A group of 200 young Argentines this building block by block every corner of the country to scale. “We want to create a virtual version of the entire planet,” one of them told TN.

Walk through La Boca, climb to the top of the Obelisk and stroll through San Martín de los Andes. Now, this tourist tour you can do it without leaving your house and in less than a minute. Every detail is built with pixelated blocks. This is the virtual Argentina that 200 young people are recreating in Minecraftthe famous construction and survival video game.

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Does four years that this group of Argentines is designing block by block the most iconic places in the country at 1:1 scale. The initiative is part of the global project called “Build The Earth”, which aims to achieve a exact replica of the entire planet. The ambitious idea was proposed by YouTuber PippenFTS during the mandatory isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fields, mountains and other large natural spaces can be automatically recreated using data from applications such as Google Earth. However, the problem is in the big cities. That is why the project needs the voluntary collaboration of thousands of players from around the world. “Anyone can join to us to contribute to the largest and most extensive construction project that has been attempted in Minecraft,” say the promoters of the initiative on the official website.

Enthusiastic about the project, a small group of teenagers founded “BTE: Argentina”. The community was getting bigger and bigger and they already captured the attention of users on the networks with their viral recreations of the Plaza de Mayo and Argentine soccer stadiums. It is worth clarifying that these creators do not have financial support and they maintain the server where all the works are found with their own pockets.

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“Our community is made up of people of different ages and places,” said Torcuato, one of the members of the regional team, in dialogue with TN. “The only restriction we have is the minimum age of 13 years by child protection regulations. As for the different members, we have a certain closeness and we have seen each other in person a few times,” he added.

In this sense, the 24-year-old invited more people to join the project to collaborate with the virtual construction of the country. “Anyone can start building something as long as it is not already done. We have a system in which the user can request permits to build in an area that he or she chooses, and start building,” she noted.