"Minecraft," Mojang's popular sandbox game, is home to a plethora of innovative projects. Enter a few keywords into YouTube, and you can get access to hundreds of fascinating "Minecraft" playthroughs.

Nothing fully tops Minecraft in terms of freedom and creativity, but these games do excel over it in a couple of ways.

Creating Redstone contraptions in Minecraft can get a little more complicated than most of the game's other tasks, as Redstone dust serves as a mineral that can transmit power when placed as a block.

In the past, people have tried making Minecraft things in real life, like building recreations of a piston out of Lego. But it's not like you could ever recreate redstone, the magical material that's ...

Creativity grows when people feel free to explore new ideas without fear of being wrong, and Minecraft offers exactly that ...