Minecraft

Minecraft is a multiplayer environment building system (which some people call a "game") created by Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang. It was released on May 17, 2009, with a Beta on December 20, 2010.

Description

The game is focused on creativity and building, allowing players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world. The game has two variants – free Classic and paid Beta – where Classic is focused entirely on construction with unlimited material supply, whereas Beta requires players to acquire resources themselves, and contains mobs, player health, and additional features and items.

The game is currently in development and Beta is the only continuously updated version of the game. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009, on the TIGSource forums, where it gained a considerable level of popularity. It has been continually updated and patched since then, and while it was still in alpha release, it garnered several hundred thousand sales and received critical notice and acclaim from many reviewers. It passed a million units sold on January 12, 2011, less than a month after reaching Beta. By June 13, 2011, the game had sold 2.5 million units.

The game sells for €14.95 as of June 29, 2011, but will cost €20.00 when out of beta. This is a one-time price and there is no monthly fee.

Chatrealm and Bonearth

Chatrealm has its own Minecraft server, maintained by Curley, which is referred to as "Chatcraft". The user-created environment on the server is referred to as Bonearth, a reference to the NSFW episode Eight Equals Equals Equals Dee.

Notable Locations and Structures

Several regions of Bonearth have been named and contain structures.

• Bubble City
  • Several unnamed buildings inside a glass sphere with no door

• Cocaine!
  • AT-AT

• Grabrubarf
  • Grabrubarf logo
  • Synergy Park

• Horseboy
  • Assistant Graveyard
  • BB billboard
  • Chad's Gap
  • Chess board
  • Church of Horseboy
  • Horseboy Statue
  • Info Center (starting point)
  • JuRY's Jubagel Empire
  • Link & Triforce
  • NSFW Stadium
  • 105.9 The Cat
  • Portal Turret
  • Rounsaville Scale

• Lava Falls

• Lonely Island
  • Linkin' Drinkin' Tunnel
  • Optimus Prime statue (en route to Lonely Island)

• Pixel Park
  • Companion cube and portals
  • DIAF
  • Diamond Club, USA, and USSR flags
  • Fapper
  • Golf course
  • Link
  • Nyan Cat
  • Rainbow
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • TWiT logo
  • Vincent404 avatar
  • Wheatley
  • ...and numerous other 8-bit style artwork pieces

• South City
  • Anal Apothecary
  • AnimeCons Tower
  • Apple Store
  • Brian's Burger Flamers
  • Butt Drugs
  • Church of Horseboy
  • Connolly Cinema
  • Hitler's Flowers
  • Hot Times in the City (planned)
  • JuRY's Jubagel Empire
  • Racism Museum
  • Rothman Bros. Young Mens Attire
  • TWiT Brickhouse

Transportation

In addition to some roads, there are two main transportation systems in the world:

Monorail

The monorail system is overseen by healthyaddict. It consists of a central <> station and numerous branches. In the <> station, minecarts depart from the top level and arrive on the lower level.

Destinations:

• Bubble City
• Church of Horseboy
• Cocaine!
• DIAF (Literally)
• Grabrubarf
• Lava Falls
• Lonely Island

Subway

The subway system was built and is overseen by PDelahanty. It has no central station and currently runs between Horseboy and South City Harbor with a stop at South City Bridge. Going north from Horseboy station will deliver passengers to the <> station via the Church of Horseboy monorail line.

Stations:

• Horseboy
• South City Bridge
• South City Harbor

Laws

A few regions have rules in place:

• Global

1. Respect the structures of other people.
2. Keep out people's underground lairs, but surface structures may be visited.
3. Repair creeper damage whenever possible.

• Monorail System

1. Rules are posted in the <> station.

• Pixel Park

1. No building without permission. (Full rules are at the "pixel" warp point and haven't been copied here yet.)

• South City

1. Buildings must look somewhat realistic. (No giant 8===D, for example.)
2. A street grid layout must be followed.
3. Don't mess with other people's structures unless they violate one of the above rules.

Links

• Minecraft site
• Minecraft wiki