City of Rapture recreated in Minecraft

Hi!

I run the server this stuff goes down on. One of my players just let me know you guys featured us here, which makes me giddy like a schoolgirl. We actually have our own version of Columbia, too, but I haven’t had the time to record it yet. Building in the sky is a refreshing change from constantly drowning.

I just want to solidify the claim that the entire city was done by hand. We don’t hand blocks out on the server – we have a giant stripmining operation set up that has slowly eaten a huge portion of our map as we requisition the resources we need for building, and forges are running pretty much 24/7.

The -map itself- has been edited. Columbia and Rapture were projects we started on an older map. When Columbia and Rapture started to become gigantic, we found we were having a big problem – these megacities started to butt up against other people’s work, and things were generally getting crowded. On September 25th, I took it upon myself to make a brand-new map for us to play on, and with the game’s natural map generator, MCEdit, and NBT Forge I crafted a giant field for Columbia and an expansive deep ocean for Rapture. I removed Rapture and Columbia from their original, hand-dug spaces on the old map, and inserted them into the current one after making appropriate room for them. Nothing else from the old map was saved, because most of the players wanted a fresh start.

A bunch of us have thought about inviting the Irrational Games guys on just to hang out and wander around. It seems only fair, after having enjoyed their game so much. 😀

So sweet, love it! Hopefully one day i’ll get to visit 😀

Very, very cool.

@jamsessionein

great work…and great work ethic…it’s remarkable. and tomorrow, after work, i’ll be in turbo mode trying to get my desktop up and running so i can finally hop on MC…