It would have been difficult to make people believe that players would eventually build some of the largest digital megastructures in history inside the game, but that is exactly what happened.
In the past, clever players have created processors that run real games and even Game of Throne. A team of more than 2,500 players are recreating New York City. A new report published this week in Curbed detailed the effort led by a 21-year-old coder from Frankfurt. He settled on NYC because it was easy to find public data on its buildings and infrastructure.
Minefact told the digital outlet that he merged with a larger project that was recreating the entire Earth on a 1:1 scale and thought it would bring joy and companionship while people were stressed out from dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Everyone was trapped inside their house and so people started to meet in-game, where they could create the world they had known outside.
The first project the group undertook was a time lapse of a team building the 9/11 memorial. Some of the team involved in the video shared their experience.
One user commented that this is going to change the history of the game.
The project is still going strong, and MineFact posted photos of new sections of neighborhood that are being built or improved yesterday.
Humans are, in fact, pretty cool sometimes. Giant works like this are a sign of human creativity and passion. Even if you don't like building worlds in the game, we could all benefit from a little hope, collaboration and fun right now.
Rejoice, Nerds! There is more on the news about the game. You can play the game with a virtual reality headset.
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