About Minecraft
Minecraft is an open-world sandbox game centered around exploration, creativity, building, crafting, and survival. Players enter procedurally generated worlds made from blocks, where they can gather resources, create tools, construct buildings, explore diverse environments, and shape the world around them.
The game gives players the freedom to decide how they want to play. In Survival mode, players gather resources, manage their health and hunger, craft equipment, explore the world, and survive dangerous creatures and environments. Creative mode provides unlimited resources and the ability to fly, allowing players to focus on construction and experimentation.
Minecraft features a huge variety of biomes, creatures, blocks, items, crafting systems, and dimensions. Players can explore the Overworld, travel to the Nether and the End, create automated systems with redstone, farm resources, customize their characters, and construct everything from simple homes to enormous cities and complex machines.
Minecraft can be played alone or with other players through multiplayer worlds, servers, and Realms. Java Edition is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, while Bedrock Edition is available across Windows, consoles, and mobile platforms with cross-platform multiplayer on compatible devices.
The game continues to receive regular updates and game drops that introduce new blocks, creatures, environments, items, mechanics, and other content. Minecraft also has a large creator ecosystem featuring mods, add-ons, maps, skins, texture packs, servers, and other community-created experiences.
Features & play modes
7Game Gallery
8Additional artwork, environments, characters and promo images.
Screenshots
5Videos
2Where to buy
4Credits
2Creator
Lead Developer
Gameplay & technical
- Game type
- Survival Sandbox
- Perspective
- First Person Third Person
- Camera
- First-person Third-person
- World
- Open World
- Progression
- Nonlinear
- Gameplay
- Crafting Building Exploration
- Player modes
- Single Player Multiplayer Co-op
- Team structure
- Cooperative
- Co-op
- Local Co-op Online Co-op
- Cross-platform
- Supported
- Internet
- Optional
- Connection
- LAN Online
- Servers
- Dedicated Servers Player-hosted
- Account
- Platform Account
- Rendering
- OpenGL
- Graphics API
- OpenGL Vulkan DirectX
Age ratings
Languages
14| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | No | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish | Yes | No | No |
| Italian | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Yes | No | No |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | No | No |
| Korean | Yes | No | No |
| Japanese | Yes | No | No |
| Polish | Yes | No | No |
| Russian | Yes | No | No |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Yes | No | No |
| Arabic | Yes | No | No |
| Turkish | Yes | No | No |
