Minecraft Castle

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Welcome to Minecraft Castle

Minecraft Castle is a web site dedicated to finding and sharing the best Minecraft castles, images, movies, and upcoming events.

The image is a beautiful and enormous castle crafted by 10-15 people over a few days within a single world node. I don't have much time to capture the wonder and awesomeness that was my first hour of digging down to lava, or jump box laying up to the world ceiling, but building in Minecraft is truly a pleasure. It's a simple but elegantly designed cube based game that places an avatar in a randomly generated world. The official blog for Minecraft is Markus Persson's own Tumblog, The World of Notch.

The inspiration and source of information for this site comes from an off the cuff post Holy Crap Minecraft! which caught on like wild fire. There's a strong demand for information about Minecraft as well as some of the amazing worlds folks have crafted.

Minecraft Castle

Incredible Minecraft Castle/City Exploration!
by TheSyndicateProject | video info

17,240 ratings | 589,510 views
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Minecraft videos (latest)

Minecraft Fanmade Trailer
by Vareide | video info

70,760 ratings | 9,236,970 views
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Minecraft Mouse Trap to the tune of Benny Hill

Mouse Trap in Minecraft
by sethbling | video info

8,323 ratings | 1,156,162 views
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F-18 Buzzes Airport with Zepplin Mod

Minecraft F-18 buzzes airport with Zepplin Mod
by abefieldingful | video info

90 ratings | 35,673 views
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The Minecraft Diaries

My friend Noah loves Minecraft (so much so that he yearns to fix their bugs) and has crafted wondrous tales of brave virtual adventurer Sean!

Sean aspires to build better bacon making machines and swim in oceans of pigs.
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Deathwing

Epic Deathwing in MineCraft
by kattooMC | video info

17,306 ratings | 1,961,541 views
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Terminator Titan

Giant Terminator in Minecraft
by kattooMC | video info

2,294 ratings | 356,131 views
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Kinect Minecraft Building

This Kinect hack was pretty awesome. Imagine converting 3D imagery or even regular pictures into Minecraft virtual worlds.

Minecraft Minas Tirith

Minecraft Minas Tirith
by arnoritter1991 | video info

1,087 ratings | 210,005 views
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Saruman's tower/Orthanc in minecraft

Saruman's tower/Orthanc in minecraft
by Dobbydoodoodoo | video info

121 ratings | 38,115 views
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Minecraft Helm's Deep Part 1

Minecraft Helms Deep Part 1
by chrisispoop | video info

44 ratings | 18,989 views
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In Search of Diamonds (Minecraft / Music Video)

In Search of Diamonds (Minecraft / Music Video)
by deadworkersparty | video info

83,101 ratings | 8,929,882 views
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Minecraft Earth

MineCraft - Earth
by Run3scaped | video info

31,906 ratings | 7,709,667 views
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Bioshock Infinite, Columbia in Minecraft

Bioshock Infinite,Columbia In CLASSIC Minecraft Pt1 [Classic]
by DrKamina | video info

227 ratings | 164,333 views
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Building Megaobjects in Minecraft, Enterprise-D project

Building Megaobjects in Minecraft
by halnicholas | video info

46,988 ratings | 9,101,615 views
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Enterprise-D on version 13

Megaobjects - Minecraft Enterprise-D update!
by halnicholas | video info

2,913 ratings | 601,342 views
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Minecraft Biome Test

Minecraft Biome Test
by Nizzotch | video info

4,916 ratings | 993,654 views
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The Giza Necropolis in Minecraft

The Giza Necropolis in Minecraft - Episode 1
by GizaNecropolis | video info

14 ratings | 7,590 views
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Airships

Minecraft Cinematic - Steampunk Invasion Fleet - Minecraft AIrships
by OfficialChunkycraft | video info

186 ratings | 32,974 views
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The Story Behind Minecraft

Here's the background of Minecraft where you can see some of Markus Persson's plans for it's future:
About the game

Minecraft is developed by Markus Persson. It's been under development since about May 10, 2009.


You can read theĀ full credits here, or read aboutĀ support and frequently asked questions here.



Origins

I started Minecraft after playing some Infiniminer with a couple of people from TigSource.
I realized that a game that simple yet that dynamic had a lot of potential to turn into a really great game, and kept coming up with things I wanted to change and stuff I wanted to add.
I had recently quit my job as a game developer to be able to focus more on indie game dev during my free time, and I was looking for a new game to develop. I had a few ideas floating around, but most required really long development times.


