Minecraft players come up with some pretty creative creations, but this one in particular makes us wish we could live inside Minecraft, even just for a week or two.
Redditor FamilyCraft shared their own Minecraft rendition of a tropical resort, a stunning plot of land complete with palm trees, pools, and architecture reminiscent of Dubai.
Take a look at the tantalizing Minecraft resort posted on Imgur:
Don’t you just want to slip on your sandals and book your plane ticket right now? There’s even a helipad there.
Of course, its beauty partially comes from the add-on texture packs that brighten the colors and up-res the water and sky. Here’s the same resort in vanilla Minecraft:
Still impressive, from a creative standpoint. FamilyCraft said they were inspired by the Aperion Hotel project in Dubai.
The entire project took about one week with work being done by three or four active players and three or four more part-time players.
Moraine Lake in Alberta, Canada is a beautiful, picturesque scene: a crystal-clear lake surrounded by snow-touched mountains and green pine trees.
The lake’s beauty is so captivating that a Minecraft player who goes by JakBB recreated the real-world scene in all its glory, sharing it on Reddit side-by-side with an actual photo of the lake. The visual mod that JakBB used makes it extra realistic.
If you can’t tell, the Minecraft recreation is the one on the left, and the picture on the right is a real photograph.
JakBB said he used external software to generate the terrain, but the project still took about eight hours to complete.
Fittingly, while JakBB’s Moraine Lake recreation grew in popularity, an actual photograph of the lake was on the front page of the EarthPorn subreddit.
Earlier this month, JakBB posted another stunning Minecraft creation on Reddit: a recreation of the MacOS Sierra wallpaper.
Considering that Game of Thrones is all the rage right now – especially with everything that went down during last night’s episode – we couldn’t help but point out how the series’ world was expanding in an entirely different place. And that place is Minecraft.
Three years ago, a group of Minecraft players tasked themselves with recreating the world of Westeros in the game. The team made quite a bit of progress over the course of the following year, making the world about 70 percent complete at that time. But we haven’t heard too much from them since, indicating that it was either taking a break or investing even more time in making sure that Westeros looked better than ever, even with all the blocks.
And that’s exactly what they’ve done. The team recently provided an update to the project that shows just how much it’s grown over the past three years. We’ve included before and after shots below, and, as you can see, the team’s taken the extra time to improve on current models in the game, as well as expanding the world to three times the size of what it started with back in 2014.
According to the team, the map is hardly child’s play, as it was built using approximately 22,000 x 59,000 blocks, which measures up to around 501.14 square miles or 806.51 kilometers – and that measures out to about the size of Los Angeles, according to GameZone.
And, best of all, for those players that feel like roaming around Kings’ Landing and stirring up trouble, the downloads have been made available here, so you can add them to your world and have miles upon miles worth of terrain to explore in the fictional world of Westeros.
Granted, you won’t be seeing people jumping out of buildings or dragons tearing up the place, but there’s still something absolutely magical about how the team has managed to recreate Westeros without breaking a sweat. It makes us wonder what other equally talented teams may be capable of within the game.
Minecraft is available now for various consoles and PC.
Who would have ever thought that a whole engaging storyline could actually come out of a simple but popular mobile game that doesn’t have a storyline originally? Well apparently with the folks over at Telltale Games, nothing is impossible as here we are with the second season of Minecraft: Story Mode. We can assume that the first season was a success as Jesse and friends are back with a new adventure to explore on your mobile device when you buy the game from the Google Play Store.
Jesse probably thought that he/she and the gang would have pretty uncomplicated lives since they basically saved the world by vanquishing Wither Storm in the first season. But of course since we have a second season, they are now faced with an even more difficult challenge – go on an adventure to an ancient underwater temple and figure out how to get Jesse’s hand unstuck from that creepy gauntlet he/she inadvertently picked up.
You will get more of the same in this new Story Mode adventure as you get to face the usual tough choices you have to make in a game like this, together with all the characters you probably fell in love with in the first season. The first episode is entitled Hero in Residence and based on the trailer, you get the same brand of humor, the same graphics you enjoyed but with what we hope is a more challenging storyline.
The first episode will be at 10% off for the first 48 hours of the game’s release. You can expect four more episodes this season, although there will probably be a few more bonus episodes just like the previous one. The regular price of the first ep is $4.99 but as more episodes are released, it will eventually transition to free.
Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang do an excellent job at updating and bringing new additions to the game. Many skin packs evoke famous characters, such as the Power Rangers and Mario. However, for other non-official skins, mods are the way to go.
One of the most popular in recent times has been a Pokémon mod for Minecraft. Now, the company behind that modification has said it is pulling the plug. Pixelmon says that it is ending development of Pokémon on Minecraft due to a request from The Pokémon Company.
The Pokémon Company is the owner of the hugely successful franchise. A subsidiary of Nintendo, the company oversees everything to do with the series. Pixelmon says it has decided to pull away from Minecraft after the request.
“We have had a great time making this mod and creating such a wonderful community but after a request from the Pokémon company we will be shutting our doors,” reads the post.
“I’m sorry for the disappointment this will cause but let’s remember all the great times we had playing Pixelmon, discussing Pokémon, making awesome things inside this mod and everything else that we’ve done.”
Of course, it seems obvious that ‘the request’ means a little more than The Pokémon Company asking Pixelmon to stop development. We guess a request was really a legal threat.
Either way, the popular mod has gone. That’s going to be a shame for many Minecraft users as it was a very good modification. It let gamers capture and use Pokémon within the all-conquering sandbox building and crafting game.
Why Now
The only confusion is why The Pokémon Company is waiting until now to issue its request. The Pixelmon mod has been running on Minecraft for years, and it has never been targeted before.
Perhaps the company has struck a deal with Microsoft to bring an official Pokémon skin pack to the game? That would certainly explain why The Pokémon Company is clearing a patch now. Interestingly, the Japanese company has teased some big news for later this week.
When Minecraft exploded on the scene I was one of the countless people who assumed it would just be a fad. We were all wrong, and the game has sold more copies than any other game except Tetris. It’s so popular that Microsoft put up $2.5 billion to acquire the game’s developer Mojang. Part of the game’s strength has been catering to kids and adults alike, and it does that through several different games on various platforms. Minecraft: Story Mode arrived on Android a couple of years ago and has been immensely popular. Fans of that game will be thrilled to hear that the sequel has just been launched.
Developed by highly regarded studio Telltale Games, in conjunction with Mojang, Minecraft Story Mode – Season Two brings you more of the same point and click adventure action that made the first title so successful. Protagonist Jesse returns for this all-new 5 part story arc and will be joined by returning characters plus plenty of new ones, too.
As before, you’ll have to pay for each episode via an IAP, and that’s after forking out $4.49 (£4.19) in the first place, so playing the game won’t be cheap. Luckily, you can get 10% off the first episode for a limited time, so hurry up and download it now to make use of that. A list of compatible phones and GPUs can be found on the Play Store listing, so be sure to check that before you buy the game.
Here’s the trailer to whet your appetite:
Reviews on the Play Store have been positive so far, but it’s hard to know if they’re mostly biased super fans or not. Let us know what you think about it in the comments.
