A whole world in your pocket
Minecraft is a sandbox video game that blew apart the gaming world. Sandbox games revolve around harnessing the player’s creativity toward achieving an in-built goal. This game does not merely stimulate, distract, or entertain. This game is a mine of exploration and infinite creations built with the simplest of building blocks.
As an adventure title, Minecraft has an overarching narrative and a storyline, complete with a so-called final boss, although the story and the gameplay never really end. With its child-friendly physics and use of the 3D voxel art style, it's a game designed for all kinds of players.
Stack’em or whack’em
Minecraft - Pocket Edition is like playing a more advanced and virtual version of building blocks. For starters, you will not just be getting different colored blocks but instead, you will be playing with different kinds of blocks — like wood, steel, grass, rocks, and even fire and water! This means you have all the materials you will need in order to bring your imagination to life.
You can build literally whatever you want and to make things better, they will function just the way that they are supposed to do. For instance, creating a farm will require some crops and farm animals that will later produce the goods that they are expected to give. You can harvest vegetables from your plants and gather milk from your cows. See, Minecraft - Pocket Edition does not really stop at world-building — it will let you live inside the world you created for yourself.
Keep exploring
To spice things up, Minecraft - Pocket Edition offers different game modes that you can try. If you just want to create things freely without worrying about a single thing, you can stick to the game’s Creative Mode. However, if you like going on an adventure, go ahead and try the Adventure Mode.
You can still create whatever you want in this world but the catch is that you will have to be extra vigilant when nighttime falls because zombies will be out to get you. Fortunately, they can be warded off and you can hide from them inside the safety of whatever structure you are able to build during the day so the threat of zombies is not that much to be scared of. Nevertheless, it makes this building game more thrilling.
Accept the challenge of the trial chambers
Minecraft’s newest Tricky Trials update introduces the trial chambers, which are procedurally generated structures filled with challenges to clear, mobs to defeat, rewards to loot, and resources to build with. Players can dive into these rooms alone or with friends through multiplayer mode. As you make your way through the corridors, you can encounter the two new hostile mobs — the breeze and the bogged — as well.
The breeze is a mischievous mob that zooms in circles around players, boasting potent projectile attacks that can knock you back if you’re not quick enough to dodge. On the other hand, the bogged mob features dangerous, poisonous skeletons that you have to steer clear of. Once you kill all the mobs, you can get your hands on the vault, a new block that, when opened with a trial key, unloads a heap of rewards on the adventuring party.
Of course, you can even up the ante by downing an ominous bottle and gaining the Bad Omen effect. Venturing into the trial chambers changes that effect into a Trial Omen effect and transforms the challenge that awaits you. With that status in effect, the mobs you’ll encounter will be harder to kill and will deal more damage. Defeating all of them will reward you handsomely, though, as ominous vaults contain rarer loot.
To help you brave your way through the trial chambers, the Tricky Trials update also launches the mace, a new weapon that can be crafted. Its recipe is simple — you just need a breeze mod from the breezes and a heavy core from an ominous vault. It comes with three enchantments that boost its might: Density, which amps up the damage dealt, Breach, which allows you to break strong armors, and Wind Charge, which lets you leap into the air after a smash.
On the decoration side of things, the new update allows you to snag mob-themed armor trims, pottery sherds, and banners. There are copper and tuft blocks you can use to liven up your space too, along with 20 additional paintings. Finally, the update also comes with the crafter, which takes away the hassle of crafting by enabling automation. You’ll only need stacks of the ingredients and a redstone pulse for it to work.
On-the-go crafting
Minecraft - Pocket Edition really is a convenient source of entertainment. You can check your creations from time to time and build new ones whenever you find enough minutes to spare in the middle of your busy schedule. Not only is it a good way to unwind, but it also improves your mind and creativity.
