Minecraft is about to get a lot more addicting now that they’ve teamed up with the United Nations. Why? Well, because now gamers can feel like they are actually solving problems in the world by playing Minecraft. In September 2012, the gaming company that runs Minecraft teamed up with the UN Habitat to start a project they are calling ‘Block by Block’. Essentially, the game takes real-world environments and puts them into Minecraft.
Once this happens, the gamer will be able to play these environments and try to make changes in the world that they would like to see! This isn’t the first time Minecraft has been used for an educational project, either. In 2011, an organization called MinecraftEdu was created with the purpose of getting Minecraft into schools to help educate! Over 250,000 students around the world use Minecraft to learn! Learn how they do this and more about Minecraft in the source