With the help of 3D printers, transferring your hard work from Minecraft into the real world isn't exactly a new concept, but Mineways helps by making the process easy and brings you one step closer to owning full color versions of your masterpieces.

Spotted on The Verge , Mineways acts as a middleman between Minecraft and 3D printing services that lets you see an overhead view of your world, where you select a section to be printed. The proper files are then extracted from the game, and the only thing left is to send it off to a printer like Shapeways

Mineways is open source, as is some of the software used to build the program, so changes and updates are sure to come to make the it even more useful in the future.