development process, he referred to the project as “Cave Game.” The
name was soon changed to Minecraft: Order of the Stone, and, ultimately, just
Minecraft.
4. SEVERAL OTHER GAMES
INSPIRED MINECRAFT.
Minecraft’s creator
has heralded PC video games Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, RollerCoaster
Tycoon, and Infiniminer as the primary influences for Minecraft.
5. CREEPERS BEGAN AS A
CODING ERROR.
One of Minecraft’s
stranger native species is the creeper, an electrically charged predator with a
haunting mug. Persson didn’t set out to design such a monster; he was trying to
create a pig, but accidentally switched the figures for desired height and
length when inputting the code. The result was the monstrosity that players
know and love.
6. THE ENDERMAN
LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH IN REVERSE (OR PITCHED DOWN).
Another haunting
Minecraft species is the Enderman. While this creature’s speech is nearly
incomprehensible to the human ear, most of its exclamations are English words
and phrases (including “hiya,” “here,” “this way,” “forever,” and “what’s up?”)
played backward or lowered in pitch.
7. A SLEEPING CAT
VOICES GHASTS.
One other Minecraft
monster owes its vocal rumblings to a real-world creature. Any player can
recognize the high-pitched whine of the ghast, the game’s resident block-shaped
fire-breather. These sounds are the result of an accidental audio recording of
Minecraft music producer Daniel “C418” Rosenfeld’s cat as it woke up from a
nap.
8. MINECRAFT PLAYS A
BIG ROLE AT A SWEDISH SCHOOL.
In 2013, the Viktor
Rydberg secondary school in Stockholm introduced Minecraft as a mandatory part
of its curriculum for all of its 13-year-old students. A teacher explained what
made the game worthwhile for students: “They learn about city planning,
environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the
future.”
9. BUT IS AN EVEN
BIGGER DEAL IN DENMARK.
Sweden’s neighbor to
the south has touted an even more deep affection for Minecraft. In 2014, state
employees Simon Kokkendorf and Thorbjørn Nielsen of the Danish Geodata Agency
completed a scale replica of the entire nation of Denmark within the digital
world-building game to help drive interest in geographic data.
10. GAME’S FAME IS THE
PRODUCT OF FREE MARKETING.
According to a study
conducted by Annenberg School of Communication doctoral student Alex Leavitt,
one-third of early Minecraft users first heard about the game from friends, and
another third discovered the game through YouTube videos.
11. DESPITE CLAIMING
AN INFINITE SPAN, THE GAME’S WORLD HAS SEEN ITS LIMITS.
In 2011, Persson took
to his blog to address the limitations of the allegedly boundless world of
Minecraft:
The terrain generates
itself, saves and loaded, and (kind of) rendered in chunks of 16*16*128 blocks.
If you go outside that range (about 25% of the distance from where you are now
to the sun), loading and saving chunks start overwriting old chunks. At a 16/th
of that distance, things that use integers for block positions, such as using
items and pathfinding, start overflowing and acting weird.
12. HOWEVER, ONE
DEVOTED FAN CHOSE TO SET OFF ON AN ENDLESS QUEST.
Players would have to
walk an extreme distance—the digital equivalent of approximately 7500
miles—before witnessing severe coding meltdown. This virtual wasteland was
known, appropriately, as the “Far Lands.”
13. THE CREATOR’S
AVATAR BOASTS A UNIQUE TRAIT.
Appropriately enough,
Persson reserved a unique trick for his personal Minecraft avatar. His
character is the only game resident who drops an apple when he dies.
14. PERSSON OPENED UP
BIDDING FOR MINECRAFT WITH A TWEET.
Ostensibly fed up with
the corporate politics that accompanied running a video game developer, Persson
sent out a tweet in June 2014, hoping to gauge the interest of any outside
parties in purchasing his Mojang shares. Three months later, he officially sold
the company to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
15. EVERY ONCE IN A
WHILE, THE GAME GETS ITS NAME WRONG.
One in every 10,000
times you play the game, its primary menu flashes a misspelling of its title,
reversing the “E” and the “C” to read, “Minecraft.”
Now that we talked
about the fun facts let’s have a look at the most FAQ (frequently asked
questions) regarding this game.
Q: How can I get a
custom skin for my character?
A: To use a custom
skin for Java Edition, you must first purchase the game. You can then go to
your profile page on the Minecraft website, download the reference skin, edit
it to your liking and finally upload your customized skin also at the
preferences page. You should now appear with your new look whenever you play.
You need to log into your account for it to show. Be sure to keep the picture
the same size, name, and location as it was when you first opened it, or else
Minecraft may not recognize it and may not function correctly. Although this
method causes your character to wear your custom skin all of the time, other
people on multiplayer servers may not see your skin because they are not using
the “minecraft.jar” in which you changed the default player skin. To
ensure maximum over-all visibility of your custom skin, one might recommend
that do both processes mentioned in this paragraph. However, the second process
mentioned in this paragraph will probably not work for Minecraft Classic.
Skin packs are
available for purchase on the Legacy Console Edition and Bedrock Edition of
Minecraft, most of these cost money, but some of them are free. Additionally,
you can upload a skin from the internet. Use a search engine or Minecraft skin
website to find one, then upload it to Bedrock Edition. You can also create
your skin using the Minecraft: Skin Studio or any image editing software of
your choice. Then upload it to Bedrock Edition. See skins for more information.
Q: Can the water level
change?
