Animal rights organisation PETA has unveiled its own Minecraft server - a "digital utopia" in which no in-game animals can be harmed.

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According to a PETA blog post , gamers will be able to explore a world in which Minecraft's animals don't have to worry about being turned into pork chops. Instead, you'll be able to visit vegetable and flower gardens, walk through a recreation of PETA's headquarters, and even explore an abandoned and decaying slaughterhouse (no, really). Check out the scenery in our slideshow below.To celebrate the launch of this virtual animal paradise, PETA is holding a series of in-game "build-off" competitions as well as a pro-animal rally on Saturday. The server and its corresponding log-in details will become available on PETA's blog this Saturday November 15 at 10am."True to PETA's mission—and unlike on other Minecraft servers—PETA's server caters directly to the animal-friendly gamer," says PETA's director of marketing Joel Bartlett. "To animals in the real world, humans are the real Creepers, but our server gives young people—and all Minecraft fans—a glimpse of a world in which slaughterhouses are forgotten relics and all animals are free to live without being harmed."This isn't PETA's first video game protest; the organisation has previously hit out at Ubisoft for its portrayal of whaling in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and has claimed that Super Mario 3D Land encouraged the wearing of fur by outfitting Mario in the "skin of a raccoon dog."

Katie Williams is a freelance writer and games journalist. She tweets at @desensitisation and hopes that one day, a bird will tweet back.