Survival mode is a bit like life: you have to balance the goals of staying alive and entertaining yourself. You farm and hunt for food, build a shelter to survive the night (when the hostile mobs come out), and mine for resources to make tools, weapons, and everything else. That’s the staying alive part .
Minecraft is the brainchild of the Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson who previously worked at the video game developers King and later jAlbum. The first edition of Minecraft, called Java Edition, was made by Notch during a weekend in early May 2009. Notch quit his daytime job to solely focus on Minecraft. With the money earned from the game, he founded the now legendary video game company Mojang, together with his previous colleagues Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser. The full version of Minecraft was released on the 18 November 2011. And it was an immediate success.