Random: This Guy Has Been Mining Out An Entire Minecraft World For 4 Years, And He's Almost Finished

You know, you could have just used mods dude.

Minecraft players are crazy whenever they put there Mine to stuff, respect.

@Maybesomeday That takes out all the fun.

Too much time on your hands results in this.
I can think of a lot of other things to do other than this.
Like typing this meaningless reply to a story I have no interest in......
Hmmmm.
I might go and play Minecraft.
😜

I don't normally question the motives for such grand scale projects, and I know he's technically already answered why but...
Why...?

Most people try to be remembered through grand projects like building a super long railway from one corner of the world to another, or making in-game pixel art so grand that you can really see that sense of accomplishment in the final product and...

I don't know. I find myself to often be quite an accepting person usually but I'm finding it difficult to understand this very one in particular.

I mean... as long as he's happy with it and isn't hurting others I guess. Props to him for that level of dedication.

Damn, comments above are a tough crowd

Well you could learn and perfect a skill. Or do this.

When I was in school I had a friend who wanted to draw a line-by-line sunset in a digital art program. He spent every day manually drawing each line slightly changing the colour as it progressed from the horizon. It wasn't the best program to draw a sunset, or the fastest way to do it, nor was it a productive use of his time (he did none of the assignments.) But he just zenned out and did it every day. Whatever brings you peace.

Also, I've never played Minecraft (maybe I should?) but this looks really cool. Massive hole with pyramids shooting light from them? What the hell is that?

I don’t understand the popularity of Minecraft. It’s a fun little game but so many people have become obsessed with it. It’s virtual Lego.

Damn these comment are rough.

@Pat_trick Guarantee he’s got this hobby monetized and is making money off it.

So who's going to tell him that this legacy won't be remembered? He acts like he's going to remembered for all of history.

That level of delusion is quite impressive though, good for him

Whatever helps folk sleep at night...though by the looks of things he hasn't had much sleep lol!

You know what, fair play.

Do whatever makes you feel happy in life.

I am happy for this person, to have that much passion is really cool, I like Mario maker 2, and I am making 120 levels to play for myself. It is taking a long time. But find it is really worth it. Glad you are doing what you love.

That sure sounds thrilling. The things people will do for their 10 seconds of Fame.

For a bunch of people commenting on a video game news website’s “oddity of the day” story, y’all are being pretty judgemental.

Reminds me of the social experiment game Curiosity, where users joined together to dig to the center of a giant cube made up of billons of smaller cubes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity:_What's_Inside_the_Cube%3F

Looks cool visually. Emptying out a world seems silly, but creating an impossibly giant canyon I get.

Phase 4: when you hit (bed)rock bottom there is nowhere left to go but up.
Rebuild the entire map however you wish.

@Pat_trick And what notable things have you done with your life? You're acting like you've accomplished a billion things and life and are worth more that this guy. And just saying that this guy will not be remembered for what he's done is a very mean thing to say.

Good for him and reminds of the days when i was kid and used to do random things in game what had no point or reward but i just done it because i wanted to.

@Pat_trick and yet more people will remember him tomorrow then any of us here will remember you in a few hours.

This is what happens when you have too much time and what boredom leads to lol.

Wow, lots of bad blood here. What good is any leisure activity? Why are we all on a website dedicated to sitting in front of computer programs that produce nothing of tangible value? If the guy wants to do it, then it's no different from playing any other game. Not only do I "get" it, I don't even think it's that odd.

Imagine all the awesome new games and backlog of older games you could have played. Instead, you decided to waste time for no reason lol. Oh well

@Maybesomeday You can just install an AI bot to play any game for you but it is not really the same, coz the journey is the experience.

“Why yes son. Your great grandfather gave the family a honorably legacy of mining an entire Minecraft world. Manually. On Survival. No mods. This kind of single minded determination over trivial matters has been passed down since and it’s now your turn to inherit the family glory ”

Misery, misery, misery, that’s what you have chosen

Ultimately everything we do in life will be pointless. We’ll die and be forgotten. Who gives a flying f**k about any of it. Dig your massive hole. Go for it.

It's like when someone sellotapes a plastic bag to a housebrick, pours beans over it and then wins the Turner prize. People rage about it being meaningless and worthless nonsense and definitely not art, but the artist was the only person in the world who thought to do it, thought to call it important and actually put the work in to do it, and that's what makes it art.

Sigh. If one's really dead-set on dedicating years of their life to building a monument to their own virginity (s'ok, I can joke about it because I'm one too), it would really behoove them to at least do so in a format that can survive having a humble fridge magnet thrown at it.

@SleepyAnimal Not really, though. Art is notoriously difficult to precisely define, of course, but if there's one thing it fundamentally is, it's a form of communication. There has to be some sort of actual meaning being appreciably imparted from artist to audience, even if it's a wordless emotion or self-referential metacommentary.

The sort of pieces you describe aren't art because the maker was "the only person in the world who thought to do it, thought to call it important and actually put the work in to do it," they're art - if they are at all - because they capture, crystallize, and convey the artist's novel perspective on life, the world, or art itself.

What you described would just be self-gratification, and a narcissistic expectation to be praised for it by hangers-on and enablers.

@Fath like you say, art is notoriously difficult to define precisely. Impossible really, some might say. My description is one way of looking at some art. Yours is another.

Also plenty of art out there is indeed narcissistic cobblers enabled by the praise of hangers on, and that's still part of what makes it art.

I don't feel like I can comment on the waste of time given my 500 hours in Animal Crossing last year...

