- 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?
- 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.
- As a prelude to constructing the entire ship to match the tech specs. It is truly epic.
- 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.
- Original video is blocked in USA. Alternate link here.
- This huge spaceship
It was made by one guy.
- Later, he overtopped by making a much bigger ship
.
- 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!
- On a different note, someone different is working on remaking Thunder Bluff in Minecraft.
- 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 OFFICALLY created in a 1:1 scale. Yes.
- We now have the entire Shiganshina district
plus the head and hand of the Colossal Titan.
- 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.
- Topping all this: The Dual Core CPU.
- A BASIC language interpreter.
- we need to go deeper.
- The starting melody to Still Alive using note blocks.
- "This is Halloween!"
- U.N. Owen Was Her
was also added. There are probably other Touhou 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.
- Also this one.
- 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
.
- 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
.
- 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.
- This
- 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 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.
- Then CaptainSparklez and TryHardNinja made "Fallen Kingdom"
- 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).
- And now, by the same person, we have "Revenge
- Far Lands Or Bust
itself. For those who don't know, kurtjmac is walking to the Far Lands (he's using 1.7.3 for FLOB, though he has used later versions for other things) without mods note or cheats. Since he started he has walked over 1048576 blocks westnote in 256 episodes, counting two 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.
- And now we have the sequel
- 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.
- Managing to win three awards
at the 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards, including Best Downloadable Game, despite having technically been in alpha for most of its life and being up against the likes of Limbo and Super Meat Boy!
- Blowing up an island.
- A little more meta but a hacker made a way to use the Kinect to translate objects into monuments in Minecraft (ie it used the Kinect to tell Minecraft where to put blocks to recreate the object in front of the Kinect). http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106836-Kinect-Hack-Turns-Minecraft-Players-Into-Giant-Monuments
Then he adds in the ability to move the moments in real time. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107188-Kinect-Hacker-Gives-Juggling-Skills-to-Minecraft-Monuments
And this is only part two of a three part project.
- A dream within a dream within a dream.
- How connected the creators are to the fanbase, adding in player's suggestions and mods to improve gameplay.
- The fact that Minecraft knocked
a certain popular FPS off the top of Xbox Live charts is something for fans to be proud of.
- The fact that villagers can repopulate. Night after night, they're attacked by zombies, but still won't give up the village.
- Youtube user Lorgon 111 did an entire series from spawn to killing the enderdragon without using the 3x3 crafting grid.
- Gods Don't Bleed.
To elaborate, it's an animation that depicts infamous fanon menace Herobrine being forced to go up against small army of mobs, culminating in an Enderman nearly killing him on its own. The reason for the title? The ending shows Herobrine bleeding from his right hand. Not only is the fight itself epic, but the fact that those mobs had the guts to stand up to him in the first place is pretty darn great.
- Herobrine himself gets an impressive villainous MOA by showing the mobs just why the fandom considers him to be so scary. Only the Enderman gives him any trouble and even then, it doesn't take long for him to regain the upper hand.
- Now we have the sequel, Gods Don't Die
. The rebels have grown in number, leaving Herobrine to fight not only an army of zombies and skeletons, but also a whole legion of Endermen, which makes for some impressive Ender Pearl parkour, and an armada of suicide-bomber Creepers, from whom he barely escapes. The video ends with Herobrine crawling out of the wreckage of his palace, barely standing, after having fallen all the way from the roof following the Creeper attack. It takes the first video Up to Eleven in every way, and it's absolutely amazing.
- As mentioned in the above folder, a popular Minecraft gamestyle is "Survival Games", based on The Hunger Games. Many maps and servers have it set up so that after a certain time limit, all remaining players are transported to an "arena deathmatch", a high-walled stone floor with lava underneath and a gap around the floor. To keep the players in, there are stone bars and bleachers above the wall, so it's practically impossible for anyone to escape. Or not.
Two players figured out that you could place water using a bucket (you're not allowed to place most blocks on most servers). In the arena, they first used this to drop down to the lava, creating a safe obsidian platform and killing one of the two other players. They then used the bucket to rise all the way up the outside wall, and hit each other with fishing rods to make it over the stone bars. After climbing up the stone bleachers, one used a fishing rod to knock the other onto the final wall, and the player jumped off, killing himself in the map but "escaping" from the arena. (The other went back and killed the remaining player, earning the in-game win; however, the other players decided the guy who escaped "won.")
- Using texture packs to make various things look cooler. An example would be retexturing cats into Revolver Ocelots.
- How about deflecting a Ghast Fireball to deflect another Ghast Fireball fired from the same Ghast and killing it? Proof here.
- The Luckiest Minecraft Player Ever
, in which The Syndicate Project mines a block directly underneath him in the Nether, falls directly into lava, must swim to a very far shore, is attacked by two Ghasts, and falls into a 2 by 2 lava hole. Even with protection from fire, he barely makes it out alive.
- A deviantART user tells this tale:
- "This almost never happens to me in Minecraft. I was playing on an Aether 2 server with a friend, named cutedinos86. Our base got raided and I was killed. I kept going back and stalling the guys who invaded the base. Just then, one of them killed one of their number by sheer accident, of which there were three. I grabbed the loot, equipped everything, and proceeded to curb-stomp the whole lot. They were terrified at how badly it was suddenly going; a guy with better EVERYTHING than me didn't even try to fight. We proceeded to drain them of all their resources by killing them all multiple times when they tried to come back for more xD"
- The 1.7 update is looking to be 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.
- EXPLOSIONS!
- A 200.000 TNT explosion
. Yeah.
- Most of the music tracks are Crowning Music of Awesome this game has some of the most calming music you could find in a videogame.
- The Enchanted Golden Apple/Notch Apple is a Crowning 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 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.