An anonymous reader quotes Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
For as long as there’s been Minecraft, there’s been people who want to re-create the world in Minecraft. For one modder, though, it’s not enough to have a to-scale replica of our pale blue dot recreated in Mojang’s block-builder. A new project named Build The Earth is looking for talented builders with too much time on their hands, bringing them together to fully recreate every last man-made structure on Earth in Minecraft.
YouTuber PippinFTS unveiled the project in a YouTube video earlier this week. It’s awfully dramatic, but give the guy a break — he’s only trying to go and build a planet.
PippenFTS’ project is building from Terra 1 to 1, a project headed up by modders orangeadam3 and shejan0. Using a few extra mods to get around the game’s strict world limitations, Terra 1 to 1 uses public terrain datasets, street maps and forest databases to accurately map the earth’s terrain, roads and woodland areas in Minecraft… [H]e wants to build a community that can collectively recreate thousands of years of human history by filling out every single man-made structure on Earth. His “Build The Earth” project hopes to crowdsource player-recreated cities, towns, stadiums, bridges and otherwise. PippenFTS himself will contribute with his own hometown.
“Regardless,” he writes, wistful in his obligation, “I will build Seattle. Super excited.”
The project already has a Patreon account — plus 5,500 members in its subreddit.
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