People who've used Minecraft to break records: Underwater city to recreating the Earth
Minecraft pretty much took the world by storm when it first launched in 2009.
With over 300 million units sold, it’s officially the world’s best-selling videogame.
And it's brought a lot of people together.
The first official Minecraft gathering saw around 50 people trek to Bellevue in Washington, USA, to meet other fans of their favourite game.
One particularly enthusiastic player even turned up in a fully functional cardboard Creeper costume.
Dubbed “MinecraftCon 2010”, it inspired the official Minecraft convention, which took place the following year.
Minecraft characters fighting
“MineCon 2011” – the first official Minecraft convention – was held in Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, on 18 November 2011.
The multi-platform game, that allows players to build their own worlds, even now has its own movie.
A Minecraft Movie, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, hits cinemas today (4 April), building on the gigantic worldwide appeal of the game.
But what about the people who’ve used Minecraft to become record breakers?
YouTuber Jeracraft (Gibraltar) created the largest underwater city in Minecraft in 2017.
He celebrated hitting 300,000 subscribers by giving people a tour of his very own Lost City of Atlantis.
He’d spent two weeks piecing together “over 5 million blocks with the main fortress alone” and that he’d originally intended to build some sort of ruin structure, but got carried away, adding in statues and towers.
Kurt J Mac (USA) has broken the longest journey in Minecraft record numerous times, most recently in 2019 with a total of 3,857,848 blocks (3,857 kilometres; 2,396 miles).
He had set himself the mission of reaching the fabled Far Lands, an area roughly 12,500 km (7,767 miles) from the player’s initial spawn point, where technical anomalies can occur.
Kurt was documenting his epic journey for his YouTube channel “Far Lands or Bust!” and used his quest to raise money for charity.
Gurudutt Malani (India) put his Minecraft skills to good use by building the longest railway track in Minecraft.
Minecraft characters flying
He did it in 2022 with a total length of 300,000 blocks. And he said he attempted the record to make his parents proud.
Players looking to test their navigation and puzzle-solving skills can do so in the largest Minecraft maze.
The labyrinth, created by YouTuber Heat Born (USA) in 2017, measured 300 blocks by 300 blocks and is 10 blocks high, equalling 90,000 blocks in total.
Armaan Gulati (USA) is the creator behind the longest Minecraft bridge.
A farm in Minecraft
Created in 2024, it stretches for 35,000 blocks. Armaan built it for a fun personal challenge.
The possibilities of Minecraft are pretty limitless, as evident by US YouTuber PippenFTS’s biggest Minecraft project.
In March 2020, the content creator launched “Build the Earth”, inviting the entire Minecraft community to work as a team to recreate the entire planet.
Thousands of builders joined in and used a modification called Cubic Chunks to shoot through the game’s height limit and replicate the world, with one block equating to roughly one metre in the real world.
What will you build?