Minecraft: Terminology - about the Guide Minecraft guide, tips
Last update: 10 July 2020
On this page of our Minecraft guide, you will find a detailed description of the terminology used in the guide.
Seeds
Seeds are numbers (or a number) made up of letters and digits, which define the starting point for the world creation algorithm. On the web, there are portals whose users upload interesting seeds that they have encountered while playing. Their main feature is that you can generate an identical map, or an interesting arrangement of the map to show it to the others (to achieve the same result of the generation, the same version of the game, as the version of the seed uploader's should be used.
Spawn
Spawn is the default location in which the player appears. Originally, it is a random point/location on the map, which can be changed by the administrator, or with the bed that carries the spawn point onto it. After the player dies, he or she appears at the spawn point, and the process itself is called respawning.
Mob
Mob (short for: mobile object block) is a colloquial name for all of the creatures in the game. Another name that can be used interchangeably is the NPC, i.e. the Non-Player Character. In the guide, what is described as the NPC are the villagers, where the mobs are all of the remaining creatures: monsters and animals.
Crafting
Crafting, In this guide, and generally in the game, this term is used for the act of creating all items with materials and recipes.
Mods
Mods is an abbreviation of the word "modifications". In the case of games, this term means all of the elements that can be attached to it, or changed, from new objects to a new model physics.
Enchanting
Enchanting - this term is used for casting spells on items, i.e. endowing them with new, magical properties and increasing their default modifiers.
Chunk
Chunk You can often encounter this term while discussing distance in the game, which is expressed in blocks (and meters at the same time)
Drop
Drop, is a colloquial name for all of the items dropped by a mob after it dies.
