These Amazing Minecraft Creations Took Billions Of Blocks To Build

Gamers have been making virtual artwork in Minecraft since the game first came out five years ago, but overall their creations have been kept simple and square, like 3D versions of 8- or 16-bit pixel art.

However, the art created in Minecraft is limited only by the artist's imagination, dedication and the amount of time they have available to organize thousands, if not millions, of cubes into a detailed work of digital art.

The new book Beautiful Minecraft by No Starch Press collects images of some of the more epic and impressive works created by Minecraft players, including the piece Deep Sea created by nine builders in six days using 32 million blocks.

The piece at the top of the post is Vegard Elseth's Lindblum Gate, which took 60 days and 300 thousand blocks to build, followed by Will Loader's A Futuristic Past, which took 28 days and 9 million blocks to build.

And that simply gorgeous looking landscape shot? That's Andrzej Czerniewski's Magic Of Colors, which took him 22 days to build and contains 7 billion blocks.

I wonder how long it would take to create a 3D print of each piece...

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I'd always wondered about eggplant, though not enough to actually research it myself. I do think #8, Airline Food in the 1960s, should point out that the airlines were more regulated then. They couldn't compete much on price, so they competed on meals and service. After deregulation the airlines became more competitive, and we found out that most people only care about price, not food or free liquor.

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I'm not surprised about the vegans. Ideologues driven by faith (in veganism) are not the best experts when it comes to foodstuff.

And ketchup can be made with banana. I prefer banana ketchup to the tomato ones. Sweeter flavor, of course.

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Not sure about a couple of these. The cyanide-almond one is likely completely wrong. As for #2, the declining nutrition of fresh fruits and vegetables, it is due to us eating them far less than ripe rather than having it bred out out of them. Still, sending green tomatoes to wholesalers might be considered an "agricultural practice."

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