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"What is Minecraft to you? What do you do in it? What are some of the best parts of it, or parts you think could be different?"

Well, it's a sandbox game, and that's mainly what attracted me to it. Best part: that I'm not bound too much by someone else's idea of how to play the game (although the elements that involve hostile mobs, and items that you need to get from hostile mobs, does bind me to combat gameplay which I don't like, unless I stay in Creative). Parts that I wish were different: as a long-time RPGer, I kind of find the environment a tad sterile and lonely for any kind of RPing unless you have some cool ppl to do multiplayer with, which I don't. I wish the villagers could be more interactive at least. More elements that to help personalize one's world could help make the game more fun for singleplayer RPing, like more tamable mobs, or more diversity of current tameable mobs and new behaviors, more biome diversity, more building resource diveristy (bear in mind I'm a Xbox player so I can't mod and don't have stuff like horses, new flowers or trees, stained glass/clay--those would go a long way, I think).

"How would you feel about interviews with notable community members?"

I like this idea a lot. It's always interesting to see what other people are doing, especially in a community which such diversity of interests and ideas.

"What is Minecraft to you?"
it's a way to waste a lot of time

The openness of minecraft is what drew me to it in the first place - i love the idea of all the endless possibilities that only a unique game such as minecraft can provide.

"what is minecraft to you?"
A game with endless opportunities and endless content

"How would you feel about interviews with notable community members?"
I'd like to hear from them, they have a unique perspective which is only granted from having a massive following. I think this is a great idea.

Dude, I thought this was already obvious!

Minecraft is Minecraft

Well, it's a sandbox, and it's up to you (the many players of the game) to create the fun on this one. What I do is fight off the many hordes of very similar mobs and build, that's about it really (establishing my own legacy in some of the worlds doesn't hurt either). Well, the best parts are that the game allows for a lot of freedom of choice in what you want to do. However, I still feel the game could use a lot more tweaking in the exploration/adventure department. I'd personally love to see dungeons that are beyond a simple box, and that aren't exactly difficult/time consuming to find. Yes, the stronghold is a higher-end dungeon basically, but it isn't at all simple to find/commonplace, and it depends on natural mob spawning. Simply put, the game is good as it stands, but there is still much potential to be uncovered. Luckily there are mods to help cover some of these aspects. Now all we need is that MOD API... I know you guys are still working on it, just keep working on that I guess... And everything else of course too that works for you guys.

Edit: I noticed I went on a bit of a lengthy voyage there, but I just really want there to be more to find and reasons to travel beyond a town/settlement you make yourself.

"Rather than ponder over this alone, I thought I'd ask you guys the question directly: What is Minecraft to you? What do you do in it? What are some of the best parts of it, or parts you think could be different?"
To me, Minecraft is a sandbox construction game. I'm free to express my creativity as I wish. If the vanilla game isn't enough for that, the community hosts a plethora of mods that I can use.

"In addition to the above question, I had an idea that could use your input: How would you feel about interviews with notable community members?"
I would love to see them. Seeing how others play Minecraft gives me ideas for new things to try and build, and to me, half of the fun of Minecraft is from seeing what others do with it.

What first draw me in was the classic single player mode, shown to me by a friend. I then got into the classic multiplayer, then eventually beta 1.2.5. The sense that there was millions of other people that you could play with was amazing, as I had never been a part of a large internet based fandom before. Most people are nice, which is great for people just getting into it. The greatest part is it is an open sandbox world, with thousands of things you can do in vanilla, and then you can add mods to it.

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What first draw me in was the classic single player mode, shown to me by a friend. I then got into the classic multiplayer, then eventually beta 1.2.5. The sense that there was millions of other people that you could play with was amazing, as I had never been a part of a large internet based fandom before. Most people are nice, which is great for people just getting into it. The greatest part is it is an open sandbox world, with thousands of things you can do in vanilla, and then you can add mods to it.

I agree with this.

Minecraft is Crafting, Mining, and un-mining(a.k.a. Placing blocks while being pursued by hordes of monsters that are trying to destroy your stuff and steal your soul).

Do it! Interview them all!

