Mobcraft:Mobcraft
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| Developer(s) | Mojang Studios SkyBox Labs 4J Studios Other Ocean Interactive NetEase |
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| Publisher(s) | Mojang Studios Xbox Game Studios |
| Engine | Java (Java Edition) C++ (Bedrock & Education) |
| Platform(s) | Java Edition Bedrock Edition Enhanced Backward-compatible Mobcraft Education China Edition |
| Release | November 18, 2011 |
| Latest version | Java Edition: 1.21.11 (26w01a snapshot) Bedrock Edition: 1.21.131 Education Edition: 1.21.93 |
| Genre(s) | Sandbox, Survival |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Mobcraft is a 3D sandbox game developed by Mob Productions, a gamemode inside of the Mobcraft server Mob Network (2023). Initially released as what is now known as Mob's Mobcraft on May 17, 2021, the game was fully released on November 18, 2022, after multiple updates. Since its release, Mobcraft has expanded to mobile devices and consoles.
Mobcraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with and modify a dynamically-generated world made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs and items. Some activities in the game include building, mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations and artwork on various competitive or collaborative multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End and defeat the ender dragon.
As of 2025, there has been three updates that have been released, starting with The Fracture Update (2023), The Dominion Update (2024), and most recently being The Veil Update (2025).
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Player[edit | edit source]
The player is the person that the user controls in the world. When the user starts a game, the player is put in a world, generated from a random or specified seed, with an empty inventory. If the bonus chest option is enabled, a chest filled with basic items generates near the player. The player has a health bar with 10 hearts and can be depleted when they are damaged. Damage to health can be mitigated by armor or the Resistance effect; while health can be restored by keeping the hunger bar full enough or by drinking specific potions. If the difficulty is set to Peaceful, health regenerates on its own.
Each player can have a unique look via 9 default skins, or by creating their own custom skin. A player can change their skin on the profile page of Mobcraft.net or in the Mobcraft Launcher in Java Edition and in the pause or main menus in Bedrock Edition.
Blocks[edit | edit source]
The world of Mobcraft takes place within a three-dimensional grid of cubes, with each cube being occupied by a certain type of block, not all of which are necessarily cubic. There are different types of blocks; natural blocks such as grass, stone and ores that generate randomly within the world. There are also blocks that players can craft, such as a crafting table and a furnace. Resources can be extracted from blocks by hand or by using tools. Some of these resources are simply blocks in the player's inventory that can be placed elsewhere, while others are used as material to create other blocks or tools. Others yield no practical use whatsoever. Some blocks cannot be broken through normal Survival means, e.g. bedrock, End portal frames, command blocks, Nether and End portals, barriers and air.
Mining[edit | edit source]
Mining is one of the main aspects of Mobcraft and is done to extract ore and other materials mainly from below the surface of the map. These ores include coal, iron, gold, redstone, diamond, lapis lazuli, copper and emerald. Mining can involve digging a hole from the surface or going down through a cave. Mineshafts and ravines create extra areas that may contain resources, since they are usually rich in ores.
Crafting and smelting[edit | edit source]
Crafting allows players to create new tools and blocks using items from their inventory. Subsequent versions often contain crafting recipes for new blocks and items. A player can use the 2×2 grid in the inventory or the 3×3 grid provided by a crafting table to craft. Smelting requires a furnace in addition to fuel and processes blocks into a more useful form such as from raw iron into iron ingots, which can then be crafted into iron tools and iron armor.
Brewing and enchanting[edit | edit source]
Brewing creates potions from various ingredients and water using a brewing stand. They are stored in a glass bottle and then consumed by the player or thrown at other mobs to generate a certain effect based on the magical ingredients used to create the potion. Enchanting is also used to upgrade armor, tools or weapons with an enchanting table or anvil. More powerful enchantments can be accessed by gaining experience and placing bookshelves around the enchanting table.
Mobs[edit | edit source]
Mobs are interactable creatures that inhabit the world. Hostile mobs attack the player while passive mobs do not. Neutral mobs attack when provoked (not all neutral mobs are provoked the same way).
