A hardworking Minecraft player is dangerously close to totally mining out an entire classic world after four years of effort. Thanks to eight major updates implemented over the past ten years, Minecraft has changed dramatically since its debut allowing players to further push the possibilities of what can be done in-game.
Since launching, the popular sandbox title has developed a reputation for allowing its community to build immense and clever creations. These can range from small and functional to world spanning recreations of either real world or fictitious settings, often times done in stunning detail. With a central gameplay philosophy on creation, it can be rare to find a project that focuses on the exact opposite yet still match the grandiosity of something like a Minecraft recreation of Tatooine from Star Wars.
YouTuber Minthical has taken on such an endeavor as they attempt to completely mine out an entire world and they are getting close to succeeding. According to Nintendo Life, the Minecraft excavator has some massive numbers stacked against them and is countering with huge statistics of their own. A classic Minecraft world contains roughly 47 million blocks, and back in October of 2020 Minthical had mined 25 million. To demonstrate their progress, the most recent update that came at the beginning of November of 2021 saw their total increase to 38 million blocks. The whole process has taken four years to date as well as over 5,000 pickaxes, since Minthical is performing this huge undertaking in Survival Mode. Their current estimate for the end date of project "Bedrock Massacre" is sometime in February of 2022.
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Once this project is complete, however, it is not the end for Minthical's extreme mining in Minecraft. The YouTuber reportedly has a planned trilogy where this four year project is only the first part. Next they plan to mine out the entirety of the Nether before finishing with the End. The overarching project is called a "Dimensional Massacre," but Minthical still has a lot of work to do before they can move on to Minecraft's Nether.
This whole endeavor is truly one of epic proportions even it it was just relegated to the Overworld. The statistics involved for pulling it off are staggering and the potential end result is intriguing - what does a Minecraft world without any blocks really look like? Those interested are not far off from getting that answer, at least when it comes to the Overworld. For the other dimensions, however, the answer is likely a few more years in the making.
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Source: Minthical/YouTube, Nintendo Life