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15 Fun Facts About Minecraft



15 Fun Facts About Minecraft


If you're a fan of the game or have one in your life, you've probably had one brief encounter with Minecraft by now. Here are some facts about the gaming juggernaut.





1. Minecraft's first version Minecraft was developed in only six days.

In 2009, Swedish programmer and designer Markus Persson set out to create a sandbox game-one that allowed an open and free exploration of a virtual world-for the launch of his new company, Mojang AB. Persson began working on what is now Minecraft on May 10 of that year, and he continued to modify the game in incremental increments up to May 16. The "alpha version" of Minecraft made its debut the following day.





2. Minecraft wasn't deemed complete for another two years.

Following Minecraft's release on PC, Mojang would periodically make updates and tweaks to the game until delivering what it considered to be its full version on November 18 November, 2011.





3. Minecraft's initial name was more straightforward.

When Minecraft's creator kicked off the development process, he named the project as Cave Game. The name was later changed to Minecraft: Order of the Stone and, eventually it was simply Minecraft.





4. Minecraft was inspired by several other games.

Minecraft's creator has praised PC video games Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and Infiniminer as the main sources for Minecraft. He expressed special admiration for Infiniminer, saying that he wanted to replicate its visual appeal and RPG-style gameplay.





5. Creepers first appeared as a coding mistake.

One of Minecraft's stranger native species is the creeper, an electrically charged predator that has a spooky cup. The creator of Minecraft did not set out to create an animal. He was actually trying to create a pig, but mistakenly altered the figures to meet his ideal height and length. The result was the monstrosity players love and know.





6. Gamers believe that the Enderman language could be English in reverse (or pitched down) according to Gamers.

Another gruesome Minecraft species is the Enderman. Although the creature's language is almost impossible to understand for humans, some fans believe it's just English words and phrases. The game's creators however, have refuted this idea.
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7. A cat asleep can speak the ghasts.

One other Minecraft monster owes its vocal rumblings to a real-world creature. Anyone playing Minecraft will recognize the high-pitched whine of the ghast, Minecraft's resident block-shaped fire-breather. These sounds are the result of an accidental audio recording of Minecraft music producer Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld's cat when it suddenly awakened from a nap.





8. Minecraft plays a big role at a Swedish school...

In 2013 the Viktor Rydberg secondary school in Stockholm introduced Minecraft as a mandatory part of its curriculum for all 13-year-old students. Minecraft is an excellent way to teach students about planning for the future, urban planning and environmental issues, as well as getting things done and how to think about the future.





9. But Minecraft is an even more significant issue in Denmark.

Sweden's neighbor to the south has touted an even more impressive affection for Minecraft. Thorbjorn Nielsen is a state employee of the Danish Geodata Agency, and Simon Kokkendorf, a state employee of the Danish Geodata Agency, created an exact replica of Denmark's entire country in the game of building digital worlds to generate interest in geodata.





10. Minecraft's popularity is the result of free marketing.

According to a research study conducted by Annenberg School of Communication doctoral student Alex Leavitt, one-third of early Minecraft users first heard about the game through their friends. another third of them discovered the game through YouTube videos.





11. Despite boasting an infinite expanse, Minecraft's world has seen its limits.

In 2011, Minecraft's creator posted on his personal blog to talk about the shortcomings of the endless world of Minecraft:



"Let me clarify a few aspects about the infinite maps: They're not infinity however there's no hard limit either. It'll just get buggier and buggier the further out you go. Terrain can be generated, saved, loaded and rendered in 16*16*128 blocks. These chunks have an offset value of 32 bit integer that is roughly within the range of negative two billion to positive two billion. If you exceed that distance (about 25% from the point you are at to sun), loading and saving chunks will erase old chunks. At a 16/th of that distance, things that use numbers for block positions, such as using items and pathfinding, will start overflowing and acting odd."





12. One fan decided to embark on an endless search.

Before experiencing a serious glitches in their code, players were required to walk a significant distance (the digital equivalent of 7500 miles). This virtual wasteland was known appropriately as the "Far Lands."



Just at the time of the aforementioned blog post the gamer Kurt J. Mac decided to test the boundaries of Minecraft and travel to the Far Lands. He began his journey in March 2011. It wasn't a waste of time. Mac gained a lot of fame on YouTube and is still streaming his adventures to raise funds for charity. (The Far Lands, sadly, were removed in an update to the game in 2011; you'd need version 1.7.3 or earlier to follow in Mac's footsteps.)





13. Minecraft's creator's avatar boasts a unique trait.

Appropriately enough, Minecraft's creator reserved a special trick for his personal avatar. His avatar was the sole one who died from an apple drop in the early versions of Minecraft.





14. Minecraft's creator announced bids with a tweet.

In June 2014, Minecraft's creator posted a tweet in hopes to assess the interest of third parties interested in buying his Mojang shares. Three months later, he had officially sold Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.





15. Every now and then, Minecraft gets its own name wrong.



Website: https://minecraft-wiki.net/