I love Minecraft. I love it’s biomes and I love the mooshrooms. I love the sense of uncanny wonder that the Netherworld gives off and the never ending cave systems. I love being able to build and create giant castles on the sides of even bigger mountains and love building moving redstone robots. But even more than any of this, I love that Minecraft has a multiplayer mode. Minecraft can add whatever mobs and monsters, whatever blocks and biomes, whatever gameplay and settings it wants, but it will never beat being able to experience all of this and more with my friends and family. Multiplayer Minecraft connects hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Despite borders, despite political tensions between nations, despite language barriers, despite everything, Minecraft is able to connect all these different people through their love of creation and wonder. Hundreds of people who don’t know each other are able to come together and build huge constructions and impressive feats. It allows people to make friends and acquaintances that they never would have been able to meet otherwise. Multiplayer brings people together and I think that it is not only beautiful but that it also shows humanity at its best despite the miseries and tragedies of reality. Not only do I love multiplayer Minecraft because it brings people together worldwide but it also brings me and my little brother closer. Growing up I loved Minecraft. But having no siblings at the time and nobody to play with, Minecraft lost some of the magic that makes it great. But when my little brother was born, I finally had someone to share my passion for Minecraft. As he got older, I got to teach him how to play Minecraft and even as we’ve gotten older, Minecraft has only continued to bring us closer. Even after I move out and leave for college Minecraft, I feel, will still keep me and my little brother close. Minecraft has been an integral part of my childhood and I am so grateful that I have been able to share it with my brother as well. I am so glad that Minecraft has been able to connect thousands and will continue to do so, hopefully, long into the future.