Can someone explain Minecraft to me?

I have no idea how to play, Someone explain please?

 

Where to find it
www.minecraft.net

You have to purchase an account to access the beta. This account is a one time purchase, $15 or $20, and will be good for even the final version. The price is very good for what you're getting. Tons of content for less than what you pay for 90% of PC games anymore.

What is it
Minecraft is a game where you can have multiple goals. Build epic, amazing structures to love your landscape. Try to survive while building out in the open during the day and mining deep down in the ground for materials at night. Maybe a little of both. The game either really grabs you, or it doesn't. There isn't a lot of inbetween. The multiplayer is pretty fun if you get into a good server. Every server is different, so be sure to make sure that you know exactly what you're signing up for. You can find a section for that specifically in the Minecraft forums which link off of the main site above.

 

It's in the title.

You Mine and you Craft.

I would suggest buying it if you have the money. There are plenty of tutorials online for the first night, how to build things and this useful place. - http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki

 

Step one: Let a creeper come to you.
Step two: Ssssssss
Step three: ???
Step four: MINECRAFT!

 

It's kind of like Lego, but you have to find/make the blocks and survive as well.

 

1) Destroy trees with your bare hands
2) Chop them down with your bare hands
3) Make a table out of planks
4) Use that table to construct using your bare hands a Shovel and a Pickaxe.
5) USE THAT WOODEN PICKAXE TO GO TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
6) Exploran
7) Funnan

 

YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY WRONG.

1. Buy Minecraft and download client (Changing skin optional)
2. Spawn in a newly generated world
3. Punch some motherfucking trees
4. Craft those trees into stuff
5. Find coal
6. Make a house
7. Craft more stuff into other stuff
8. Mine the hell out of EVERYTHING
9. ? ? ?
10. Emerge from your Minecraft world 6 weeks later and show off the fricken sweet replica of the Mushroom Kingdom you just finished building

Make a note, though. Everyone says left click is for activating stuff, but IT IS NOT. It CAN, but if you see cracks when you click on whatever you're activating, you're doing it wrong. RIGHT CLICK is the correct button for activating anything.

 

Thanks guys, I have "acquired" it and i love it!

 

Minecraft it's like crack... you start it... and before long your in a support group introducing yourself and admitting you have an addiction.