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Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent
By Mark Tyson published
A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server.

Minecraft Java Edition will get a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer
By Bruno Ferreira published
Minecraft Java Edition will get a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer, replacing the aging OpenGL.

New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far
By Jowi Morales published
A team of builders is recreating New York City in Minecraft, with the group working on the project over five years and counting.

Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback
By Mark Tyson published
Playing Minecraft with a printer as your sole source of visual feedback is not advisable.

Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb
By Mark Tyson published
A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.

Incessant gamer reaches fabled edge of Minecraft map after more than 14 years
By Jowi Morales published
A YouTuber and Twitch streamer finally reached Far Lands, the mythical 'edge' of early builds of Minecraft, after more than 14 years of in-game walking.

Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks
By Mark Tyson published
CraftGPT puts a functioning AI chatbot on a computer built inside Minecraft.

Planetary Minecraft-inspired demo uses a spherical planet
By Jowi Morales published
Software developer Bowerbyte built a game that had similar mechanics to Minecraft but relied on a spherical planet instead of a flat surface.
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