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Minecraft | |
The Minecraft logo |
Developer(s) | Mojang 4J Studios (Console versions[1]) |
Publisher(s) | Mojang Microsoft Studios (Xbox 360, Xbox One) |
Designer(s) | Markus "Notch" Persson (2009–2011) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten |
Artist(s) | Kristoffer Zetterstrand Markus "Junkboy" Toivonen |
Composer(s) | Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld |
Platform(s) | Java platform, Java applet, Android, iOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Raspberry Pi, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita |
Release date(s) |
November 18, 2011
Genre(s) | Sandbox, survival |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Distribution | Download, in-browser |
Minecraft is a sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. It was publicly released for the PC on May 17, 2009, as a developmental alpha version and, after gradual updates, was published as a full release version on November 18, 2011. A version for Android was released a month earlier on October 7, and an iOS version was released on November 17, 2011. On May 9, 2012, the game was released on Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game, co-developed by 4J Studios. All versions of Minecraft receive periodic updates.
The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Gameplay in its commercial release has two principal modes: survival, which requires players to acquire resources and maintain their health and hunger; and creative, where players have an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and no health or hunger. A third gameplay mode named hardcore is the same as survival, differing only in difficulty; it is set to hardest setting and respawning is disabled, forcing players to delete their worlds upon death.
Minecraft received five awards from the 2011 Game Developers Conference: it was awarded the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and the Best Debut Game Award from the Game Developers Choice Awards; and the Audience Award, as well as the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, from the Independent Games Festival in 2011. In 2012, Minecraft was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game. As of October 23, 2013, the game has sold over 12.5 million copies on PC, and over 33 million copies across all platforms.
Minecraft is an open world game that has no specific goals for the player to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game.[10] However, there is an achievement system.[11] The gameplay by default is first person, but players have the option to play in third person mode.[12] The core gameplay revolves around breaking and placing blocks. The game world is essentially composed of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes—that are arranged in a fixed grid pattern and represent different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, and tree trunks. While players can move freely across the world, objects and items can only be placed at fixed locations relative to the grid. Players can gather these material blocks and place them elsewhere, thus allowing for various constructions.[13]
At the start of the game, the player is placed on the surface of a procedurally generated and virtually infinite game world.[14] Players can walk across the terrain consisting of plains, mountains, forests, caves, and various water bodies.[14] The world is divided into biomes ranging from deserts to jungles to snowfields.[15][16] The in-game time system follows a day and night cycle, with one full cycle lasting 20 real time minutes. Throughout the course of the game, players encounter various non-player characters known as mobs, including animals, villagers and hostile creatures.[17] During the daytime, non-hostile animals, such as cows, pigs, and chickens, spawn. They may be hunted for food and crafting materials. During nighttime and in dark areas, hostile mobs, such as large spiders, skeletons, and zombies, spawn.[14] Some Minecraft-unique creatures have been noted by reviewers, such as the Creeper, an exploding creature that sneaks up on the player, and the Enderman, a creature with the ability to teleport and pick up blocks.[18]
The game world is procedurally generated as players explore it, using a seed which is obtained from the system clock at the time of world creation unless manually specified by the player.[19][20] Although limits exist on vertical movement both up and down, Minecraft allows for an infinitely large game world to be generated on the horizontal plane, only running into technical problems when extremely distant locations are reached.[nb 1] The game achieves this by splitting the game world data into smaller sections called "chunks", which are only created or loaded into memory when players are nearby.
The game's physics system, in which most solid blocks are unaffected by gravity, has often been described as unrealistic by commentators.[21] Liquids in the game flow from a source, a liquid block which can be removed by placing a solid block in place of it. Complex systems can be built using primitive mechanical devices, electrical circuits, and logic gates built with an in-game material known as redstone.[22]
Minecraft features two alternate dimensions besides the main world – the Nether and The End.[18] The Nether is a hell-like dimension accessed via player-built portals that contains many unique resources and can be used to travel great distances in the overworld.[23] The End is a barren land in which a boss dragon called the Ender Dragon dwells.[24] Killing the dragon cues the game's ending credits, written by Irish author Julian Gough.[25] Players are then allowed to teleport back to their original spawn point in the overworld, and will receive "The End" achievement. There is also a second boss called "The Wither", which drops materials used to build a placeable beacon that can enhance certain abilities of all nearby players.
