How Far Are We In Building The Earth in Minecraft?

There’s a mountain in front of you you want to climb it it’s gigantic people have literally died trying you’re afraid to start not over the fear of your life but from the fear of suffering that inescapable huff and haw as you pound your legs up the mountain as your

Respiration system tries to keep up that mental agony that pairs with your physical exhaustion that exists as a mechanism to prevent us from exhausting our body to death and the worst part is you can only make estimates as to how long you’ll be in this state how long it

Will take to climb and from experience you know the reality will always surpass your estimates everything takes roughly twice the time that you would guess from the beginning but this is different after procrastinating in mental anguish you feel the inspiration to finally do what you’re meant to do you take that

First step but this isn’t an ordinary first step you feel yourself being sucked into the floor and you find that the first step isn’t as simple as a single act that takes less than a second but rather the first step is an entire mountain to climb in and of itself with

Its own pitfalls challenges risks and will not surrender to you without extensive effort the deeper i get into this project the more i understand exactly what we’ve taken on and each step we get deeper in we experience what i just described with every city being such a sprawling and unending mass of

Human achievement we’ve come to the realization that you can’t tackle the entire mountain all at once you need help one person can’t do it and one group can’t do it either we are building the earth in minecraft one to one scale the thing you have to understand is that

I’m not doing it by myself and the group that builds with me in the build it one to one series is not the only team they’re one team in a fleet of over 70 teams most of which are permanently assigned to specific cities states countries or continents to build them in

Minecraft most members of these teams are natives to the area because they want to build where they live and you can do that too you can join the build the earth discord and find your team on the map and blow your mind building where you live but there’s a real

Question here we’ve been doing this for almost two years now how much of the earth is done how many buildings have we completed and how does it compare to other minecraft projects build the earth how far are we the result may surprise you now the first thing you’ve got to know is if

You’re the owner of a team trying to build an entire country in minecraft 101 scale you’re by definition an interesting person so coordinating all team owners to all do something may be akin to the concept of hurting cats especially if that administrative action you wish for them to perform is a little

Thing like counting the dozens or hundreds or thousands of buildings your team has built in two years after having no procedure for counting as you go it was a nightmare but i’m committed to it and want as accurate of a number as possible so we create the spreadsheet of

Teams release the announcement in their discord and then we get to work and by that i mean every morning when i got up before i did anything i went through this list of team owners on the sheet found them in discord dms and asked them how it was going that’s awesome you can

Do this keep it up i believe in you but there was differing success some of these teams had thousands of buildings to count or more but most that size were diligent enough because they had an incentive since they knew they had built a lot but not everyone was so cheery

Some asserted this was a waste of time and they had no interest in knowing their total building count that blew my mind a little bit i don’t think they’re being honest it could be an excuse for a different reason but okay you are uninterested in knowing your total

Progress of 1.5 years and would prefer to just blindly continue onwards sure but aside from that some were too inactive some were too lazy some refused to cooperate because oh god i don’t know he doesn’t like you like this guy pizza x owner of chili he refused to

Participate this is a shame bte chili has one of the largest discords at over 10 000 members with a tick tock that is totally killing it we’ll never know how huge build the earth chili’s collective achievement is or how that total impacts the final score but nonetheless totals

Kept coming in until we had almost everyone’s objective building count after 1.5 years of doing this and i gotta say it’s pretty insane here’s the results teams numbering 65 to 45 on the list contain building totals of anywhere from 4 to 100 completed buildings some of these teams are graveyards but most

Of them are specialty teams who are dedicated to building one thing in particular so they go on everyone else’s servers to work on them a good example is bte airports they just build airports endlessly i should not this is a thing teams of note in this division are hungary the caribbean and bte

Controversy who are dedicated to building controversial places in the world their first location being jeffrey epstein’s island okay moving on teams numbering 45 to 21 on the list contain building totals ranging from a hundred to a thousand this is where we really start to see the mate there’s still some

Specialty teams in this bracket including bte theme parks and the chernobyl exclusion zone interesting but most of these teams are actual areas teams like korea middle east ecuador ireland romania balkans usa midwest hong kong texas and bt nordic and many others the teams listed span across six

Continents which is all of them but antarctica speaking of antarctica we’re now in the top 20 with build teams who have completed a total of 1 000 buildings or more number 20 is bte southeast sporting cities like narlins at 1 263 buildings and number 19 is antarctica well it’s not antarctica it’s

Build it one to one my team now just like the specialty teams all progress made by us is sent to other teams which means the vast majority of everything we’ve done this year isn’t going to count for us but for the other teams you’re welcome but antarctica doesn’t

Have a team so those buildings are ours and it totals at 1 278 buildings i’m kind of blown away that antarctica has that many but if you want to know build it one to one’s real total i’m sorry it’s just not possible some of these events we started on top

Of progress done by teams previously added to that progress then sent the whole finished map back to their team in that case it’s almost impossible to determine exactly what was done by us and what was done by them but if you want a general estimate antarctica seattle and coyote events each had over

1 000 buildings take all the other events together and that’s at least over a thousand buildings and you have a four thousand total minimum would that theoretically put us in first place instead of our current holding at nineteenth no it doesn’t which is insane insanely awesome counting down to the

