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Essential Minecraft Concepts

This section was designed for beginners by a beginner, to help understand basic concepts and definitions that are sometimes missed or misunderstood. Some concepts relate to elements visible in game, others to used files or classes that are frequently used while modding.

Concept	Description

Item	Something you can hold in your hand, drop to the ground, place in inventory or store it in a container. It may be a tool or a block held in the hand before placing it.
Block	The key component for anything you build in minecraft and has been placed in the world. A lot of blocks are cubes, but most things you place in the world are implemented as blocks, like a furnace. Some blocks don't even look much like a cube, like buttons, fences and doors, and yet they are still treated as blocks.
Block Item	The item form of a block, so that you can hold them in your hand, stack them and store them.
Living Entity	Something alive and moving in the world, like players and mobs.

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