Awesome / Minecraft

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Gameplay

• Confronting and killing an enemy that you previously had to avoid is always a gratifying sign of progression.
• Ghasts are nuisances at best, and deadly at worst. But if you time it right you can bat their explosive fireball back at them, instantly killing them if it connects. The achievement you get for this feat is gratifying.
  If you're skilled, you can deflect a Ghast Fireball to deflect another Ghast Fireball fired from the same Ghast to kill it. Proof here.
• The fact that villagers can repopulate. Night after night, they're attacked by zombies, but still won't give up the village.
• If you strike an enemy with a trident enchanted with Channeling during a thunderstorm, you call down a bolt of lightning to strike that enemy for extra damage, punctuated with Dramatic Thunder. You really feel like you're tossing out a Bolt of Divine Retribution.
• The Enchanted Golden Apple/Notch Apple is a Moment of Awesome waiting to happen. Unlike the unenchanted variant, which give you two extra hearts for a few minutes and some considerable regeneration, this will pretty much give you a Super Mode if you eat it. Incredible regen for approximately 30 seconds, resistance so now you can tank even more damage, the same two hearts as the average golden apple (and six more!), and finally fire resistance. Eating one of these when you're about to be overrun or overpowered will turn the tide into your favour, no matter what situation.
• The 1.7 update is one of the most awesome updates since the Adventure Update. In addition to new biomes and fishing mechanic overhauls, powerful new commands are already making cool things possible in game (without having to exit the game to use a map editor) even with just the preview snapshots. Things such as being able to simply use a command block to detect, place, or remove blocks will likely revolutionize what is possible in maps.
• Finishing assembly of a Conduit gives you a Conduit Power buff that constantly refills your oxygen and improves your vision underwater while you're near the Conduit. The Conduit also damages any underwater enemies that draw close. With that, swimming around the murky depths becomes far less intimidating, and you can even farm the Guardians of an Ocean Monument this way!
• The Caves and Cliffs Part 2 update gives us some seriously breathtaking cave and mountain generation. Not only are there some huge, spacious caves that come with various natural cave structures and the possibility to have cave biomes, they also have certain cave areas that are completely submerged as well. As for mountains, they can grow tall and stunning, resembling real life mountains a lot more thanks to the new world height limit.
• The Wandering Traders are villagers who can survive in the wilderness. How? They have an unlimited amount of invisibility potions so the monsters can never find them.
• Anytime the player saves the Villagers from attacking Zombies or Illagers. It's especially awesome if the player has end game weapons and armor and can turn the Illagers raid into an epic Curb-Stomp Battle against them.
  • Defeating a raid alone is one thing, but it's also gratifying to build a small army of Iron Golems, then sit back and watch them clobber the raiders into submission.
• When you go to sleep, cats will slip outside to go prowling for gifts to give you. These gifts can be anything from rabbit pelts, chicken, which one can expect from a cat. However, they can also bring in bits of zombie flesh and a phantom membrane. It's then you'll probably realize our adorable little housecat isn't just finding presents, its hunting monsters wandering around outside your house.
• The Mace introduced in the 1.20 snapshots. It's a powerful weapon whose damage increases the higher distance you fall, which outright negates the Fall Damage if you manage to strike any unlucky mobs and shoves away everyone else with the mighty impact. Players have even managed to One-Hit KO the bosses, including the Warden. Completely Awesome, but Impractical because of the setup and definite risk of death if you miss? Yes. The fact that it's proven to be possible? Also yes.

