What is Minecraft?

Minecraft is a creative sandbox game centered around exploration and survival; exploring and gathering resources allows you to protect yourself against a variety of monsters that hunt you down during the night. The creative sandbox elements of the game fuel your want to survive and gather, which in turn allows you to build many wonderful creations. Basic fluid physics also provide interesting means of creating basic machines.
The multiplayer is very similar to single-player, just with more people and chat.
http://www.minecraft.net/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki
http://notch.tumblr.com/

http://forums.bukkit.org/
http://feed-the-beast.com/

http://feed-the-beast.com/ (Modpack collection, approved by included mod authors)
http://technicpack.net/ (Popular modpack, starting to regain favor of modders)

Expansion on the Official Minecraft Forums:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/41-texture-packs/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1496369-12w42b-132-125-etcupdate-930-mcpatcher-hd-fix-243-01/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/56-mapping-and-modding/

link to site where you can donate to server funding (account owned by Mr.Tankjump) if you feel the desire, it isn't required.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GVVTYWM9ZDFEQ

BGSFCraft Minecraft servers:

Vanilla:

[1.7.2] (1.7.4-6 clients will work, too) Third World Redux: tw.bgsfcraft.com (Greylist, rank elevation required to 'play')

Third World Redux DYNMAP: http://tw.bgsfcraft.com:8123/ Disabled; causing stability issues again.

'Global' Server Admins:
Bonemonster (MIA)
MrTankJump

'Third World Redux' Admins:
Mirglof
Athell
Mr_E

Sign up for the minecraft servers by registering at the Server Forum. (down until further notice; ask here)
Email mrtankjump -at- gmail -dot- com ,message 'mrtankjump' on Steam, or simply send a PM to mrtankjump if you have any issues accessing the server.

TeamSpeak 3 Server: direct.gordonrenfrewshire.com

Also, be sure to check out the amazing work from TamrielCraft, an ongoing recreation of Tamriel in Minecraft.
https://www.gamesas.com/topic/1470148-introducing-tamrielcraft-for-minecraft-162/

previous thread: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1490097-unofficial-minecraft-thread-117/