The game primarily consists of two game modes: survival and creative. It also has a changeable difficulty system of four levels; the easiest difficulty (peaceful) removes any hostile creatures that spawn.[26]
Survival mode
In this mode, players have to gather natural resources (such as wood, stone, etc.) found in the environment in order to craft certain blocks and items.[14] Depending on the difficulty, monsters spawn at darker places on the map, necessitating that the player builds a shelter at night.[14] The mode also features a health bar which is depleted by attacks from monsters, falls, drowning, falling into lava, suffocation, starvation, and other events. Players also have a hunger bar, which must be periodically refilled by eating food in-game.[27] Health replenishes when players have a nearly full hunger bar, and also regenerates regardless of fullness if players play on the easiest difficulty.[27]
There are a wide variety of items that players can craft in Minecraft.[28] Players can craft armor, which can help mitigate damage from attacks, while weapons such as swords can be crafted to kill enemies and other animals more easily. Players may acquire different resources to craft tools, such as weapons, armor, food, and various other items. By acquiring better resources, players can craft more effective items. For example, tools such as axes, shovels, or pickaxes, can be used to chop down trees, dig soil, and mine ores, respectively; and tools made out of better resources (such as iron in place of stone) perform their tasks more quickly and can be used more heavily before breaking. Players may also trade goods with villager mobs through a bartering system.[29] Emeralds are often the currency of the villagers, although some trade with wheat or other materials.[17][29]
The game has an inventory system and players are limited to the number of items they can carry. Upon dying, items in the players' inventories are dropped, and players respawn at the current spawn point, which is set by default where players begin the game, but can be reset if players sleep in beds in-game.[30] Dropped items can be recovered if players can reach them before they despawn. Players may acquire experience points by killing mobs and other players, mining, smelting ores, breeding animals, and cooking food. Experience can then be spent on enchanting tools, armor and weapons.[26] Enchanted items are generally more powerful, last longer, or have other special effects.[26]
Players may also play in hardcore mode, a variant of survival mode that differs primarily in the game being locked to the hardest gameplay setting as well as featuring permadeath; upon players' death, their world is deleted.[31]
Creative mode
In creative mode, players have access to most of the resources and items in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly.[32] Players, able to fly freely around the game world, do not take environmental or mob damage, and are not affected by hunger.[33][34] The game mode helps players focus on building and creating large projects.[32]
Adventure mode
Adventure mode was added to Minecraft in version 1.3; it was designed specifically so that players could experience user crafted custom maps and adventures.[35][36][37] Gameplay is similar to survival mode but introduces various player restrictions such as disabling the ability to place blocks and destroy blocks without the appropriate tools.[36][37] This is so that players can obtain the required items and experience adventures in the way that the mapmaker intended.[37] Another addition designed for custom maps is the command block; this block allows mapmakers to expand interactions with players through server commands.[38]
Multiplayer on Minecraft is available through player-hosted servers and enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world.[39] Players can run their own servers or use a hosting provider. Single player worlds have local area network support, allowing players to join worlds on locally interconnected computers without a server setup.[40] Minecraft multiplayer servers are guided by server operators, who have access to server commands such as setting the time of day and teleporting players around. Operators can also set up restrictions concerning which usernames or IP addresses are allowed to enter the server.[39] Multiplayer servers offer players a wide range of activities, with some servers having their own unique rules and customs. Competitions are available in some servers, in which players can participate in a variety of games, including some resembling The Hunger Games.[41][42] A gamemode, PvP (player versus player), may be enabled to allow fighting between players.[43] In 2013 Mojang announced Minecraft Realms, a server hosting service intended to enable children to run server multiplayer games easily and safely.[44]
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The developer of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, began developing the game as an independent project while working for King.com and later jAlbum.[46][47] He was inspired to create Minecraft by several other games such as Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, and later Infiniminer. At the time, he had visualized an isometric 3D building game that would be a cross between his inspirations and had made some early prototypes.[46] Infiniminer heavily influenced the style of gameplay, including the first-person aspect of the game, the "blocky" visual style and the block-building fundamentals.[47] However, unlike Infiniminer, Persson wanted Minecraft to have RPG elements.[48]
Minecraft was released to the public on May 17, 2009, as a developmental "alpha" release.[49] Although Persson maintained a day job with Jalbum.net at first, he later quit in order to work on Minecraft full-time as sales of the alpha version of the game expanded.[50] Persson continued to update the game with releases distributed to users automatically. These updates included features such as new items, new blocks, new mobs, survival mode, and changes to the game's behavior (e.g., how water flows).[50]
To back the development of Minecraft, Persson set up a video game company, Mojang, with the money earned from the game.[51][52][53] On December 11, 2010, Persson announced that Minecraft was entering its beta testing phase on December 20, 2010.[54] He further stated that users who bought the game after this date would no longer be guaranteed to receive all future content free of charge as it "scared both the lawyers and the board." However, bug fixes and all updates leading up to and including the release would still be free. Over the course of the development, Mojang hired several new employees to work on the project.[55]
Mojang moved the game out of beta and released the full version on November 18, 2011.[56] The game has been continuously updated since the release, with changes ranging from new game content to new server hosts.[57] On December 1, 2011, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten took full creative control over Minecraft, replacing Persson as lead developer.[58] On February 28, 2012, Mojang announced that they had hired the developers of the popular server platform "Bukkit" to improve Minecraft's support of server and client modifications.[59]
Minecraft's music and sound effects are produced by German composer Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld.[60] The background music in Minecraft is non-lyrical ambient music. On March 4, 2011, Rosenfeld released a soundtrack, titled Minecraft – Volume Alpha; it includes most of the tracks featured in Minecraft, as well as other music not featured in the game.[61] The video game blog Kotaku chose the music in Minecraft as one of the best video game soundtracks of 2011.[62] On November 9, 2013, Rosenfeld released the second official soundtrack, titled Minecraft – Volume Beta.[63]
