One creative Minecraft player has figured out how to create working mirrors thanks to a remarkable addition to the hit ...

Talk about a meta-game. Two Minecraft aficionados have gone and done the unthinkable: they've recreated an 8-bit Redstone computer inside of Minecraft that can perform simple computational tasks ...

"How do I surpass building a massive calculator? My answer to that question was to build a 32-bit computer," says creator Ryan Boulds.

Players of the pixelated building block game have taken its virtual simulation tools to an unprecedented level: building functioning hard drives that can read and write data.

Budding computer scientists long ago recognised that last part in Minecraft's redstone circuits. Here's their latest achievement: a functional hard drive, built without recourse to Minecraft mods.