I Can’t Sleep - Minecraft | Gentle Bedtime Reading for Sleep

Episode Date: May 1, 2019

Relax with calm bedtime reading about Minecraft to ease insomnia and restless nights. This soothing episode explores the creation and growth of the beloved sandbox game, where players build, explore, and survive in endless blocky worlds. Benjamin’s peaceful cadence makes the story of its development, mechanics, and cultural impact into a gentle journey of learning. With no whispering or hypnosis—just calm, fact-filled storytelling—you’ll feel stress easing, your mind settling, and rest arriving naturally. Press play, unwind, and drift into sleep while discovering the world of Minecraft. Want More? Request a Topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Ad-Free Episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop Sleep-Friendly Products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Join the Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/myhGhVUhn7 This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Minecraft, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia – Minecraft. Happy sleeping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I also speak to world-class experts like Dr. Nicole Kane, who shares how to permanently heal anxiety by addressing the root cause. With over 200 episodes in our catalog, this podcast is for you if you're ready to crush self-doubt, conquer challenges, and become stronger than ever with therapist-approved strategies that can change your life. Listen to Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast, where I read random articles to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster. Minecraft. Minecraft is a sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Marcus Person and released by Majong in 2011.

The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available. These include survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, creative mode, where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly. Adventure mode, where players can play custom maps created by other players, or certain restrictions, and spectator mode, where players can freely move throughout a world without being affected by gravity and collisions, or without being allowed to destroy or build anything.

There is also hardcore mode, which is similar to survival mode, but the player is given only one life, and the game difficulty is locked on hard. If the player dies on hardcore, the player does not respond, and the world is locked to Spectator Mode as of 1.9. The Java edition of the game allows players to create mods with new gameplay mechanics, items, textures, and assets. Minecraft received critical acclaim and has won numerous awards and accolades. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise,

and the MINECon convention played large roles in popularizing the game. It has also been used in educational environments, Minecraft Education Edition, especially in the realm of computing systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices have been built in it. By late 2018, over 154 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris. In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Majong and the Minecraft intellectual property

for US $2.5 billion, with the acquisition completed two months later. A spin-off game titled Minecraft Story Mode has also been released. By mid-2018, the game had around 91 million. active players monthly. Gameplay. Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game that has no specific goals to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game. However, there is an achievement system.

Gameplay is in the first-person perspective by default, but players have the option for third-person perspective. The game world is composed of rough 3-D objects, mainly cubes and fluids. and commonly called blocks, representing various materials, such as dirt, stone, ores, tree trunks, water, and lava. The core gameplay revolves around picking up and placing these objects. These blocks are arranged in a 3D grid,

while players can move freely around the world. Players can mine blocks and then place them elsewhere, enabling them to build things. The game world is virtually infinite and procedurally generated as players explore it, using a map seed that is obtained from the system clock at the time of world creation, or manually specified by the player.

There are limits on vertical movement, but Minecraft allows an infinitely large game world to be generated on the horizontal plane. Due to technical problems when extremely distant locations are reached, however, there is a barrier preventing players from traversing a location beyond 30 million blocks. blocks. The game achieves this by splitting the world data into smaller sections called chunks that are only created or loaded when players are nearby. The world is divided into biomes

ranging from deserts to jungles to snowfields. The terrain includes plains, mountains, forests, caves, and various lava, water bodies. The in-game time system follows a day and night cycle. the one full cycle lasts 20 real-time minutes. Players encounter various non-player characters known as mobs, such as animals, villagers, and hostile creatures. Passive mobs can be hunted for food and crafting materials, such as cows, pigs, and chickens. They spawn in the daytime, while hostile mobs spawn during nighttime,

or in dark places such as caves, including large spiders, skeletons, and zombies. Some hostile mob, such as zombies, skeletons, and drowned, underwater versions of zombies, burn under the sun if they have no headgear. Other creatures unique to Minecraft include the creeper, an exploding creature that sneaks up on the player, and the Enderman, a creature with the ability to teleport, pick up, and place blocks. There are also variants of mobs that spawn in different conditions. For example, zombies have husk variants that spawn in deserts.

Many competitors have described the game's physics system as unrealistic. Liquids continuously flow for a limited horizontal distance from source blocks, which can be removed by placing a solid block in its place or by scooping it into a bucket. Complex systems can be built using primitive mechanical devices, electrical circuits, and logic gates built with an in-game material known as Redstone. Minecraft has two alternative dimensions besides the overworld, the main world, the nether and the end. The nether is a hell-like dimension accessed via player-built portals.

It contains many unique resources and can be used to travel great distances in the overworld. The player can build an optional boss mob called the Wither out of materials found in the nether. The end is a barren land consisting of many islands. A boss dragon called the Ender Dragon dwells on the main island. Killing the dragon cues the game's ending credits and a poem written by Irish novelist Julian Goff. Players are then allowed to teleport back to their original spawn point in the overworld and continue the game indefinitely. The game consists of five game modes, survival, creative, adventure, hardcore, and spectator. It also has a changeable difficulty system of four levels.

