Everything about Minecraft

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MinecraftA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Using Minecraft as an educational tool for supporting collaboration as a 21st century skillInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #1The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Metaverse or Simulacra? Roblox, Minecraft, Meta and the turn to virtual reality for education, socialisation and workCited 205 times
5. Go sideways: Mojang StudiosA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Minecraft (franchise)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Metaverse or Simulacra? Roblox, Minecraft, Meta and the turn to virtual reality for education, socialisation and work

  Pericles ‘asher’ Rospigliosi · 2022 · Interactive Learning Environments · 205 citations

• A Deep Hierarchical Approach to Lifelong Learning in Minecraft

  Chen Tessler, Shahar Givony, Tom Zahavy · 2017 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 115 citations

• Investigating the role of Minecraft in educational learning environments

  Noelene Callaghan · 2016 · Educational Media International · 76 citations

• Minecraft as a Creative Tool

  Maria Cipollone, Catherine C. Schifter, Rick A. Moffat · 2014 · International Journal of Game-Based Learning · 66 citations

• Mining Educational Implications of Minecraft

  Youngkyun Baek, Ellen Min, Seongchul Yun · 2020 · Computers in the Schools · 65 citations

• Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging Children in Urban Planning: A Case Study in Tirol Town, Brazil

  Bruno de Andrade, Alenka Poplin, Ítalo Sousa de Sena · 2020 · ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · 59 citations

• Digital citizenship through game design in Minecraft

  Valerie Hill · 2015 · New Library World · 56 citations

• ‘Redstone is like electricity’: Children’s performative representations in and around Minecraft

  Michael Dezuanni, Joanne O’Mara, Catherine Beavis · 2015 · E-Learning and Digital Media · 54 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Using Minecraft as an educational tool for supporting collaboration as a 21st century skill

  Renate Andersen, Mikkel Rustad · 2022 · Computers and Education Open · 51 citations

• The Affordances of Minecraft Education as a Game-Based Learning Tool for Atomic Structure in Junior High School Science Education

  Mahlatse Nkadimeng, Piet Ankiewicz · 2022 · Journal of Science Education and Technology · 47 citations

• Coding with Minecraft: The Development of Middle School Students’ Computational Thinking

  Emine Kutay, Diler Oner · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 38 citations

• Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play

  Kenneth Pettersen, Hans Christian Arnseth, Kenneth Silseth · 2022 · Journal of Early Childhood Literacy · 37 citations

• Development of intellectual and scientific abilities through game-programming in Minecraft

  Alessandro Bile · 2022 · Education and Information Technologies · 34 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #1Cube Kid · 2014
• MinecraftNick Farwell, Don Steer · 2013
• Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #4Cube Kid · 2015
• Diary of a Minecraft Zombie, Book 3Zack Zombie · 2015
• Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #2Cube Kid · 2014
• Diary of a Minecraft Zombie, Book 10Zack Zombie · 2016
• Guide to RedstoneCraig Jelley, Marsh Davies · 2017
• Guide to SurvivalMojang, Stephanie Milton · 2020

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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