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About Minecraft

This is Minecraft Classic: the version of Minecraft from 2009, which Mojang re-released in the browser for the game's tenth anniversary in 2019. It is creative mode only — no monsters, no hunger, no crafting — with the original 32 blocks, the original blocky terrain, and the original bugs left in on purpose. You place and break blocks in an infinite-feeling world and build whatever you like.

It is the one legitimate way to play Minecraft in a browser for free, which is why it is one of the most-searched games on this site. It is not the full survival game: think of it as Minecraft's sketchbook. You can share a link to your world and build with up to nine other people at once.

How to play Minecraft

Move

W A S D

Look

Mouse (click the game to capture the cursor)

Jump

Space

Place / break block

Right click / left click

Choose block

B opens the block menu; number keys pick from the hotbar

Fly

Not available — Classic has no flying

1. Click the game to capture your mouse, then look around and walk with WASD. Space jumps; there is no sprint or crouch in Classic.
2. Press B to open the 32-block palette. Pick blocks into your hotbar and select them with the number keys.
3. Left-click breaks a block instantly; right-click places the selected one. Water and lava flow; sand and gravel fall.
4. Use the link the game gives you to invite friends — up to nine can build in the same world at the same time.
5. There is no saving between sessions in Classic. Finish a build, take a screenshot, or keep the tab open.

Minecraft tips

• Build near spawn: with no map and no compass, the spawn point is the only landmark you can always find.
• Water source blocks spread in Classic just as in the modern game — one bucket-less trick is to place water at the top of a slope and let it flow.
• Expect the old physics: no block-placing on the side of nothing, and TNT that just sits there.
• The world is finite. If you hit an invisible wall, that's the edge — build inward.

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