For example, the peaceful difficulty prevents hostile creatures from spawning, and when playing on the hard difficulty, players can starve to death as very hunger bar is depleted. Survival mode. In survival mode, players have to gather natural resources such as wood and stone found in the environment in order to craft certain blocks and items. Depending on the difficulty, monsters spawn in darker areas outside a certain radius of the character, requiring players to build a shelter at night.

The mode also has a health bar, which is depleted by attacks from monsters, falls, drowning, falling into lava, suffocating, starvation, and other events. Players also have a hunger bar, which must be periodically refilled by eating food in game, except in peaceful difficulty. If the hunger bar is depleted, automatic healing will stop and eventually health will deplete. Health replenishes when players have a nearly full hunger bar or continuously on peaceful difficulty.

Players can craft a wide variety of items in Minecraft. Players can craft armor, which can help mitigate damage from attacks. while weapons such as swords can be crafted to kill enemies and other animals more easily. Players acquire resources to craft tools such as axes, shovels, or pickaxes, use to chop down trees, dig soil, and mine ores, respectively. E.G. tools made of iron perform their tasks more quickly than tools made of stone or wood, and can be used more heavily before they break. Players can construct furnaces, which can smelt food, process, ore, and materials,

among others. Players may also trade goods with villager NPCs through a bartering system involving trading emeralds for different goods and vice versa. The game has an inventory system, and players can carry a limited number of items. Upon dying, items in the player's inventories are dropped, and players respawn at their spawn point, which is set by default where players begin the game and can be reset if players sleep in a bed. Dropped items can be recovered if Players can reach them before they spawn, which takes five minutes. Players may acquire experience points by killing mobs and other players, mining, smelting ores, breeding animals, and cooking food. Experience can then be spent on enchanting tools, armor, and weapons.

Enchanted items are generally more powerful, last longer, or have other special effects. Hardcore mode is a survival mode variant that is a survival mode variant that is. locked to the hardest setting and has permadeath, which permanently deletes the world if the player dies. If a player dies on a multiplayer server set to hardcore, they are put into spectator mode. Creative mode. In creative mode, players have access to all resources and items in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly. Players can toggle the ability to fly freely around the game world at will,

and their characters do not take any damage and are not affected by hunger. The game mode helps players focus on building and creating large projects. Adventure mode. Adventure mode was added to Minecraft in version 1.3. It was designed specifically so that players could experience user-crafted custom maps and adventures. Gameplay is similar to survival mode but introduces various player restrictions, which can be applied to the game world by the creator of the map. This forces players to obtain the required items and experience adventures

in the way that the mapmaker intended. Another addition designed for custom maps is the command block. This block allows map makers to expand interactions with players through scripted server commands. Spectator mode allows players to fly around through blocks and watch gameplay without directly interacting. In this mode, instead of having an inventory, players have the ability to teleport to other players. It is also possible to view from the perspective of another player or creature.

This game mode can only be accessed within the Java or PC edition. Multiplayer and Minecraft is available through direct game-to-game multiplayer landplay, local split screen and servers, player hosted and business hosted. It enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world. Players can run their own servers,

use a hosting provider, or connect directly to another player's game via Xbox Live. Single player worlds have local area network support, allowing players to join a world on locally interconnected computers without a server setup. Minecraft multiplayer servers are guided by server operations, op, for short, who have access to server commands such as setting the time of day and teleporting players. Operators can also set up restrictions concerning which usernames or IP addresses are allowed or disallowed to enter the server.

Multiplayer servers have a wide range of activities, with some servers having their own unique rules and customs. One of the largest and most popular servers is HyPixel, which is visited by over 14 million players. Player versus Player Combat, PVP, can be enabled to allow fighting between players. Many servers have custom plugins that allow actions that are not normally possible. In 2013, Majong announced Minecraft Realms, a server hosting service intended to enable players to run server multiplayer games. easily and safely without having to set up their own. Unlike a standard server, only invited players can join Realm's servers, and these servers do not use IP addresses.

Minecraft Java Edition realms server owners can invite up to 20 people to play on their server with up to 10 players online at a time. Minecraft Realm's server owners can invite up to 3,000 people to play on their server with up to 10 players online at one time. The Minecraft Java Edition realms servers do not support user-made plugins, but players can play custom Minecraft maps. Minecraft realms servers support user-made add-ons, resource packs, behavior packs, and custom Minecraft maps.

At Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016, it was announced that realms would enable Minecraft to support cross-platform play between Windows 10, iOS, and Android platforms starting in June 2016, with Xbox 1 and Nintendo Switch support to come later in 2017, and support for virtual reality devices. On July 31, 2017, Ma Jong released the beta version of the update allowing cross-platform play. Nintendo Switch support for Realms was released in July 2018.