Minecraft began as a humble idea, a way to portray science, the periodic table, and how it all correlates with the world around us. From its beginning in 2009, Minecraft started with basic ideas and blocks such as gravel, stone, iron, grass, etc. This was a technique for the user to take these basic ingredients and craft them into more complex items such as iron swords, armor, glass, and so much more. This idea began to evolve year after year until before we knew it there were servers for combat, new unique animals, and mob bosses. 

When Minecraft first came out it was just a split screen game to play at home with your friend or siblings. While it was a simple idea, adventuring, collecting, and crafting, it developed a sense of creativity in the users, and brought people close together while playing. The change was very subtle over the years, it began with adding a new block here and there. Very quickly this change began to intrigue people, new ingredients meant new recipes. As this interest grew the developers released updates as often as possible to keep the audience enticed with new ideas and crafting items.  

Before we knew it there were public servers being created where people could join online and play with strangers on many types of Minecraft centric games. Many of those game modes included bed wars, survival games, villager defense, factions, and so much more. At the beginning this was not even an option, users were restricted to playing with people on their seed, and now anyone could join these online servers and battle people they didn’t even know.  

While this side of Minecraft was growing, so was the survival mode, new blocks were being implemented and new bosses began to pop up. These bosses created a new challenge along your survival story line, it started with normal mobs such as skeletons and spiders and eventually the Ender Dragon. This slowly developed into things we know now such as the Warden and so many more. The storyline of Minecraft is what got people interested in the first place, so developers had to find a way to complicate this with new bosses, mobs, and other endings besides just getting the Ender Dragon.  

What began as a small game with a simple story line of collecting items and fighting a dragon at the end, quickly turned into a community wide phenomenon. People will continue to play Minecraft for the foreseeable future and this is due to the changes that they were willing to make in order to create a more diverse and complex game for people to enjoy.