Buildings and other structures

• Someone is working on recreating Hyrule from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Link here.
• Take a very long straight minecart track, high res textures, music, and time-compressed into a 3-minute music video?
  • And that might be even longer track.
• Some Eurogamer readers recreated York Minster Cathedral, the largest medieval cathedral in the UK. To scale.
• A bunch of fans got together and recreated the Kanto Region. Yes, really.
  • And now they've done the same to the Hoenn Region. Johto and Sinnoh are currently in the works.
  • For anyone interested in visiting, it can be found here.
  • And now we've got Unova too.
• Super Mario Bros Level 1-1 done as a pixel art floor!
• Someone constructed the whole framework for the Enterprise. It is 1:1 Scale.
  • As a prelude to constructing the entire ship to match the tech specs. It is truly epic.
• The map Greenfield City: It was first started in 2011 by a British teenager named Oskar. Although he started alone, he recruited friends and opened the server to any anybody else willing to help out. He wanted the players to feel like they are walking around a real city, so he made sure that every detail is designed carefully all down to the smallest alleyway. The city even has a fictional history, so each area has it's own style, with some sections of the city appearing to be abandoned and some are well developed. the city eventually became the largest city ever built in Minecraft, with many places that stretch on for miles when viewed from the middle.
• A BioWare dev proposes to his girlfriend, also a BioWare dev, on Minecraft. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment, with bonus points for it being on Valentine's Day.
• As if the words "underwater city" weren't cool enough, this thing shows up...
  • Original video is blocked in USA. Alternate link here.
  • Another work by the same guy, here.
• This huge spaceship It was made by one guy.
  • Later, he overtopped by making a much bigger ship.
• Work on Gunnerkrigg Court in Minecraft is currently underway.
• Penn Station, right down to the train terminals.
• For the Finnish folk, Bonefoot Re-created the Moominvalley.
• Ghibli World by OZ Workshop. Complete full-scale reproductions of places from the Studio Ghibli movies, including Laputa Castle In The Sky, Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso and more, all set to Ghibli's beautiful soundtracks.
• To top the very first: we now have Middle Earth.
  • The sheer scale of the server's replication of Middle Earth is incredible. Just to give one an appreciation for how much stuff they did, the field outside of Bree has over twenty thousand individual wheat plants. When the tour guides on the video say that all the recreations of the Shire and the other villages in Eriador are nothing compared to Rivendell or Moria, they are not kidding.
  • Jesse Cox: "You guys are insane, you know that?"
  • In addition, more than half of the entire server's construction was handmade, without any tool assists.
  • One of the halls in Moria is so big that the far end literally sits outside the rendering distance for the game engine.
  • Middle Earth in general is so big that they are actually asking Notch for more room to build stuff in because they are running out.
    • Jeb doubling the allowable build height from 128 to 256. Let's hope this is enough...
• Four people made the solar system.
• Somebody made a giant statue of the original Megatron. Yeeesss...
• Someone is apparently remaking Azeroth.
  • On a different note, someone different is working on remaking Thunder Bluff in Minecraft. That video that is linked? That's only 50% done!
• Pretty much everything built by the folks at FyreUK.
• A full scale re-creation of the entire continent of Westros from the A Song of Ice and Fire books
• Someone built Hogwarts. The attention to detail is impressive.
• Two Spanish LPers built (by hand) a epic monument which consisted of a massive antenna made of villagers and a colossal-sized clay statue of a villager wearing headphones and a microphone, surrounded by quartz pillars and a lava pool. Yes, it's as crazy and insane as it sounds. They're now planning to build a massive rollercoaster that connects the monument with a nearby castle.
• Someone built Shurima from League of Legends
• Denmark(Webpage in Danish) has been OFFICIALLY created in a 1:1 scale. Yes.
• We now have the entire Shiganshina district plus the head and hand of the Colossal Titan.
• Quite possibly the most ambitious project yet, there is currently an ongoing collaborative effort to create the entirety of earth in Minecraft on a 1:1 Scale.
• For all of the Portal fans out there, there's an entire build of a realistically scaled Aperture Laboratories that you can see here. The creator even provides coordinates for some landmarks because of just how large it is making flying, let alone walking, to various parts of it time-consuming.
• BuildmodeOne, already experienced with building hotels in Minecraft, is building the entirety of the Last Resort from Luigi's Mansion 3 in the vanilla game, and it's looking very promising so far, even if only floor B1, 1 and a bit of 2 is done at the time of this writing.
• Kelanduo is known for absolutely massive arrangements of blocks that render as incredibly detailed pieces of art when mapped out, especially renditions of hololive fanart. It gets impressive as he does larger art pieces, needing numerous maps to depict it all. His masterpiece took millions of blocks and uses loads of chunks to depict an enormous mural featuring most of the cast. He passed away in mid-May 2021, succumbing to idiopathic fibrosis, and it's undeniable that he spent his last moments showing his devotion to the things he loved.

