Customisation:
- Mod(s) – Modifications, changes to the game you can install to create builds and play a different way
- Skin – What a player is wearing, like an avatar, a player can make any skin they want pixel by pixel in Java edition, but in bedrock there are more limitations
Dimensions:
- The Overworld – The dimension the player starts off in, like earth
- The Nether – A different dimension, looks very similar to how hell is described
- The End – A different dimension, this is where the final boss, the ender dragon, can be found and defeated.
Items:
- Gapple – Golden apple
- Notch/God Apple – An enchanted golden apple
- Stack – The most amount of items the player can have in one slot, this usually refers to 64 items in a single slot but there are a few exceptions, like eggs or snowballs (most throwable items) that only go up to 16
Fighting/competition:
- AFK – Away From Keyboard
- Crit – Refers to a critical hit, an attack doing more damage than usual, achieved by hitting an enemy while falling
- Fall damage – Damage taking from falling from a high place
- Griefer – Someone who purposefully hinders and hurts someone else, to grief would be to break another player’s build or kill them and take their items
- PvP – Player Vs Player in a fight
- Spleef – A minigame where players destroy the blocks below the others to make them fall below and lose, the last player on the platform wins
Mobs:
- Mob – An entity that moves, short for mobile entity
- Hostile – Refers to mobs that attack the player
- Neutral – Refers to mobs that don’t attack the player unless the player does something to them (e.g enderman attack if the player looks at there eyes or attacks them)
- Passive – A mob that won’t ever attack the player
Movement:
- Strafe/strafing – Walking one way while looking in another direction
- MLG – Originates from Major League Gaming, refers to when a player falls and saves themself from fall damage using an item or block, reducing/negating the damage
- Parkour – A set of blocks the player needs to jump across to reach the other side
- Neo – Jumping around a wall 2+ blocks high on a 1 block wide bridge