Jaw-Dropping Minecraft City Has Been in the Works for 11 Years
A creative Minecraft player has unveiled a full-fledged city that took over 11 years and the work of hundreds of volunteers to construct inside the voxel-based sandbox game. Complete with towering skyscrapers, suburbs, highways, and its own airport, the massive construction makes even impressive projects like a recent recreation of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Minecraft look small in comparison.
Released in 2011 by creator Markus Persson’s Mojang Studios, Minecraft is a crafting and survival sandbox game that has gone from an indie darling to the best-selling video game of all time in just over a decade. Players exploring Minecraft’s procedurally generated, voxel-based world can use the game’s crafting and construction mechanics to create tools, shelters, and even entire cities as this impressive creation shows. The ability to design and build nearly anything imaginable has led to some remarkably inventive in-game creations by users, like the player who spent 7,000 hours creating a Minecraft base complete with hot air balloons and floating islands.
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In a post on r/gaming, Reddit user NJDaeger showed off a screenshot of a city in Minecraft that took the work of over 500 volunteers and 11 years of build time to complete, with the airport alone requiring 2.5 years to construct in-game. Commenters responding to the post were astounded by the level of detail on display in the screenshot, with many users joking that they struggled to build even simple huts in Minecraft. In response to one person's query, NJDaeger noted that the numerous buildings visible in the city weren’t just empty shells and that each one featured a full interior.
The massive and detailed Minecraft city, named Greenfield, required
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