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 launcher, approved by included mods' authors)
http://technicpack.net/ (Popular modpack, starting to regain favor of modders)
BGSFCraft Minecraft servers:
Vanilla (Bukkit):
[1.8] (1.8.1 clients will work, too) Third World Redux: tw.bgsfcraft.com (Greylist, everyone can join and play, but rank elevation is needed to access in-game commands)
Third World Redux DYNMAP: http://tw.bgsfcraft.com:8123/
'Global' Server Admins:
Bonemonster
MrTankJump
'Third World Redux' Admins:
Mirglof
Legogod
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
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.
http://tamrielcraft.tk/
Morrowind Reborn
Morrowind Reborn is a massive project with the aim of creating the entirety of Morrowind with extreme accuracy, then release the map as a public RPG role-playing server with custom plugins.
http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/weekly-updates-morrowindreborn-massive-rpg-project/
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: https://www.gamesas.com/topic/1508398-unofficial-minecraft-thread-122/