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Minecraft is a sandbox game orginally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and was later developed and published by Mojang.

Blocks

Blocks make up the Minecraft landscape, and are integral to gameplay. They can be used in crafting and can be manipulated in many ways. The face of a block is 16 by 16 pixels, however using texture packs you can increase this to 1024 by 1024 pixels these texture packs take lots of RAM, and each block is proportionately one cubic meter.

Crafting Items

As the uses of natural blocks are limited, it is imperative that players make use of the crafting interface in order to survive. Players can combine items in a 2x2 interface (extended to 3x3 by use of a crafting table), with each item taking up one square. Different arrangements of items create useable items, which players can exploit to further their collection of resources, and in turn create more items.

Hardware requirements

Any computer with the following hardware should suffice, however, for an enjoyable experience, we suggest looking at the Recommended Requirements.

Minimum Requirements:

CPU : Intel P4/NetBurst Architecture or its AMD Equivalent (AMD K7)

RAM : 2GB

GPU : Intel GMA 950 or AMD Equivalent

HDD : At least 90MB for Game Core and Sound Files

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or up is required to be able to run the game.

Recommended Requirements:

CPU : Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 (K8) 2.6 GHz

RAM : 4GB

GPU : GeForce 6xxx or ATI Radeon 9xxx and Up with OpenGL 2 Support (Excluding Integrated Chipsets)

HDD : 150MB

Official Release

The Minecraft Official Release is when Minecraft was publicly released. Minecraft was officially released on November 18, 2011 during Minecon 2011. The starting version is 'Minecraft 1.0.0' and the latest version is      Minecraft 1.5.2 ,Minecraft 1.0 was also known as the second part of the Adventure Update, the first one being Beta 1.8.

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