Earth Mapped to Minecraft…TO SCALE
By Lo-Ping - Sun May 29, 1:00 am
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Sweet mother of God, it’s the autist motherlode! The industrial folks over at MinecraftForum.net have collaborated to create the ultimate experience in exploratory MineCraft. After downloading the map, players can explore a fully playable 1:1 Planet Earth that includes cities, rivers, and caves, along with the appropriate biomes and ore-dumps.
The creators described it as follows:
“The world is fully playable (includes ores, trees, etc). Elevation has been scaled to fit the constraints of a Minecraft world. Sea level was adjusted to 40 blocks which puts Mt. Everest at 121 blocks high. The Earth was generated with various images from NASA (including landmass, satellite, elevation, and vegetation maps) using a custom python script incorporating codewarrior’s pymclevel python library.”
You can download the map here, but be warned: The file is a 450MB file, that uncompresses to 3.5GB. At the time of the writing, the server hosting the files were overloaded and we were told it would take up to 10 hours do download.
Enjoy.
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this is realy cool,do who now where is poland
ok start is Vancouver, then i made a boat , took off into da see, and after 1h of sailing , i ran into some kind of a WALL with a water on a top of it , also there was few caves in the bot of that wall , filled with all sort of things , ofc i died there coz my boat killed me … ( aint the first time ) . Then i spawned somewhere into the HILLS in some kind of a desert , full with trees , and there was a snow on the top of those hills , like in the desert like WTF ?:S, um ye, there should be some kind of a HINTS to show where are we , what land are we on . its freaking anoying runing around , for 3 h , and then u just die and get teleported back to the old spot … But ye … 7/10 for the map , took alot of effort but ye HINTS HINTS HINTS !
it has taken like 3 hours to convert to anvil along time nut only like 30 mins to download
dammit i cant find any cities can put some coords down about where some cities are
can somebody make this a torrent?
Wow now i cant start up minecraft what did you do
how do i travel from Vancouver to New York City
Im declaring NUCLEEAR WAR on Canada
oh my……… Shit, I can’t use the SingleplayerCommands Mod???
I have to set waypoints at the cities!
THIS isn’t pretty cool….
AND I was catched on the North-Atlantic by a creeper (why do they spawn on 3×6 sand-blocks??) …….
ok so i was in instanbul building a map when i got trapped under the ice and died and i spawnded near los angeles so then i tried to find my way back to instanbul by crossing the US all the way until i get to a big body of water and then as i sailed across the ocean i stumbled upon a huge random wall underneath a bigger wall of water that rose maybe 30 blocks high and this wall had a few caves already carved inside with random floating wooden arches and the caves were filled with railroads i do not know what it is and i would love for someone to tell me what the hell it is
Atlantis, duh!
They probably had a bug and included an abandoned mineshaft in there.
I’m gonna visit Mojang HQ!!!
DDD
Pretty nice…
Pretty nice…
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I wonder if x:0 and z:0 coordinates correspond to the grand meridian and equator. I'm about to download it, but if it doesn't have this, it would be nice.
I downloaded this and spawned in the middle of the ocean. -.-
eventually discovered what I thought was a smallish island, about 15-20 minutes of walking I'm still on it, just uninhabited grassy and mountainous areas with waterfalls, some lava in a corner and further on some beachy bits. With pigs, sheep and chickens. Noooo idea where I am. Help???
The real question is, which way did they orient the map? In MC, apparently the sun rises in the North (At least until 1.9 prerelease 4 came out, so we can assume 1.9 will have that fixed as well)
Source: https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/8815542488020…
The clouds always move northward.
it sucks that you cant see everything… its kind of hard to know where it is, i hope i dont spawn in the middle of russia
The sun rising in the South and setting in the North is a little bizarre…
what do you do after you download it?
The map in the picture is distorted. Look how big Alaska is.
That looks about right to me. But I am an Alaskan, so bias maybe?
Its because it's mapped as a Mercator projection. All land near the poles is gonna be distorted.
Yes, I know this but didn't know what that kind of map was called. Thank you.
If the picture is accurate, that's an equirectangular projection, not Mercator.
alaska is huge. it would barely fit in the 48 state map
Newsflash – Alaska is really big.
I like how when I started the download all my friends where liek damn 1 Hour to finish download and mine said 3 minutes which magically turned into 2 minutes left after only about 10 seconds
So.. instead of jizzing your pants and rushing to download this.. How about..
YOU JUST WALK THE FUCK OUTSIDE.
"OUTA MY WAY! I GOTTA DOWNLOAD EARTH!… EARTH YOU KNOW! HOLY SHIT ITS EARTH!"
Wait.. Don't we already live on earth?
Granted.. I can see how this could be nice for bed ridden cripple who will never have any chance of ever being able to explore this planet…
But for the rest of you.. You're lazy.. LAZY fucks.
I'll save my "insta-jizz" card for the Mars version.
yeah fuck van gogh too which faggot wants to look at sunflowers in a painting when you can just go look at some in real life yeah fuck paintings. television and photographs can get fucked as well I can see that gay shit in real life I'm not gonna do anything vicariously any more.
And fuck Call of Duty, I'll go join the Army and get shot and die in real life, then respawn with a replenished loadout. Oh wait.
LMFAO
If I walk outside my house, I can see about 10-20 km worth of the earth.
If I download this content, I can go ANYWHERE.
Hahahah you're a dick.
Why wasn't it released as a torrent …
Awesome i spawned in vancouver and was able to find my home in northern oregon within 5 min of playing haha
So wait, you guys mean that this isn't quite a 1:1 scale of the Earth? It's only about 1:4500? Oh damn, these people need to be fired right quick. They really screwed the pooch on this one. I can't believe they were allowed to make anything.
I lol'd
It's slowly downloading for me and I'm about to explode from excitement!
Im going to Africa to stock up on diamonds!
And you won’t even have to genocide!
oooh ooh ooh i wanna go to canada!
Bet you can't go to North Korea
Challenge Accepted!
anyone know know what pumkins represent?
thanksgiving
Hey people anybody know if this web is real?
I jumped in a boat in the sea next to Vancouver, but the sea is too big
Amazing. Now I wish there was a way to tell where you are…..
You can. They have signs for cities, and multiple spawn locations you can select from.
oh wow really?! i haven't found a city yet despite spending a couple of hours trying to get to England haha! but i only have 2 spawn locations..the Sahara and Los Angeles!
Dude. Zan's Minimap Mod it rocks
After reading this I moonwalked my desk.
1.6- Maps
I just soiled my pants!
Actually, this is not 1:1; each block represents a cubic nautical mile; or at least the surfaces of the blocks represent a square nautical mile on the map.
That would be 1:4500 something, not 1:1.
Each block is a meter.
In this Earth map, they are not. While on a normal Minecraft map each block represents a meter cubed, in this map the top face of each block represents a nautical mile (scaled to Earth).
I just remembered, though, that heights were greatly exaggerated so that things like Everest would actually show up properly (it's 121 blocks or so high instead of like 4).
It says in the first page of the thread that each block is a square nautical mile. This means that is is far from 1:1 scale, as the title claims.
Who Gives A Flying Fuck!!! This is incredible!
its just disappointment in false advertising. dont get me wrong its still really cool