As of 7 August 2014, the official site for the game listed total PC and Mac sales at 16,176,201, a number slightly greater than the entire population of Ecuador. Uncompressed, the maps come to around a terabyte of data in total.Īlthough its console versions are published by the big studios, the original Minecraft, published by Mojang, was a true indie hit. The vast map comprised of 3.4 billion blocks just for the terrain including trees and structures with its creators estimating that the total number of blocks used was around 4 billion.
The project was designed to promote the agency as well as to help teach urban planning and geography in schools. In April 2014 the Danish Geodata Agency launched a 1:1 scale recreation of Denmark in Minecraft, featuring every building and feature of the 43,000-sq-km country for players to explore.
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Martin suggests a lot of practice is needed if anyone was ever interested in taking on his record and, also, a good music playlist to keep you interested (and awake).įirst country modelled at full scale in a videogame Remarkably, the 19 year-old achieved the record in a glass container in Vienna under the watchful eye of the public and claimed tiredness was his biggest battle throughout the record attempt. To mark the achievement, here we list ten incredible records linked to the gaming phenomenon.Īustrian endurance player Martin Fornleitner spent a staggering 24 hours and 10 minutes on his Sony Xperia Play handset playing Minecraft to earn him a place in the record books in 2011. and Call of Duty in an online poll of 5,000 readers of the Guinness World Records Gamers Edition book to find out their favourite game.
Minecraft came in an impressive third place third behind behemoths Super Mario Bros. With over 50m users worldwide and sales of the PC/Mac version averaging an astonishing 16,000 a day, the blocky juggernaut shows no signed of abating, with the game’s incredible popularity recently prompting tech giant Microsoft to buyout the game’s Swedish developer Mojang for a massive $2.5bn. Often described as virtual Lego, Minecraft is an online game that lets people build fantasy worlds and drop in on past creations. In just five years, Minecraft has gone from being a cult indie title to become one of the world’s most successful entertainment franchises.
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