In an incredible feat of persistence and effort, a Minecraft player has recreated every notable location from the Star Wars planet of Tatooine in-game, from the Podracing Track to Jabba’s Palace. Tatooine has been a hugely important location in Star Wars lore since the original movie because it’s where the main protagonist of the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker, grows up. The characters have plenty of adventures across this planet over the course of the movies, including the prequels, because Tatooine is also where Anakin Skywalker was raised as a child. Movie opinions aside, there are a lot of unique and engaging locations to explore in this world.
Minecraft is no stranger to some incredible creativity, such as the amazing creations shown off in Minecraft’s recent expansion; Caves & Cliffs. Minecraft has so much freedom that players can do practically anything, including designing their own homes, creating still images that are truly works of art, and recreating incredibly lifelike real-world locations. Tatooine might not be a real-world location, but there are enough media examples for someone to faithfully recreate a large portion of it.
This incredible build was posted by vistachess on the Minecraft subreddit to thunderous applause from other users, showing off over a dozen screenshots of many iconic locations. The creator vistachess says they spent all of 2021 creating this map of Tatooine, and since they also claim that the map stretches in a seven thousand by seven thousand block square, it’s no surprise. Of the many images vistachess shared of their creation, iconic locations such as the Podrace Track from The Phantom Menace, Jabba’s Palace from Return of the Jedi, and even the humble moisture farm that Luke Skywalker grew up on were all included.
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Many other users in the comments immediately asked for a way to explore this world for themselves. Some were even hopeful that this could become a multiplayer map, with dozens of players exploring and fighting over the desert sands at the same time. Unfortunately, vistachess explained that for now, it is only a single-player experience, since the time and resources it would take to run this server for multiplayer are just too much. Minecraft builds have changed a lot over the years, going from single structures to vast landscapes, and this impressive Tatooine build is no exception.
Minecraft has constantly set the standard for what a creative, open-world, crafting game could be, and the creativity shown by many of its players shows that it sets the standard for video game art as well. Since its release now over a decade ago, Minecraft still does what other sandbox games don’t: giving its players limitless possibilities. The sheer scope and open-endedness of Minecraft is what keeps it relevant to so many players and builders, and is likely what will keep it relevant for years to come. There aren’t many other games that will give a player the complete freedom to recreate an entire fictional planet.
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