Daughter is 9.
First we got it for XBox1.
Then she started watching Minecraft videos on YouTube where:
1) Several people are playing the same map at the same time.
2) On cool maps.
3) With awesome mods that allow things like realistic furniture or building something by pressing a button, or whatever. Command blocks?

So I plopped down another $27 and got it for her PC laptop, but it doesn't seem to allow any of that stuff.

What do I need to do to make that possible?
How much money are we talking about?
Will any of it require serious computer skills?

Out of the thousands of wonderful and terrible suggestions in the MC suggestions reddit, the one thing that I've seen more of than anything else is request for ambiance features. Considering how widely agreed upon this is and easy to implement these features would be, as well as mostly bug safe and in no way changing, compromising, or unbalancing game play, I don't understand why we haven't had more of this yet. Little things like:

• Fireflies

• Cricket noises

• Twinkling stars

• New music

• All around new nature sounds

• Butterflies (even as a particle cloud)

• Wind blowing sounds at high Y-coord altitudes

^ All suggestions I've seen from other people that really are good and should be used. Not all of them, but some. Today, games are very heavily praised for the beauty and atmospheric aspects, even simple 2D pixelated platformers like Fez & Superbrothers. While MC unique and we all love the awesome new features they're rolling out, Mojang would do well to realize that their player base will certainly appreciate sprucing up the feel of the game. People enjoyed MC sunsets way before shaders were a thing, so it doesn't take huge graphical updates and higher resolution looks (thats what shaders and texture packs are for), but small additions like the ones above that can make the game more aesthetically pleasing without changing the pixelated look we love!