Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server

Boing Boing is reporting on a public archive of 2b2t, a long-running Minecraft anarchy server. The World Download Project preserves thirteen point seven terabytes of compressed world data covering a million by million blocks of the server's Overworld, plus smaller captures of its Nether and End dimensions. It's a preservation effort that opens the chaotic virtual world to public exploration.

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