Dificultad

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La dificultad se puede configurar en el menú de opciones de Minecraft. Cambiar la dificultad supone un notable impacto sobre la jugabilidad.
Actualmente existen cuatro niveles de dificultad.

Dificultad	Descripción	Daño del Zombi	Daño del Esqueleto	Daño de la Araña	Daño máximo del Creeper	Daño del Hombrecerdo Zombi	Daño del Enderman
Pacífico 0	Los mobs hostiles no pueden aparecer. Cuando aparecen con un generador desaparecen al instante. El jugador siempre está regenerando la vida. Los lobos hostiles no desaparecen al estar en Pacífico. El hambre tampoco afecta al jugador y por eso la única comida que se puede comer son las manzanas.	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Fácil 1	Los mobs hostiles pueden aparecer. Los enemigos quitan menos vida que en la dificultad Normal. Los Creepers cancelarán sus explosiones al alejarse una distancia pequeña. El hambre afecta al jugador y al quedarse sin comida la vida bajará a . Las Arañas de Cueva no envenenarán al jugador ni los Withers darán el efecto Wither (mientras que el Esqueleto Wither sí).	3 ()	2 ()	2 ()	~25 ( × 12.5)	5 ()	4 ()
Normal 2	Los mobs hostiles aparecen. Los enemigos quitan el daño por defecto. El Hambre puede dejar al jugador con si se queda sin comida.	4 ()	3 () - 4 ()	2 ()	49 ( × 24.5)	9 ()	7 ()
Difícil 3	Los mobs hostiles aparecen. Los enemigos quitan más daño de lo normal. El Hambre puede matar al jugador. Los Creepers no cancelarán su explosión. Los Zombis pueden derribar puertas. Las arañas aparecen con Efectos de Estado.	6 ()	4 () - 6 ()	3 ()	~65 ( × 32.5)	13 ()	10 ()

Otros efectos

Los mobs tienen más probabilidad de aparecer con armadura con la dificultad más elevada.

Los Aldeanos pueden ser infectados únicamente en Difícil.

El daño de las explosiones puede variar según la dificultad.

Los Hombrecerdo Zombi aparecen en Nether Portals dependiendo de la dificultad.

Hardcore difficulty

Artículo principal: Hardcore Mode

Hardcore Mode causes the player to spawn in Hard mode and does not allow the difficulty to change. If the player dies, the world is deleted. To play this mode, change the game mode to it when you start a new world.

Tips

If you are having trouble getting started or exploring caverns, the best thing to do is change the difficulty to "Peaceful". You will be able to explore caves or build a base/HQ much more easily. However, this does not give you the full experience, and you will have to turn the difficulty up if you want to get all the items and tools, such as the bones to make bone meal. In all versions since the 1.8 beta Adventure Update, you may also find cobwebs, that, when destroyed with a sword, give you String. A good recommendation is to turn on Peaceful during the day, and then turn the difficulty back up at night IF you are prepared. This way, you can get the benefits of both ways to play.

Another idea is to change to peaceful whenever you venture into a cave, then turn it back up whenever you leave and go outside or to your house. That way you encounter the enemies above ground at night, but you don't have to worry about a creeper suddenly exploding or a skeleton shooting at you from dark corners when you go into a cave or dying from hunger while mining (many actions performed while mining will make you very hungry, going into a cave without enough food on hard difficulty can easily end in death).

It can be difficult to get your feet wet if you are constantly attacked when first entering The Nether (particularly since some computers can freeze when switching between the two areas), so changing the difficulty to Peaceful will stop the Ghasts attacking you. Alternatively, standing inside the portal will protect you from being seen by mobs or hit by other players while the lag stops. This also works on servers where altering the difficulty is impossible.

In the Nether, difficulty does not affect hostile mob spawning in any way, with the exception of hostile mobs not spawning at all in Peaceful.

On servers 0 difficulty is Peaceful, 1 is Easy, 2 is Normal, and 3 is Hard. Doing "/difficulty 1" sets it to Easy.

Strategy for hardcore mode: food is of the utmost importance, a sword is next, shelter (most importantly a bed) is third and armor is next.

Curiosidades

• Notch made a tweet on October 22^nd 2010, stating that he's "changing difficulty to realism. Lowest setting = creative. Highest setting = starve". This was never implemented, however "hardcore" mode was added along with a creative gamemode. Creative mode makes the player an invulnerable non-target, peaceful remains unchanged, easy and normal allow damage from hunger but not full starvation, hard allows one to starve to death, and hardcore mode adds permanent death.