How I Built The Biggest Minecraft City By Hand

Okay hello there and today we’re going to be talking about how I built the world’s largest city in Minecraft how that’s what we’re going to try to find out well my name is Dallas Akiya Inverness by the way drop about two inches below the screen to the red

Button and make a gray if you want 10 years of good luck moving on now the way this all started was with me trying to break a world record as usual but it was even better than that it technically got going because of a dare that I got from

Mojang themselves there’s a little bit more of a backstory than that but no that’s pretty much it because this took place back in 2017 when Mojang was holding some all of a sudden Build contest where they’re going to like basically have some contestants enter and build some random thing and the

Winner was going to end up on the front page and I guess they did these kind of build contests every now and then because well all you had to do was just apply to enter and the original challenge wasn’t even revealed yet whoever would win would be featured on

The home page but I wanted some clout for my up and coming Minecraft YouTube channel with my grand total of 10 000 subscribers so there is some kind of a double challenge that they were doing kind of just like under the table and it was that they told me that if I could

Somehow make the world’s biggest city or town in Minecraft in under one year that they would make it a world record why not and they seemed very optimistic in my abilities I can’t believe they tried well anyways that made me even more want to prove them wrong

Or right I just wanted a world record maybe this whole thing was literally just them getting bored one day and just saying hey look at this dork let’s troll them yeah we’ll give you a world record if you can do this and next week I’m gonna be buying the Brooklyn Bridge all

Right so essentially that’s how that got started did I have some pristine career experience in city building no as a matter of fact I even contacted a real City Builder and they said that I couldn’t do it it was just too big and two out of the realm of possibility and

We even went through this in a previous video where I talked about and it all kind of just went off the rails from there but overall I didn’t care what they said so I started my own world and technically I hadn’t started it it was actually a Minecraft world that I had

Laid on with my friends as like a creative server where we built very high quality and professional buildings over the years and it kind of already looked like a city a little bit I was like well might as well just start out with something going on already so I got to

Work at first making what would become in the world’s largest Minecraft city by hand I only had one year to do this so of course time goes by but it all started with just one little thing a little house which at first was made out

Of dirt once I realized I can only build dirt houses I decided to actually pay money for a legitimate course on City design and architecture to learn how it all looks like and works and after a couple of weeks of doing that I got the general idea of how a city supposed to

Look like so I made a couple blocks of a neighborhood in this little kind of grid Square thing I did that all by hand uh with the help of a couple other editing tools obviously and then I decided that this was impossible I went to a place

Called Planet Minecraft and I was kind of just like uh hey does anyone want to help me out on this because now the name I chose for it was audio don’t ask me why I named it that I really just kind of came to me one day I

Was actually getting a haircut and I was like you know what I should build a Minecraft city called audience I might have seen like something on a shampoo bottle or something it has some words like that’s a pretty good actually the reception was pretty good even though it

Sucked because no character but there were some people who cared and that’s what kind of was good about it I opened up a build server so people could just go on there it’s a really good idea there’s just no restrictions or anything what could go wrong and people could

Just go on there and build whatever they want or destroy whatever they want so at some point someone who had the permissions for some reason decided to go and change the name of the server to Aslan so now the city was unofficially known as ass land and everyone on the

Server basically referred to it from that point on I don’t know why it just kind of stuck so about 10 months go by and this thing is like ginormous it’s getting ridiculous it was so close to being the world record now with Mojang’s original email that I had to

Like you know obey because this was their only way of allowing me to have a world record they said they specified I had to beat 10 million square blocks whatever that’s supposed to be blocks are supposed to already be square and the way we measured it was that it had

To be this exact little size so we did this exactly like it was not a single bit more than what was needed and at the very end we went back to Mojang and I said all right look at this now give me the world record but the Mojang said

Nope not big enough anymore this other project is bigger so now you have to pass that if you still want this then you have to you know get bigger than them and I was just like wait then why aren’t they having the world record already Mojang essentially told me it

Was representative or someone who’s bored uh they said well you know they’re just not interested in filing a world record I guess no one had the idea filing a Guinness World Record for Minecraft city so now they’re moving the goal posts and we we had to just

Basically lose out on the whole record so it kind of just it motivated everyone and the project was left on the sidelines for a long period of time until 10 of us who were left from the original crew decided that we wanted to actually get this world record again so

We came up with this whole new scheme where we’d build a whole like North part of it and it would be like a whole Recreation of all of Southern California in Minecraft that’s basically what this thing was so this was completely out of my hands already the city Builder

Originally told me that I couldn’t do this in Minecraft because it’s too big was actually Landing with us at this point and I didn’t have to pay him anymore now this thing is like about the size of like real life Manhattan Island that’s what we calculated so now no this

Is about two and a half years later now we’re like talking about maybe 2020 or 2021 and then um so clearly this has blown everything out of the water there’s not a chance so get on my level and no so now we go back to Mojang and

Then we’re like oh uh you know here’s the city now right turns out that Mojang was no longer like even participating in this whole whole thing and there was no response anymore so I just had to go directly to Guinness World Records and ask them to review for myself and they

Finally after all these years all this time all these people who worked on this giant city-sized map they said that they would consider it let that sink in they were going to consider my map wow and they were basically saying like yes this is confirmed everything was

