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Blacksmith 5 Points

Use an anvil!

Breed Two Animals 5 Points

Feed two animals food to make a baby!

Brew a Potion 5 Points

Use the potion stand to make a potion!

Crafting Table 5 Points

Enlarges the crafting area

Eat Food 5 Points

Say "omnomnom" while you do that!

Enchant an Item 5 Points

Use an enchantment table!

Fire a Bow 5 Points

This is much cooler than using a sword!

Fish a Fish 5 Points

Catch a fish with a fishing rod!

Furnace 5 Points

Furnaces will burn and smelt items

Grow Tree 5 Points

They're a renewable resource.

Grow Wheat 5 Points

Next up, carrots and potatoes!

Iron Ingot 5 Points

Use a furnace, coal, and iron ore to make iron ingots!

Iron Pickaxe 5 Points

You can now mine diamonds... sparkle sparkle!

Kill a Blaze 5 Points

They will shoot fireballs at you like crazy!

Kill a Cow 5 Points

Leather can be made into the first tier of armor

Kill a Creeper 5 Points

They explode if you fail!

Kill a Flaming Chicken 5 Points

Nothing's worse than a chicken with attitude.

Kill a Magma Cube 5 Points

But they're so warm and cuddly!

Kill a Nethereye 5 Points

They pretty much will freak you out until you do anyway

Kill a Pig 5 Points

Pigs drop pork, and you eat pork to live

Kill a Sheep 5 Points

Bahhh! They drop wool.

Kill a Skeleton 5 Points

They will shoot arrows at you if you don't

Kill a Slime 5 Points

Just make sure to wash you hands after!

Kill a Spider 5 Points

They can climb walls

Kill a Zombie 5 Points

Careful though - you might need a sword

Kill a Zombie Pigman 5 Points

They typically attack in groups!

Mine Wood 5 Points

Wood is used in the most important crafting recipes!

Open Door with Wiring 5 Points

Open a door with redstone or a pressure plate!

Open Inventory 5 Points

You can craft or see your items in Mine Blocks.

Place Block 5 Points

Now you can build things

Return to Sender 5 Points

Reflect a ghast's fireball back at itself!

Stone Pickaxe 5 Points

With this, you can also mine iron and make an iron pickaxe!

Tame a Dog 5 Points

They'll be your best friends in the world!

Teleport 5 Points

Use an enderpearl to teleport!

Torches 5 Points

Torches will light up the dark

Use a Bed 5 Points

Sleep is time travel!

Wooden Pickaxe 5 Points

Use this to mine stone and coal

Go to the Nether 10 Points

Just a'nether thing to do!

Kill an Enderman 10 Points

They teleport, are fast, and do a lot of damage. Good luck!

Make Cake 10 Points

I'm not lying!

Make Portal Stone 10 Points

The next step is going to the nether

Mine Diamonds 10 Points

You can't be much fancier than a diamond pickaxe!

Mine Gold 10 Points

It's a pretty fancy ore!

Mine Obsidian 10 Points

Mix water into pure lava!

Unlock Ender Portal 10 Points

Interstellar warping may occur.

Slay the Ender Dragon 100 Points

Congratulations! You beat the first boss in Mine Blocks!

Scavenge 7 Items 5 Points

Find 7 of the items in Scavenger Hunt!

Scavenge 8 Items 10 Points

Find 8 of the items in Scavenger Hunt!

Scavenge 9 Items 25 Points

Find 9 of the items in Scavenger Hunt!

Become a True Scavenger 50 Points

Find all 10 items in Scavenger Hunt! Amazing!

Secret Medal ????? Points

Unlock this medal to learn its secrets!

Author Comments

Mine Blocks is now an HTML5 game!

Enjoy the original game without needing to use workarounds to play Flash.


Watch the latest update video here:




Mine Blocks is a 2D Minecraft fan game!


You can mine and craft in randomly generated worlds, collect diamonds, build armor, fight monsters, design redstone, explore the nether, defeat the ender dragon, and do hundreds of other things! Follow me for occasional updates (yes, still, even after 11 years)!


⸻⸻⸻⸻ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​HISTORY ​ ​ ​ ​ ​⸻⸻⸻⸻

In summer break, 2011, I started this 2D Flash version of Minecraft out of love for the original game.

Check out this video about the first 10 years of development:



~ Aug 24, 2012: 100 pages of reviews!

~ Sep 16, 2012: 10,000 votes! 4.24 / 5!

~ Apr 8, 2013: 25,000 votes! 4.35 / 5! Thanks!

~ Jul 1, 2013: 250 pages of reviews! And yes, I've answered all of them.

~ Jul 16, 2013: 1,000,000 views on Newgrounds! Woah!

~ Sep 30, 2019: Thanks so much for the front page boost Tom!


⸻⸻⸻⸻ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​LINKS ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​​⸻⸻⸻⸻

Official website: https://MineBlocks.com


Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mine_Blocks

Discord: https://mineblocks.com/discord


⸻⸻⸻⸻ ​ ​FAQ AND HELP ​ ​⸻⸻⸻⸻

Visit the wiki and read the built-in FAQ if you have questions!

Wiki: https://mineblocks.com/1/wiki


If you have a different problem, join the Mine Blocks Discord or DM me here :)


⸻⸻⸻⸻ MINE BLOCKS 2 ⸻⸻⸻⸻

Mine Blocks 2 is also a thing! It will be ported to HTML5 soon.

