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Table of Contents

Guide

BEAUTIFUL

MINECRAFT

San Francisco

BEAUTIFUL

MINECRAFT

JAMES DELANEY

Beautiful Minecraft.

Copyright 2017 by James Delaney.

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or trans-

mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,

including

photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval sys-

tem, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and

the publisher.

ISBN-10: 1-59327-765-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-765-9

Publisher

William Pollock

Developmental Editor

Tyler Ortman

Production Editor

Serena Yang

Proofreader

Riley Hoffman

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please contact No Starch Press, Inc. directly:

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phone: 1.415.863.9900;

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949782

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marks of No Starch Press, Inc. Other product and company names men-

tioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Rather

than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked

name, we are using the names only in an editorial fashion and to the

benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of

the trademark.

Minecraft is a registered trademark of Mojang Synergies AB, which

does not authorize or endorse this book.

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contained in it.

Cover Builds

Faberg Palace

by Rowan van Tuijl

Azorzeia - Gardens of the Wild

by Andrzej Czerniewski

Image Renders

Splekh and Nati

Design

Mike Doyle and Max Burger

Thanks to the BlockWorks team

for all of their incredible work, and

a special thanks to Splekh and Nati

for creating all the renders in the book.

Contents

Introduction

by

James Delaney

Since the release of Minecraft in 2009, players

of all ages and from all backgrounds have

spent countless hours using the game to bring

their own imaginations to life. They have made

Minecraft the most popular computer game of

all time. But as Cody Sumter from the MIT Media

Lab said, [Minecraft creator] Notch hasnt just

built a game. Hes tricked 40 million people into

learning to use a CAD program.

Starting off in an almost infinite, automatically

generated landscape made entirely from blocks,

the player has the ability to destroy and place

blockswith the aim of staying safe from the

hostile creatures that roam the Minecraft world.

But thats not the only way to play.

The players imagination comes to the forefront

in Creative Modewhere players can focus on

building, with unlimited resources and without

fear of attack from monsters.

Soon after the games release, stunning examples

of Creative Mode marvels began to appearfor

instance, a replica of

Star Trek

s USS

Enterprise

,

scaled to the size of the Minecraft player, all

built by hand and undoubtedly the result of

hundreds of hours work. The sharing of such

creations online played a huge role in the suc-

cess of MinecraftMojang famously launched

the game with an advertising budget of zero, so

community-made content and sharing were cen-

tral to the growth of the Minecraft phenomenon.

This book assembles some of the Minecraft com-

munitys most impressive work. No collection

could ever be considered definitive, but my goal

is to showcase a variety, across a broad range of

styles, approaches, and themes.

The sculptures and scenes in this book, unlike

the USS

Enterprise

, were not entirely built by

hand. Custom Minecraft sculpting and design

tools have been created to speed up the build-

ing process, adding functions such as copying,

pasting, rotating, and even paintingmuch like

the features of Photoshop. Nevertheless, some

of the larger projects, consisting of millions of

blocks, are still the product of hundreds of hours

of work.

Many of these projects have been completed as

commissions for a variety of clients, including

Minecraft servers, film studios such as Disney, and

many other organizations trying to benefit from

Minecrafts young and enamoured audience.

What are the artistic possibilities of creating

worlds in Minecraft? This book aims to explore

the furthest limits of this question and to let the

artists themselves explain their motivations for

creating art in this unlikely medium.

Fantasy Worlds

(above and opposite)

Rowan van Tuijls

Faberg Palace

(2015)

1 builder | 28 million blocks | 25 days

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