Minecraftfans are well-known for taking on massive building projects in Mojang Studios' sandbox game. TheMinecraft Middle-Earth community server turned ten years oldearlier this year, and it continues to work on recreating J.R.R. Tolkein’s expansive fantasy world. Now, one user has shared their take on Nintendo’s open-world version of Hyrule fromThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Crockette22 uploaded theirBreath of the WildHyrule maprecreation to the fansite Planet Minecraft on December 21, and it can be downloaded now for both Java and Bedrock editions of the game. The creator credits user lentebriesje, a site moderator, for publicly providing the terrain data, but says they went in and made the landscape more than just “an empty canvas of bare grass and stone” by adding more distinct features.
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That being said,Breath of the Wildfans should not expect a perfect recreation. There are no buildings, and Death Mountain in the Eldin Region has some “huge mistakes” in-part due to issues with height lines in the landscape data. However, based on screenshots that showcase numerous landscapes across Hyrule, it’s clear theMinecraftmap is a labor of love that others can easily go in and explore or adjust to their hearts' content.
ThoughBreath of the Wildreleased in 2017, its fully explorable take on the land of Hyrule has become iconic for many in the gaming community, and Nintendo is capitalizing on this. The map will be reused in the upcoming sequelBreath of the Wild 2, which still has no release date as of this writing; and themap was broken into chunks forHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a pseudo-prequel released this November.
As impressive as Crockette22’s Minecraft recreation looks, particularly in screenshots where they use shaders to accentuate certain color schemes, the use of data from lentebriesje undoubtedly offered a solid starting point. The Planet Minecraft moderator previously received a Guinness Book of World Records recognition for uploading a video in 2013 depicting the “Largest-scale recreation of planet Earth in Minecraft.” This recognition was provided at least two years prior toYouTuber PippenFTS gaining recognition for hisBuild The Earthproject, according to an image provided by lentebriesje.
Huge building projects are just one facet of the appeal when it comes toMinecraft. Many fans also enjoy the survival experience, and others watch speedruns of the game. All of this and more contributed toMinecraftbeing YouTube’s most-watched game in 2020with over 100 billion hours, and this will certainly continue as creators like Crockette22 continue to contribute to the game.
Minecraftis available now for Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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