Minecraft – Volume Alpha | ||||||||||
No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
1. | "Key" | 1:05 | ||||||||
2. | "Door" | 1:51 | ||||||||
3. | "Subwoofer Lullaby" | 3:28 | ||||||||
4. | "Death" | 0:41 | ||||||||
5. | "Living Mice" | 2:57 | ||||||||
6. | "Moog City" | 2:40 | ||||||||
7. | "Haggstorm" | 3:24 | ||||||||
8. | "Minecraft" | 4:14 | ||||||||
9. | "Oxygène" | 1:05 | ||||||||
10. | "Équinoxe" | 1:54 | ||||||||
11. | "Mice on Venus" | 4:41 | ||||||||
12. | "Dry Hands" | 1:08 | ||||||||
13. | "Wet Hands" | 1:30 | ||||||||
14. | "Clark" | 3:11 | ||||||||
15. | "Chris" | 1:27 | ||||||||
16. | "Thirteen" | 2:56 | ||||||||
17. | "Excuse" | 2:04 | ||||||||
18. | "Sweden" | 3:35 | ||||||||
19. | "Cat" | 3:06 | ||||||||
20. | "Dog" | 2:25 | ||||||||
21. | "Danny" | 4:14 | ||||||||
22. | "Beginning" | 1:42 | ||||||||
23. | "Droopy likes ricochet" | 1:36 | ||||||||
24. | "Droopy likes your face" | 1:56 |
Minecraft – Volume Beta | ||||||||||
No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
1. | "Ki" | 1:32 | ||||||||
2. | "Alpha" | 10:03 | ||||||||
3. | "Dead Voxel" | 4:56 | ||||||||
4. | "Blind Spots" | 5:32 | ||||||||
5. | "Flake" | 2:50 | ||||||||
6. | "Moog City 2" | 3:00 | ||||||||
7. | "Concrete Halls" | 4:14 | ||||||||
8. | "Biome Fest" | 6:18 | ||||||||
9. | "Mutation" | 3:05 | ||||||||
10. | "Haunt Muskie" | 6:01 | ||||||||
11. | "Warmth" | 3:59 | ||||||||
12. | "Floating Trees" | 4:04 | ||||||||
13. | "Aria Math" | 5:10 | ||||||||
14. | "Kyoto" | 4:09 | ||||||||
15. | "Ballad of the Cats" | 4:35 | ||||||||
16. | "Taswell" | 8:35 | ||||||||
17. | "Beginning 2" | 2:56 | ||||||||
18. | "Dreiton" | 8:17 | ||||||||
19. | "The End" | 15:04 | ||||||||
20. | "Chirp" | 3:06 | ||||||||
21. | "Wait" | 3:54 | ||||||||
22. | "Mellohi" | 1:38 | ||||||||
23. | "Stal" | 2:32 | ||||||||
24. | "Strad" | 3:08 | ||||||||
25. | "Eleven" | 1:11 | ||||||||
26. | "Ward" | 4:10 | ||||||||
27. | "Mall" | 3:18 | ||||||||
28. | "Blocks" | 5:43 | ||||||||
29. | "Far" | 3:12 | ||||||||
30. | "Intro" | 4:36 |
Personal computer versions
The PC was the original platform for Minecraft; the game runs on multiple operating systems including Windows, OS X, and Linux.[39][64] Apart from the main version, there are also other versions of Minecraft available for PC, including Minecraft Classic and Minecraft 4k.
Minecraft Classic is an older version of Minecraft, available online for players. Unlike newer versions of Minecraft, the classic version is free to play, though it is no longer updated. It functions much the same as creative mode, allowing players to build and destroy any and all parts of the world either alone or in a multiplayer server. There are no computer creatures in this mode, and environmental hazards such as lava will not damage players. Some blocks function differently since their behavior was later changed during development.[65]
Minecraft 4k is a simplified version of Minecraft similar to the classic version that was developed for the Java 4K game programming contest "in way less than 4 kilobytes".[66] The map itself is finite—composed of 64×64×64 blocks—and the same world is generated every time. Players are restricted to placing or destroying blocks, which are randomly located and consist of grass, dirt, stone, wood, leaves, and brick.[67]
A port of Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi was officially revealed at MineCon 2012. Mojang stated that the Pi Edition is similar to the Pocket Edition except that it is downgraded to an older version, and with the added ability of using text commands to edit the game world. Players can open the game code and use programming language to manipulate things in the game world.[68] The game was leaked on December 20, 2012, but was quickly pulled off.[69] It was officially released on February 11, 2013.[70]
Console versions
The Xbox 360 version of the game, developed by 4J Studios, was released on May 9, 2012.[71][72] On March 22, 2012, it was announced that Minecraft would be the flagship game in a new Xbox Live promotion called Arcade NEXT.[72] The game has some features that are exclusive to the Xbox 360 version, including the newly designed crafting system, the control interface, in-game tutorials, split-screen multiplayer, and the ability to play with friends via Xbox Live.[73] The version's crafting interface does not require players to place items in the correct place in a crafting menu. The interface shows the blocks required to craft the selected item, and crafts it if the players have enough blocks.[74] Also, the worlds in the version are not "infinite", and are essentially barricaded by invisible walls.[74] The Xbox 360 version was originally similar in content to older PC versions, but is being gradually updated to bring it closer to the current PC version.[71][75][76]
During their E3 2013 press conference Microsoft showed a trailer for Minecraft: Xbox One Edition.[77] It will build off Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition but feature larger worlds, expanded multiplayer features, and enhancements powered by the Xbox One. This version will be released "within the Xbox One launch window".[78]
At Gamescom 2013, Sony said that Minecraft would be released as a PlayStation 4 launch title, and would later be released as for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.[79] However, the game was later delayed and the PlayStation 4 version will not launch alongside the console.[9] Similarly to the Xbox versions, the PlayStation versions are also being developed by 4J Studios.
Handheld versions
On August 16, 2011, Minecraft – Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play on the Android Market as an early alpha version. It was then released for several other compatible devices on October 8, 2011.[80][81] An iOS version of Minecraft was released on November 17, 2011.[82] The port concentrates on the creative building and the primitive survival aspect of the game, and does not contain all the features of the PC release. On his Twitter account, Jens Bergensten noted that the Pocket Edition of Minecraft is written in C++ and not Java, due to iOS not being able to support Java.[83] Gradual updates are periodically released to bring the port closer to the PC version.[84]
At Gamescom 2013, Sony confirmed that Minecraft would be released for the PlayStation Vita.
User-generated and downloadable content
A wide variety of user-generated content for Minecraft, such as modifications, texture packs and custom maps, is available for download from the Internet. Modifications of the Minecraft code, called mods, add a variety of gameplay changes, ranging from new blocks, new items, new mobs to entire arrays of mechanisms to craft.[85][86] The modding community is responsible for a substantial supply of mods, including ones that add to the game elements from Pokémon, Portal, and The Hunger Games. To make mods easier to create and install, Mojang announced in November 2012 that it plans to add an official modding API.[43]
Texture packs that customize the game's graphics are also available.[87] In version 1.6, texture packs were replaced with "resource packs". These play the same role as texture packs, but allow custom sounds as well.[88] Custom maps have become popular as well. Players can create their own maps, which often contain rules, challenges, puzzles and quests, and share them for others to play.[35] In version 1.3 Mojang added adventure mode [36] for custom maps and in 1.4, Mojang added command blocks.[38] which were created specially for custom maps.
