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copied!<p><strong>Minecraft</strong> is a voxel-based sandbox game coded in Java with LWJGL (which includes OpenGL) by Markus "Notch" Persson and his company Mojang. </p> <p>In September 2014 Mojang was bought by Microsoft and the founders including Notch no longer work for the company. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29204518" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source</a>.</p> <p>In the game players interact with the world formed of blocks to gain resources that can be used to create tools, structures, shelter, and eventually, complicated machinery. The game comes with enough features of wiring to allow the complexity to build a full 16-bit CPU out of its wiring.</p> <p>Multiplayer functionality can be used by downloading a server that runs in Java and takes commands from the command line or from users typing commands starting with a backslash <code>/</code> in-game on the server chat. </p> <p>Questions are also sometimes used with <a href="/questions/tagged/java" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'java'" rel="tag">java</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/bukkit" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'bukkit'" rel="tag">bukkit</a> to denote coding <a href="http://bukkit.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bukkit</a> plugins written in Java, which modify serverside behavior of the game (but cannot add new blocks or items, only new behaviours). Such plugins normally support the <a href="http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CraftBukkit</a> and <a href="http://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/about-spigot/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Spigot</a> implementations of the API, although there are some with specific implementation dependencies. A Bukkit plugin's base plugin class must extend <a href="http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/doxygen/d7/deb/classorg_1_1bukkit_1_1plugin_1_1java_1_1JavaPlugin.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin</code></a> for the Bukkit Server class loader to recognize them. Note that as of August 21, 2014 at 8:42 AM, <a href="http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-its-time-to-say-goodbye.305106/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bukkit has been discontinued</a>, and both <a href="https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukkit/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CraftBukkit</a> and <a href="https://github.com/SpigotMC/Spigot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Spigot</a> (implementations of Bukkit) <a href="https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-09-05-CraftBukkit.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">has been taken down due to DMCA requests</a>.</p> <p>Clientside mods are usually written using [MinecraftForge] and are capable of adding new blocks and items. For more information about MinecraftForge, see <a href="/questions/tagged/minecraft-forge" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'minecraft-forge'" rel="tag">minecraft-forge</a>.</p> <p>Minecraft is available on:</p> <ul> <li><strong>PC</strong> <em>May 17, 2009</em> (first public release as <em>Developmental Alpha Version</em>)</li> <li><strong>Xperia Play</strong> - <em>August 16, 2011</em> (<em>Pocket Edition</em>)</li> <li><strong>Android</strong> - <em>October 7, 2011</em> (<em>Pocket Edition</em>)</li> <li><strong>iOS</strong> - <em>November 17, 2011</em> (<em>Pocket Edition</em>)</li> <li><strong>PC</strong> - <em>November 18, 2011</em> (<em>Official Release</em>)</li> <li><strong>Raspberry Pi</strong> - <em>February 11, 2013</em> (<em>Pi Edition</em> based on the <em>Pocket Edition</em>)</li> <li><strong>Playstation 3</strong> - <em>May 14, 2014</em> </li> <li><strong>Playstation 4</strong> - <em>October 3, 2014</em></li> <li><strong>Xbox 360</strong> - <em>May 9, 2012</em></li> <li><strong>Xbox One</strong> - <em>September 5, 2014</em></li> <li><strong>Nintendo Switch</strong> - <em>May 12, 2017</em></li> </ul> <p>The game has reached huge levels of popularity and has made a large sensation (Minecraft has now sold over <a href="http://minecraft.net/stats" rel="nofollow noreferrer">15 million copies for PC/Mac</a>).</p> <p>Official website of the game: <a href="http://www.minecraft.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Minecraft.net</a></p> <p>NOTICE: Questions about playing Minecraft are generally OFF-TOPIC on Stack Overflow. Please post on our sister site, <a href="http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minecraft">Arqade</a>, instead. Questions regarding developing mods are, however, on-topic.</p>

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