It's funny the things we do spend all our time on though. I reckon we should all put 500 hours into education (learn a language, coding, banking etc.) then make our fortune, retire by 50, and then Minecraft...!!

Nah.

@BoilerBroJoe Thank you for saying that - i would just disagree on the "tangible value" these products produce. They produce fun, ambitions and so much more. And that's just what this guy has too. Maybe some people here are just envious that he's getting news coverage for something that feels like "man i could have done that"? I honestly don't know but i like that you're on the positive side too 😄

@SleepyAnimal Difficult and impossible are two very different things (and for a tangential soapbox, IMHO there are far too many people these days conflating the two in more ways than in defining art). I mean, agreeing to disagree would be one thing, but to effectively say that the definition of art is entirely subjective is to render the word - and the concept - entirely meaningless, which would be a real shame.

Ah, well, I appreciate the civility of your response, at least, and it's not like I have the stamina to argue the point to the bitter end myself. Thanks for the modest discussion.

@Fath And thanks to you too 🙂 No one has the energy for endless discussions about the true undisputed definitely definite meaning of art. Only ever fun if you're hammered (and even then I'm not sure)

@WallyWest Wow, you took it personally. Ok keyboard warrior. Be careful with your Cheetos.

@HotGoomba Do you know me? No you don't. He's digging non stop in a game, stop making more than what it is.
That has zero world impact. I just stated a fact.
It's irrelevant if I have done something or not, what he is doing is unimportant.

@HedgehogEngine
Maybe some should tell him lol

@Pat_trick Look, you can think that it's as crazy as you want, but you just saying "He will be remembered by nobody..." is a pretty jerk thing to say for something that's just more of a hobby than anything.

@HotGoomba I meant remembered by nobody for doing this, not overall. But yeah, it came out as very mean. Fair observation.

@Pat_trick The fact i forget about you and your comment proves my point.

Some people's personal goals are just very lame.

@WallyWest Yet you care enough to reply? Still in your mind after all

And I did a quick scan through your comment history and saw that you like to tease people and then try to get them banned. Not gonna fall for that. This is our last interaction so go and try to troll other people.

@BoilerBroJoe Finally someone who realizes the irony of hating what someone does for leisure, on a site dedicated to conversation about video games. The article mentions the dude is a streamer, so I wouldn't be surprised if he made this journey a source of extra revenue, which is better than I've ever done grinding something in a game.

At the end of the day, video games are entertainment, and how we derive the most entertainment from it differs from person to person. A lot of people looking in at video gaming as a whole see it as an unproductive activity, which, to play devil's advocate, it is because it's entertainment. Entertainment isn't supposed to be a full lifestyle, though a minor percentage of people have been able to make playing video games their careers. So it's just ironic when other gamers start calling someone unproductive or say that they're wasting their time.

He wants to be remembered for doing something entirely useless in a video game that was a huge waste of his time for several years hahaha. People sure are funny these days. I guess some people just want that tiny minute of narrow fame just for something, anything.

"Many people may think doing these big projects will be a waste of time, but they don't understand that once they finish they will remembered by others through the accomplishments."

Ah yes, what an accomplishment.

I think that some people here are forgetting something when defending him.

By the way this guy talks, it feels like he did this only for recognition and nothing else.
Wich seems pretty sad, personally.

@GoldenSunRM Honestly, I had just defended him earlier, but after watching the video of him talking about WHY he decided to do it made him sound very full of himself like he was special.

It would have been a different story if he had just done this for his own personal interest but it sounds like he did this for some sort of fame rather than actual enjoyment

He could have spent the time on many good games instead the last 4 years.

@Purgatorium
"Whatever brings you peace" -Well said and nice little story to it.

Whahahaha....imagine having that save file becoming corrupted...4 years lost. I used to love playing Minecraft on my 3ds...then my save file somehow became corrupt and I had no backup. I havnt played it anymore since. I don't mind running into glitches, in fact some of my all time favorite games are considered a "glitchy mess" by others lol. But for whatever reason...I just couldn't or wouldn't tolerate it in a game like Minecraft.

Great story to tell the grand kids. But you do you, doesn't harm anyone I suppose, and at the end of the day what's useful, what's important? You had fun and harmed nobody, that's arguably important. And playing any game is hardly "useful", nor should it be I guess. So, there's no point to even get to, and that's the point of it.

@Arawn93
-"I'll think about it my entire life, and decide with my dying breath"
-"you make me proud."

Sup with the joyless haters on here. Have none of you ever tried to dig a hole on the beach for no practical reason except it was fun for you and your friends? Like any other type of gaming is somehow a more productive use of your time. Don't worry, when you tell someone you 100 percented some other game, some jerk out there will think you completely wasted your time too.

I've spent far more than 4 years playing computer games without really achieving anything.

The guy ended his life after learning that there was a mod that allowed him to do this in seconds.

I have always said if there is an inane task in a game then I will likely find that more interesting than many other things. In fact I managed to get 99 mining on old skool Runescape, free to play.

@SleepyAnimal
Just commenting to say I like your pfp. What is it inspired from? Game/media?

Crazy person. I'd suggest he go and get a life. Like, you can always use mods for that… It looks cool, agreed, but I think the whole process has no sense, and the time was just wasted. On the other hand, if it made him happy, then why not. But still, it's difficult for me to comprehend this. I mean, just enter one of the minecraft servers and do whatever you want. You don't need to build the whole world up. This looks like an obsession, to be honest. However, if it makes him happy and doesn't harm other people – it's fine, and he has the full right to do that.

@Purgatorium
They're beacons, the let you insta-mine stone.
Also, when 1.18 was announced this guy must have been so depressed