The Creeper was a mistake
In 2009, while modelling a pig, creator Markus "Notch" Persson mixed up the height and width values. The result was a tall green creature, and the Creeper was born.
Your first adventure starts here
Explore endless worlds, build castles and survive your first night. Everything a new player needs to know.
The first night
Survival guide: four steps until sunrise
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Punch a tree
Walk up to a tree and hold the left mouse button (tap on a phone). Four or five logs are enough to get started.
Tip: leaves sometimes drop saplings and apples.
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Craft a table
Turn logs into planks, then use four planks to make a crafting table and place it on the ground. Right-click it to open the 3×3 grid.
Tip: two planks make sticks, and you need sticks for a pickaxe.
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Make stone tools
Craft a wooden pickaxe, mine some cobblestone, then make a stone pickaxe and sword. Found coal? That's enough for torches.
Tip: stone drops nothing without a pickaxe, so make that first.
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Build a shelter
Dig into a hillside or put up a small house of planks and cobblestone. Block the entrance and place torches inside.
Tip: monsters don't spawn in lit rooms. Wait for sunrise.
A full day lasts about 20 minutes and the night about 7. Tick all four steps to earn an achievement.
Three dimensions
Tap a card to see how to get there and what to expect.
Test your luck
Open the Lucky Block and see what drops. Match three to win.
Lucky Block Spin
Open the block and see what drops.
For fun only. No purchase needed and no cash value. See the Terms.
Interactive crafting table
Pick an item from your inventory, then click a grid cell to place it. Click the same cell again to remove it. Try a pickaxe: three planks across the top and two sticks down the middle.
Inventory
Crafting 3×3
Select an item in your inventory and place it in the grid.
Items crafted: 0
Recipe book
Click a recipe and it fills the grid.
Fun facts
60,000,000 World size
The world is limited to a 60 million by 60 million block square. If one block is a square metre, that's roughly seven times the surface of the Earth.
Ghast sounds
The ghast's eerie wails were reportedly made from recordings of a cat belonging to the game's composer, Daniel Rosenfeld (C418).
20:00 One game day
A full day-night cycle takes 20 minutes of real time. About seven of those are the dangerous night.
300M+ Best-selling game
Over 300 million copies have been sold, making Minecraft the best-selling video game of all time.
1 : 8 Fast travel via the Nether
One block in the Nether equals eight in the Overworld. Dig a tunnel through the Nether and you'll cover huge distances in minutes.
Ready to play?
Your world is waiting. Grab Minecraft, start in Survival and follow the four steps above. You'll be ready before the first sunset.
