And, yes, that includes caves and underground areas, although instanced areas have not yet been included. So far, Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms have been created, with plans to convert Outland, Northrend, Tol Barad and the Lost Isles in the future. The result is a playable World of Warcraft environment.

But he still had to individually select the textures to create the world, a process that he said took many hours. He has created software that converts the maps into a voxel grid without the need of human intervention. The work so far spans over 275 kilometres of Azeroth, comprising over 68 billion blocks. A Minecraft enthusiast who goes by the handle of Rumsey on the Minecraft forum is working on a 1:1 scale recreation of the World of Warcraft map. People do all kinds of crazy things in the open-world game Minecraft, but we don't think we've ever seen a project quite this grand. An enterprising Minecrafter is working on a 1:1 scale recreation of Azeroth in Minecraft, and it looks awesome.

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