Written by: Sakshyam Karna - 2025021, Grade VII
Posted on: 30 November, 2020
Minecraft is a sandbox video game invented on May 17, 2009, by Markus Persson also known as “NOTCH” and developed by ‘Morang Studios’. From the time when Minecraft was made, there have been many updates and the latest version is 1.016. The original creator of Minecraft and the founder of Morang studios sold Minecraft and Mojang to Microsoft in 2014 for the US $ 2.5 billion.
This game has 2 versions of it; one is the original Java version and another is bedrock version which was made on August 16 2011. Java consists of 4 modes and bedrock consists of 3 modes. Those modes are creative, survival, adventure and spectator.
The first mode is creative. In this mode, we have access to all the items in the game in our inventory which is the space for items we keep. In this mode, we can unleash our imagination and make all the things from the simplest of houses to grandest of castles by placing cube-shaped items known as blocks.
The second mode is survival in which we have to collect all the items in the game using the resources in the game. We have to survive from entities called hostile mobs, lava, and try not to fall from high places.
Speaking of mobs there are 4 types of them which are:- passive, self protective, hostile and the deadly boss mobs.
Passive mobs are those mobs that won’t harm players at any cost, these mobs can be killed with hostile mobs or by the player. It’s examples are:- cow, pig, sheep, villagers, fish, striders, etc.
Another type of mob is self protective which are powerful mobs that will only attack you when you attack them, steal their stuff or attack someone or something that they are protecting or even their homes . These mobs even fight the hostile mobs. It’s examples are:- dog, golem, piglin, zombified piglin, bees, polar bears, etc.
Another type of mob that is in the game is hostile mobs which will try to attack the players, passive mobs and the self protective mobs at any cost. It’s examples are:- zombie, drowned (water form of zombie), husk(desert form of zombie), skeleton, wither skeleton(sword wilding, neither form of skeleton), enderman, phantom, zombie villager, guardians, creepers, ender mites, spiders, cave spiders (poisonous form of spiders, slime, witches, blazes, piglin brutes, magma cube, etc
The final and the most powerful variant of mob are the bosses. There are 3 bosses and they are elder guardians(the sea temple boss), wither(the neither boss) and the mighty ender dragon(the end boss). Killing the elder guardians gives us access to the treasures of the sea temple. To summon the wither we need to put 3 wither heads on top of a soul sand placed in T shape. Killing the wither gives us a nether star which is used in making beacons which gives us the ability of either strength, haste, jump boost, speed boost or regen. The beacon can be powered when it is on top of a pyramid of either gold, iron, diamond, or emerald. And killing the final boss gives us access to the end cities which contain the best loot in the game and in the warships of end cities we find elytras which are used to fly using firecrackers or glide without firecrackers.
In the game there are 3 dimensions. They are the over world which is the world like earth and that is where we spawn in and most of the things are found there and most of the mobs also spawn there. We need or make houses in the world to survive and collect food otherwise we can starve to death. We also find ores like coal, iron, gold, lapis lazuli, diamonds, emerald, etc. There are different types of dirt blocks like grass blocks, path blocks, scorched dirt, etc. and different stones like smooth stone, cobblestone, moss stone, infested stone, obsidian, neatherak(neither variant is stone), end stone(end variant of stone), etc.
Neither is a dangerous hel-like dimension filled with lava and full of hostile mobs. To make nether portal we need obsidian which we can only collect when we mine it with diamond or netherite pickaxe. Neither has the most useful ores of all the ancient debris and other ores like gold nuggets. There are many useful mobs like strider to ride above lava, piglin to trade and blazes to kill and obtain blaze rod for brewing potions and wither skeleton to kill and get wither head for the wither fight and killing the gast for its tear to make regen potions.
The other dimension is the end which is a barren land consisting of a big center island keeping the ender dragon and killing it opens the portal to the other islands and some existing end cities. To go to the end we need to find the stronghold by using the eye of ender. The portal requires 12 eyes of ender to activate and some of them are already filled and others we have to fill. When the ender dragon is beaten we can see the credits page while returning to th
