Minecraft introduction - Why and where to get it

Minecraft is focused on creativity and building, allowing players to build constructions out of textures cubes in a world. Gameplay in its commercial release has two principal modes: Survival, which requires players to acquire resources themselves and maintain their health and hunger; and Creative, where the player has an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and no concept of health or hunger.

Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival modes where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, and an adventure mode where players play custom maps created by other players. The PC version of the game is renowned for its third-party mods, which add various new items, characters and quests to the game.

As of June 2015, over 70 million copies have been sold, including 20 million between the Xbox 360 and Xbox One and 20 million on PC, making it the best-selling PC game to date and the third best-selling video game of all time

Why is it cool ?

* Limitless worlds
* Limitless possibilities
* Mods allow entirely different looks to the worlds
* Create anything from virtual blocks
* Fight and explore anything
* Control how tough if it is. Whether your character can die or starve or whether they are invincible

How do you get it

You can buy Minecraft for
* PC/Mac on the XBLA Marketplace
* Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition on the XBLA Marketplace
* Minecraft: Xbox One Edition on the XBLA Marketplace,

* Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition on the Playstation Network.
* Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition on the Playstation Network.
* Minecraft: Playstation Vita Edition on the Playstation Network.


Minecraft: Pocket Edition is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Amazon Kindle Fire.

Minecraft for Windows

Download and run Minecraft.msi. This will install Minecraft and create a shortcut in your start menu. If you'd like a version without an installer, you may use Minecraft.exe instead. You do not need Java installed to run either of these.

You’ll need to have Java installed for the game to work.
‘Escape‘ starts the game and allows you to ‘look around’ by moving your mouse.
Press ‘B‘ to see all the blocks you can use