

After going through alpha and beta versions, the full version was released on November 18, 2011. The first version of Minecraft was released for PC players on and it was called Cave Game. Minecraft was inspired by Infiniminer, a game created by Zachary Barth. Minecraft was originally created as an experiment to test random generation for caves. In the past, special versions of Minecraft were made just for video game consoles. Bedrock Edition and Education are written in C++, and Java Edition is written in Java. Java Edition is the first version of Minecraft made, but Bedrock Edition is now used more due to it being multi-platform. Minecraft has three main versions: Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, and Education. It has a lot of user-generated content (things made by players) like mods, servers, skins, texture packs, and custom maps, which add new gameplay features and game modes to the base game. Players can then build structures using these blocks, such as buildings, statues, pixel art, and more. Players can use these to make new items such as tools and armor, as well as different kinds of blocks. There are also items the player can use, such as crafting tables, furnaces, blast furnaces, looms, and stonecutters among others. These include basic terrain and resources such as dirt, stone, wood, and sand. Many of these items are cubes, called "blocks". In Minecraft, players explore a free walkable world filled with many 3D items. This makes it the best-selling video game of all time. Over 238 million copies of the game have been sold. It was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for 2.5 billion American dollars. Minecraft is a sandbox video game first made by Markus "Notch" Persson.
