It's no secret that Minecraft Education Edition is a great way to teach students about coding and game design. However, this version can also be used to spawn NPCs.

Name tags in Minecraft are a great way to customize your favorite NPCs. Some name tags even produce special effects. Here's how to find and use them.

After playing Minecraft for a while, players may find themselves getting tired of interacting with the same old NPCs within the vanilla game.

Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a ...

Easy survival base tutorial for Minecraft. This big base has enough room for all your friends and gear. Build it together, fight together and win together.

Earlier today, Notch tweeted that Minecraft 1.9 will be available to download this afternoon. Now we have a download link! Prepare yourself for Minecraft NPCs!

"To come is more interesting farming, bigger incentives to explore," he adds, before casually dropping a bomb shell, adding "and npc villages." NPCs in Minecraft? With their own towns?