UK Minecraft Map Gets Houses Now

It looks like Minecraft, the recently acquired entity by the folks over at Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion, has been used rather creatively in different ways in the past, including the recreation of Jurassic Park. However, that is not all, since a map that features the U.K. (Scotland included, I presume) which was made out of Minecraft blocks has just received an upgrade. Ordnance Survey (OS) are the ones behind this map, where it showed off 224,000 sq km (86,000 sq miles) of Britain that required over 22 billion (!) blocks to get the job done.

In the refreshed version, there were 83 billion blocks used, and each one of them actually represented 25m of real-world British soil, road as well as sweet smelling grass. In fact, it is said that this Minecraft UK map happens to be detailed right down to the exact house, so much so that it would not be too much of an issue to locate your own house in there.

Ordnance Survey claims that an interactive map would be loaded onto its main webpage in due time, allowing folks to generate co-ordinates in order to lead them to their home on the Minecraft version, now how about that? This particular map could very well be the biggest Minecraft map that was made based on an accumulation of real-world geographic data.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Minecraft