Minecraft is a mind expanding game that requires resourcefulness, planning and efficiency. While some believe that video games rot the mind, I believe Minecraft stands out from the crowd with its clever programming and endless variations.

If you don’t know about Minecraft, you must have been raised under a rock. In the off chance that you genuinely don’t know about Minecraft, I’ll give you a brief description. It’s a very low resolution game in which each world is randomly generated, providing a new challenge for the player every time they create a new world.

One of the reasons Minecraft is so exciting is that it’s what’s referred to as a sandbox game, meaning that the player can roam freely and create in an open three-dimensional world. Minecraft uses achievements, rather than having to follow a set storyline. It doesn’t require that achievements be completed, but they are available to give experienced players a challenge.

While most games you have to follow a storyline, Minecraft has endless gameplay. There are three modes to choose from: Survival, Creative, and Adventure. I think each one has its own merits, and none of them have rotted my mind so far!

In Survival mode, as you may expect, you must survive in a world by fending off mobs, getting food, and mining for resources. Once you have the right resources, you can use a crafting table to craft a plethora of blocks and items.

In Creative, you have access to all blocks and items that exist in the game without having to mine or craft any of them. You can also fly in Creative, allowing you to build taller structures.

Creative is my favorite mode because it allows me to get my ideas out easily rather than spending a long time trying to gather all the necessary resources.

I have lately started playing in survival and attempting to do large builds just to give myself a challenge. In Adventure mode, you can’t break now build any blocks. You can still press buttons, and open doors, and trap doors. In general, Adventure mode is just used for worlds that other people make with a story to it so that you don’t break their builds.

When I use the term “builds”, I’m referring to cities or other large projects. There are a few groups of professional Minecraft builders. One of the original groups is FyreUK. They have built many a beautiful city and they show no signs of stopping anytime soon.

This build is a smaller build of theirs and is amazingly detailed. You can get a pretty good idea of how big this build is by looking at the trees. You can see each leaf block, and all full blocks are the same size so that shows the size of just one of those outside arches in white. I strive to be like that with my builds and I am only slightly there. I can do the build type, I just don’t have the patience to do something that big.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is the best version. It’s the version that I play and have played for the past 6 years. It has seen so many updates and so many texture changes that the original Pocket Edition, now known as Bedrock Edition, is nearly unrecognizable. If you have a very visual way of thinking and love to build, I strongly recommend Minecraft if you don’t already play. Bedrock Edition costs $19.99, and Java Edition costs $26.95. You should definitely get the Bedrock Edition. It runs much smoother and has more special features in it.