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 its release, the "Minecraft VR" mod was discontinued by its developer due to trademark complaints issued by Microsoft, and "Vivecraft" was endorsed by the community makers of the "Minecraft VR" modification due to its Rift support and being superior to the original "Minecraft VR" mod. Also available is a Gear VR version, titled "Minecraft: Gear VR Edition". Windows Mixed Reality support was added in 2017. The only officially supported VR versions of "Minecraft" are "Minecraft: Gear VR Edition" and "Minecraft" on Windows 10 for Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. A wide variety of user-generated downloadable content for "Minecraft",