With over 300 million copies sold since launch in 2009 by Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, Minecraft still won’t stop getting more traction year over year; as well as making waves in Hollywood with its’s Minecraft movie. Millions of players log in to craft, mine, build and explore the Minecraft world.
Apart from audience still engaging with Minecraft content creators, which is also one of the signals why it’s still popular; the nature of the game being not so linear and not a clear start and endpoint is why it is so popular. Statistics for the year 2023 say 62 million people played Minecraft once a month.
But what makes it so addicting and universally loved? This is what we are we are going to find out today.
Something for everyone
There are no fixed goals for the pixelated world of Minecraft. The two main game modes Minecraft offers is Survival and Creative.
Endless Replay Value: Creative Vs Survival Mode
Creative Mode
In Creative mode, one is allowed to create and build anything without any burden of health or hunger bar. With unlimited resources like wood, cobblestone, gold, diamonds, copper and so much more, sky is the limit for what you can create.
Got an idea for building a big city overlooking your castle, underground library or any other structure? With the ability to spawn unlimited mobs from villagers to pillagers, you can do WHATEVER you want. Creative mode is the perfect fit for anyone to explore their creative skills and only will your imagination will set the limits for you. Some build small structures and some takes years to recreate beautiful landmarks.
Survival Mode
In the Survival mode is where the things change. A hunger and a health bar is what you will be dealing with. In order to survive you will need to keep eating from either all kinds of vegetables you farm or the animals and defend yourself from hostile mobs like zombies, spiders, Endermen, skeletons and so much more.
You would only have access to animals only during the day like chicken, pigs and cows, so this would be the time to gather up all of your food before the sun sets and the zombies and other mobs come after you. As soon as you spawn in, chop some wood for weapons, shelter and pickaxes would set you up to kickstart your Minecraft journey.
Gathering resources and defending yourself in this mode is much more challenging depending on your difficulty level.
Frequent Updates And New Biomes
Mojang continues to add new updates, mobs, biomes and new tools, which brings back players to keep checking them out.
No two world could be same because each seed you spawn in, offers different landscapes and maps to explore.
