If you live in Punggol, your home might have been featured in this TikToker's Minecraft creation. TikTok user CodestianBuilds uploaded footage of Punggol HDB estate replicated in Minecraft in a viral video that has garnered over 110,900 views and more than 9,900 likes since Saturday (Aug 12). In the video, many buildings in Punggol were faithfully recreated, such as Oasis.
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Minecraft players on Discord is building Australia in a one-to-one ratio recreation of the planet.
Build The Earth is a global initiative by diehard Minecraft fans to build the planet one block city and country at a time. As they explain on their website: “One block in
Minecraft equates roughly to one metre in the real world, meaning that this project will fully recreate the size of our planet.”
It’s a pretty impressive project with an extensive network and logistical framework. Each country (and in some cases city) has its own build team, and they’re made up of local players that help make each recreated environment feel the most life-like and real.
Minecraft player recreates Mount Everest to 1:1 scale, climbs it in four hours
While games have always provided a platform for virtual tourism, the feeling of freedom they offer has been more welcome this year than ever. The past twelve months have characterised by confinement. As the world grapples still with the pandemic, we’re self-isolating in our homes, with the odd opportunity to pop out being fleeting.
Minecraft has particularly proven to be an excellent avenue for virtual tourism, and so it’s proved again. One streamer has rebuilt Mount Everest to 1:1 scale in Mojang’s building game and then climbed it himself. G0ularte explains on Reddit that he started by downloading the Build The Earth project’s mod pack. If you haven’t heard of them, they’re trying to recreate the entire world in Minecraft to 1:1 scale.