The Xbox 360 Edition supports downloadable content, which is available to purchase via the Xbox Live Marketplace; these content packs usually contain additional character skins.[89] It later received support for texture packs in its twelfth title update while introducing "mash-up packs", which combines texture packs with skin packs and changes to the game's sounds, music and user interface.[90] The first mash-up pack (and by extension, the first texture pack) for the Xbox 360 Edition was released on September 4, 2013 and is themed after the Mass Effect franchise.[91] Unlike the PC version, however, the Xbox 360 Edition does not support player-made mods or custom maps.[92]
On January 12, 2011, Minecraft passed 1 million purchases, less than a month after entering its beta phase.[93][94] At the same time, the game had no publisher backing and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth,[95] and various unpaid references in popular media such as the Penny Arcade webcomic.[96] By April 2011, Persson estimated that Minecraft had made €23 million (US$33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game, and over 1 million sales of the beta version.[97] In November 2011, prior to the game's full release, Minecraft beta surpassed 16 million registered users and 4 million purchases.[98] By March 2012, Minecraft had become the 6th best-selling PC game of all time.[99] As of October 23, 2013, the game has sold over 12.5 million copies on PC,[100] and over 33 million copies across all platforms.[101]
The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft became profitable within the first 24 hours of the game's release when the game broke the Xbox Live sales records with 400,000 players online.[102] Within a week of being on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Minecraft sold upwards of 1 million copies.[103] GameSpot announced in December 2012 that Minecraft sold over 4.48 million copies since the game debuted on Xbox LIVE Arcade in May 2012.[104] In 2012, Minecraft was the most purchased title on Xbox Live Arcade; it was also the fourth most played title on Xbox Live based on average unique users per day.[105] In addition, Minecraft: Pocket Edition has reached a figure of 7.3 million in sales.[106]
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Minecraft has received widespread critical acclaim. The game has been praised for the creative freedom it grants players in-game, as well as the ease of enabling emergent gameplay.[120][121][122] Critics have praised Minecraft's complex crafting system, commenting that it is an important aspect of the game's open-ended gameplay.[116] Most publications were impressed by the game's "blocky" graphics, with IGN describing them as "instantly memorable".[10] Reviewers also liked the game's adventure elements, noting that the game creates a good balance between exploring and building.[116] The game's multiplayer feature has been generally received favorably, with IGN commenting that "adventuring is always better with friends."[10]
Many reviewers have criticized the game's lack of in-game tutorials and instructions, making it difficult for new players to learn how to play the game. IGN was disappointed about the troublesome steps needed to set up multiplayer servers, calling it a "hassle".[10] Critics also noted visual glitches that occur periodically.[116] In 2009, GameSpot maintained that the game has an "unfinished feel", adding that "some game elements seem incomplete or thrown together in haste."[116]
A review of the alpha version, by Scott Munro of the Daily Record, called it "already something special" and urged readers to buy it.[123] Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun also recommended the alpha of the game, calling it "a kind of generative 8-bit Lego Stalker".[124] On September 17, 2010, gaming webcomic Penny Arcade began a series of comics and news posts about the addictiveness of the game.[125]
The Xbox 360 version was generally received positively by critics, but did not receive as much praise as the PC version. Although reviewers were disappointed by the lack of features such as mod support and content from the PC version, they acclaimed the port's addition of a tutorial and in-game tips and crafting recipes, saying that they make the game more user-friendly.[92]
Minecraft – Pocket Edition received mixed reviews from critics. Although reviewers appreciated the game's intuitive controls, they were disappointed by the lack of content. The inability in the game to collect resources and craft items, as well as the game's lack of hostile mobs and limited types of blocks, were especially criticized.[126][127][128]
In July 2010, PC Gamer listed Minecraft as the fourth-best game to play at work.[129] In December of that year, Good Game selected Minecraft as their choice for Best Downloadable Game of 2010,[130] Gamasutra named it the eighth best game of the year as well as the eighth best indie game of the year,[131][132] and Rock, Paper, Shotgun named it the "game of the year".[133] Indie DB awarded the game the 2010 Indie of the Year award as chosen by voters, in addition to two out of five Editor's Choice awards for Most Innovative and Best Singleplayer Indie.[134] It was also awarded Game of the Year by PC Gamer UK.[135] The game was nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Technical Excellence, and Excellence in Design awards at the March 2011 Independent Games Festival and won the Grand Prize along with community-voted Audience Award.[136][137] At Game Developers Choice Awards 2011, Minecraft won awards in the categories for Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game and Innovation Award, winning every award for which it was nominated.[138][139][140] It has also won GameCity's videogame arts prize.[141] On May 5, 2011, Minecraft was selected as one of the 80 games that would be displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of The Art of Video Games exhibit that opened on March 16, 2012.[142][143] At the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards, Minecraft won the award for Best Independent Game and was nominated in the Best PC Game category.[144][145] In 2012, at the British Academy Video Games Awards, Minecraft was nominated in the GAME Award of 2011 category and Notch received The Special Award.[146] In 2012, Minecraft XBLA was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the Best Downloadable Game category,[147] and a TIGA Games Industry Award in the Best Arcade Game category.[148]
MineCon is an official Minecraft convention held annually. The first one was held on November 18–19, 2011, at Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. All 4,500 tickets for MineCon 2011 were sold out by October 31.[149] The event included the official launch of Minecraft; keynote speeches, including one by Persson; building and costume contests; Minecraft-themed breakout classes; exhibits by leading gaming and Minecraft-related companies; commemorative merchandise; and autograph and picture times with Mojang employees and well-known contributors from the Minecraft community.[150] After MineCon, there was an Into The Nether after-party with electronic musician deadmau5.[151] Free codes were given to every attendee of MineCon that unlocked alpha versions of Mojang's other upcoming game, Scrolls, as well as an additional non-Mojang game, Cobalt, developed by Oxeye Game Studios.[152] Similar events occurred in MineCon 2012, which took place in Disneyland Paris from November 24–25.[153] The tickets for the 2012 event sold out in less than two hours.[154] The 2013 MineCon was held in Orlando, Florida, in the United States, on November 2–3.[155][156]
