What is Minecraft?
Q: What is Minecraft?
A: Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally made by Markus "Notch" Persson. It was run by a company called Mojang Studios before being sold to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars. It is the best-selling video game of all time, and over 238 million copies of the game have been sold. In Minecraft, players explore a free walkable world filled with various 3D items.
Q: What are some of the items found in the game?
A: Many of these items are cubes, called "blocks". These include basic terrain and resources such as dirt, stone, wood, and sand. There are also items the player can use, such as crafting tables, furnaces, blast furnaces, looms, stonecutters and other interactable blocks. Players can use these to make new items such as tools and armor, as well as different kinds of blocks.
Q: What can players do with these blocks?
A: Players can then build structures using these blocks, such as buildings, statues, pixel art, and more.
Q: Is there an active community around Minecraft?
A: Yes! Minecraft has a large community with lots of user-generated content like mods servers skins texture packs custom maps which add new gameplay mechanics and game modes to the base game.
Q: How many versions does Minecraft have?
A: There are three versions of Minecraft - Java Bedrock and Education Edition. Java is the original version but Bedrock is now more used due to it being multi-platform. Bedrock Edition and Education Edition are written in C++ while Java Edition is written in Java.
Q: Who created Minecraft?
A:Minecraft was originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson who ran it through his company Mojang Studios before selling it to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars
