Everyone who played Minecraft, they know that in her “main” mode she is a real survivalist. We collect resources, build some kind of shelter and prepare to repel the night attacks of monsters. This side of the game was taken as a basis Minecraft dungeons and for example Minecraft: Story Mode…
However, for people who are not directly familiar with the game, Minecraft seems to be a kind of city-planning simulator, the meaning of which is solely to build something unusual and impressive. Let’s not disappoint them, especially since the creative mode is really designed for virtual architects and designers. Let’s talk about the most impressive, large-scale and time-consuming playable buildings.
New York
Attempts to build a Big Apple City in the Minecraft world have been made several times. For example, the author The babylon project tried to reproduce New York as it was in the 1930s and 1940s, during one of its most striking periods. However, only parts of Manhattan came to life from this idea. Several more projects allow you to stroll around modern Midtown and other areas of the city.
Author of a large-scale project New York City in 2001 also in the end decided to abandon the fleeting global plans and do everything from scratch, piece by piece, carefully checking the accuracy of construction and realism. So far, he has Midtown and Lower Manhattan ready.
However, what is difficult for solo enthusiasts is easily amenable to professionals. German studio Shapescape, which deals with entertainment and educational projects for Minecraft, has already released a number of replicas of cities in the Immersion series. In their catalog you will find Paris, Vienna, Washington, Chicago and, of course, New York. Alas, you will have to pay real money for access to virtual cities.
Westeros
Peace “The game of thrones»Now is not as exciting as it was several years ago, when the first seasons of the series of the same name began to appear. Project WesterosCraft started just then – in 2011, when the Starkov, Targaryen and Lannister discussed the entire Internet.
The name WesterosCraft speaks for itself: in this world painstakingly and carefully recreate the world of “Game of Thrones”. At the moment, out of half a thousand cities, fortresses, settlements and attractions of Westeros, about three hundred have already been built, and work continues. Those who manage to get to the server (with this sometimes there are technical difficulties), can see with their own eyes Winterfell, King’s Landing, Lannisport, Highgarden, The Wall and the lands beyond the Wall.
The project is almost 70% ready. After its completion, they plan to add an MMORPG module to the server so that everyone can join their own game of thrones. However, this is unlikely to happen in the coming months.
Karlidia
No, this is not a topic for romantic fanfiction around the universe “Walking Dead“. Carlydia Is a project of an invented ideal world created by a small group of nature lovers. We worked on the map for five years and used 480 million cubes.
The world of Carlydia is as far from civilization as possible, it has only beautiful expanses of lush nature. And for every taste: the snow-covered northern expanses, the mild continental climate of the plains, the tropical heat at the equator. Deserts, jungles, canyons, centuries-old forests and inaccessible rocks replace each other, and here and there under the surface are hidden giant networks of caves and dungeons.
The creator warns: contrary to the first impression, the map is not suitable for the survival mode. But it is great for a virtual vacation in the lap of nature.
Middle earth
Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor from the saga “Lord of the Rings“Is one of the most famous buildings in Minecraft. She even recently became the subject of a showcase for lighting technology. NVIDIA… But the walled city is just one part of a global project to recreate the entire map of the world of Middle-earth, invented by Tolkien.
Work on the Minecraft Middle Earth project began in 2010, making the Middle Earth builder community one of the oldest in Minecraft. In the game world, you can already see the homelands of Bilbo and Frodo, visit Dol Amroth and the tower of Isengard, walk around the battlefield of Pelargir, run through Rohan and Lothlorien, and even go down into the depths of Moria. The area of the already created Middle-earth is 29 by 39 thousand blocks, or 870 square kilometers.
Middle Ages
Authors of the project Orion set out to build their own fantasy world of the Middle Ages. They took a 2048 x 2048 map and gradually fill it with forests, valleys, mountains, glaciers, islands, cities, fortresses and settlements.
The creators have already erected several major capitals and recently showed the completed city of Doriad, which, according to the idea, specializes in trade and religion: you can find a huge port and three large temples in it. It took over forty hours to simply put the city together from the pre-built assets, and fragments of the construction are shown in a new video.
A very small team is working on the world of the Middle Ages, and there is no talk of a completion date yet.
Greenfield
Greenfield is considered the largest city built in Minecraft. And it took almost ten years to create it: at first it was a “solo” project, and by that time dozens of players had joined the work on the city.
The design of the virtual city is impressive with its elaboration and attention to detail. All districts are carefully planned, they are located dozens, hundreds and thousands of industrial enterprises, commercial buildings, construction sites, residential buildings and office premises. And in most of them the interiors have even been recreated, not to mention the network of roads, power lines and other communications that connect all quarters and districts.
Despite the fact that the finished Greenfield map is already impressive, according to the creators, the project is only 20% completed.
Earth
It is hard to imagine what kind of structure could surpass the life-size model of the Earth. The mod team has created a new world for the game, in which the online maps with the landscape, roads and vegetation are copied as accurately as possible. The oceans and seas have been roughly recreated so far, but an update is being prepared that will increase the reliability of their images. At the same time, both resources and dungeons are saved in the world, so it is quite suitable for a regular game. Unless it was necessary to remove the restriction on the size of the map with a special mod.
Currently creators Terra 1-to-1 invite everyone to join the further improvement of the Earth within the framework of the project Build the Earth… Anyone can choose their own city or a well-known piece of Earth and try to build it on a virtual planet. In particular, a group of enthusiasts is already creating copies of cities and structures in Russia and the CIS countries.
The world is constantly being updated as more and more locations appear in it. And someday, quite possibly, it will turn into a real copy of the explored Earth. Well, in case something happens to the original.
The year 2023 has radically changed a lot in our lives. Now it is not so easy to take and travel to the other end of the Earth to see exotic cities and countries with your own eyes. But at the same time, many have freed up a lot of free time, which should be occupied with something.
Minecraft is the answer to both questions. Virtual acquaintance with worlds created by other players will help soothe the itch of travel. And at the same time, it may well inspire you to your own project, while he successfully utilizes all excess of excess time! And who knows, maybe over time, even more impressive wonders will appear in the game world.
