Block by block: Gamers recreate Independence Hall in Minecraft

It took years to build Independence Hall from to It took a handful of Minecraft gamers just two months to do the same virtually This group of six Minecraft builders who built Independence Hall are part of the Build The Earth group that has already built Seattle Raleigh and sections of New York City all to a one-to-one scale in the meeting After past construction attempts had failed Independence Hall was rebuilt with the Fourth of July in mind and unveiled on the holiday accompanied by an in-game fireworks display Precision without proximity The build is entirely accurate to its real-life counterpart yet the builders involved have no ties to Philadelphia and have not visited the historic building Through Google Earth renderings and in-game commands that create outlines of the real-life locations the builders ensured one-to-one accuracy and scale The attention to detail and care for accuracy are evident when examining the build Spanning three blocks the Independence Visitor Center Liberty Bell Center and Independence Hall are all easy to spot despite their cubic building materials even the trees are built to precision Builders used Google Earth to build Independence Hall and later dropped their build into its proper location to display it within the area s Google Earth rendering Courtesy of Build The Earth Global builders shared challenges The builders declared that the heavy tree cover in the area made it tough to determine where certain structures should be built but noted that the hardest part of the project wasn t a function of the meeting but working as a company across real-life borders It can be hard to lead like a association that s all around not even just the country but also we have various international members as well stated Jacob Sherman Build The Earth s population relations manager The time zone and language gap is inevitably harder than any build Sherman who has been part of the Build The Earth project since worked with the crew of builders who constructed Independence Hall He worked alongside Colton Criswell who also does populace relations for Build The Earth The two met online through the project in during the early stages of Build The Earth and have been friends since What is Build The Earth Build The Earth was started in March by YouTuber PippenFTS with the end goal of you guessed it building the entire Earth to a one-to-one scale in Minecraft The project has teams of people from all over the globe working on projects Approximately people have been involved in the project s various endeavors over time Those involved all communicate via a Discord server that s divided by region and project Builders must earn their right to build by participating in organizational events and demonstrating their skills through in-game play the more participation and skill they exhibit the more challenging the builds they re tasked with For the unfamiliar Minecraft is a building and survival challenge published by Mojang in You may recognize it from A Minecraft Movie the April film starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa that sparked a rambunctious trend among moviegoers to shout chicken jockey during a particular scene While a Build The Earth unit is at the moment working on a build of Philadelphia s Center City and City Hall their majority ambitious project to date may be a recreation of New York City which Sherman says is about complete A prior build from the Build The Earth project a one-to-one replica of Seattle the home city of YouTuber PippenFTS who started the project during the COVID- pandemic Courtesy of Build The Earth More than just a challenge And it s not just for fun Particular builds have been used for educational purposes Sherman shared that the crew has collaborated with schools in Israel Argentina and Chile to teach geodata and mapping Sherman believes that while the learning component is useful the majority of valuable aspect of the project is the opportunity to memorialize lost land After the village of Blatten in Switzerland was buried under a landslide in June Build The Earth builders got to work reconstructing the village in-game to give residents a slice of what once was It s a way for people who once lived there to be able to see their old hometown as it was Sherman reported While the educational and memorial aspects are major Sherman and Criswell agree that it s the locality that keeps them engaged Through the work Sherman shared he s made friends across the globe and on a contemporary trip to Asia connected with Build The Earth friends from Brazil Taiwan and Thailand I do this for the area honestly Criswell revealed There s so numerous great people in here and it s inevitably an awesome time building together no matter what we re working on it s just cool to connect The post Block by block Gamers recreate Independence Hall in Minecraft appeared first on Billy Penn at WHYY