In addition to providing single and multiplayer thrills at home, the Nintendo Switch™ system can be taken on the go so players can enjoy a full home Nintendo Switch™ console experience anytime, anywhere. It has been used to create emulators for the Atari 2600 (including one by YouTube personality SethBling) [375] [376] and the Game Boy Advance. On 17 September 2010, gaming webcomic Penny Arcade began a series of comics and news posts about the addictiveness of the game. Some speedrunners use a combination of mods, external programs, and debug menus, while other runners play the game in a more vanilla or more consistency-oriented way. The modding community is responsible for a substantial supply of mods from ones that enhance gameplay, such as mini-maps, waypoints, and durability counters, to ones that add to the game elements from other video games and media.

The project allows young people who live in those environments to participate in designing the changes they would like to see. A homebrew adaptation of the alpha version of Minecraft for the Nintendo DS, titled DScraft, has been released; it has been noted for its similarity to the original game considering the technical limitations of the system. However, after Facebook acquired Oculus in 2013, he abruptly canceled plans noting "Facebook creeps me out.The Minecraft community and server owners, however, heavily despised the new change in enforcement and protested en masse, which included comparing Mojang to monolithic video game publishers like Electronic Arts and Activision, gaming companies often criticized online for their highly restrictive digital rights management and user license agreements.

Health replenishes when players have a nearly full hunger bar or continuously on peaceful difficulty.Gareth Coker also composed some of the music for the game's mini games from the Legacy Console editions.

Game modes include a survival mode (in which players must acquire resources to build in the world and maintain health), creative mode (in which players have unlimited resources and the ability to fly), spectator mode (in which players can fly, go through blocks, and enter the bodies of other players and entities), adventure mode (in which players have to survive without being able to build and place blocks) and hardcore mode (in which the difficulty is set to Hard and dying causes the player to lose their ability to play on that world). In creative mode, players have access to nearly all resources and items in the game through the inventory menu and can place or remove them instantly.There is currently no way for Minecraft: Wii U Edition worlds to transfer to "Minecraft" (2018) on Nintendo Switch.

If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag. citation needed] On his Twitter account, Jens Bergensten said that the Pocket Edition of Minecraft is written in C++ and not Java, due to iOS not being able to support Java.The case is compact and provides ample space to comfortably accommodate your Nintendo Switch and accessories. The Yogscast is a British company that regularly produces Minecraft videos; their YouTube channel has attained billions of views, and their panel at Minecon 2011 had the highest attendance. The PlayStation 3 Edition also received generally favorable reviews, being compared to the Xbox 360 Edition and praised for its well-adapted controls.