The Overworld contains many passive animal mobs that may be killed for food, bred with one another, or kept around for useful utilities. Mobs that drop food drop the raw version of their food unless killed while on fire or by an item enchanted with the Fire Aspect enchantment.
The Nether[edit | edit source]
The Nether is a dimension in Mobcraft accessible from the Overworld by a Nether portal. It consists of five unique biomes, which are the Nether wastes, the basalt deltas, the crimson and warped forests and the soul sand valleys. Each biome has unique generation and terrain. It is populated by zombified piglins, blazes, ghasts, wither skeletons, magma cubes, piglins, and hoglins. Ores in the Nether include Nether quartz, Nether gold and ancient debris. The Nether also has large oceans of lava that have striders walking on them.
The End[edit | edit source]
The End is another dimension of the game where the player battles the ender dragon. The End is accessed by entering an End portal found in a stronghold. The End is composed of End stone and is inhabited by endermen. It also contains tall obsidian pillars on top of which are End crystals that heal the ender dragon. Once the ender dragon is slain, the exit portal is created in the center of the map and an End gateway portal is created near an edge of the map, which transports the player to the expansive outer End islands which are full of chorus fruit forests and End cities filled of chest loot and shulkers. The End gateway portal is only accessed by throwing an ender pearl, using elytra or trapdoors to enter the portal. There are no ores in the End.
Multiplayer[edit | edit source]
Mobcraft can be played with multiple players together in one world. Players can interact with each other using the chat or emotes, and can play the game together or damage each other, also known as PvP (player versus player).
Local connections[edit | edit source]
Players on the same local network (LAN) can join other worlds opened for LAN connections. The world is hosted and managed by the player running the world, who is also the operator with the ability to manage each player's permissions or kick players. In Bedrock Edition, players can also join worlds opened to the Internet using the Xbox friend system. A player can add and manage friends from the in-game menus or the Xbox app, and any player can be invited to the world.
Server[edit | edit source]
Multiplayer worlds can also be hosted independently from a player's Mobcraft instance using an external server. Official server software for both editions can be downloaded for free on a PC, or a player could use an unofficial server-hosting service that maintains and runs the server. Players can join any external server via the Internet (except for console versions of Bedrock Edition), and the server can even be online while no players are in the world. An official server list has been made for some large third-party servers that provide access for any player, and players can also join specific featured servers in Bedrock Edition.
Mobcraft multiplayer servers have developed to include their own rules and customs, guided by their administrators and moderators. The term griefer, meaning a player who causes grief, is a typical term on the internet but has taken up its definition on Mobcraft servers: a person who destroys or defiles other users' creations on servers.
One popular game on multiplayer servers is Spleef (a play on the word "grief"), a game where the player aims to make another player drop through the floor by destroying blocks beneath the opponent's feet. This is typically played in a designated area and is usually run automatically using server plugins.
Many popular multiplayer servers exist that may contain, PvP arenas, custom minigames or large Survival or Creative worlds.
Purchase and availability[edit | edit source]
Mobcraft is mostly available on personal computers running Windows, macOS and Linux. It can be purchased from Mobcraft.net or the Microsoft Store. Gift codes can be bought for others, for the same price as buying the game for oneself. The demo version can be played for free without multiplayer. Java Edition can not run on Windows RT, it can only be run on ChromiumOS or ChromeOS if the "Linux development environment" is turned on, and it can not be run on many non-PC devices, even ones that use Java, such as cars and toasters.
Editions[edit | edit source]
Base Edition[edit | edit source]
The original version of Mobcraft on Windows, macOS, and Linux, starting through the Mobcraft Launcher, Base Edition was initially released for an "early private singleplayer alpha" on May 17, 2020, followed by several development stages, with the game finally being released on November 18, 2022.
Edition comparison[edit | edit source]
| USD ) | Developer | Platforms | Buy | Trial/Download | Input methods | Account type | Skin changes | Support | Notes | |
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| Base Edition | FREE | Mojang Studios | Microsoft Store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. | Mobcraft.net | Keyboard and mouse | Microsoft | Free, user-created | Mobcraft Help Center | The original version of Mobcraft. Access to occasional test updates known as snapshots. | Released in 2022 |