Last night I stayed up until 4.30am building a house in Minecraft. Not a good house. A very ordinary two-storey, flat-roofed house, that serves no purpose, and most pointlessly of all is immediately next to my main cave dwellings. I think I may have a problem. Unlike halnicholas, whose only problem is being too amazing. Oh good grief, this puts things into perspective: the Enterprise-D build 1:1 scale out of Minecraft blocks. Those words cannot convey the complexity of the project. Well, have a look at the video below.

The confusion of admiration and utter horror experienced when watching this was extraordinary. It was the best worst thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never been less/more impressed. He should surely be simultaneously sectioned, and carried aloft our shoulders throughout the town. And then I realised that it’s imported, so it’s not as impressive/disturbing as I first thought. But still impressive/disturbing. He explains,

“The Minecraft world uses 1m^3 blocks, ans so, I simply converted my already scaled plans into a format that minecraft could take and imported each deck in batch, leaving 4 spaces in between for walls.”

And he’s after help finishing it, with much work to do. He describes the plans: