I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I was delighted to learn of this complete, detailed Minecraft Disneyland. "Mouskegamer" started the project five years ago with two friends, but others have taken up the mantle since 2023.
Here is a video walkthrough of Minecraft Disneyland. — Read the rest
What's the one thing Minecraft is missing? If you said "a movie adaptation starring Jack Black", you'd be correct, but the second thing is a proper physics engine. If you've ever been frustrated that your blocks don't act like they would in the real world, look no further than Minecraft modder and redstone engineer SethBling, who has created a functioning Minecraft physics engine. — Read the rest
Monocraft is the pixel font from Minecraft, reset by Idrees Hassan to be monospace "for developers who like Minecraft a bit too much." Miracode is a vectorized version of it—all but unrecognizable, I think, but good for people who "want to be able to read what they type!" — Read the rest
Jack Black, fresh off success in The Super Mario Bros Movie, is to star in the forthcoming Minecraft one, purportedly as default player character Steve.
— Read the rest"Napoleon Dynamite" filmmaker Jared Hess, who previously worked with Black on the 2006 comedy "Nacho Libre," is directing the project.
Minecraft is the most successful game of all time, and it's "not even close," reports Zack Zweiden. The blocky build-n-survive masterpiece recently sold its 300,000,000th copy.
— Read the restTo put that massive number into perspective, Grand Theft Auto V has only sold 185 million units since its release in 2012.
Minecraft's previously-nameless 1.20 update has been teased for a while now, with features such as a cherry blossom biome and a lore-heavy archeology system having been previously mentioned. Now, however, there's a name to go with the number: Trials and Tales. — Read the rest
This is what deepfakes were made for: Obama and Biden giving shit to Trump for having too many stacks of diamonds on a brand-new Minecraft server.
— Read the restObama
Donald, I found your secret chest How did you get 12 stacks of diamonds?
Minecraft is one of the pillars of gaming, and for good reason. It's hard to beat the elevator pitch of a world where you can go anywhere and build anything, with your imagination being the only limit. Despite Minecraft's popularity, however, it's also famous for the slow pace of its updates. — Read the rest
Got some old Sim City 2000 cities lying around? Import them to Minecraft with Mine City 2000, an astonishingly precise converter made by jgosar. [via Hacker News]
In this footage, you'll see a simplified but fully functional 3D version of Minecraft running on a 1MHz CPU running inside Minecraft, complete with a monochrome display. The output is running much faster than real-time—the machine running on a standard Minecraft server would get about 1 frame a week—but this is nonetheless the moon landing of virtualized insanity. — Read the rest
Minecraft's developers announced there would be no NFT shenanigans in the game or its official environments, saying such applications of crypto do "not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together" and promote "scarcity and exclusion".
— Read the restDue to Minecraft's broad popularity, the game has been the target for third-party NFT world files and skin packs – something Mojang is not comfortable with.
The Wuzu Clay YouTuber combines ASMR, smooth jazz, stop-motion, and clay modeling to produce a pleasant video of how to make a Minecraft diorama. The finishing touch — casting the diorama in clear resin to represent water — is extra satisfying. — Read the rest
The Guardian reports that a Siberian military court sentenced 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov to five years in a penal colony for "training for terrorist activities." His "terrorist activities" amounted to planning to "blow up" a virtual building in the computer game Minecraft created by the FSB, which Putin's security agency formerly known as the KGB. — Read the rest
Build the Earth is a project with a simple yet rather grandiose aim: to recreate all of planet Earth in Minecraft.
— Read the restOur mission is to fully recreate the entire Earth in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. One block in Minecraft equates to roughly one meter in the real world, meaning that this project will fully recreate the size of our planet.
The Italian creative studio Invasione Creativa took a bunch of famous paintings and used voxelizing techniques to transform them into chunkily-pixeled relief-maps. The Mona Lisa, in that video above, becomes a landscape of colorful hill, valleys, and peaks.
The result is terrain that is super reminiscent of Minecraft — these would make pretty fun maps for that game. — Read the rest
Jolyon Ralph created a guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft: "Have you ever wondered how similar the Minecraft resources are to rocks and minerals in the real world? Let's find out!"
— Read the rest"Wait," I hear you shout, "Dirt isn't a rock!"
Reddit user u/Dinaeh has been posting updates of their project to recreate the world from Zelda Breath of the Wild in Minecraft. They are almost finished and the plan is to add all the shrines and other architectural elements, too. — Read the rest
If you're looking for some superchill ambient vibes, check out this slowed-down version of songs found in Minecraft. Songs included:
Image: YouTube / Oli Is MLG
It is possible, thanks to the magic of modding, to play Minecraft as any of the creatures in its world. Can you beat the game while playing as a fish? You can beat Minecraft as a fish.
— Read the restI'm gonna change into a fish right now.
it works. pic.twitter.com/cMCJgenfSH
— naku 🏖 (@miskeeping) July 27, 2020
Yes, you can use a mod for open-source virtual machine software VirtualBox to build a working virtual PC running Windows 95 inside of Minecraft to play Doom. "Within Minecraft you simply place a PC case block and then use it to create virtual hard drives to install operating systems from ISO files," writes Tom Warren at The Verge. — Read the rest
