Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time. It is a sandbox survival where you build your own world in the virtually infinite terrain made up of voxels. However, the graphics are nothing special (unless you use some sort of high-end shader), far from the ultra-realistic games’ visuals these days.
Then why are fans so much in love with this title? Why are nearly 170 million monthly active players playing the game? Actually, there are many reasons for this, but the most viable factor for this immense success of the game has to be its touch of realism in the gameplay. Yes, the visuals might be cartoonish but the in-game objects are so close to the real-life aspects. And this is what makes this title a world-beater.
The pickaxe race that defined realism in Minecraft
There has been a five-year-old video that has been surfacing a lot on the internet. This video actually compared the durability of various pickaxes in Minecraft, made from different in-game materials. It is actually a race of the pickaxes on which one can cut through the rally of voxels and make it through the finish line the earliest.
All pickaxes racing against each other.
byu/kwikenkwak inMinecraft
There were a total of 6 types of pickaxes, made from wood, stone, iron, gold, diamond, and netherite. Now, the astonishing part is that all of those pickaxes actually had varying durability. For example, the golden pickaxe quickly took the spotlight it had the fastest digging rate, but just like gold in real life, it had low durability and broke down pretty quickly upon use.
This was a real-life demonstration of how gold works—fast but less durable. Similarly, wood and stone were seen to be more durable than gold but they were slow, even though you could mine more blocks with them.
Ultimately the race of longevity was won by the netherite pickaxe, followed by the diamond one. Netherite might not be a real-life material, but the diamond’s longevity in the race shows how close Minecraft is to realism.
Minecraft player creates highly realistic glacier in the game
A very dedicated Minecraft player built some incredibly realistic fjords and glaciers in their enormous in-game world, which appeared to be modeled after actual places where they were raised. In addition to being extremely detailed considering the constraints imposed by Minecraft and its blocky aesthetics, the build is enormous in scale, spanning thousands of blocks.
Thoughts on my recent glacier and mountain builds?
byu/octavian_world inMinecraft
When this user, octavian_world, posted multiple pictures of their elaborate fjord and glacier creations in Minecraft to the official subreddit, other players showered them with praise. The user claims that the build is largely inspired by the Pacific Northwest in real life, particularly Southern Alaska and British Columbia in Canada, which is where they are said to be from.
So, you see, no matter how unrealistic and cartoonish Minecraft looks, you can always extract incredible realism from the game. And those small voxels are the building blocks of every realistic aspect of the game.
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