Nearly 3000 Players Are Recreating New York City in Minecraft

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Few games spark the creativity of players to the extent that Minecraftdoes. The 3D open-world sandbox game features everything a person needs to build almost anything they can think up, using Minecraft blocks to build an elaborate medieval city, replicate real-world landmarks, or recreate iconic locations like Skyrim’s Solitude or Lord of the Rings’ Bag End. Perhaps the most ambitious project of all resulted from the pandemic, the idea to recreate the entire Earth in Minecraft.

In March 2020, PippenFTS presented a terraformed representation of the Earth’s surface in Minecraft, and his plan was for players to recreate the planet's buildings on a 1:1 scale with each in-game block representing one real-world cubic meter. The project, which soon attracted tens of thousands of players, is known as Build the Earth and is composed of a number of smaller teams focusing on different world locations.

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Simultaneously to the launch of Build the Earth, a German Minecraft player calling himself MineFact began a project to rebuild New York City in the video game using data from Google Maps. He merged his idea with Build the Earth, and work soon began on NYC’s 9/11 Memorial. The New York City team of 2,731 members is now the largest in the Build the Earth project, and in two years they have made incredible progress. Rather than focus on one specific area or district, the Minecraft builders divide their time in an effort to keep the work interesting and make sure the entire city grows in tandem.

Initially, the plan was to build only the exterior of the buildings in New York City, to keep the gargantuan task more manageable. However, exceptions have been made for some