A Lego set based on Minecraft called Lego Minecraft was released on June 6, 2012.[157] The set, called "Micro World", centers around the game's default player character and a Creeper.[158] Mojang submitted the concept of Minecraft merchandise to Lego in December 2011 for the Lego Cuusoo program, from which it quickly received 10,000 votes by users, prompting Lego to review the concept.[159] Lego Cuusoo approved the concept in January 2012 and began developing sets based around Minecraft.[159]
Mojang collaborates with Jinx, an online game merchandise store, to sell Minecraft merchandise, such as clothing, foam pickaxes, and toys of creatures in the game.[51] By May 2012, over 1 million dollars were made from Minecraft merchandise sales. T-shirts and socks were the most popular products.[160] In March 2013 Mojang signed a deal with the children's book publisher The Egmont Group to create Minecraft handbooks, annuals, poster books, and magazines.[161][162][163]
Popular culture and social media
Social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit played a significant role in popularizing Minecraft.[164] Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication showed that one-third of Minecraft players learned about the game via Internet videos.[165] In 2010, Minecraft-related videos began to gain popularity on YouTube, often made by commentators. The videos usually contain screen-capture footage of the game and voice-overs.[166] Common coverage in the videos includes creations made by players, walkthroughs of various tasks, and parodies of works in popular culture. By May 2012, over 4 million Minecraft-related YouTube videos were uploaded.[160] Some of the popular commentators have received employment at Machinima, a gaming video company that owns a highly watched entertainment channel on YouTube.[166] The Yogscast is a British organisation that regularly produces Minecraft videos; their YouTube channel has attained millions of views, and their panel at MineCon 2011 had the highest attendance.[166][167] Other famous YouTube personnel include Jordan Maron, who has created many Minecraft parodies, including "Minecraft Style", a parody of the international hit single "Gangnam Style".[168] Herobrine is a major community icon of Minecraft, who first appeared as an single image on 4chan's /v/ board. According to rumors, Herobrine appears in players' worlds and builds strange constructions.[169] However, Mojang has confirmed that Herobrine has never existed in Minecraft, and there are no plans to add Herobrine.[170]
Minecraft has been referenced by other video games, such as RuneScape, Torchlight II, Borderlands 2, Choplifter HD, Super Meat Boy, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Binding of Isaac, Team Fortress 2, and FTL: Faster Than Light.[171] It was also referenced by musician deadmau5 in his performances.[172] After the release of Minecraft, some video games were released with various similarities with Minecraft, and some have been called "clones" of the game. There have been a few Minecraft-like and Minecraft-inspired games across various gaming platforms since the game became popular. Examples include Ace of Spades, CastleMiner, CraftWorld, FortressCraft, Terraria, and Total Miner.[173]
In 2012 Mojang received offers from Hollywood producers who want to produce Minecraft-related TV shows; however, Mojang stated that they would engage in such projects when "the right idea comes along."[160] A documentary about the development of Mojang and Minecraft was released in December 2012. Titled Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, the film was produced by 2 Player Productions.[174] The second episode of the seventeenth season of the animated television series South Park titled "Informative Murder Porn", features the boys distracting their parents from fighting each other with Minecraft.[175]
The possible applications of Minecraft have been discussed extensively, especially in the fields of computer-aided design and education. In a panel at MineCon 2011, a Swedish developer discussed the possibility of using the game to redesign public buildings and parks, stating that rendering using Minecraft was much more user-friendly for the community, making it easier to envision the functionality of new buildings and parks.[166] In 2012, a member of the Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab, Cody Sumter, said that "Notch hasn't just built a game. He's tricked 40 million people into learning to use a CAD program." Various software has been developed to allow virtual designs to be printed using professional 3D printers or personal printers such as MakerBot and RepRap.[176]
In September 2012, Mojang began the Block By Block project in cooperation with UN Habitat to create real-world environments in Minecraft.[177] The project allows young people who live in those environments to participate in designing the changes they would like to see. Using Minecraft, the community has helped reconstruct the areas of concern, and citizens are invited to enter the Minecraft servers and modify their own neighborhood. Carl Manneh, Mojang's managing director, called the game "the perfect tool to facilitate this process," adding that "the three-year partnership will support UN-Habitat's Sustainable Urban Development Network to upgrade 300 public spaces by 2016." Mojang signed Minecraft building community, FyreUK, to help render the environments into Minecraft. The first pilot project began in Kibera, one of Nairobi's informal settlements, and is in the planning phase. The Block By Block project is based on an earlier initiative started in October 2011, Mina Kvarter (My Block), which gave young people in Swedish communities a tool to visualize how they wanted to change their part of town. According to Manneh, the project was a helpful way to visualize urban planning ideas without necessarily having a training in architecture. The ideas presented by the citizens were a template for political decisions.[178]
Minecraft has also been used in educational settings.[179] In 2011, an educational organization named MinecraftEdu was formed with the goal of introducing the Minecraft into schools. The group works with Mojang to make the game affordable and accessible to schools. In September 2012, MinecraftEdu said that approximately 250,000 students around the world have access to Minecraft through the company.[180] A wide variety of educational activities involving the game have been developed to teach students various subjects, including history, language arts and science. For an example, one teacher built a world consisting of various historical landmarks for students to learn and explore.[180]
See also
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- Minicraft, a 2D action/survival game
- Markus Persson
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- First of all, let me clarify some things about the "infinite" maps: They're not infinite, but there's no hard limit either. It'll just get buggier and buggier the further out you are. Terrain is generated, saved and loaded, and (kind of) rendered in chunks of 16*16*128 blocks. These chunks have an offset value that is a 32 bit integer roughly in the range negative two billion to positive two billion. If you go outside that range (about 25% of the distance from where you are now to the sun), loading and saving chunks will start overwriting old chunks. At a 16/th of that distance, things that use integers for block positions, such as using items and pathfinding, will start overflowing and acting weird.
