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 mods Around November 2011, the mod "Forge" was released. Rather than adding new gameplay features to "Minecraft", "Forge" allowed players to be able to run several client-side mods simultaneously. Before becoming compatible with "Forge", "IndustrialCraft" and "BuildCraft" would not run side-by-side, because both of them needed to overwrite the same "Minecraft" base Java files. "Forge" ended the necessity to manipulate these files, allowing separate mods to run together without requiring them to touch the base source code. After "Minecraft" received its first full release in November 2011, the game's modding community continued to grow. In February 2012, Mojang hired developers of