Greenfield (Minecraft)

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Greenfield Minecraft
Initial release29 August 2011; 12 years ago (2011-08-29)
Latest release0.5.4 / 15 October 2022; 18 months ago (2022-10-15)
PlatformMinecraft Java Edition 1.17.1[1]
Websitewww.greenfieldmc.net

Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks.[2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011.[3][4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map.[5] According to Planet Minecraft statistics, Greenfield is the third-most downloaded Minecraft map of all time.[6]

Greenfield is designed to resemble the West Coast of the United States, heavily inspired by Los Angeles,[2] and is built to a one-to-one scale, with each block's size being one cubic meter.[7] It has various features of an actual city, such as industrial areas, ports, public transportation, suburbs, a downtown area, and the most recent addition: an airport, added in the 0.5.4 release.[2][7] With thousands of builds, Greenfield is continuously being worked on with an increasing standard of build quality.[8] Almost every building has elaborate interiors, which are inspected for functionality each time a new build is published.[2][7] A group of 10 people supervise the city, and more than 400 people have helped build the city.[2]

As of the latest release, Greenfield has 39 districts.

Critic response[edit]

Gina Lees, writing for PCGamesN, listed Greenfield as one of the best Minecraft cities, writing that it has "incredible city detail" and that one "can spend ages wandering through the different areas".[9] Stephany Nunneley of VG247 called the city "amazing",[7] and Chris Carter of Destructoid described it as a "living and breathing" city.[3] According to Bryan Lawver of Screen Rant, Greenfield's level of detail makes it resemble more of "a screenshot from SimCity than a blocky Minecraft creation when viewed from above".[10] Dmitry Lapunov, also writing for Screen Rant, stated that the city's features make it "look believable", calling the city "a project of sincere passion".[11] Nate Crowley of Rock, Paper, Shotgun found the terraforming of the landscape to be more impressive than the city itself, saying that it reminded him of planet builders in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Greenfield Minecraft - Downloads". www.greenfieldmc.net.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Crowley, Nate (May 20, 2020). "400 people spent a decade building a 1:1 city in Minecraft". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on February 13, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Carter, Chris (May 21, 2020). "People will be able to visit Minecraft's Greenfield soon: a digital city almost a decade in the making". Destructoid. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  4. ^ "'Greenfield Minecraft' Official Website". Nov 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "Planet Minecraft- 'Greenfield - The Largest City In Minecraft - V0.5.4'".
  6. ^ "Planet Minecraft - Top Downloaded Maps - All Time". Planet Minecraft. 14 Feb 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d Nunneley, Stephany (May 20, 2020). "This city in Minecraft took 400 people nine years to build". VG247. Archived from the original on February 7, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  8. ^ "Greenfield Minecraft - About". www.greenfieldmc.net. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  9. ^ Lees, Gina (April 28, 2020). "The best Minecraft cities". PCGamesN. Archived from the original on February 3, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  10. ^ Lawver, Brian (July 29, 2020). "Huge Minecraft City's Aerial View Looks Like the SimCity We Deserve". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  11. ^ Lapunov, Dmitry (May 14, 2020). "Insanely Complicated 9-Year Minecraft City Looks Like A Photograph". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2021.

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