Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, adventure mode where players can play custom maps created
Minecraft was themed after the "Mass Effect" franchise. Unlike the PC version, however, the "Xbox 360 Edition" does not support player-made mods or custom maps. A cross-promotional resource pack based on the "Super Mario" franchise by Nintendo was released for the "Wii U Edition" worldwide on 17 May 2016. A mash-up pack based on "Fallout" was announced for release on the "Wii U Edition". In June 2017, Mojang released an update known as the "Discovery Update". The update includes a new map, a new game mode, the "Marketplace", a catalogue of user-generated content that gives Minecraft creators "another way to make