

“For instance, there is a ‘fill’ command which allows us to fill a region with a bunch of blocks, and a ‘tp’ command which allows us to teleport the player to a specific location.

“ Minecraft has a predefined set of commands that the player can choose from, that do various (usually oddly specific) things,” said Jon (who used to teach math, incidentally).

Without command blocks, none of this would function. The Daily Dot spoke with Evan and Jon, the lead designer and lead programmer respectively, who go by “Senselesswander” and “Thejonwithnoh” on Reddit. They were able to provide a layman’s explanation of how it all works. To make their Minecraft build function as a recreation of the NES game, these practitioners of the pixel arts of Minecraft had to construct and program a computer to keep track of everything.