Top ten each team tremendously contributing to the total building count with four figure totals numbering from over one thousand to over two thousand are the new jersey build team team czechoslovakia southwest usa which is not an airline for these usa teams most of them are now state conglomerates

Where teams originally starting out as their individual state or even individual cities merged with similar sized neighboring state teams in order to make server facilitation more easy moving on we’ve got bt italia i’ve gone there it’s beautiful we’ve got poland northeast usa which is everything northeast except new jersey and new york

I think and the first team crossing the 2000 total building count is team canada and at 11th we’ve got opanki which is ohio pennsylvania indiana and kentucky what an acronym at number 10 we’ve got time sao paulo in latin america i hope i pronounced that right but probably not

With 2 219 buildings led by ian this guy who did multiple censuses for teams he is a boss at number nine we have japan with 2476 buildings who we recently collaborated with number eight is northwest which includes seattle and at number seven we have team sis i have no

Idea what that means cisgendered and at sixth place we’ve got argentina with seven thousand what no and at sixth place we’ve got argentina with two thousand seven hundred and nineteen buildings okay so next up is uk who counted all the way into the 2000s and were certain that they’d counted a

Little over half of what they actually have so we wrote down an estimate for 3 000 which is a conservative measure same with germany an estimate of 3 000 buildings bt alps has an objective count of 3057 getting it third place for all teams in building progress and second

Place goes to bt france totaling at 5 800 buildings they’re really passionate over there kept me up to date with the counting and what blows me away is they’re the highest in both quality of work measurement and the qualitative measurement we’re doing here number one shouldn’t be a big mystery i think you

Can guess who has the most buildings by far it’s gay no i mean really it’s gay russia gay is a town in orenberg oblast russia now i’m just pulling your leg no not your third leg the location that build the earth with the most progress is new york led by mine fact the

Minefact system has been criticized to hell and back but it strikes a court with the natives it’s easy to join and start and it produces results the master map for new york is insane it’s on our patreon if you’ve seen our new york video you know what we’re talking about

They have an estimate of 20 000 buildings before you say wait a minute let me tell you what i mean they have 15 000 completed projects projects are land plots they can have anything from one to four buildings sometimes even more we’re not sure what the average is so 20 000

As an estimate was really conservative but we have a plan to count the backlog of completed projects and a way to move forward to easily calculate the continuing growing total number of completed buildings for now we’re going conservative with the number putting it at just 20 000. and that’s how far we’ve

Come but wait you exclaimed with veins popping out of your forehead having patiently watched through this video to know the total building count for our entire project so through a complicated mathematical algorithm labeled addition we managed to derive the total number of buildings by taking each team total and

Combining them in a master number and it ended up being 73 650 buildings that’s surprising those mini totals with a couple thousand each really add up quick and this isn’t counting the fact that a few of these totals are probably higher especially new york and our wall of shame of almost

10 different teams who didn’t complete a census many of whom have four figure totals so in short we’re almost to 100 000 buildings and 75 000 is lowballing it holy sh back when i built 100 seattle skyscrapers on my single player world i never mentioned how much that mentally

Destroyed me it felt like my brain was melting into my gaming chair all that effort for one guy just to complete 100 and yet through the power of releasing a video asking for some help online that total of 100 that i gave a piece of my

Soul to get done has now turned into 75 000 and more thank you to everyone who’s even placed a block in this project but also thanks to the hardcore builders who have placed a ton done dozens or even hundreds of buildings whether you’re gone but not forgotten or still with us

Moving towards the future stay tuned for spring where we might do something to increase the total drastically Getting losers we’re going to react oh are we ready better than that oh that’s cool yeah it is cool pharaoh thank you i’m very proud of it it’s almost like it’s a cool body of water oh that’s good that’s cool yeah oh boy hey pippin i got a snowboard

I’m not going to use it all the time i hate snow i’m team look i’ll tell you why they’re not as good for mine fact because mine fact is too hard to make renders for you you tried making videos i made the most epic new york cinematics

Are you kidding me well that’s because you’re pippin fts pharaoh how did you get there how did you end up on a beach Dude they’ve got like sky there in australia you know what happened what happened oh jesus his his chair looks like it’s not real what it looks his chair looks cgi look at this what happened yeah the numbers uh i got pulled away for a second

I got cut off i’m not gonna say it no say the thing say the thing say it say it pippin i swear to god i want to know i need to know the number hey tell me if i if i painted my face purple would i look like uh buzz lightyear

Oh yes buzz like your whole face and i did you take a formaldehyde bath you seem like you’re related i don’t know if you guys have seen that that santa claus looking [ __ ] who’s literally purple wait do you want me to go purple wait hold on i’ll send

You a video of me turning purple i will walk around and interact with my own buttons so you know what’s real That’s like domestic violence the video this is like the journey this is like one of those meth comparisons like each mug shot and you get like 15 mug shots in and they look like this i need to redo the dragon ball z clip but replace

It with this cue a dbz clip of just uh but instead i’m the character just having the [ __ ] beat out of me Hey uh i have one thing to say no i don’t want to hear it humor i don’t want to hear