It truly is a good game for younger children and is a fun way to teach kids. It introduces real world events such as where to find coal, how rare diamonds are, where lava is located, and how the agricultural era worked. It can be a social game so it teaches to a degree of social skills but extended amounts of time is not well. It teaches kids how to manage items and how not everything is easy. Mine craft also teaches kids how to express their creativity with its expansive building possibilities.
[spoiler]i don't play mine craft my self but my nephews do and I see how it helps kids learn to a degree.[/spoiler]
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Edited by a clumsy scrub: 11/23/2015 2:29:04 AMIts also great for anyone with half a creative mind. My group of friends ages 15-28 had a map going that was soooo ballin. Huge base with lots of houses and a freakin barn, lots of horses, giant wall around the base that has a functioning doorway that allowed boats to come and go. Humongous mineshaft. Just everything. Had the host player been as into it as the rest of us, we probably would have gone on to kill the enderdragon. There was 8-11 of us involved in this map, that dragon would have gotten wrecked. Unfortunately, the player who owns the map got really bored and we couldnt convince him to play minecraft again. 500+ man-hours down the drain. For those unfamiliar with man-hours, its the combined time of a group of people. We didn't spend 500 hours each lol that would be the best map ever though.