How to Play Minecraft in Real Life

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Last Updated: October 7, 2025

So, you read that other How to Play Minecraft in Real Life and thought, "Too much work". Well for some it isn't too much, but if you don't want to do that, follow this guide to playing the famous game in real life.

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(If you want to play as Steve you can just put on blue jeans and a blue shirt)
(Make cardboard armor or plastic)

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Create a house, hut, or base.
(Optional Difficulties) You can change by having a friend come over and dress up maybe like a Minecraft creeper that would be changing the difficulty to easy, normal, or Hard.
(Health) Make nine paper hearts (For each person) and put them in your pocket, and when your hit, put one in the other pocket. When you run out of hearts in the first pocket, you die and put your stuff down and go to the "spawn"

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What about the items?

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Simply buy them from a shop. For example, you can buy foam swords at a shop that look like a Minecraft sword. Or buy things that are close enough and make them more realistic with your additions at home.

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Show them this site. Tell them the coolest parts, your favorite parts, and something you think they'll like.

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What can I do if I do not have a computer?

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If you have YouTube on your phone or another device, watch videos on what Minecraft is like, then be creative and create things with paper.

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To make blocks get block shaped cardboard boxes and cover them with paper then paint them eg. Paint the lava blocks in the Minecraft game.

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Buy or get a box that fits around your head. This will be for a Minecraft head.

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Ask someone for wood to make a wooden axe.

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Warnings

Don't use a real axe.

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Don't really punch someone if they are dressed-up like a creeper.

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Really, punching trees can hurt you, you could break something

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Do not make torches out of fire if you are using cardboard on your body.

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Things You'll Need

Imagination
Things to use for your shelter (such as bricks, cardboard, wood, and empty long tiki torches without the flammable canister)
Something to create your tools with
Food to survive
Paper hearts