You place it the say way you would any other windows operating system, you use the place block key which is defaulted to the right mouse button.
Yes, I play Minecraft on my Windows 8.
Minecraft currently supports: Windows XP - Windows 8. Linux And recently All types of Apple.
Minecraft does not need to update for it to be compatible with Windows 8
YES
I have windows 8 too. All you have to do is windows button+r then type in %appdata%
Yes
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They announced it on Christmas (2012), so yes.
Mods do work on Windows 8 laptops, you just most likely aren't installing them correctly
The F5 key is above the 5 key.
A single piece of coal can perform 8 furnace operations in minecraft 1.6, so that means 8 pieces of cobblestone.
you find them all over the place a nd in a village in sprflt mode, survival, and u can c the village from the spawn the seed is village