Minecraft focuses on allowing players to explore, interact, and change a map that is dynamically generated by a cube of one cubic meter in size. In addition to blocks, environmental functions also include plants, creatures, and objects. Some activities in the game include collecting ores, fighting hostile creatures, synthesizing new blocks, and collecting various tools found in the game. The unlimited mode in the game allows players to create works and perform artistic creations in various multiplayer game servers or their single player modes. Other features include redstone circuits for logic operations and remote actions, minecart systems, and a mysterious world called "nether". In the end, you can venture into a dimension called "Land of End" and defeat the Ender Dragon.

Players are the characters that users control in the world. When the user starts a new game, the player will be placed into a random or designated seed world with an empty inventory. The player has 10 heart health bars (that is, 20 health points can be restored by eating food or a specific potion (unconditional recovery in peace mode). Health value is also an indicator of non-peace mode, and gradually increases with time. Gradually consumed, and will increase consumption during sprinting. Food can restore fatigue value.