Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea.
You can buy Minecraft for PC/Mac here, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition on the XBLA Marketplace, and Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition on the Playstation Network. Minecraft: Pocket Edition is available for iOS and Android.
Minecraft is coming out for Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, and Xbox One soon, but we don't have release dates for those versions yet.
Minecraft for Windows
Download Minecraft.exe. If given the option, save the file instead of running it. Save the file anywhere you'd like, then double-click the program to run.
The Minecraft launcher was updated 01 July 2013. To get latest version of the game, make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of the launcher from the link above.
Multiplayer Server
If you're running on Windows and just want to set up a server easily, download minecraft_server.1.7.8.exe and run it.
If you want to run the server on any other OS or without GUI it's a bit more involved (see this wiki article for a tutorial). First make sure you can use java from the command line. On Linux and Mac OS X this should already be set up but on Windows you might have to tinker with the PATH environment variable. Download and run minecraft_server.1.7.8.jar with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.
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