
Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise, and the annual Minecon conventions played large roles in popularizing the game. Minecraft has been critically acclaimed, winning several awards and being cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. Players can modify the game to create new gameplay mechanics, items, and assets. Game modes include a survival mode, in which players must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, and a creative mode, where players have unlimited resources and access to flight. Depending on game mode, players can fight computer-controlled mobs, as well as cooperate with or compete against other players in the same world. In Minecraft, players explore a blocky, procedurally generated 3D world with virtually infinite terrain, and may discover and extract raw materials, craft tools and items, and build structures or earthworks. Minecraft has since been ported to several other platforms and is the best-selling video game of all time, with over 238 million copies sold and nearly 140 million monthly active users as of 2021. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before fully releasing in November 2011, with Jens Bergensten then taking over development. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language.

Hopefully that provided some information so you can make an informed decision.Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. If you're a target, IMO there isn't much you can do, there's researchers that could likely get root your machine if you just visit the wrong website. I will say running a Minecraft server with playit, and having your tunnel address be 127.0.0.1:25565, you should be reasonably safe from the average hacker.

For instance if your computer has a Bitcoin wallet on it that you care about it, I would not recommend running a Minecraft server on it. I will say that I am quite security conscious and run it personal. I'm the developer of playit.gg and I have made efforts to make the system secure but it's really hard to protect against everything. Unsafer - You're running someone else's code on your computer that might be exploitable

Safer - Your home's IP address is hidden and you're only exposing access while the playit program is running In some ways playit.gg is safer that port forwarding and unsafer in others.
