Mods and Client edits

There arn't just texture packs that can alter the game experience of the player, Mod's or Modifications have been made by individuals around the world who aim to make minecraft better in there own view. Many like; Elevators, Ships, Audio editer and loads more, You can see a full (Main) list HERE.

However if you wished to see all of the newest availible mods for minecraft then going to the official forums and entering the "modding" section will open up a whole 200+ pages of mods for minecraft!

Mods will allow the player to do something that they couldn't ever do before, Like drive a car or fly a dragon. The possibilitys are endless. anyone can make mods however, aslong as they have a knowledge of Java.

Texture Packs

A texture pack is a zip file that contains .png files which minecraft's java file will read and can be toggled ingame as a skin for blocks, mobs, items and more. Official support for 16×16 texture packs was added in Alpha 1.2.2. Patchers were introduced to support "HD" texture packs or texture packs of different size's from the normal 16x16. This allowed the player to include there own style to the game.
Here are some photos of before and after texture packs!

Here is a Photo of after a texture pack has been added to the game. Notice the Different blocks, they are the same blocks as before but they have just been re-skinned

Here is a photo of minecraft before the texture pack, as you can see the grass is the defult texture and so would be every other block. To some player this texture may be dull or boring so notch enabled the chance to be able to change texture packs without having to edit the ingame files.

By downloading a texture pack, a player can implement it by going onto there minecraft and the "Texture Pack" button on the main menu. Once pressed they can press the "Open texture pack folder" Button and a new window will appear. drag and drop the new downloaded .zip texture pack into this folder and reload the texture menu. You will now see an new option on the menu which the player can select to change there default texture. Your game might freeze for a while your game is making changed to the game. After it has resumed you can cancel the menu and go onto a singleplayer world or even a multiplayer world, allowing you to edit anything ingame.

Minecraft Montage "Derp-Craft"

Below Is, a video which basically sums up anyone's first Impression on "Minecraft", Please enjoy!

Redstone and what is it?

Redstone circuitry allows for intricate Redstone wire based mechanisms to be created by players. Redstone circuitry is similar to digital electronics (based on boolean algebra) in real life.It's also possible to use pistons in redstone circuits. The great thing about it is that real life items like screen displays and even the game PONG can be implemented into minecraft useing redstone circuitry. However a vast knowledge of logic gates and a good understanding of redstone is needed to be able to make it work properly.

Redstone wire

Redstone wire is basically the same as a piece of wire in real life. However this redstone has a resistance, when placing multiple pieces of redstone dust down on the floor to act as the wiring, you can see that when powered it will only travel 15 blocks before the power ends. This can be excluded by adding a redstone repeater but due to this it will add some delay. if using redstone to make a signal from one place go far away to another. then putting repeaters would be the best way, however repeaters have some delay before the power is boosted, you can see this by simply right clicking a redstone repeater on the ground and it will change timing settings, the two torch like blocks on the repeater will spread apart, the further apart the torches then the longer the delay will be.

Logic Gates

Logic gates are the advanced part of redstone. Many different logic gates exist and they can all be seen on the Minecraft Redstone Wiki CLICK HERE TO GO THERE

Below are some example of "Simple" versions of the most used logic gates!

Minecraft Items!

Items and Blocks make up all of the usable resources in Minecraft. Items appear as two-dimensional sprites in the player's inventory, only appearing slightly three-dimensional when in the player's hand (as opposed to Blocks, which take on a three-dimensional appearance in both the player's hand and inventory).  Below are some all the items which are included into minecraft, and above the items icons is the item ID.

Minecraft Environment/Blocks

Blocks are the only place able items in the game. If anything is places in the 3D environment then it will be a block of some sort. Blocks build the game environment and can in some cases be mined and utilized in various different ways. Blocks are cubes with each face being 16x16 pixels; each block adds up to 1 cubic meter in real-life. Most blocks are static although water, lava, portal and fire blocks which all have animated patterns for each face.

Here are all of the blocks currently in the minecraft 1.0.0 release.

What is Minecraft then?

This is the Logo fot the famous "Minecraft" game!

Minecraft is a sandbox building independent video game written in Java by the now millionaire and famous creator Markus "Notch" Persson and due to this fame he now has his own company called Mojang.

The game is currently mainly creative building and exploration, this allows the players to make what they want and have no restriction to it except the height and depth of the map. The game is made up of millions of textured cubes in a 3D environment. Two version have been released by its creator, they are the Classic (Free) and the fully released version (Paid). The paid version is a mix of Creative and survival. The two modes can be chosen when starting a new world. Creative is where the player has an unlimited supply of resources and the ability to fly and infinite health, very useful if planning to build something quickly. Survival however requires the player to acquire resources by themselves or with others on the multiplayer servers and they must look out for Mobs (Creatures) due to having a limited health now.

Click HERE to go to the official minecraft website!