- Those are the two "hard" limits.
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"This melt was inspired by the Hometown Fair in Manhattan Beach, CA that I've been going to since I was 10 years old. I still go to the fair every year, even if just to get my Pepperbelly "fix." They would cut the side of a Frito bag open and fill it with all of the ingredients. This can be made as a great snack just before your BBQ! Just cut into quarters before serving. Now that I've made this, I don't have to wait all year for my fix." – Dave Danhi of the Grilled Cheese Truck
Butter Spread
¾ cup (6 oz) Tillamook® Unsalted Butter
¾ cup (6 oz) mayonnaise
Avocado Cream
16 oz container of Tillamook® Sour Cream
1 ripe avocado
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
Salt and white pepper to taste
Fire Roasted Tomato Salsa
4 Roma tomatoes, vine end cut off
4 cloves garlic
½ red onion, peeled and cut into quarters
1 jalepeno, stem removed
2 limes, juice only
2 tablespoons pure olive oil
1 teaspoon ground cumin
salt and white pepper to taste
8 slices Chili Cheese Bread, thick ½ inch slices
8 slices Tillamook® Medium Cheddar Cheese
8 slices Tillamook® Hot Habanero Jack Cheese
12 oz your favorite chili recipe (hot)
8 oz Fritos, gently crushed
4 oz fire roasted tomato salsa (see recipe)
2 oz Avocado Sour Cream (see recipe)
Butter Spread
In a mixer, beat butter and mayonnaise with the paddle attachment until well mixed. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to incorporate all butter as it may stick to the bowl.
Avocado Cream
Place all ingredients in a processer and puree until smooth. Chill for 30 minutes before using.
Fire Roasted Tomato Salsa
Place all ingredients except for salt, pepper and cuminos in a bowl and toss to cover with olive oil. Place in oven under the broiler for about 5 minutes or until skins start to blacken. Toss and re-broil until dark all around. Blend in blender with salt, white pepper and cuminos. Chill for one hour.
Generously butter each slice of bread on one side and lay buttered side down. Add (in order): 1 slice Medium Cheddar Cheese, 1 slice Hot Habanero Jack Cheese, 3 oz Chili (heated), 2 oz crushed Fritos, 1 oz fire roasted salsa, ½ oz Avocado Cream, 1 slice of Medium Cheddar Cheese, 1 slice Hot Habanero Jack Cheese, and top it off with 1 slice of buttered chili cheese bread (buttered side out).
Heat griddle to about 350°F. Place all sandwiches on griddle. Allow melts to cook slowly. If your heat is too high it will burn the bread and the inside will not be hot. Once golden brown, gently flip and repeat until cheese is melted and inside is hot. If the bread browns prior to the inside being hot, place pan with sandwiches in oven at 450°F to allow to finish.


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Deborah Crombie Biography
Deborah Crombie was born in Dallas and grew up in Richardson, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas, the second child of Charlie and Mary Darden. A rather solitary childhood (brother Steve is ten years older) was blessed by her maternal grandmother, Lillian Dozier, a retired teacher who taught her to read very early. After a rather checkered educational career, which included dropping out of high school at sixteen, she graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, with a degree in biology.
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This fabulous new visitor attraction provides state of the art special and permanent exhibition galleries, a brand new library, excellent learning facilities and a varied programme of events for all ages.
Kings Bridge, St Peter's Street, Canterbury, CT1 2AT, (0.3 miles, 0.4kms), Email, www.canterburyrivertours.co.uk
Flowing through the heart of historic Canterbury, the river is the perfect way to escape the hustle and bustle of one of the country's busiest city centres.
King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0DB, (2 miles, 4kms), Tel: 01227 711950, www.fordwichtown.org
Although it is believed that there was an earlier building on the site, the present Guildhall, or Town Hall as it is known today, was built in 1544 during the reign of King Henry VIII.
22 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BQ, (0.4 miles, 0.6kms), Tel: 01227 453267, Email, www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper
The Sidney Cooper Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that puts on around ten exhibitions per year. It is part of Canterbury Christ Church University. It's programme includes artists of repute - locally, nationally and internationally.
Bekesbourne Road, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5EL, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: + 44 (0) 844 842 464, Email, www.aspinallfoundation.org/howletts
The Aspinall Foundation's Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent is a great day out for groups of all sizes where education, conservation and fun combine. Set in over 100 acres of beautiful ancient parkland.
PO Box 1023, Canterbury, CT1 2PR, (0.4 miles, 0.6kms), Tel: 01303 863869, Email, www.toursoftherealm.com
Tours of the Realm offer chauffeured, sightseeing tours of rural and historic Britain to small groups of 2 to 3 people. An exclusive, bespoke and superior service for discerning travellers. Day tours or longer tours available on request.
North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QJ, (0.5 miles, 0.8kms), Tel: 01227 768072, www.martinpaul.org
St Martin's Church is the oldest in England still in use as a parish church and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site. This church was the first base of St Augustine when he came to Canterbury in 597.
New Road, Rough Common, Canterbury, CT2 9DB, (4 miles, 7kms), www.theblean.co.uk
Blean Woods are the largest in Kent and, in addition to their intrinsic interest as ancient woodlands they surround a number of attractive villages with pubs, where you can eat and drink, places to visit.
