

Still not completely clear? Luckily, we’ve created a handy video to illustrate exactly what to expect from the Minecraft Earth beta! We’ve even included actual moving images from said beta (with an impossibly upbeat, yet beautifully pedagogical voice-over by Stephen Scott of the Minecraft Earth Design Team, as a fun bonus!) In a nutshell, you use the near-magic of augmented reality to overlay a beautifully blocky Minecraft world on top of the real one, where you can then build incredible structures together with others, collect these nifty things called tappables and level up to gain new and improved build plates.

If you watched our , you already have some idea of how Minecraft Earth works. In fact, I’ll answer all three, starting with the second one.

Ever since we celebrated Minecraft’s 10th birthday by releasing , you have been asking three questions with alarming frequency:
