The free version doesn’t have any of the crafting. The amount of craftable stuff in this game is getting huge.
Its a survival sandbox game. The game world size is nearly infinite. Between crafting, mining, farming, fighting, exploring, and building there is plenty to do.
Despite the retro graphics this is easily the most interesting game I have bought all year. Its a real classic in the making. The only thing keeping me from playing it all the time is that its changing so quickly that I don’t want to sink too much time into really building something huge.
The game can be scary as hell too. There is nothing like digging through a mine and finding a cave full of zombies and skeletons. Its a ‘real’ kind of scary that is unlike other games. I mean if you play a game like Undying you know something scary is going to happen so when it does you’re not caught off guard or anything, but in Minecraft your thinking about your tree farm or the tower you are working on or trying to layout enough torches to see the mine tunnel you’re in then all of a sudden ‘ssssssssssss’ BOOM and you crap your pants.
A single thread at QT3 with a couple dozen posts isn’t doing the game justice. Its a much bigger deal than that.