My kids got me interested in it and then I found I LOVED Mining because it's relaxing (no mobs mode of course!) and you find surprises whilst digging (Caverns, diamonds....) And then I found Skyworld and I'm currently in love with that...and the AWESOME DROPPER by Bigre! It's something I can enjoy with my kids or just talking to others around the world as I play. And now we've created our own server which was a blast to create but harder than we thought it was going to be and we're still learning every day something new! :-) Sooo, what is Minecraft to me? FUN! :-)

Would I like you to interview those that know more and have done many different things in the world of MC? YES, PLEASE :-)

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My first thought on reading your question was, "What is minecraft to me? Addicting."

But why? Part of that is because it's so open ended. As you said, there's no wrong way to play, so the game is endlessly new. Today I may build a giant castle in creative. Tomorrow I may open a map pack and see how far I get. It's endlessly new, limited only by my imagination.

One of the things that has been gaining my attention lately though, is that minecraft has potential as a creative tool for teaching organized thinking skills. Minecraft may be a very good tool to challenge people with a task to complete, and get them to think about how to get from here to there, goal-wise. It seems to me that young people are seldom taught how to do this. It's a valuable life lesson.

What, to you, is Minecraft?

This may seem a little odd, but for me a really big part of why I like Minecraft is the unintended features, the bugs, the exploits, the fact that not only is this an amazing, massive scale sandbox game, but that many of what are, in my eyes, it's greatest features, were never intended by the developers. Bring to mind such things as the minecart nukes that the new entity physics and TNT carts from 1.5 made possible {Ain't gonna tellsya how, but I can still make them in survival}, or the fact that my first experience with Minecraft involved extensive use of an Xray pack, or perhaps every hostile mob farm ever.

Interviews with major community members?

Sure, sounds cool, I don't really care all that much, but sure.

MInecraft is a game- no a place- where virtually anything can happen. With a little imagination you can make a world full of adventure an excitement, a world with floating islands and treasure guarded by the servants of Herobrine spawned by cages he enchanted. A world where the deepest dwarven mine shafts and strongholds can hold a secret book, with the answers to everything inside. A world where you are the sole hero of the game, or a secondary character helping the hero on his/her way. A world where you hold empty pages in your hands. Write your adventure the way YOU see it.
To put it in other words, I play it for the limitless role playing elements.

(I got an infraction for this before, so just saying: Herobrine isn't real, he never was, and he never will be)

Minecraft is the Forge Of Wonders.

I looked at the wikipedia page about Video Game Genres, and I think Minecraft could do any of the following:

Action Game
Ball and Paddle - Pong *
Beat em Up/ Hack and Slash
Trad. Fighting Game
Maze
Platform
Shooter/FP shooter
Shoot em up
Rail shooter *
Third Person Shooter
Action-Adventure
Stealth Game
Survival Horror Game
Adventure Game
Text Adventure *
RPG
Sandbox RPG (technically what wiki says Minecraft is)
MMORPG
Rogue RPG
Construction Sim
Life Sim
Pet raising Sim
Social Sim
Flight Sim
Train Sim
Strategy Game
4x - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate
Artillery Game
Real Time Strategy
Real Time Tactics
Tower Defense
Wargame
Sports Game
Racing Game
All MMOs
Causal Game
Music Game
Party Game
Programming Game
Puzzle
Board Game *
Adult Video Game
Adver-Game – Promotional product
Christian Game
Educational Game *
Competitive Game – Professionally played
Serious Game – Educate or train *

* A model of Pong could be made in game. A life size snakes-and-ladders game board could too. A rail shooter would be easy to set up. So would a whole text-based game (books, chat, etc). Educational content is easy to add, and it can be scripted so it happens over time.

What I mean is, MineCraft can actually function as almost ANY kind of game. I think it also stands on its own as a CAD engine, and a live code-testing environment.

I guess its really kind of meta. Over and beyond, that is...

And YES! Please interview community members! I would particularly like to hear from highly experienced Mod makers and texture artists. Please, open the brains of the geniuses that make all the cool stuff possible.

Minecraft to me is a game where I can just relax and play. It isn't some first-person shooter where you get mad... yet it isn't a 5 year old's game. It also brings out my creative side which you don't normally get to do in video games or in real life.

Interviews with large community members... eh, I think they will just say what the community wants to hear. I don't think they can contribute anything more to Minecraft than what is already being contributed.