This build zone finally closed on 13th September 2020 at 1pm, making this the largest and longest region at this time. Once again this was finally expanded to the very East of Russia, going up to the edge of the world, on the 29th August 2020. The zone was further expanded to the East once more on the 13th August. It was later expanded to the East on the 5th August 2020, as the video released to include even more of Northern Russia. The second public build was opened after the stream on 30th July 2020, expanding to a northern section of Russia. 47 Stream 29 - New Earth Capital (New John City).46 Public Build 16 - Northern South America.43 Public Build 15 - Central South America.38 Stream 22 - Pixel Art Canvas/Worlds End.35 Stream 20 - Middle America/Central America.29 Stream 17 - Viewing Middle East & Mainland China.20 Stream 11 - East Asia and Viewing Africa.10 Stream 5 - Viewing Northern Russia (Part 2).7 Stream 3 - Northwest Asia & Viewing Northern Russia (Part 1).6.1 Concerns over Large Builds and Road Networks.3 Public Build 1 - Central & Eastern Europe."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.