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Minecraft mod recreates the Earth to scale - and now it wants players to fill in the gapsBuilt my house yet?
Built my house yet?
For as long as there’s beenMinecraft, there’s been people who want to re-create the world in Minecraft. For one modder, though, it’s not enough to have a to-scale replica of our pale blue dot recreated in Mojang’s block-builder. A new project named Build The Earth is looking for talented builders with too much time on their hands, bringing them together to fully recreate every last man-made structure on Earth in Minecraft.
YouTuber PippinFTS unveiled the project in a YouTube video earlier this week. It’s awfully dramatic, but give the guy a break - he’s only trying to go and build a planet.
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
“Regardless,” he writes, wistful in his obligation, “I will build Seattle. Super excited.”
Another issue is that, right now, the world doesn’t exactly end. Minecraft’s maximum world space is magnitudes larger than the actual Earth, meaning Antarctica sorta just keeps going - stretching out to hundreds of thousands of miles of icy wasteland. Poetic? Sure. But it’s a little beyond the realistic aims of the projects. PippenFTS does, at least, suggest cutting the edge of the world off entirely - in his words, recreating the crackpot theories of “people from centuries and millennia past who believed the world was flat”.
Blimey, thank goodness we’re past that nonsense.
It’s bloody ambitious and relentlessly optimistic. I’d honestly be amazed if it gets finished within the next decade. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong - after all, there are just under 4,000 members on the project subreddit, and aPatreonset up to cover server costs is doing well enough for itself.
