Minecraft | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-19

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft


00:02:05 1 Gameplay
00:06:06 1.1 Survival mode
00:08:37 1.2 Creative mode
00:09:07 1.3 Adventure mode
00:09:51 1.4 Spectator mode
00:10:17 1.5 Multiplayer
00:13:00 2 Development
00:16:18 2.1 Soundtrack
00:17:22 3 Release
00:17:31 3.1 Personal computer versions
00:19:54 3.2 Console versions
00:22:14 3.3 iPocket Edition/i
00:23:56 3.4 iBedrock Edition/i
00:24:31 3.5 Raspberry Pi
00:25:16 3.6 Virtual reality
00:26:42 4 Downloadable content
00:29:34 5 Spin-off games
00:29:44 5.1 iMinecraft: Story Mode/i
00:31:04 5.2 iMinecraft: Education Edition/i
00:32:38 5.3 iMinecraft: Dungeons/i
00:33:00 6 Reception
00:35:57 6.1 Sales
00:39:07 6.2 Awards
00:41:52 7 Cultural impact
00:44:26 7.1 Clones
00:45:53 7.2 Adaptations
00:47:07 7.3 Merchandise
00:48:33 7.4 MineCon
00:50:04 8 Applications
00:54:27 9 See also



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Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat.
Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players with certain restrictions, spectator mode where players can freely move throughout a world without being allowed to destroy or build anything and be affected by gravity and collisions, and hardcore mode which is similar to survival mode but the player is given only one chance and the game difficulty is locked on hard. If the player dies on hardcore, the player does not respawn, and the world is unplayable. The Java Edition of the game allows players to create mods with new gameplay mechanics, items, and assets.
Minecraft received critical acclaim and has won numerous awards and accolades. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise, and the MineCon convention played large roles in popularizing the game. It has also been used in educational environments (Minecraft Education Edition), especially in the realm of computing systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices have been built in it. By late 2018, over 154 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, behind Tetris. In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion, with the acquisition completed two months later. Spin-off games, such as Minecraft: Story Mode, have also been released. By mid-2018, the game had around 91 million active players monthly.