It seems that Minecraft has now been bought by over 2.6 million people! Ten million registered users are on its site. Minecraft is an amazing open world game that randomizes everything in the entire world as you walk through it; the hills, mountains, oceans, caverns, lava pits, snowy alps, low valleys, deserts, forests, etc. Everything is randomized!
Basically, the goal of the game is to gather different types of blocks (wood from trees, stone from the ground, dirt, etc.) and use these blocks to build a shelter... before nightfall. Nighttime is when the zombies, spiders, skeleton archers, skeleton archers riding spiders and many other creepy things come out to kill you... Including the infamous Creeper...
Creepers are the most annoying yet most original monster of them all... Basically, they exist to destroy what you've built. They explode when they come near you and they destroy all nearby blocks... Even if you spent five years building the Taj Mahal in Minecraft, a huge chunk will be taken out of it by one single Creeper...
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| This is the face of evil... the Creeper... |
Don't let them come near your base! Putting torches around will make sure they can't spawn... they only spawn in the dark. Monsters also spawn in the dark caverns, even during the day or in the darker shadows above ground... so always be aware.
Minecraft's Adventure Update has been released, after a long time of development (that was definitely worth it!). The combat looks a lot better, you can run, you have a food bar (showing when you need more food) and there's a new monster. There are also new NPC towns! And some other new places as well. Quite a few new things other than this - go ahead and see this to find out more:
Don't let them come near your base! Putting torches around will make sure they can't spawn... they only spawn in the dark. Monsters also spawn in the dark caverns, even during the day or in the darker shadows above ground... so always be aware.
Minecraft is getting a new update soon (like always, lol) and it is going to have maps. Maps are going to be customized for the local area you are in; if you go too far North on your map, the map will just stop updating, because you'll be out of the region. You'll have to make a new map for that; if you drop a map, another player can go and pick it up to check your progress!
