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.

List of Sites:
http://www.minecraft.net/

http://notch.tumblr.com/

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum

http://forums.bukkit.org/

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

BGSFCraft Minecraft servers:

Vanilla:

[1.7.2] (1.7.4-6 clients will work, too) Third World Redux: tw.bgsfcraft.com (Greylist, everyone can join and see the breathtaking vistas, rank elevation needed to play the game proper)

Third World Redux DYNMAP: http://tw.bgsfcraft.com:8123/

'Global' Server Admins:
Bonemonster (MIA)
MrTankJump

'Third World Redux' Admins:
Mirglof
Athell
Mr_E

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.

We have a donation pool maintained by MrTankJump to help pay for the BGSFCraft Server's continued operation. You can donate using PayPal to provide server funding (account owned by MrTankJump) if you feel the desire, it isn't required.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GVVTYWM9ZDFEQ

Current TeamSpeak 3 Server: direct.gordonrenfrewshire.com

Other Servers of Interest:

Drakortha's The Ancient World

http://www.drakortha.info/the-ancient-world/4561847648

This server has a long, storied history in its RP spanning 4 years of cataclysmic events, ranging from giant rifts from the Nether consuming entire player-built cities, to a zombie apocalypse no one could outrun.

TamrielCraft

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/

If you maintain a server with a theme surrounding a deep, interesting RP, or a Bethesda IP (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc.) feel free to let us know!

previous thread: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1497424-unofficial-minecraft-thread-118/