Written by: Siddhartha Malla - 29045, Grade V
Posted on: 15 February, 2022
Minecraft is my favourite video game. It is a paid game and was created by Markus Persson. In Minecraft there are IRON, GOLD, DIAMOND etc. It is like real life but a cube. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of building blocks, each based on one metre cubed measure, in a three-dimensional environment. There are different types of blocks such as grass, stone, and various. Players can craft other items such as furnaces and crafting tables to help them to create and survive the environment. The only unbreakable block is the bedrock which is used to build barriers between Minecraft and the empty void of the digital world.
There are two characters Steve and Alex. Steve is a Boy and Alex is a girl. There are different monsters like Skeleton, Zombie, Creeper, Spider, Cave spider, Wither, Skeleton, Blaze, Slime, Magma Piglin, Hoglin, Zoglin, Zombie villager Ghast, Enderman, Endermite, Schulke Phantom. There are even mobs like villagers, pigs, sheep, cows, chicken, goats, guardian, elder guardian, fish, panda, polar bear, parrot, wolf, fox etc.
There are different tools like Sword: For survival, Pickaxe: Mining, Axe: Wood, Shovel: Sand and Hoe :Farming.
The player chooses an avatar and destroys or creates blocks, forming imaginative structures and fantasy-based artwork. Through singleplayer adventure, creative modes and online multiplayer servers, one can build communities and relationships with other Minecraft fans.
The basic strategy involves surviving the first "night" in Minecraft. Daytime lasts only eleven minutes within which a player must create a secure shelter by chopping down trees. There are no tools at first; one must use fists to punch tree blocks into 'craftable' pieces. Passive creatures that roam during daytime periods are pigs, chickens that look like ducks, cows, sheep, wolves (tamable wild dogs), and squids. Each of these animals drops useful food items or miscellaneous products like feathers, wool, leather. When daytime ends, creatures of the night come in search of unprotected avatars for approximately seven minutes. These creatures, called creepers, are included in all phases of play and can destroy blocks and kill avatars. Creepers, one of the most notorious mobs of the Minecraft universe, sneak up on victims and blow up like a roadside bomb. The last sound one hears before an explosion is a long sizzle sound. Other monsters to avoid are Zombies, Skeleton Archers, Giant Spiders, small venomous spiders, Endermen, and Slimes -- all of which are capable of killing avatars. They surround the avatar's shelter and remain so that the avatar cannot escape without getting hurt. These monsters burn up like vampires when the sun rises and vanishes.
It is a very interesting, entertaining game.