Church Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2PP, (0.4 miles, 0.6kms), Tel: 01227 455994, Email, www.canterburycityparish.org.uk
Situated near Canterbury Castle and the only standing pre-Norman conquest church inside the city walls.
Castle Street, Canterbury, CT1 2PR, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms), Tel: 01227 378100, Email
The ruins of a Norman castle keep and castle walls and one of the three original royal castles in Kent. There are interpretation panels, a tactile model of the castle (circa 1200AD) and elevated viewing areas.
3 Palace Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2DY, (0.2 miles, 0.4kms), Tel: 01227 639086, www.lilfordgallery.com
Fine art gallery showing contemporary fine art from National and International Artists.
Cockering Road, Canterbury, CT1 3UP, (1 miles, 2kms), Tel: 01227 862190, Email, www.canterbury.gov.uk/leisure-countryside/countryside/places-to-visit/larkey-valley-wood/
This beautiful ancient 45-hectare woodland has spectacular displays of wildflower including many species of orchid.
Off Whitehall Road, Canterbury, CT2 8NL, (0.7 miles, 1kms), Tel: 01227 862190, Email, www.canterbury.gov.uk/leisure-countryside/countryside/places-to-visit/whitehall-meadows-bingley-island/
This area dates back to the Doomsday period. Today it is one of a few areas of riverside grassland that has not been treated with weedkillers or fertilisers, which means that a wide variety of species can thrive.
Riding Gate Place, Watling Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2TN, (0.2 miles, 0.3kms), Tel: 01227 378100, Email
Canterbury's most popular park has been restored into attractive gardens with monuments and memorials, a bandstand with summertime concerts, a central fountain, a tearoom and a children's maze.
Westgate Grove, Canterbury, CT1 2BQ, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms), Tel: 01227 378100, Email, www.canterbury.gov.uk
The Westgate Gardens can be found close to the City centre, just next to the West Gate Tower. The eleven acres of public gardens provide an ideal setting for a gentle stroll along the banks of the River Stour.
Kings Bridge, St. Peters Street, Canterbury, CT1 2AT, (0.3 miles, 0.4kms), Email, www.canterburyrivertours.co.uk
A wonderful way to capture the magic of the river is through our candlelit evening tours! These tours are provided solely for our group markets, usually with a minimum number of ten participants (subject to a minimum charge).
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"Where'd you get those!?"
I'm not just spouting B.S., trying to find a moderately clever way to intro this post, either. Books have been written about this.
The root of the question, though, comes down to adding to your own collection. "Where'd you get those?" really translates into "Where can I get those?"
A new app for iPhone and Android users is helping the 'heads get to the root of the issue.
SoleSearch (no relation to this fine blog) claims to be the world's first mobile sneaker boutique app. Designed to help its users find a sneaker shop by location or store name, it will get you detailed results on a sneaker spot near you, including address, phone number, website info and directions.
Launched for the iPhone this past September, the app sells for $1.99. Some screen grabs on the app are below.


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Butterfly Treats from A Pumpkin & a Princess
Utter perfection for a cute spring sweet!
Alphabet Art Printable from vixenMade
Love the colors she used!
Personalized Wedding Hangers from A Law Student's Journey
I so want to do this for the bridal shower I am going to this weekend!
Rose Tutorial from Meijo's Joy
So beautiful with a bit of sheen!
What have you been up to? Let's Party!
I enjoy your $5 projects so much that I decided to add an addition link section for anything under $15! That's right. It will open up a place to show additional projects that can't be purchased with an Abe Lincoln, but are still totally affordable! I can't wait to see more from you!
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Placenta revengeYou hear of the strange and curious things that people do with their post-pregnancy-placentas (they boil it, bake it, bury it, bathe in it). But none of these compares to the saga of what Johanna tried to do with hers...
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According to Hutson, the key to optimizing storage of your toiletries and other items is organization. "Look around and utilize your wall space," she says. She suggests investigating installing several floating shelves, as they can hold items such as toilet paper. In addition, you can use a bucket to hold hair accessories, curling irons, and so on. Assign each family member a color, and carry that system throughout your organization.
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One of the options she suggests to make your vacation more exciting is to visit Iceland. "Iceland Air has some great deals," explains Caverley, "It's not as inaccessible as you think." Your family can go dog sledding, visit hot springs, and watch the Northern Lights.
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The perfect mother momentRead food labels and avoid unhealthy ingredientsWhen we go grocery shopping, most of us think we're making healthy choices. But are we really? Joining Away We Grow host Diane Mizota is supermarket guru Phil Lempert, who will help to decode labels and reveal the top ingredients to avoid.
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Put food coloring into the foil tray. Then place a layer of shaving cream in the tray over the food coloring. Use the plastic knife to swirl the two together. Next,Attention Parents: You Were Never CoolYou should never try to prove to your kids that you were once cool. It doesn't work -- and if you're like Johanna, it will just lead to inappropriate language and road rage.
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"I was really happy with the girls' effort tonight," PCM coach Bret Grier said. "We told them before the game that they'd have to play a full 32 minutes to compete against a really good Pella Christian team. Unfortunately, we had just a little lull in the first half and they just stretched a lead out."
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Locally I live not to far from Cocoa Beach, but I'm up here visiting a relative. Soon I'm going to get lessons, either next week or the week after.
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(USA TODAY) -- More than 300,000 babies a year worldwide are born infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
As of this week, doctors appear to have cured exactly one.
And though the Mississippi child's story has generated excitement in the medical community, researchers also note that it probaby will take years before they're able to extend that success to a broader community of patients, if ever.
"This is a really groundbreaking report," says Diane Havlir, a professor and AIDS researcher at the University of California-San Francisco, who attended a presentation of the study Monday at an Atlanta medical conference.
"This tells us a cure is possible," says Havlir, who wasn't involved in the study, about a 2-year-old girl who was infected with HIV at birth but apparently cured after 18 months of triple-drug therapy. "That is thrilling news."
