When the game Minecraft was introduced in 2009, it was a building game with a specific adventure or survival objective. Players would break and place blocks with the purpose of protecting themselves – or partners – against monsters. But while adventure options still exist in the world of Minecraft, the game has largely become a conceptual playground for players looking to “create wonderful, imaginative things.”

Google is looking to enhance that penchant for creativity and ingenuity within the Minecraft world. The Google Quantum A.I Lab Team has busied themselves over the past few weeks creating a mod for Minecraft – called qCraft – which will take the building aspects of Minecraft one step further into the world of quantum mechanics.

According to a Google + post shared publicly by the Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team, qCraft aims to “let players experiment with quantum behaviors inside Minecraft’s world, with new blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer dependency.”

Of course, those words aren’t exactly plainspeak for people not overly familiar with quantum theories. (Read: most people.) But an article published recently by The Verge states that the new blocks will add complexity to Minecraft construction because some will be activated “simply by looking at them,” and others will disappear seemingly at random.

The concept of qCraft seems fun, just on the basis of offering a mod for a game that a lot of players seem to enjoy. However, Google has not simply built a mod for personal enjoyment or for the purpose of killing time at its Quantum Lab offices. On the contrary, Google approached Minecraft because it believes that the game may currently be functioning as a training ground of sorts for “future quantum computer scientists.”

“Millions of kids are spending a whole lot of hours in Minecraft, not just digging caves and fighting monsters, but building assembly lines, space shuttles, and programmable computers, all in the name of experimentation and discovery,” the A.I. Lab Team wrote in their Google + post.

Google’s Quantum A.I. Lab Team have also stated that they do not yet know the “full potential” of what may be built with the new quantum mechanics of qCraft, but that they are certainly excited to find out.

While qCraft doesn’t claim to offer a flawless depiction of quantum theory – the development cycle for the game hasn’t been long, and testing or clarifying with other scientists was likely not on the agenda for the A.I. Lab Team. However, Google hopes that qCraft will prove “a fun way for players to experience few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.”