Buildcraft vs CodeWheel for Minecraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buildcraft
Explore a blocky world, mine resources, and build anything you can imagine. Choose survival mode to battle monsters and manage hunger, or creative mode for unlimited building.
- Sandbox exploration
- Survival mode with combat and hunger
- Creative mode for unlimited building
- Mining and crafting
- Farming and magic systems
- Redstone circuits for machines
- Multiplayer online play
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Version 6.0 changed to multiple games architecture, first included 3 games. Connect our game server to play online games. Buildcraft is a simple and peaceful sandbox game, with no real goals or built-in enemy mobs. Worldcraft: You start in a randomly-generated world made entirely of cubes. You can explore the world and dig and build almost every block in the world to create new structures. You can choose to play in a “survival mode” in which you have to fight monsters and hunger for survival and slowly progress through the various other aspects of the game, such as mining, farming, building machines, and so on Or you can play in “creative mode” in which you can build almost anything instantly. * Sandbox-style gameplay, no goals * Survive: Fight against hostile monsters and hunger * Mine for ores and other treasures * Magic: Gain experience and enchant your tools * Use the collected blocks to create great buildings, your imagination is the limit * Collect flowers (and other dye sources) and colorize your world * Find some seeds and start farming * Find or craft one of hundreds of items * Build a railway system and have fun with minecarts * Build complex machines with redstone circuits * In creative mode you can build almost anything for free and without limits
CodeWheel for Minecraft
Create secret messages and puzzles within your Minecraft worlds for friends to discover and solve. This app allows you to embed hidden content for a unique multiplayer experience.
- Create secret messages
- Design puzzles
- Integrate into Minecraft worlds
- Share with friends
- Multiplayer interaction
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Leave secret messages and puzzles in your Minecraft worlds for your friends to decode!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CodeWheel for Minecraft at 85% against Buildcraft's 35%. CodeWheel for Minecraft also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Buildcraft's advantage is ratings volume (811 vs 38) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CodeWheel for Minecraft holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buildcraft has 811 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Buildcraft's written reviews are positive against 85% of CodeWheel for Minecraft's.
Buildcraft ships an update every 3 months, CodeWheel for Minecraft every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buildcraft | CodeWheel for Minecraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (811 ratings) | 4.0 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.3% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 811 — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orz Games | Z Sculpt |
Customer experience
Buildcraft
CodeWheel for Minecraft
Bugs and requests
Buildcraft
Reported bugs
4 issues- Worlds not loading properly
- Camera controls not working
- Inventory issues
- Frequent crashes
Requested features
4 requests- Add animals and mobs
- Improve camera controls
- Implement multiplayer functionality
- Add more block/item variety
CodeWheel for Minecraft
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Buildcraft
No in-app purchases
CodeWheel for Minecraft
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Buildcraft free?
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