Would you like to hear about a game that everyone loved to play?! Let’s learn five magnificent Minecraft facts for kids.
Since its beginning, Minecraft has sold over 230,000,000 copies. That’s a lot of people who use the game. Minecraft was created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson. Minecraft has become so popular, it was even inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2020. Have you played Minecraft before?
There are two dimensions in Minecraft called the Nether and the End. If you play this game you are probably very familiar with them. Portals that gamers create are required to enter both of these dimensions. The nether portal is a rectangle portal made from obsidian blocks. End portals allow gamers to enter the last landscape in Minecraft. Here, gamers can find the Ender Dragon and Enderman. By defeating the Ender Dragon, gamers can collect the Ender Dragon’s egg. This is very rare and difficult.
When playing Minecraft, users get to decide between creative mode and survival mode. In the “creative” mode, players can create and build with unlimited materials. In this mode, the possibilities are endless, whether you want to build a tree house or a rollercoaster. What’s more, your character can even fly in the sky! In “survival mode”, the player must be careful of monsters such as zombies from attacking at night.
The player has 10 hearts and once all are gone you lose all the materials or loot that you have gathered up. Players can eat food to regain their hunger and once their hunger is full, their hearts are also gained back. Players respawn once they have died and must find their materials again. Players can build shelters by mining wood logs from trees and make weapons to fight back the monsters in order to survive. The survival mode is one of the main modes in Minecraft.
The landscapes in Minecraft are known as biomes. There are a lot of different landscapes in Minecraft to choose from. Between forests, snow-capped mountains and sandy beaches it is up to you where you want to play. The weather also changes as the days change. Did you know that a full day in Minecraft is actually less than 20 minutes in real life, the day is roughly 8 minutes while night lasts about 10 minutes. Can you imagine if our real days were this short?
Does your school teach Minecraft? Well, in Sweden in the Viktor Rydberg secondary school in Stockholm Minecraft was introduced as a mandatory part of its curriculum for all of its 13-year-old students. It was said to teach the children about city planning and the environment.
We hope you enjoyed learning more things about Minecraft as much as we loved teaching you about it. Now that you know how majestic this technology is, you can move on to learn about other technologies like: AI, Robotics, Computer and Java.
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