Going was going to work out so that leads us to now whatever happened so that’s where we left off the story has been discontinued um and well after five years 100 000 total man hours I’m happy to say that we finally got this world record submitted and approve but then Met Life happened

MetLife who’s ever even heard of MetLife to be honest so MetLife is a company and it just so happened that somewhere along the way in this city someone had built a building which was the MetLife building so it’s like and the entire process of making this city while this building was

In the city they kept on filing multiple different copyright strikes one after the other almost every single week on this Minecraft Project all while it was being developed for like two years straight and I didn’t even know what the hell they were talking about so I was

Just like hey can you stop trying to sue me I’m just trying to build a Minecraft world record but they would never explain what was going on but after a while like MetLife had let up they had really like strike down the world anymore and everything was just fine so

When time came that we actually submitted this thing to Guinness everything was going great and we actually had the page for the Guinness World Record up but then MetLife came around and said you can’t do that because we own this and then just like that it just got completely fine

Paige was dead it was gone so Guinness says looks like you’re on your own meant life yet again file the copyright claim but not against me this time now they were dealing with Guinness so I asked Guinness like uh could we just do this anyways and they basically said again

You know what looks like you’re on your own basically the only way now that we could ever have a world record for this whole thing was if we thought a bigger project something much bigger How about if a city is copyrighted country maybe so now the 10 of us the 10 people who

Are involved in this Project’s like overall like coordination all like come up with this other idea this new thing what if we just expand this whole thing into no longer just one city in Minecraft but to the biggest map ever made in Minecraft so all right so I ask

Against the world record what happens if we just do that and they basically just said that you know you can do it if you want that’s all good fam that’s pretty reassuring so now if we want to have a page with a little place of world record

Guinness we would need to have a whole another record title be created something way bigger Way Beyond just a city this is gonna be a simulated recreated version of all of United States of America in Minecraft and when completed it would be the largest Minecraft map ever made the largest

Thing of course all this time we had to like worry about the architecture of cities how to blend them into different urban areas and make it look realistic and how to make convincing tall buildings free ways intersections Suburban areas now we had to focus all this and start learning how it would be

Possible to make some big giant country in multiple cities we reached out to a whole bunch of influential Minecraft creators across all different platforms and we decided to ask them would you be in if we were to make this project and they basically most of them said no the

Ones that said yes were very exciting because they were very well known and very good the whole thing is going to be 100 miles real life miles across okay GTA 6 has got nothing on me obviously this is not going to be some actual Recreation of some real-life United

States scales involved here had to be very specifically thought up and planned in order to make work and yet also fit the same type of like scale that we were going for so now we have some of like the top Geniuses involved in Minecraft working on this project now currently

The problem is that as the map gets so big it’s so impossible to get downloaded it’s about 20 Gigabytes or something and it’s really only getting bigger and bigger but as of where we are now we have all of the you know portions of Southern California the north towards

The Nevada desert All the Way East towards even the Grand Canyon as we can see here south we have a little Mexican place over here and actually like a city that I’ve never even seen yet which I don’t know what the heck that is oh Escondido that’s the name of this city

It’s like okay uh wasn’t even I wasn’t even aware of it that’s like so far the next the only other city so far it’s on the whole world now apparently they even have like a like a border control so that’s pretty good my least favorite part is uh the freaking like interchange

Because that’s like well you can imagine and roads are terrible because they will I mean the roads they curve and stuff off and a little Monument of course to the original founders of assland border control um you know because well obviously you have to be realistic and then we have

All the portions up towards the northern like Californian Coast we even have a little Yosemite up here that’s really like freaking amazing to see that recreated Minecraft so far like wow look at that like the attention the detail but yet if we take a look at the entire

Portion of this of what this map is going to be this world record and we could see that it is literally not even like 1 8 of it so far that is the amount that we have this is the entire thing that’s going to be going down here yeah

It’s like so we have like all the planned places here we have you know a whole Salt Lake City up here and then to the east we have Florida I and and then North New York city so we will have this whole thing be one giant land mass and

It will basically be like audio country or I guess ass land country it’s going to be a one to ten ratio Recreation of a United States style land mass it’s going to be big and Mike contribution to all of this project is one little thing right there now that’s uh My Little Skin

That I made into a statue to basically like demonstrate my greatness in not building all this because other people did it for me and I built this little house so that’s a pretty good thing that brings us to now and why I’m going to be starting a whole Channel based off of

This Minecraft Project and that’s because as we’ve expanded this we’re looking to have new people find out about it and then of course possibly get even new Builders to help work on it so that we can get this done probably by Guinness World Record Book of 2024. and

On this new channel we’re gonna have audio project it’s gonna be a bunch of regular videos updating and just giving the most recent things going on with it and honestly if you’re a fan with Minecraft in general I would recommend just going down there and checking it

Out because it’s gonna be probably the coolest thing ever made in Minecraft so if Guinness World Records if you’re watching this please consider this as being a legitimate world record it’s been like so many years five years so many people deserve to have that satisfaction action MetLife if you’re

Watching this I hate you Mojang if you’re watching this thanks for ghosting me the link for this world is going to be in the description it’s very hard to download but you could also go to the channel and just check it out through videos if that’s all you want to do it’s

Going to be really cool either way and that is how I by hand built the world’s largest city in Minecraft as for me I just kind of want the world record but it is what it is I’ll see you in the next video thanks for watching this one until then Foreign