These two factors led to Minecraft.



Development and philosophy

Waterfall is dead, long live agile!


I've got a few plans and visions, but my only true design decision is to keep it fun and accessible. There's no design doc, but there are two lists; one for bugs, and one for features I want to add but think I might forget.
I make sure to play the game a lot, and I've built my share of towers, and flooded my share of caves. If something ever doesn't feel fun, I'll remove it. I believe that I can combine enough fun, accessibility and building blocks for this game to be a huge melting pot of emergent gameplay.


I strongly believe that all good stories have a conflict, and that all good games tell a good story regardless of if it's pre-written or emergent. Free building mode is fine and dandy, but for many people it will ultimately become boring once you've got it figured out. It's like playing a first person shooter in god mode, or giving yourself infinite funds in a strategy game.. a lack of challenge kills the fun.
For survival mode, I'd rather make the game too difficult than too easy. That also means I'm going to have to include some way of winning the game (or some other climax) to prevent it becoming too exhausting.


But if it's no fun, I'll redesign.



The future

I plan on developing Minecraft until it's a finished complete game, with a downloadable client (with fullscreen mode), custom key re mappings and possibly modding support.


For as long as people enjoy and purchase the game, I will develop extensions after the game is done. These will be free for anyone who has purchased the game.


Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain.


I was curious as heck about how it was done. Here's some of the tech behind the game for you hacker types:

Minecraft uses the following technologies:
Java by Sun Microsystems
LWJGL (license) by a whole bunch of talented people.
"3d Sound System" by Paul Lamb
JOrbis (license) by JCraft.

Minecraft Images

For all you Minecraft addicts. by willconley777
Pixelation by jared_smith
Minecraft cosplayers by Gage Skidmore
Minecraft cosplayers, London ComicCon, MCM Expo, ExCel Centre, Docklands, London, UK by gruntzooki
Look at my fingers by mendhak
Scale by Mr Eric Haines
3/4 by Mr Eric Haines
And one more by Mr Eric Haines
Back (pretty boring) by Mr Eric Haines
Bottom (more boring) by Mr Eric Haines
1/2 by Mr Eric Haines
Front by Mr Eric Haines
Down the High Road by Mr Eric Haines
Lower down by Mr Eric Haines
Higher up by Mr Eric Haines
Closer by Mr Eric Haines
Flip side by Mr Eric Haines
Another angle by Mr Eric Haines
One angle by Mr Eric Haines
With Sonic Ether by Mr Eric Haines
Minecraft TNT Pyramid Explosion by 88TF
Spawn City at Night by Skornt08
Curio cabinet by Mr Eric Haines
From the north by Mr Eric Haines
Scale by Mr Eric Haines
Overview by Mr Eric Haines
Redstone closeup by Mr Eric Haines
Side view by Mr Eric Haines
View from South East by Mr Eric Haines
From the west by Mr Eric Haines
Opened up by Mr Eric Haines
From Northeast by Mr Eric Haines
Inside west half by Mr Eric Haines
The bottom by Mr Eric Haines
The back by Mr Eric Haines
From the east by Mr Eric Haines
Closeup by Mr Eric Haines
From Northwest by Mr Eric Haines
Top down by Mr Eric Haines
Detail by Mr Eric Haines
Bottom by Mr Eric Haines
Scale by Mr Eric Haines
Side by Mr Eric Haines
Front by Mr Eric Haines
Minecraft by kimberlyac
Minecraft Part DOUX by kimberlyac
Creeper Sushi by dmuth
Inside east half by Mr Eric Haines
Another view by Mr Eric Haines
More grillwork by Mr Eric Haines
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Any feedback and tips on great Minecraft information are much appreciated.

  • Gprice2012 Jun 3, 2012 @ 9:12 am | delete
    Some really cool videos on this site, amazing what can be built in minecraft.
  • MinecraftServers May 10, 2012 @ 2:42 pm | delete
    Some really impressive castles in this lens. Good work!
  • getmoreinfo Mar 20, 2012 @ 7:41 pm | delete
    Wow these are really very cool.
  • Philipuk1983 Nov 25, 2011 @ 8:48 am | delete
    loads of really amazing videos, great lebs :-)
  • 360xbl Jul 18, 2011 @ 3:08 am | delete
    Great lens
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