The video shows a number of vast landmarks realised in Minecraft, such as Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon, and Half Dome from Yosemite National Park in the US. The next stage is applying the Terra 1-1 mod, which takes information from geographical data archives (such as Google Maps) and converts it into Minecraft blocks. "With the Cubic Chunks mod breaking Minecraft's vertical limitations, we can now experience the Earth in Minecraft, just as it is, with no downscaling of any kind." Using Cubic Chunks "changes the shape of Minecraft chunks to 16x16x16 cube, giving you infinite build depth in both vertical directions". As explained by PippenFTS, Minecraft normally has a height limit of 255m, which would have made full-scale Earth terrain impossible. It's been made possible through the use of two mods, Terra 1-to-1 and Cubic Chunks. Seeing as nobody's going outside at the moment, it would be pretty great to have an entire version of Earth to explore in a video game, right?Įnter PippenFTS, a YouTuber who claims to have made a 1:1 scale version of the Earth in Minecraft for the very first time. "A 1:1 scale model of Earth is possible in Minecraft, with mods and your help". ^ "Gamers Recreated the Taj Mahal in Minecraft With 1:1 Ratio & It Looks Stunning"."North Carolina-based YouTube star MrBeast builds his hometown Raleigh in Minecraft". "The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft". "Tens of thousands of people are building the Earth on a 1:1 scale in Minecraft". "Someone's built the entire Earth in Minecraft - to scale". "Thousands of People Are Building a 1:1 Recreation of Earth in 'Minecraft' ". "Minecraft mod recreates the Earth to scale – and now it wants players to fill in the gaps". "Halifax teen working to 'Build the Earth' in Minecraft". PippenFTS stated that "with the Cubic Chunks mod breaking Minecraft's vertical limitations, we can now experience the Earth in Minecraft, just as it is, with no downscaling of any kind." References The project originally used the Terra 1-to-1 mod instead of Terra++. Terra++ uses information from geographic data services, such as OpenStreetMap, to automatically generate terrain to ease the building process. Cubic Chunks removes Minecraft 's limitation on building structures beyond a certain height. The Build The Earth project primarily depends on two Minecraft modifications to function: Cubic Chunks and Terra++. A team of over 400 players has completed construction on multiple buildings from Portugal, including the Algarve International Circuit. In 2020, a full sized recreation of the Taj Mahal was completed on the server by Daniel Tan In 2022, a team of over 2,000 players constructed a recreation of New York City on a 1:1 scale, including many famous sites such as the 9/11 memorial, New York County Supreme Court, St. In July 2020, YouTuber MrBeast released a video where he and 50 other people built his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina within the project.
Minecraft developer Mojang Studios featured the project on their website on Earth Day 2020. The alternative approach prioritized minimizing distortions in oceans rather than land masses. įollowing unsuccessful attempts to generate terrain using a Mercator projection, organizers opted for a modified version of the Dymaxion map projection.
A Discord server created to help coordinate the project attracted over a hundred thousand users by April 2020. In a YouTube video, PippenFTS called for prospective participants to recreate man-made structures over a rudimentary model of Earth's terrain. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct the world. History Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Mapīuild The Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. Project to recreate Earth in the Minecraft video gameġ:1 scale recreation of Earth in the video game Minecraftīuild the Earth ( BTE) is a project dedicated to creating a 1:1 scale model of Earth within the sandbox video game Minecraft.