Minecraft is a game built on exploration, creativity, and survival. At its core are blocks that makeup Minecraft’s world. With the game having over 600 unique blocks, each of them carries a distinct ...

Minecraft offers over 600 unique blocks that form the basis of its world, each with distinct behaviors and uses. Key categories include wood, stone, environmental, redstone, and decorative blocks.

While Minecraft seems like a simple game that allows players to place blocks and build structures, some have managed to create highly complex and impressive structures with just basic materials.

Such is the game’s incredible reach that, when this journalist was working in the developing country of Laos, a place where The Beatles and One Direction are complete unknowns, the children there were ...