A: Yes. Water can be
picked up with a bucket and placed in other locations to form a spring. Water
drains downwards and outwards when filling spaces adjacent to the spring, and
the flow stops when the source block is picked. However, the general
“sea” level never changes.
In Classic, the water
level set by the level of the ocean border surrounding the map, and so cannot
change. Water fills any adjacent space, and even a single water block acts as
an infinite source that is capable of flooding everything at or below its
height. Some custom multiplayer servers allow players to “build” both
active and static water blocks, and it is also possible to add water to your
maps by using an editor.
Q: What are the
controls?
A: See, Controls. The
controls can be found beneath the creative mode gameplay window and are
customizable from the pause menu (accessible by pressing Escape). In Minecraft,
the “Controls…” menu is available in the “Options…”
menu. By default, these are:
W = forward
A = left
S = reverse
D = right
Space = jump
Left Shift = sneak
Left Ctrl = sprint
Tab ↹ = list players(for multiplayer)
E = inventory
T = talk/chat
Q = drop item
F = swap item with
offhand
Esc = cancel
A two-button mouse for
mouselook. In general, hold the left mouse button to destroy blocks or punch
Mobs, right-click to place blocks, activate certain blocks, or eat food. An
alternative to Left Ctrl for sprinting is double-tapping the direction key.
Sprinting can only be in the forward direction.
Q: How can I drop a
stack of items?
A: You can drop a
complete stack of items by picking it up in the inventory screen and then
closing the inventory screen. The stack of items you were holding gets dropped.
You can also grab a stack and click with it outside the inventory window to
throw it. Pressing Ctrl+Q throws a stack of items.
Leaving items in a
crafting square of the inventory or the crafting table cause them to drop when
the inventory closes.
Q: How do I save and
reload my position (spawn point)?
A: In the full game,
spawn location is where you start at the beginning of a map, and you return
there if you killed. This spawn point can be changed by sleeping in a bed or
using the /spawnpoint command. There are also unofficial mods in which you can
change the spawn point. There is a command entitled /setworldspawn, which changes
the spawn point of the entire world.
In Classic, your spawn
location starts as the default that the admin set. This can change by pressing
Enter, saving your current location so that you respawn there when R is
pressed.
Q: How do you make
plants grow? They keep disappearing on me.
A: This depends on the
plant’s needs for its surroundings and the light level. If you are growing
underground (not directly exposed to the sky), you need to have adequate
lighting, or the crop will uproot itself. Grass only grows on dirt and needs a
light level of 4 or higher to spread (see its requirements for more details).
Mushrooms, however, will only spread onto solid blocks with a light level lower
than 12 (see mushroom farming for more details).
Bone Meal will speed
up growth on individual plants (like planted seeds to fully grown wheat,
saplings to trees, and grass blocks to tall grass and flowers if used multiple
times.
Q: Why does my
building collapse / get destroyed on its own?
A: Sand, gravel,
anvils, and concrete powder are subject to gravity. A sand, gravel anvil or
concrete powder block that has no blocks underneath it will fall until hits
another block.
Wood, wood planks, and
many other materials are flammable and may be set on fire if placed near fire
or lava, or lit by Flint and Steel. Other possible causes of a missing or
damaged house could be Endermen carrying away the blocks of your house (If made
of blocks that an Enderman can carry) or explosions caused by a creeper or TNT.
If you are playing on multiplayer, your house could have been griefed
(destroyed purposely by other players). Also, however unlikely, your house may
have been hit by lightning and set on fire.
Q: What are the blocks
affected by gravity?
A: Sand, gravel,
anvils, dragon eggs, Armor Stands, and concrete powder will fall into space
directly underneath them. TNT is subject to gravity only when primed (because
it turns into an entity). Lava and water are fluid and will flow from their
source block. All other blocks — dirt, stone, glass, etc. — are not affected by
gravity. In Bedrock Edition, snow layers are affected by gravity.
Q: Do the small plants
grow into full trees?
A: None of the plants
naturally present do, but if you plant saplings in a lit area with enough space
above and around them, they will grow into small or large trees if given time.
You can also use bone meal to make them grow much faster. Mushrooms can also be
grown; however, they can only be grown by using bone meal.
Q: How do I play an
external map in Survival Mode?
A: You must place the
folder containing your map in one of the following folders:
Windows:
%appdata%\.minecraft\saves\
GNU/Linux:
~/.minecraft/saves/
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Minecraft/saves/
Q: Who is this, Notch
guy?
A: Notch is the
creator of Minecraft, as well as its former lead developer. He was the Lead
Developer for a long time until on December 2, 2011, when he stepped down and
gave developer Jeb the title of Lead Developer. Notch stated that he would not
work on Minecraft any longer as he is testing his new coding skills on making
different games. Notch later left Mojang after Microsoft acquired it.
Q: Are multiplayer
servers safe?
A: It depends.
However, some servers can have bullies, inappropriate language, or griefers
(griefers are people who destroy player-made buildings for fun and annoyance).
Generally, small servers have fewer griefers, as well as servers with
anti-griefing plugins. If you don’t want exposure to inappropriate language,
most servers do not have to swear words. If you don’t want bullies, having a
private server for you and your friends should completely fix your problem. On
Minecraft server websites, read the comments as well as the description,
because the commenters can expose nasty information about the server that you
would have otherwise learned first-hand (the hard way).
So there we go, we
tried to compile as much data as possible about the game you know and love
Minecraft. Some passages are strictly our personal opinion, while others are
facts collected from several websites. Hope you have had a fun ready we would
like to know your opinions, constructed criticism is highly appreciated.
