During one of the COVID-19 lockdowns, he tasked people with building the Earth at about 1:4,000 scale and was shocked by the results.

He references a world that's 10,000 square kilometers in size, the result of a map that runs for 60 miles on each edge, and would dwarf the worlds of Skyrim, The Witcher 3, or PUBG.

According to them, the map is a 1:20 scale recreation created in the Java version and uses a good variety of the biomes native to Minecraft, such as plains, rivers, deserts, beaches and even taiga.

Attendees at SIGGRAPH 2024 at the end of July can experience a life-scale replica of the earth in Minecraft. A Cornell student accomplished the feat by automatically converting Google Maps data ...

Minecraft Earth is a game of huge ambition. Its creators want nothing less than to bring the creativity and fun of the classic Minecraft experience into the real world, at full scale.

So Minecraft Earth is the shenanigans you find on servers at real-scale. It’s a lot easier to form connections when you are together and you’re doing something.

He said that they frequently rely on a range of available data, including from Google Maps, Google Earth and LiDAR, to start the building process in Minecraft. Then it's about the fine tuning.

The world of Minecraft is jam-packed with limitless possibilities, including numerous biomes, dimensions, mobs, and whatnot. You can practically experience a variety of games inside a single world of ...

It has taken three years to complete, but a collection of talented and very dedicated Minecraft players have finished constructing the entirety of 'New Earth' in Minecraft. The project, which was ...

On the official Minecraft subreddit, a player by the name of LostinMN_ shared their Earth map that renders the entire planet (minus Antarctica) on a 1:23000 scale. The landscape of each continent ...

Minecraft Earth maps the game directly to the real world, in real time, and without forcing you to play within a limited area (like your living room). This is Microsoft flexing its technical know ...