Minecraft Player Recreates Grand Canyon In Full Scale
A Minecraft player built a full-scale Grand Canyon.
Minecraft recreations are sometimes truly amazing, and this one has to be the most wonderous of all—a player recreated the Grand Canyon, replicating the American landmark in full scale. Minecraft is a known sandbox in which players create various real-world and fictional replicas, including a section of the Bloodborne and a whole in-game map featured in Breath of the Wild.
According to Gamers Cave, a Minecraft player from Iowa created a full-scale replica of the Grand Canyon within the most popular world-building game. Known by his online handle BlockMaster87, this player invested an astonishing amount of time into building the American landmark. Apparently, building this in-game wonder took an insane amount of work, and BlockMaster87 worked 16 hours a day for over two years just to complete the build. This, however, does not account for the hours of researching satellite imagery and geological data.
The idea for replicating this massive natural wonder in Minecraft came to the Minecraft enthusiasts following a family vacation to Arizona, after which BlockMaster87 realized that replicating the Canyon would be the ultimate challenge for a true Minecraft builder. However, the project wasn’t without its challenges: besides investing a ton of time into research, the player also had to dig through 1.7 billion blocks to reconstruct the entire landscape replica, block by block, thus bringing this fantastic build to life.
Admittedly, those who have seen the Grand Canyon might see this ambitious gamer’s dedication as a case of severe gaming addiction or even unhealthy obsession, but there are those who actually praised the gamer’s impressive feat, which only attests to his/her creativity, and perseverance—and to be entirely honest, completing a build this massive is praiseworthy. The completed build has since become a virtual attraction for those who love Minecraft, geology, and both, as enthusiasts flock to see the intricately detailed in-game terrain.
And though building the entire Grand Canyon in 1:1 scale inside Minecraft is truly amazing, it does open some interesting subjects, like gaming for 16 hours a day—which could be seen as a sign of gaming addiction. And though the American Psychiatric Association doesn’t formally recognize gaming addiction as a disorder—at least not yet, anyway—they have included it in the appendix of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a condition that requires further research.
In other Minecraft-related news, an Air National Guardsman leaked classified US documents on an unofficial Minecraft-related Discord server, which then found its way into the official Minecraft Discord server and has spread throughout the internet. The Air National Guardsman has since been arrested. Some of the leaked documents were subsequently edited to align with the Russian propaganda. Microsoft has since warned other corporate and governing entities about Russian agents trying to infiltrate gaming communities in an attempt to spread misinformation.
Anyone interested in visiting the Grand Canyon can now do so from within Minecraft on their favorite gaming hardware. The game is currently available on Android, iOs, PC, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, as well as Nintendo Switch—the gaming hardware that recently got a GameStop employee fired.
