How One Player Is Building the Entirety of Breath of the Wild in Minecraft

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After seeing the massive, three-tiered world of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it’s easy to forget that Breath of the Wild’s map was once considered massive in both breadth and detail. When the game first came out in 2017, players spent hundreds of hours combing its nooks and crannies, and were still making incredible discoveries years later.

Now, one player is revisiting every last inch of that original Breath of the Wild map by reconstructing it to the tree… in Minecraft.

Grazzy is a content creator on YouTube who, prior to his great Hyrule building adventure, filled his channel with videos of the mobile game Geometry Dash, and later, playing Minecraft in Hardcore mode. After a few years, he became bored and felt limited by what he could do in that format. On a whim, he tried an idea he’d been sitting on for a while: building all of Breath of the Wild in Minecraft, starting with the Great Plateau.

Fortunately for Grazzy, this was the exact change he needed. His video blew up, netting him a massive surge of new followers and encouraging him to keep going. Grazzy had just started college, but was already feeling like it wasn’t for him. His YouTube success provided a perfectly timed out.

“I was completely overwhelmed already, so stressed out,” Grazzy recalls. “And even without YouTube, I don't know if I would've been able to keep going. And so I was just thinking, I've got a unique chance on YouTube here. No one else gets an opportunity like this. So I feel like if I don't just go full in on this and try this right now, I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life. Because I can always go back to college. But this might be my only shot at YouTube. It was the end of my first full week of college, and I decided to