
It was available for 1600 Microsoft Points ($19.99). On May 9, 2012, Minecraft came out on the Xbox 360 as a download through the Xbox Live Arcade. Minecraft has also released on many video game consoles. In 2012, Persson gave Jens "Jeb" Bergensten the job of being the main developer of Minecraft. This version was later renamed "Bedrock Edition". Later in 2011, a version named Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for iOS and Android devices. The company was later renamed simply to Mojang. Other people started to work on it when Persson started an independent video game company called Mojang Specifications. Īt first, Minecraft was created only by Markus Persson. A version for Android was released on October 7, 2011, and an iOS version was released on November 17, 2011. After going through alpha and beta versions, the full version was released on November 18, 2011. The first version of Minecraft was released for PC players on and it was called Cave Game. Minecraft was inspired by Infiniminer, a game created by Zachary Barth. Minecraft was originally created as an experiment to test random generation for caves. In the past, special versions of Minecraft were made just for video game consoles. Bedrock Edition and Education are written in C++, and Java Edition is written in Java. Java Edition is the first version of Minecraft made, but Bedrock Edition is now used more due to it being multi-platform. Minecraft has three main versions: Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, and Education.

It has a lot of user-generated content (things made by players) like mods, servers, skins, texture packs, and custom maps, which add new gameplay features and game modes to the base game. Players can then build structures using these blocks, such as buildings, statues, pixel art, and more. Players can use these to make new items such as tools and armor, as well as different kinds of blocks.

There are also items the player can use, such as crafting tables, furnaces, blast furnaces, looms, and stonecutters among others.

These include basic terrain and resources such as dirt, stone, wood, and sand. Many of these items are cubes, called "blocks". In Minecraft, players explore a free walkable world filled with many 3D items. This makes it the best-selling video game of all time. Over 238 million copies of the game have been sold. It was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars. Minecraft is a sandbox video game first made by Markus "Notch" Persson.