Contraptions

• Anything to do with FVDisco
• Also shown above, Someone built a 16 bit computer in Minecraft, which will be able to run programs. We just have to wait for when people start playing Minecraft in Minecraft. Considering it's already being worked on...
  • We need to go deeper.
  • A Graphing Calculator with buttons and a digital display for both inputs and outputs! It does Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Log, Square, Square Root, Linear and Quadratic equation plotting, and even equation solving!
    • Topping all this: The Dual Core CPU.
  • A BASIC language interpreter.
• The starting melody to Still Alive using note blocks.
  • The full song.
  • And "Want You Gone".
• "This is Halloween!"
• U.N. Owen Was Her was also added. There are probably other Touhou Project songs out there.
• It had to happen eventually.
• Someone made a Paint program using an in-game computer.
• It's possible to play Pong in Minecraft.
  • Also this one. With single-player and multiplayer modes.
• A 96-pixel tv.
  • The TV itself is awesome enough, but when you get to see the wiring, you can't help but gape. Seriously, it goes on for so long it's not even all rendered while you watch the TV! Think of how long it took to build that!
• The Universe Death Clock. A Redstone mechanism designed to open a door when the universe comes to its end. Not the Minecraft universe, but the Real Life universe.
• An actual Atari 2600 emulator (though not really playable, unfortunately).
• It seems insane to think about, but a user named Mr Squishy YT managed to recreate the entirety of Pokemon Red (not an emulator that runs the game, the game itself) in Vanilla Minecraft. That bears repeating: POKEMON. RED. IN. VANILLA. MINECRAFT. WITHOUT. EMULATORS. Unfortunately, there's no sound due to syncing issues, but it makes things no less impressive. You can download the map here.
• A fully-function MMO game with maps, quests, bosses and even microtransactions.
• Any of the Humongous Mechas built by Cubehamster would count, but the coolest among them are Mega Gargantua and Colossus. Special mention also goes to the video where a pair of smaller Atlas mechs blow up a defensive position near a village.
• The Space-based Dragon Slayer, a Kill Sat that uses very complicated redstone mechanisms and precise timing to kill the Ender Dragon with a single arrow. Aside from the sheer complexity of the build, it is gorgeous too, with the many elaborate moving parts evocative of a Swiss watch.

Other Creations

• Someone managed to create a self building house that is capable of repairing itself using the piston mod. This one uses 1.7 pistons. This luxury version uses the now-defunct piston block duplication glitch.
• Someone did an Indiana Jones inspired adventure map, with hundreds if not thousands of moving parts and set pieces all with Pistons.
• Some of the structures and contraptions made for adventure maps are just incredible.
• Literally hundreds of mods that add new items, new contraptions, and even entire new worlds!
• A Spanish youtuber (El Rich MC) has developed a very, very expensive Ender Crystal generator, requiring thousands and thousands of redstone blocks, pistons and other blocks. He uses pistons to push endstone into unloaded chunks, which tricks the game into generating new obsidian pillars (with Ender Crystals on top) upon loading those chunks. He then uses the large dark oak tree growth glitch (it can grow downwards from where it is planted, destroying any block under it, including bedrock) to allow him to move the Ender Crystal without it exploding. He finally transports it into the Overworld via the end portal, and at the end he has an Ender Crystal in the Overworld illuminated by pillars of light from beacons below. You can skip to the moment where he checks the result here.