Doctors credit the child's cure to early treatment; her physicians began treatment soon after delivery, which is the standard of care for the child of an untreated, HIV-positive mother.
Most adults can't benefit from such early therapy, because they typically don't even learn that they're infected for months or years, says Rana Chakraborty, an associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. The only adult to have been definitively cured of HIV had a unique situation: He had a bone-marrow transplant to treat his leukemia from a donor with a genetic mutation, and that provided protection from HIV.
Scientists will first have to learn what exactly allowed the child to be cured before they can apply that knowledge to developing vaccines or new drugs, he says.
And Havlir notes that doctors are unlikely to make any changes to children's care unless they can duplicate the study's results. She notes that, in developed countries, doctors focus far more on prevention than treatment. Giving women anti-HIV therapy while pregnant reduces the risk of mother-to-child transmission by 98%.
But if the results hold up and doctors can identify the best medications, they could start anti-AIDS therapy on high-risk newborns even before getting results of their HIV tests, Havlir says.
That could be important in developing countries, where many women -- like the mother of this Mississippi child -- don't get recommended care. The girl's mother had no prenatal care, let alone anti-HIV therapy, before delivery.
Though the child's story has been hailed as a victory for science, Chakraborty says the case also illustrates the single greatest challenge in treating AIDS: actually getting care to patients.
Only 28% of the 1.2 million HIV-positive Americans have been diagnosed and treated so that their levels of virus are undetectable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
HIV has become entrenched among the poor in the USA. Many patients lack access to health care and grapple with other problems that keep them from getting the care they need, such as homelessness, drug addiction or mental illness, Chakraborty says.
Yet Havlir says scientists are ready to confront such obstacles.
"There are daunting challenges," Havlir says, "but they are challenges that the field is going to embrace, because many people think they are surmountable."
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CITES gives full backing to new IATA Live Animals Regulations
Geneva, 3 November 2004 – Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Mr Willem Wijnstekers, today gave his complete backing to the new edition of the Live Animals Regulations set down by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which are recognized by the 166 countries members of CITES as the international standard for transporting live animals by air. Similarly, IATA provides guidance for the transport of live plants which is useful to CITES Parties.
The IATA Live Animals Regulations (LAR) are an essential source of information on how to ship animals safely, sensitively and effectively. They specify the minimum requirements for the international transport of animals, specifying ventilation, space, packing, feeding and other conditions to minimize the risk of injury, damage to health or cruel treatment. Both safety and animal welfare concerns are given attention in these regulations.
The CITES Secretariat and IATA have a long history of cooperation to ensure that animal transportation procedures comply with international and national requirements and contribute to the effective implementation of CITES by airlines, shippers, cargo agents and animal-care professionals on the ground and in the air. Representatives of IATA attending the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, which ended on 14 October 2004 in Bangkok, reiterated the organization's long-term commitment towards civil aviation safety requirements whilst taking into account animal welfare, scientific progress and commercial trade realities, and expressed their willingness to share their expertise with Parties. It was agreed that the collaboration between CITES and IATA should be formalized, and that a draft resolution to that effect should be submitted at the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties, to be held in 2007.
Mr Wijnstekers commended IATA's animal-care team for their dedication in providing substantial assistance and training on how to ship live animals and plants safely and legally, and declared that "where these regulations are not implemented, or prove to be insufficient, IATA and CITES should together take steps to ensure that improvements are made. However, as several studies have shown, air transport mortality rates for live animals are actually very low, indicating that the IATA LAR are generally well adhered to."
Giovanni Bisignani, IATA Director General and CEO, said that "Standards work best when they are built cooperatively using the experience of the industry. An efficient and safe industry is in everybody's interest. IATA's cooperation with CITES is a great example of what can be achieved when Governments and industry work together."
Concerned about the overexploitation of many vulnerable species as a result of unregulated international trade, Governments adopted CITES in 1973. The treaty entered into force in 1975 and now has 166 member countries. The Convention gives producer and consumer countries joint responsibility for controlling international trade in wildlife to ensure that it is sustainable and to prevent illegal trade.
Note to journalists: For more information, contact: in the CITES Secretariat, Juan-Carlos Vasquez at +41-22-917-8156 (email@example.com), or Tom De Meulenaer at +41-22-78131 (firstname.lastname@example.com); or in IATA, Tony Concil at +41 22 770 29 60 (email@example.com).
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Observe the exciting fall migration of birds in Central Park with ornithologist Joseph DiCostanzo. Learn how to use field marks, habitat, and behavior as aids to identification of "confusing fall warblers," thrushes, sparrows, and raptors, as they pass through New York City en route to their winter homes. Birder field cards included.
Be sure to bring a pair of binoculars and wear comfortable shoes. Please note, this walk is over an hour long with steps, slopes and wood chip paths.
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Pearson will be hosting a stand at the ASE London and South East Area Science and CPD Conference at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on Friday 22 June. We'll also be delivering a seminar on BTEC Next Generation and Linear GCSE. There's a wide range of innovative and inspiring speakers planned for the conference, delivering workshops to challenge, inform and inspire. Sessions are designed for primary, secondary and cross-phase teaching and include practical science, assessment, How Science Works, issues around the new curriculum and more. There will be a full exhibition to explore resources and ideas.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville man is facing 30 years in prison for breaking into a home and stealing beer.
Cory Adam Bouley, 23, was convicted Tuesday afternoon on a charge of burglary to a dwelling.
In May, Bouley broke into a home on Dandy Avenue. When the homeowner returned from work, he found his house ransacked. The homeowner also noticed an empty six-pack of beer. Fingerprints led the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office detectives to Bouley.
Bouley also has felony convictions for dealing in stolen property and child abuse. Bouley faces 15 to 30 years in prison. He will be sentenced the week of January 14, 2013.
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