As a part of Minecraft‘s tenth birthday celebrations, Mojang have commissioned a virtual theme park celebrating the build ’em up. It’s accessible as a free map for all gamers. Exhibitions embrace a sculpture backyard of monsters in a glasshouse, demonstrations of redstone-powered doohickeys, museums, galleries, Easter eggs… it appears actual fancy. A season of festivities for a mere tenth anniversary might sound churlish however hell, Minecraft has earned this. It broke into the general public consciousness in a means few game games do then was surpassed solely by a game it impressed, Fortnite. Take a victory lap, Minecraft.
“We created a map that celebrates everything about Minecraft past and present,” mapmakers BlockWorks clarify. “Filled with Easter eggs, secrets and community references, this map is a tribute to the creative, curious and adventurous community of Minecrafters worldwide.”
BlockWorks are an expert Minecraft builder crew who’ve made maps to advertise all types of issues. Their impressive portfolio of commissioned builds contains recreating the Great Fire of London for the Museum of London (a museum means higher than its identify would possibly lead you to imagine), dioramas of water infrastructure for Severn Trent, and that Brutalismfest Pip looked at. Fancy stuff. This one seems to be further fancy.
The ’10 Years of Minecraft’ map is obtainable free for each the Bedrock (Windows 10 & consoles) version of Minecraft and ye olde Java. It’s on the Marketplace for Bedrock and here for plain ol’ Java. It’s within the library for Java Realms too.
Minecraft definitely isn’t ‘done’ but both. Mojang launched the large ol’ Village & Pillage update solely final month, and a dungeon-crawling spin-off named Minecraft: Dungeons is anticipated later this 12 months.
The 10th birthday celebrations are resulting from carry a pair of “big announcements” on Friday the 17th. Mojang have already slammed on-line a free browser-based version of an early alpha too. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson, who offered the game and Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, is not invited to the festivities cos the hateful issues he says on-line are considerably incompatible with Minecraft’s family-friendly picture.
Ah, Portal jokes – solely 11 years previous their prime.
Disclosure: Our weekend editor, Jay, typically writes for the Minecraft web site.