Other

• Take Discovery Channel's "The World is Awesome" campaign crossed with Minecraft.
• Cosplay.
• An illustrated guide to Minecraft done in the feelie style of old school games.
• This (Fanmade) trailer
  • This fanmade trailer for the End, by the same guy who made the Minecraft trailer above.
• Would you kindly...
• Turning the WMG of the world being that of a zombie apocalypse into a fan trailer for a fake movie? Okay, that's pretty cool. Making that trailer into a live-action trailer with professional grade CG? Okay, now that's pretty awesome.
• Animating the Bad Apple shadow art video using wool and obsidian and recreating all of Gensokyo are by far the two most awesome attempts to combine Touhou Project with everything.
• TNT. It's just really cool.
  • And now, by the same person, we have "Revenge", which, if you think the fans are right, is the best thing ever.
    • Then CaptainSparklez and TryHardNinja made "Fallen Kingdom".
    • A fourth one, "Minecraft Style", was Screwed by the Lawyers: the record labels who owned the original song (PSY's "Gangnam Style") and the video for it claimed "copyright infringement" on it, and as a result the original was blocked from YouTube (twice, and the second one may stick for a while). Yes, as if a shot-for-shot parody done in a completely different artistic style and featuring completely different lyrics constitutes infringement and does any actual harm to the original work. (The original maker has re-upped the video to his channel; if that doesn't work, here's a re-up by another user.)
    • There's a new video called Take back The Night. It's a sequel to Fallen Kingdom, and it lives up to the standard made by the previous videos. That's rather impressive, considering the fact that it's an original song, unlike the previous ones which were parodies. (This is due to the makers fearing that their future videos would be subjected to copyright infringement after what happened to Minecraft Style.)
    • CaptainSparklez is not done yet. After 18 months of waiting, the third song in the installment, "Find the Pieces" is out, this time including a LOT of foreshadowing for an even greater sequel!
    • The final video of the Fallen Kingdom videos, again with an original song, has finally been made: Dragonhearted! Highlights include the Final Battle: the King who lost his kingdom to Herobrine using a scepter to command the Ender Dragon to fight back against an invasion from the Nether. This leads to a Behemoth Battle between the Ender Dragon and the Zombie Pigmen's Nether Star powered Humongous Mecha while the Prince fights The Dragon-in-Chief and kills him by impaling him and sending him plummeting into a bit of flaming rubble. After the mecha is crippled, it attempts to fire its Nether Star core as a Fantastic Nuke, but the Prince jumps on it and leads it back through the Nether Portal to kill the Pigman King and defeat them, at the cost of his own life.
  • Other users have started creating Minecraft parodies. Two that have received a lot of accord are "Don't Mine at Night" by BebopVox and "The Miner" by Ant Venom (which has already taken the top spot on at least one "Top Minecraft Songs" list).
    • Don't Mine at Night got its own parody by Jan Anamations.
• Far Lands Or Bust itself. For those who don't know, kurtjmac is walking to the Far Lands (he's using Beta 1.7.3 for FLOB, though he has used later versions for other things) without mods ^note He does use texture packs, and a fan has made a FLOB texture pack that he uses now. or cheats. The series started in March 2011, and as of March 2021 he has walked over 4,856,980 blocks west^note Actually south, since that's where the Sun sets in the betas, but as far as he's concerned, it's west in 816 episodes, counting multiple marathon livestreams. It also doubles as heartwarming once you consider he's doing it for charity.
  • It's not the MOST popular series, but even reaching Cult classic status with something that literally consists of him walking in a straight line is pretty awesome.
• To celebrate a page view milestone of Equestria Daily, somebody created this.
• To fans of The Hunger Games, a bunch of people apparently threw a Hunger Games style tournament.
  • There are actually around 20 Hunger Games servers.
• The Mob Rap. Basically, a bunch of mobs get together to rap.
  • And now we have the sequel. Among the new guys are the Enderdragon (who has an Irish accent), the Blaze, the Iron Golem, and Herobrine, who sings his verse.
  • There's five altogether now. Here's a compilation video of all of them.
  • The sixth one is confirmed to be the finale, but what a finale it is! The Ghast finally gets his own verse. And when the others try to cut him off by stopping the music, he keeps rapping a capella. It took six videos for him to get the opportunity, but seeing him thoroughly shut down every mob that dissed him in previous videos makes it worth the wait.
• A massive TNT cannon made as a send-off to 1.2.5.
• Minecraft is just awesome.
• The new Wither boss is a three-headed, flying, skeletal abomination that sucks life from any living being and breaks any block it comes into contact with. Two days after its release, and people stuff them into boxes and poke them with stone columns to make full-auto cobblestone generators.
• Cube Land.
• Herobrine Dubstep AMV. Flipnote Hatena user InvaderFiM created a very short dubstep animation featuring, of course, Herobrine.
  • Unfortunately, the link's broken, due to Flipnote Hatena closing their website.
• Dwarves Vs. Zombies: Choose the night.: A trailer for the Dwarves vs. Zombies server. Featuring amazing animation and an epic voiceover.
• The Hostile Mobs parody of the original Pokémon theme song positively rings of awesome.
• This hypothetical Minecraft 2 trailer.
  • And this short gameplay footage from it, which by the way, could very well be possible given enough mods are installed.
• This video comparing the different chances for rare events, from the most common (chance for a shulker to drop a shulker shell) to the most rare (chance for the rarest enemy to appear: a zombie villager jockey, equipped with a fully enchanted diamond armor and sword, and the ability to pick up items).
• The first part of Caves and Cliffs introduced goats as a new neutral mob. In the release trailer for Caves and Cliffs Part 1, the goats can be seen ramming several characters including Steve, Alex and even some Illagers sending them flying. At one point one of the goats tries to ram an Enderman, but he teleports away and instead the goat accidentally sends itself running off a cliff face.
• To celebrate one trillion views of Minecraft videos on Youtube, Youtube released an amazing video featuring several notable members of the Minecraft Youtuber community. All set to a parody of Starship's "We Built This City".