In March 2020, the Youtuber PippenFTS launched probably the most ambitious project in Minecraft history. In a video, he has made it his goal to recreate the entire world on a scale of 1:1. For this, he has estimated several tens of thousands of employees and several years of construction time.
His announcement video garnered around 14 million views within a month, and his Discord channel, in which the helpers organize themselves, had over 200,000 members after a short time. They all actively help to transfer the real world into Minecraft including all servers in the Minecraft server list. Everything is organized in regional groups that select a certain part of the world and then assemble it step by step.
The organization and planning of this project alone is a feat of strength. Even the help of IT professionals and a mathematics professor were enlisted to transfer the global shape of the Earth to the two-dimensional surface of Minecraft. With the calculated area, you get almost perfect proportions and distances.
Progress after 2.5 years
Critics have doomed the project to failure right from the start. But in April, “Build the Earth” celebrated its 2nd anniversary. Work has been underway on this monumental mammoth task for two and a half years. And the motivation is still high. To date, more than 150,000 people are actively and very committed to the project. Several, above all well-known places in the world, have already been completed.
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Complaint by architect
But the construction of all the buildings on earth is not the only problem that the creators of the project encounter again and again. Helpers of the project or outsiders try to sabotage the action repeatedly. This includes an architect who wants to file a lawsuit against “Build the Earth”. In the U.S., every building built in the last 25 years is considered a copyrighted work.
For this reason, the project should be terminated and all buildings should be extinguished or taken to court. PippenFTS, the initiator and leader of the project, argues against it in a video on the subject and states that they will defend themselves against the lawsuit. At least he does not intend to give up the project after 2.5 years of progress.
