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Mix and match. You can change them later from the pause menu.

Thunderstorms roll in with rain and lightning strikes, and tornadoes tear across the land ripping up blocks and throwing you into the sky.

Pitch-black nights you can barely see through, monsters that never burn in daylight, whispers in the dark, a Stalker that only moves when you are not looking, and Cartoon Cat: a towering grinning cat that hunts you from far away and lashes out with stretching limbs.

Every block you break, mob you kill and chest you open gives a random item. About one in thirty is a jackpot with a whole gear set.

Hard difficulty and one life only. When you die the world is deleted.

The dead come in waves, day or night, and they never burn. Each wave is bigger and nastier than the last: Rotters, then Dune Rotters, Bonewalkers, spiders, Hissers and worse. Survive as many as you can.

Start with a pistol and 32 bullets. Craft a rifle (full auto), a shotgun and a sniper rifle (hold Shift to look through the scope) from iron and planks, a ghillie suit from leather and leaves so mobs only notice you up close (hold Alt in it to crawl flat along the ground, almost invisible), make bullets from iron and leather, and pick ammo off the monsters you drop. Right-click to fire.

A random structure every hundred blocks: villages, temples, mansions, outposts, igloos, huts, portals and dungeons wherever you go.

See in the dark all the time: caves, the night and the deep sea are lit up as if it were day, like a never-ending Potion of Night Vision.

Falls hurt for real. A fall that costs three hearts knocks you out and a whole game day passes while you lie there, in five real seconds; six hearts means two days pass in ten seconds; a fall that pops your Totem of Undying costs four days in twenty seconds. The screen goes dark, the sun and moon race overhead, you cannot move or fight, and whatever is nearby can find you. Popping a totem any other way leaves you out for fifteen seconds with no lost days.

Adds the Uncrafting Table (crafting table + book). Put any crafted item in it and get its recipe ingredients back. Worn tools give back fewer materials and enchantments come off as an enchanted book.

Adds the Leaf Door (six leaves of any kind make three) and the Grass Pressure Plate (two leaves): a plate that looks like grass and opens every door within three blocks when anyone steps on it, then shuts them when they step off. It also sets off any TNT hidden nearby, so it makes a trap too. Leaf doors open and close like wooden doors, rustle instead of creak, and hide a doorway in a hedge or tree house. Leaves burn, so keep them away from fire.

Nobody wears a name above their head in multiplayer. Great for hide and seek and sneaking up on friends. The host sets it for everyone in the world.

Adds the Nuke: four TNT and four gunpowder round a diamond. Light it with flint and steel (or a pressure plate, fire or another explosion) and it beeps for ten seconds, so run. The blast flashes white, shakes the ground, digs a crater fifty blocks wide, scorches and sets fire to the land round it, kills everything close and hurls everything further out, then a mushroom cloud climbs over the hole. Nukes in the crater go off too.

Adds the Campfire (cooks raw food, toasts marshmallows, keeps monsters 8 blocks away, burns if you stand in it), the Tent (sleep in it at night to skip to morning and set your spawn), the Sleeping Bag (sleep anywhere without moving your spawn), the Lantern (stands or hangs), the Backpack (9 slots you carry with you), and Marshmallows on a stick that toast into Toasted Marshmallows and S'mores.

Everyone starts with a rifle, a shotgun, ammo, iron armour, TNT, a car, a jet and steak, and Guns switches on with it. Cars, tanks, jets and bombers become real-life size (a tank is about 9 metres long), you can build Patrol Boats and Destroyers to fight on the water, and extra war-only guns and anti-aircraft guns join the arsenal.

Your health shows as a row of Minecraft-style hearts with every kind the game has: red hearts and half hearts, hardcore hearts with eyes, green poisoned hearts, black withered hearts, blue frozen hearts, gold absorption hearts from golden apples, a flash when you take damage, a shiver when you are nearly dead, and your horse's hearts while you ride.

Survival: gather resources, craft, survive the night. Creative: unlimited blocks and flight.

Minecraft Hearts shows your health as pixel hearts: red, hardcore, poisoned, withered, frozen and gold absorption hearts, with a flash when you are hit and your horse's hearts while riding. It is your own setting and works in every world, even ones you join.

Shows the day you are on, the time and your X Y Z position in the top-left corner while you play. Also shown above.