With those simple steps, you’ll get something like this (click this link to go to Sketchfab.com and see!)

That’s the mansion from Minecraft’s very own 10th Anniversary Map. Imagine if you have a build you love and want to share it with the world? Now you can! It’s not perfect, but it does the job. And you can adjust the settings on SketchFab to tag areas if you want people to admire your work. Mineways automatically tags uploads, so you can see what others have made.

The Hard Way: Chunky

If you want a higher fidelity rendering, including light sources, then you need to use Chunky, a program so wide and deep that it could be a ravine. So let’s spelunky through Chunky.

Chunky has been covered here before, but we never explained how to use it. It takes some trial and error, a good PC, and a whole lot of time. You could prepare an intricate five course meal and eat it at a luxurious pace while your vista renders, but if you keep things simple it could go much quicker!

Make sure you have 64 bit Java installed then grab the Chunky Launcher (not the installer) and load it up. Now open the advanced options and change the download server to http://chunkyupdate2.llbit.se/ and make sure ‘Download snapshots’ is ticked. If you have plenty of RAM the “Memory Limit” slider can be dragged to a higher number. With that all done you’ll get the latest version of the program when you hit “Update”.

It currently only fully works with Minecraft Java 1.13, but we’re doing it this way to somewhat future-proof your set-up. This is the version the developer is focussing on going forward. Trying to load up an earlier build that you’ve not optimised or a later world will cause issues, so just stick with 1.13 and load up.

The first thing you should do is rename the scene from “Default” to something appropriate to your world. If you don’t do this, you can lose all your lovely art as the program will overwrite it with every new rendering session.

All you need to concern yourself with is the top-right, where it says “Change World”. Direct it to your saves. I went with Cube Block by XxRexRaptorxX. It’s small enough to render swiftly, but it looks pretty amazing. Here’s how to render it: