Minecraft Earth was an augmented reality sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios. A spin-off of the video game Minecraft, it was first announced in May 2019. The game was free-to-play and supported Android and iOS smartphones.

Discover a new dimension of Minecraft as you create, explore, and survive in the real world. Join a community of builders and explorers spanning the planet, collect resources for your builds, craft in augmented reality and then place them at life-size. You can even team up with others for mini-adventures!

Similar to Minecraft, Minecraft Earth was centered around building structures, gathering resources, crafting, and exploration. 

• BUILD amazing creations in tabletop mode and place them in the real world at life size.

• COLLABORATE with other builders and create communal masterpieces together.

• EXPLORE a whole new side to your local neighborhood, and watch it evolve over time.

• DISCOVER unique mobs like the muddy pig and moobloom, and use them to populate your builds!

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On the basis of the video game Minecraft, Minecraft Earth has added many new gameplays. In the game, players can not only simulate building various things in the real world, but also explore and discover different world puzzles. There will be many known "mobs", but more new  "mobs"  will be introduced at the same time. Over time, unique variants can be cultivated and used to fill the building. The game can be created with friends, before putting the building into the wild, you can put the simulated world into real life, and you can even take a small adventure with others.

- GAMEPLAY

The game utilized the same Bedrock game engine as other versions of Minecraft. In "build mode", players could build augmented reality structures on "Buildplates" in collaboration with other players, then explore them in full size with "play mode". In both Build mode and Play mode, the build plate were overlayed onto the real world using augmented reality (AR) and the built-in phone camera. Players could gather resources by collecting "tappables" in the in-game map and by completing "adventures" which may be a puzzle, a specific task, or a virtual location with hostile entities to defeat. Minecraft Earth considers physical objects such as trees and lakes so there are fewer incidents and interferences with the AR simulation.

Minecraft Earth included many different kinds of in-game entities called "mobs" that are exclusive variations of the mobs in Minecraft. The game had two in-game currencies: "rubies" and "minecoins". Rubies could be earned through gameplay or purchased with real money, and could be used to purchase items that affect gameplay such as "build plates". Minecoins, which are present in all Bedrock editions of Minecraft, could only be purchased with real money and are used to purchase cosmetic items, such as texture packs and character skins.

- DEVELOPMENT

“Minecraft Earth is designed around free movement and collaborative games - in the current global situation, these two things have become almost impossible", Mojang wrote. "So, we made a difficult decision to reallocate our resources to other areas that provide value to the Minecraft community and stop supporting Minecraft Earth ”.

In the current environment, the number of players in Minecraft Earth has continued to decrease within a year, and it has been announced that it will be closed on June 30, 2021. Below is all the content included in the final update of Minecraft Earth.

■ Remove real money transactions

■ Significantly reduce the cost of rubies

■ Include all currently completed and unpublished content

■ Reduce the time required for production and smelting

■ Replace the unused craft and smelting promotion with the same level of radius promotion

■ Gift a set of character creator items to players who log in from January 5th to June 30th