The game's full official release came later in November of 2011 as Jens Bergenstein took over development. Minecraft is one of the top-selling games of all time, with more than 200 million copies sold ...

Minecraft Tutorial - How to Create a Mob Trap and Item Collection Machine by drunkoncustard. Note that to speed up the process, this machine was created in Minecraft's Infdev mode.

Using this minecraft redstone schematic, you can add traps in minecraft that will go off when you stand on top of them! Rogueclownfish has made traps from Pixel Dungeon and ported them into minecraft.