Minecraft Player Builds Wild West Town Inspired by Red Dead Redemption 2

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An avid Minecraft player makes a stunning Wild West town in the game that's heavily inspired by a title from a certain popular gaming franchise. With how boundless the creativity of the Minecraft community truly is, as builds like these continue to show, it's no wonder why Mojang's hit sandbox game remains relevant more than a decade after its release.

For years, gamers have been making inventive creations in Minecraft directly based off of or loosely inspired by other pop culture franchises. Most recently, for instance, one talented fan created an incredible replica of a Super Mario Kart course in Minecraft. Meanwhile, another dedicated Minecraft player made in-game pixel art renditions of a handful of Pals from Palworld. Others, on the other hand, have even put in the effort to recreate iconic video game locations in Minecraft from the ground up. For example, the massive Dimitrescu Castle from Resident Evil Village and the towering Erdtree from Elden Ring were both painstakingly remade in this blocky sandbox game. One recent gaming-inspired build that a Minecraft fan just shared online, however, is especially impressive.

A Reddit user named Walzon_ posted an image of a small Wild West town they'd been working on for a few weeks on the r/Minecraft subreddit. The town in question has «taken a lot of inspiration from» Rockstar Games' immersive historical open-world gameRed Dead Redemption 2. According to a reply Walzon_ made to a comment on the post, this creation of theirs was particularly based off of a settlement in the Cholla Springs region of RDR2, known as Armadillo. They elaborate on this, pointing out that «the saloon on the left» side of the Minecraft town, for example, was directly taken from this specific location in Red Dead Redemption 2.

As to how they managed to make such an impressive creation, Walzon_ claims that they somehow found a couple of «techniques to make the buildings look nice in Minecraft,» though they didn't mention what exactly those