Community

Here are some nice active community resources for discussing Minecraft. Please note that all of these are third-party and aren't hosted by us. We link them because they're great.

Official Resources

• @jeb_ – Jeb is the lead developer of Minecraft, follow him!
• Facebook - Join our community on Facebook
• Minecraft forums - Official forums, Notch reads these
• Minecraft wiki - Comprehensive community run Wiki
• Minecraft Explorer Pro - Companion app for iOS

IRC

esper.net and other IRC networks aren't affiliated with Minecraft or Mojang, so their staff can't help with support for our game. Ask inside the channels (preferably #MineCraftHelp) for that.

• #minecraft on irc.esper.net - It's an IRC channel!
• #MineCraftHelp on irc.esper.net - Help and support from community members.
• #mcchatter on irc.esper.net - For general community chatter. (channel rules)

Forums and Communities

• Minecraftopia - Great (and good looking!) resource
• Minecraft Community on Steam - Over 1000 members!
• Minecraft on Reddit
• CraftHub
• World of Minecraft
• Minecraft on Mod DB
• Minecrafting.ru - A Russian forum
• Minecraft forum - A Spanish forum
• Minecraft Workbench - Texture packs, mods and skins
• Minecraft.fr - A French Minecraft site, potato cubes!
• Minecraftfr.com - Another French Minecraft community.
• Minecraft-France - French Minecraft community.
• Nederlands Minecraft forum - Dutch Minecraft community.
• mcbbs.net - One of the biggest Chinese Minecraft communities.

Galleries

• The Minecraft Museum
• Minecraft Gallery

Indie Game Development

Want to make your own game? Want to see what games other people are making?

• TIGSource - Lots of talent! Minecraft originated here.
• JavaGaming.org - Other java game developers.
• Indie Games - The blog is awesome, and so is the podcast.
• Ludum Dare - A 48 hour game development competition.

Here are some of my friends also making games, I probably forgot a bunch…

• Project Brutal dev blog - Hell of a nice guy, who I used to work with.
• increpare games - One of the smartest people I've met.
• DEVM-Games - Another talented coder I used to work with.
• Wurm Online - I don't see Rolf as often as I'd like.
• distractionware - One of my idols, made VVVVVV.