Minecraft is an independent “sandbox” game, meaning it is designed as an open world where players can move freely without any gameplay restrictions. The initial PC version of crafting Minecraft was first released to the public in 2009 where after the full version went public in 2011. Since then versions for Android platforms, iOS, PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 have also been released.
The gameplay of Minecraft
The player is placed in a virtual world and can explore the terrain and everything underneath such as caves and water sources, and it hosts various biomes including jungles and deserts. Mobs are encountered throughout the game, which can be anything from hostile spiders and zombies to non-hostile animals such as chickens and cows.
In its current form, crafting Minecraft offers four standard modes:
1. Survival mode, where a player is required to accumulate resources to sustain hunger and health;
2. Creative mode, where no health or hunger is relevant, and players have access to an unrestricted amount of experience and resources as well as the capacity to fly;
3. Hardcore mode, which is an alternative to the general survival mode. Its level of difficulty is higher than that of survival mode, and it is not possible to re-spawn when the player’s character died, forcing you to delete the world you have already created; and
4. Spectator mode, where players are in a position to view the virtual world, but cannot interact with everything. This particular mode is only available in snapshots and not in released versions.
The art of crafting in Minecraft
Actual Minecraft is the manner whereby tools, blocks and materials have to be utilized to craft additional tools for survival or gameplay purposes throughout the game. To craft an item, a player has to transfer certain items from their available inventory onto a crafting grid.
Game objects that are more useful should have its ingredients arranged in the correct order.
Having said this, the gamer may still decide to make another item in accordance to the arrangement of the relevant ingredients in the grid, e.g. bread crafting Minecraft requires a 3xl recipe; therefore, it can be made using either one of the three rows on a 3×3 grid. It cannot be crafted using a 2×2 grid.
The 2×2 crafting-grid is always available to players within the inventory screen, and most Minecraft requiring a 2×2 recipe can be completed there. Such items include the crafting of crafting tables, sticks and wooden planks. In order to craft items on the 3×3 grid, a crafting table should be created on which the player has to “right-click”. A pop up screen displaying the 3×3 grid will appear which can then be used to assemble a crafting recipe.