[cattivo lupo]

You can also play on Xbox. Mine all love it. Ds16 made me play with him a few months ago, it's a real time waster. I think I could really get into it, but Ds wouldn't let me do much, apparently it's easier to do it yourself than try and teach your mother.

[lsolaBella]

NFI here but 5&7 yo DSs love it.they got the full version for a christmas and are very happy.

[Sif]

I play Minecraft with my boys, and it's lots of fun!

You make tools, build houses, mine for ores. You can decorate your houses, grew plants, fish, tame wolves and ocelots (wild cats), ride pigs and horses, and if you play on any other mode than peaceful, you can also fight 'mobs' (skeletons with bows and arrows, zombies, and giant spiders, and these creatures call creepers).

You can set up railway tracks and automate them. In fact you can automate a lot of things... You can blow stuff us, if you feel like it, too!

It's really very educational, and can be played in 'peaceful' mode where no beasts kill you, or played on 'creative' where you have endless supplies of all building materials so you can design your own mansion or castle and fill it with all the stuff you need or want to live a life of luxury, LOL.

If you have more than one computer in the house, you can start a LAN so several people can play along on the same game and have a village and work together - or battle each other.

I tend to try out every game my kids play, if only so I know what they're talking about when they start telling me what that did on X game...

[jactela]

have no idea but ashley and his mates are apparently designing something for it and are then going to sell it and makes their millions!!

Ash's is a semi Geek (dont tell him i said that) and his friend is a real geek so it wouldnt surprise me in the least if they were sucessful!

[Miranda Grace]

Ds 11 loves the game but it is very addictive. We are currently in discussions about setting parental controls on the computer as the amount of time he spends in front of the computer is becoming an issue.
Ds becomes so absorbed in the game he will get cranky and frustrated when we try to talk to him when he is playing. The computer is in a communal area. He gets very cranky when we ask him to finish up and do something off the computer. He wakes up early before us and spends an hour or so on minecraft. If I make him get off the computer he sneaks into his bedroom to play it on his iPod.

We regret letting him buy the game last year. He has never been into play station or Xbox but played minecraft at a friend's house. We were kind of pleased that he was interested in the computer. Big mistake.

We are thinking about setting the computer to only work for 1 hour per day of an afternoon. He is not going to be happy.

It appears to be a great game, but please set up time limits. We wish we did that from the start.

[*CalamityJane*]

Ds 11 loves the game but it is very addictive. We are currently in discussions about setting parental controls on the computer as the amount of time he spends in front of the computer is becoming an issue.
Ds becomes so absorbed in the game he will get cranky and frustrated when we try to talk to him when he is playing. The computer is in a communal area. He gets very cranky when we ask him to finish up and do something off the computer. He wakes up early before us and spends an hour or so on minecraft. If I make him get off the computer he sneaks into his bedroom to play it on his iPod.

We regret letting him buy the game last year. He has never been into play station or Xbox but played minecraft at a friend's house. We were kind of pleased that he was interested in the computer. Big mistake.

We are thinking about setting the computer to only work for 1 hour per day of an afternoon. He is not going to be happy.

It appears to be a great game, but please set up time limits. We wish we did that from the start.

I've sent a 30 minute continuous play limit for Minecraft with my DDs (9yo) after one of them complained of a sore wrist after playing for a couple of hours. They can do more than one 30 min session in a day (on school hols anyway), but they must take at least a 30 minute break in between.

[littlewink5]

My 9YO is obsessed with this game! He wants an XBOX just so he can play it on there, sadly I gave away and xbox when he was 3 when we were moving house! Where is there a legit site on the net that you can buy this game?
He has been playing the free version however I said I will buy it for his birthday!

[unicycle]

I would love a detailed mum explanation of buying the game( we found a wrong site pretending to be it) and how to set up anLAN , whatever that is, so he can play with friends overseas.