Mine Blocks 2 is NOT based on Minecraft, but it's not very far along yet.

https://MineBlocks.com/2


⸻⸻⸻⸻ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​MINECRAFT ​ ​ ​ ​ ​⸻⸻⸻⸻

Mine Blocks is a 2D fan game of Minecraft, a popular 3D sandbox game:

https://minecraft.net

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Question: why ca't you put backdrop block behinds small things like torches?
Also this is probably the best game I played on this website.

Zanzlanz responds:

Whoa I'm so happy you like the game, thanks!

Yeah that's a very common question haha. Backdrops were added a long time ago because people were asking for them to make their builds have more depth. But, because of the way the worlds are structured and saved to the computer, the game can only save one block per tile. It's all just one layer, with some blocks you can walk through, and some blocks you can't.

It would just take a lot of work to redo that system to fix it, so I haven't prioritized it yet. Same story with the world generator - it's pretty old and missing new biomes for the same reason. The way worlds are saved is just kind of limited until I can take the time to overhaul it all.

Yello Zanzlanz,

I just wanted to say that this game really made me happy back then and now, because little me would just search "play minecraft for free" or something like that, then your game showed up, and it was simply the best thing i've ever seen, it really left a good memory.

And even now its still as awesomer as it ever was, a really big nostalgia punch, also, when i came back and saw that this game wasn't abandoned, adobe flash wasn't a problem, and still made with love, it made my day after some dark times.

Thanks alot for this game.

(P.S: you dont know how much i love this game OST and menu).

Zanzlanz responds:

Hey thanks dude!

Keeping the game alive all these years is worth it just to hear the joy from players like you who are remembering it fondly and returning to the nostalgia!

I hope Mine Blocks will continue entertaining people for a long time. It's such a fun project and it's my pleasure to keep it going :D

Dear Zanzlanz,

Just came back here revisiting old memories and i'm suprised that this game is still going with you even responding to reviews till this day, incredibly impressive!

This game was my childhood back in 2014, i did leave an "review" during that time aswell, by the username of destroy6666 (sadly i've lost the password to this account), now i say "review" in quotations because it was child me rambling in a broken combination of dutch and english about how i wanted to end myself because i died on a good seed and that i had a castle build apparently (a severe exageration, child me was odd), with you responding in confusion.

It still haunts me every once a while i go on a nostalgia trip and makes me cringe while laughing at how i used to be, to the point i made this new account just to explain it, if for whatever reason you recall this review, although more because it keeps weighing on my consciousness that something like that is out there and it feels like it needs some "explanation" (the cringe is strong).

However that aside i just wanna thank you for all the great memories you gave to me from the years i played this game, from asking my dad to please turn off the cookie deletion so i could keep playing on my worlds when i found it on the site, to going to bedrock for the first time without any torches and being amazed at the amount of diamonds i found, i never actually went to the nether or end, kid me didn't know what those were, i recall a toothless from HTTYD skin, which i had tons of fun with as well, even drawing it on my notebooks whenever i could, and of course child me spending hours trying to learn how to make a skin just like the others. There was also mineblocks 2 game i found during that era, which confused child me because when i played it it was just walking around breaking stuff with others there, no crafting inventory or anything else as far as i can recall, child me thinking "where's the mineblocks?" was severely confused lol.

This game, no negativity intented in the slightest, was the game i could always fall back to with joy whenever my parents at the time denied me to buy minecraft and i searched up stuff like "free 2D minecraft" on the internet, It feels to me that this game is almost, or maybe just as big, as Minecraft is, any kid who grew up during my era but unable to play minecraft eventually ended up finding this game, which led me here.

It was good times, incredible good times. I am unaware how your life has been going but i hope that it has nothing but positivity for creating so many fond memories to so many people.

Yours truly,
Sticklord, a person whose childhood was much brighter because of you.

Zanzlanz responds:

Whoa this is so awesome! Thanks for the very thoughtful comment and sharing your memories of Mine Blocks.

That's really funny to hear the backstory of the original review. Definitely don't worry about that old message though, I think most people feel the same about the stuff they posted 10 years ago too lol - I mean I feel that way about my posts!

It makes me really happy to know you liked that Toothless skin I made! And my favorite parts of Mine Blocks are the ones that inspires players to be creative, so it's truly great to hear that you were interested in making skins and stuff because of the game.

OH RIGHT you played before the big Mine Blocks 2 update then! You weren't alone being confused about the inventory and "fake multiplayer" April Fools joke xD Almost a year after your review, Mine Blocks 2 finally got a big update with a full inventory and stuff. Here's a post about that update, if you're interested:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/mine-blocks-2/news/mine-blocks-2-07-update

Life has been good! Since you played, I graduated high school and university, and have been working at local game companies for the past 5+ years. But in my freetime I'm still working hard on Mine Blocks and other projects, and I'm absolutely loving what I do. It's messages like yours that remind me how awesome it is to make games :')

I really appreciate you came back and made an account to say hi like this. I hope you enjoy being on Newgrounds again. Have a great week, Sticklord! :D

i have been playing this game ever since 1.25, well... thats the farthest i could remember

edit: okay not 1.25 i wasnt even a year old back when it was made

Zanzlanz responds:

Omg I can't believe that version is already 10 years old. How?!
Thank you for playing Mine Blocks! :D

Edit: Haha oh! Maybe a site you played it on had the old version for a while. Or maybe you really were a pro gamer at age 1! ;D

Good o'l nostalgia from you my dude. thanks a many my guy

Zanzlanz responds:

My pleasure haha! Thank you for nostalgiaing!

(Also merry Christmas!)

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Faves:
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Votes
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Score
4.46 / 5.00

Uploaded
Sep 10, 2011
11:22 AM EDT
Software
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