City-building simulation SimCity 2000 is a fun video game on its own, but what if you could transform the cities into Minecraft locations? Meet MineCity 2000. Created by software developer Jernej Gosar, this program converts the cities from the 1993 game into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds by reading an .sc2 city file created by the former.
Minecraft will always be a sandbox game where players explore a blocky, procedurally generated 3D world, but with the current advancements in graphics cards and mods, it can look a lot more realistic. Digital Dreams shows us just how good the game can look with Physics Mod Pro and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.
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Minas Morgul Lord of the Rings is not something you’d typically associate with Minecraft, but one Minecraft player thought otherwise, as they have faithfully recreated the fortress that controlled the only passes through the mountains that led into Mordor. What did it take? Many hours of work that included the use of various shaders as well as enhancement mods.
OpenAI wanted to advance artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research in a more creative way, so they trained their new bot to play Minecraft using over 70,000 hours of gameplay footage from YouTube. The bot utilized the gameplay actions and tutorials to learn how to execute complex in-game sequences that would take a normal player around 24,000 individual actions to accomplish.
Sure, it’s not as complex as this recreation of the observable universe, but this real-life Minecraft pig is just as impressive. A gamer known as ‘Electo’ created one that you can actually ride, called ‘Hamborghini’, thanks to an IR sensor in the head used to detect the 3D-printed carrot hanging in front, in which the pig chases.
A gamer who goes by ‘Chris Da Cow’ online has managed to build the universe as we know it in Minecraft. Whether it be super clusters, black holes, nebulas, and more, you’ll find them here. How long did this take? Around 2-months and the process is just as complicated as you might think, unlike this Minecraft ice cream.
The rumors are true, Nick’s has introduced the first ever Minecraft ice cream and it will be released in limited quantities. You’ll be able to choose from several flavors include ‘Peanöt Choklad Glowdust’, ‘Enchanted Apple Pie’, ‘Emerald Minta’, and ‘Cake Blocka’. Nick’s is best known for their Swedish-style ice cream, a dessert that is touted as being creamy, light, low fat, low calorie and keto-friendly.
Minecraft updates are typically non-events, but what if artificial intelligence was employed to design one? YouTuber SystemZee wanted to find out, so they let an AI develop the ‘Minecraft: World Domination’ update that his team would implement. It all started off with a simple suggestion, which started off quite crazily to say the least.
Minecraft isn’t a game most would think AI could master, but OpenAI has other plans. They managed to train a neural network to play Minecraft utilizing Video PreTraining (VPT) on a large unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using only a small amount of labeled contractor data.
YouTuber Fundy recreated Pac-Man in Minecraft, but it doesn’t play exactly like the arcade version. Why? You typically control the eponymous character in an enclosed maze, chomping down on power pellets, but in this version Pac-Man chases the player. For some, this might be a fun twist, but others may view it as more of a horror version of the game.