Link: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-authorities-just-dropped-a-minecraft-map-based-on-actual-submarine-topographic-data-and-it-lets-you-explore-the-seabed-from-tokyo-bay-to-the-mariana-trench/

Crossposted from https://lemmus.org/post/22350379

Is there a free tentacle mod included?

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My tax yennies at work, apparently. I don't hate the idea but, as far as taxpayer money usage, *gestures at all the things going on*

I love that this gets downvoted. We have people struggling to buy food right now as wages haven't kept up with the rampant inflation starting around covid times, and the yen has dropped against other currencies. I support the sciences and the arts, but it seems we have some more pressing things to deal with here.

Where did they drop it? On the floor?

You need to install The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife mode.

Are you Japanese? Much love for your country and I do hope to see an economic turnaround soon. I was in Tokyo (Toshima City/Komegome Station) for a month earlier this year and paid ¥1000 to be slapped by a Muscle Girl.

I tried reading around for confirmation and found none but I suspect this Minecraft map could be very easily generated with data already gathered. I've seen tools that can generate whole MC worlds with Google Maps data. I doubt anyone was manually placing blocks.

Sigh.

I've seen some days ago a tool for BeamNG (vehicle/racing simulation game) that allows you to create maps with the general overlay of any region mapped by I think it was Google Earth. Apparently the tool was made in a month by a single guy, so if the technology is there already with such a constraint and for a game not made as a building game (even if mod-capable), the state and military (?) apparatus being used to create a generation tool for a well-documented building game sounds more than feasible imo.

I hope they can recover it after it was dropped.

They definitely paid a dude to recreate this in survival over three months.

It's just a mapping of the height data from their scan into block height in a Minecraft world. It's cool and all but nothing new technically. Wouldn't have taken much time I don't think.

steps on voxel FFUUU-!!!

Japan! What did I say about Minecraft in the house?!

I feel like it was a mukō shokumu situation that no one checked in on.

2012: Hey guy, we uh need you build the entirety of Tokyo bay in Minecraft

2026: All done boss!

I, too, saw something on that. It's https://mapng.com/

Seems pretty cool. With a little refinement on precanned buildings and road layouts, it could be very cool. It's similar to what Microsoft did with Flight Simulator.