Minecraft is a large game with a large variety of players. Most players have different interests and thus there are multiple areas of interest for players in the game. Personally I have been playing the game since the 1.6.4 update. This was the first 3D game I played so it made a lasting impact on me and I have since continued playing it to date. I get bored of games fairly quickly if there is nothing new, but with all the different things going on I have continued playing. This is also the reason I feel okay making a list like this. I have done a large majority of the things in these lists, but there are a few that I have yet to try out. As I try them out if I feel like it, I might update the list.

Singleplayer | Multiplayer | Modded | Video Content

Lets Plays

This is the most basic way of playing. Just a generic playthrough of the game without the outside influence of other people.

Speedrunning

Players who speedrun minecraft are simply trying to beat the final boss as quickly as possible. There are many glitches in minecraft and as such the leaderboards for speedrunning often will separate runs with glitches from those without.

Creative - Building

Using the unlimited supply of items that the creative gamemode adds the player can build whatever they want. If you want to make a house, you can do it, recreate an animal, its possible, the premade landscape not good enough, spruce it up a bit. Players have the freedom to express themselves however they like.

Creative - Tech

Among the wide variety of items that minecraft brings are more techy items. Minecraft has a made up substance called redstone which is the equivilant of electricity, it also has an item called a command block. Redstone allows a player to make machines that can move, activate, or even automate other features. Command blocks allow the player to effectively code almost anything they want into existance; furthermore, people can use plugins (executed code) and datapacks (realtime executed code) to edit the function of the game.

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The multiplayer side of minecraft allows people to have fun playing together with close friends or random people. The game has a couple popular servers that people play on.

1. Hypixel


Hypixel is the largest server in minecraft. It has minigames as well as games large enough for a whole server to host them.


2. Minehut


Minehut works as a server hosting tool that allows for public or private servers to be made. Unlike server hosting websites, Minehut has lots of players that are likely to join the servers players make.


3. Cubecraft


Cubecraft is a minigame server that has grown to be as popular as it has because the majority of the games it hosts are of good quality.


4. Mineplex


Mineplex used to be the largest server in minecraft. After the rise of hypixel it lost popularity. Eventually it moved from the java version of minecraft to the bedrock version, this spiked its playerbase and kept it in the running.

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Players often modified the game in order to have a more varied experience.

• Skyfactory
The most played set of modpacks ever by a landslide. Skyfactory is focused on automation and starting you off with a single tree and a single block of dirt, nothing more. Skyfactory did manage to have 5 official releases and a large quantity of spin offs but not as many as Crazycraft accumulated.
• Crazycraft
having tons of iterations it was one of the largest series of modpacks. The core of these packs were that there was no questlines and it had to have the mod orespawn in it. It was mainly meant to be played by large groups of players on a server together.
• Trollcraft
A pack mainly meant to be played by multiple people where you would attempt to mess with eachother. How far you could go was up to the person.
Based around the mod thaumcraft (dark magic of all sorts) you are placed in a world riddled with corruption and your objective is to revitalize said world exploring an intricate custom map with tons of puzzles.

There are lots of other packs, but they weren't as popular.

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Some players wanted to share what they were doing and thus people started moving to video platforms. Some people moved to sites like youtube to make videos while some people perfered a live audience and thus moved to twitch and streamed what they were doing.

Videos

Many types of recordings were made by people. There were music videos, playthroughs, minigames, challenges, events, and guides.

Streaming

People generally stream fewer aspects of the game. For the most part people would only stream playthroughs, challenges, and events.

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