Why I love Minecraft

It's the archimedes' ships v1. 7 mod

Yep. That's the beauty of the game. It will run on some pretty pokey low end systems...
But when you start adding in mods, filters, shaders, texture packs and playing with the draw distance, you can make even robust gaming rigs scream in terror.

You'll make them scream.....then turn on Fancy Graphics and create a Modified world.