How to play Roblox Minecraft

Roblox Minecraft is a sandbox experience where you can explore various biomes, collect resources, and create items out of what you find. This title makes use of exploration and survival elements as a part of its core gameplay loop with mechanics like cooking and gear creation. Create the best possible equipment using the materials you find and use them to keep yourself safe during traversal.

This guide goes over the core gameplay elements of Roblox Minecraft, giving you a brief tour of what the experience has to offer.

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An overview of Roblox Minecraft

Official cover art for the game (Image via Roblox)

Being a sandbox game at heart, Roblox Minecraft lets you explore as much as you want. It utilizes procedural generation to create its vast open world, effectively creating the illusion of a limitless map. Resources, animals, and biomes will be created as you explore the world and there will always be something worth exploring around the corner.

The core gameplay loop involves breaking blocks apart and collecting the materials they drop. Nearly everything you see on the map can be broken apart and collected using the correct implement.

While you start the game with nothing in the inventory, you will quickly gather enough materials to fashion tools from. Using these tools, you will be able to mine deep enough to break apart the toughest of stones and collect the gems they drop.

Minecraft is not an intense PvP-centric game; rather, it focuses more on the exploration and survival elements. Even so, the moment-to-moment danger is mild at best, and the most you need to do is occasionally collect food to eat. You can create a farm to grow food in as well, giving you a sustainable way to replenish your HP.

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Controls

A home built using resources found in the area (Image via Roblox)

• Movement: W, S, A, D
• Jump: Spacebar
• Mine/Punch: Left Mouse Button
• Place/Interact: F / Right Mouse Button
• Inventory: E
• Drop: Q
• Settings: T
• Crouch: Shift
• Run: Left Ctrl
• Camera: C
• Zoom Z

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How crafting works

Creating a diamond pickaxe (Image via Roblox)

Crafting is the beating heart of Minecraft, encompassing a vast majority of the core gameplay loop. To craft an item, you must first find the relevant resources in the open world. Each item occupies a certain block space, which can be broken to transform it into an item that can be picked up off the ground.

The collected item can be added to your hotbar or the Inventory. You can use nearly any item as a makeshift hammer to break open blocks, but doing so is faster and simpler with a dedicated tool. Dirt and Sand blocks can be broken easily using a Shovel, while Stone, Ore, and Gem blocks require a Pickaxe to be collected. With ample resources in your inventory, you can interact with the crafting mechanic.

You have two main ways of using the crafting mechanic in Roblox Minecraft: the Inventory menu and the Crafting Table. The Inventory menu allows you to make basic items using only four slots. You can create fundamental materials like planks, sticks, torches, and more, which serve as great starting points for your journey.

The Inventory menu can be used to create a Crafting Table, which gives you access to every recipe in the game. Of course, you can only view the recipe when you have the right ingredients stored in your inventory. The more ingredients you collect, the more items you will be able to view and make in the crafting menu.

As you may have picked up thus far, two of the most important items to have in your inventory are a Crafting Table and a Pickaxe. You can combine four planks of wood to make the Table in the Inventory menu. For a Pickaxe, use two sticks and three ingots, stones, or wood planks in the Crafting Table menu.

So long as you have these in your inventory, you will be able to craft every item in the game. Use them to mine resources, create gear, building blocks, and more.

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FAQs

What is Roblox Minecraft about?

Roblox Minecraft is about exploring the procedurally generated open world for resources, crafting items, and building structures in a massive open space.

How do I collect ores in Roblox Minecraft?

You need to break Ore blocks using a Pickaxe to be able to collect them.

How do I make a Furnace in Roblox Minecraft?

You can make a Furnace by combining eight Cobblestone blocks using the Crafting Table while leaving an empty slot in the middle.