GeoCraftNL

The Netherlands in 1000 billion Minecraft blocks!

Minecraft IP: geocraft.nl

   Amsterdam, Netherlands. /warp amsterdam

What is GeoCraftNL?

GeoCraftNL is a Minecraft server owned by the science centre GeoFort, where the entire country of the Netherlands has been generated. Every school, library, fire station, hospital and all other buildings, including houses have been loaded into the server. Anyone can join our quest to build the Netherlands in Minecraft. Using chat commands and other tools provided by GeoCraft you can find your house and other locations effortlessly. Read more about chat commands here (Dutch).

During Dutch national initiative “het jaar van de ruimte” (the year of space), Geo-ICT company Geodan translated the X, Y and Z coordinates of all the buildings in the Netherlands, delivered by Kadaster and Rijkswaterstaat, into Minecraft. To view all partners of GeoCraft, click here (Dutch).

How does GeoCraftNL work?

GeoFort has created a smart tool to teleport you to any place in the Netherlands with ease. You can teleport to any address by using the chat command /gc <address>. To go to GeoFort, you would type /gc Nieuwesteeg 74 Herwijnen or /gc 4171KG 74.

You can also do the opposite. The command /whereami shows you the address you are currently at in Minecraft, along with a google maps link to the exact coordinates.

   Rotterdam, Netherlands. /warp rotterdam

Big Data

Our recreation of the Netherlands is on a one to one scale. This means that a Minecraft block measures 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter in the real world. The landarea of the Netherlands is about 50 000 square kilometres. Below the surface there are an average of 20 blocks. Considering all the above we have approximately 1000 billion Minecraft blocks, not including the generated buildings.