Minecraft: The game's aim Minecraft guide, tips

Minecraft was originally created as a sandbox game, where you can build any structures, using the blocks in the game. It included slight RPG and survival elements. With time, however, it evolved towards the RPG genre and it was enriched by the aim of the game, which is killing the Ender Dragon who is the final boss and, optionally, the much more powerful Wither. Also, elements of gaining experience, using of mixtures (crafted beforehand with the Brewing Stand) and enchanting, have been added.

As an additional challenge, the Achievement system has been introduced, whose obtaining you can define as the aim of your game. Apart from a cutscene, however, the game does not define a definite end, which means that developing the worlds with own ideas, and using the elements available in the game, is unchangeably its main aspect.

In the multiplayer mode, the game may resemble a kind of an MMO, on the public servers, where the players kill monsters, exchange resources and compete in PvP battles. Still, thanks to the considerable number of mods, and the open-ended character of the game, the aims of the gameplay may considerably change/expand. At present, it is team battle modes are gaining in popularity (even with the use of firearms) or the labyrinth stages created by the players, where you, most usually, have to complete a race with arcade and/or logic elements.