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Welcome to the Minecraft Wiki, a publicly accessible and editable wiki for information related to Minecraft. The wiki and its 4,326 articles and 10,353 files are managed and maintained by 324 active contributors from the Minecraft community, along with the wiki's administration team. Anyone can contribute.

About Minecraft

is a sandbox construction game created by Mojang AB founder Markus Persson, and inspired by the Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper games. Gameplay involves players interacting with the game world by placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. In this environment, players can build creative structures, creations, and artwork on multiplayer servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple game modes.

Minecraft is available to all players for €19.95 (US$26.95, £17.95). When purchased, singleplayer and multiplayer game modes can be played using the downloadable stand-alone launcher. Minecraft Classic is available to play for free. Minecraft development started around May 10, 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on June 13, 2009. Minecraft's official release date was November 18, 2011. On September 20, 2014, Minecraft for the computer reached 17 million sales and became the best-selling PC game of all time.

On August 16, 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for the Sony Xperia Play gaming smartphone. After its exclusivity with Sony expired, it was released for Android devices on October 7, 2011, and iOS devices on November 17, 2011 for US$6.99. On April 2, 2014, Minecraft was released for the Amazon Fire TV. It contains all the same features as the Pocket Edition as well as support for the Fire TV's controller.

On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for US$20, where it subsequently broke every previous sales record.

On February 11, 2013, Minecraft: Pi Edition was released for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on the Pocket Edition and is available for free at Mojang's dedicated blog. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for novice programmers and users are encouraged to open and change the game's code using its API.

On December 17, 2013, Minecraft was released for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store for US$19.99. The release was almost identical to the Xbox 360 Edition and was developed in tandem with the Xbox 360 Edition from then on.

On June 26, 2014, the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 editions' sales passed the number of sales for the PC edition of Minecraft, leaving the Minecraft series having sold more than 54 million copies world-wide and become third best-selling video game of all time.

Minecraft was released for the PlayStation 4 on September 4, 2014, the Xbox One on September 5, 2014 and the PlayStation Vita on October 14, 2014.

On September 15, 2014, Mojang AB and all of its assets (including Minecraft) were purchased by Microsoft for US$2.5 billion.

On December 10, 2014, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for Windows Phone 8.1.

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Computer edition


Game	1.8.1	Launcher	1.6.11
Development versions
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Pocket Edition

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Console Edition

TU20

CU8

1.13

Pi Edition

0.1.1

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Gameplay

Explanation of the various game modes and features used in Minecraft.

Game modes

Recipes

Tutorials

Popular and useful pages

Achievements: Information on achievements that can be collected in Minecraft.
Blocks: Detailed information on the various blocks available in Minecraft.
Items: Detailed information on the various items available in Minecraft.
Biomes: Information about all biomes in Minecraft.
Enchanting: Information about enchanting.
Mobs: Information about the various friendly and non-friendly creatures found in Minecraft.
Trading: Detailed information about villager trading.
Redstone circuits: Information about redstone circuits.
Resource packs: Various resource packs that alter the look and feel of the game.
Modifications: Various modifications that alter the gameplay.

News and events

News

December 10, 2014: Minecraft: Pocket Edition released on Windows Phone.
October 14, 2014: Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition was released.
September 15, 2014: Minecraft and Mojang were bought by Microsoft.
September 5, 2014: Minecraft: Xbox One Edition was released.
September 4, 2014: Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition was released.

Recent updates

December 20, 2014: Minecraft 1.12 released on all Playstation Editions.
December 18, 2014: Minecraft TU19 and CU7 released on Xbox 360 Edition and Xbox One Edition respectively.
November 24, 2014: Minecraft 1.8.1 released.
November 18, 2014: Minecraft Alpha 0.10.0 released for the Pocket Edition.
September 2, 2014: Minecraft 1.8 released.

Links

Official links

Reddit communities

Minecraft Wiki partners

Servers and development

Servers: Documentation on starting and maintaining a server.
Minecraft Realms: Information about paid Mojang-hosted servers, known as Realms.
Official issue tracker: Official issue tracker for tracking bug reports and fixes for the computer and Pocket editions.
Development resources: Documentation and information to develop applications to work with Minecraft.
Programs and editors: A list containing several third-party programs that are designed to work with Minecraft.
Custom servers: Documentation and information about custom servers, along with a list of them.