Block by block: Help build Portland in Minecraft

Rick Turoczy

9 years ago

Unless you’ve been under a redstone for the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly come across Minecraft, the game that allows multiple players to build, mine, and battle within a blocky 8-bit-esque environment. You can build practically anything there. And now, some folks have decided to recreate Portland on the platform.

Here’s Pioneer Square, for example.

Interested in participating? Read up on the project and where to participate. Just want to see what folks are building? More images are available on /r/MinecraftPDX on reddit.

UPDATE

@turoczy Esri/City of Portland has a 3D model of the city already, and a way to import into Minecraft. Know the people doing this work?

— Robin Jones (@wubledoo) February 20, 2015

Now I’m wondering how else Portland’s startup scene can help on this project. Maybe we could all chip in some time to work on the buildings we inhabit?