I feel like imma be 50 years old and randomly hear about this project again. It will be completed. And I’ll end up checking it out and showing my kids lol

the fact that once this is completed, nobody will be able to explore it fully, is absolutely insane

I can't wait to visit my childhood neighborhood. This project is so personal to everyone.

Just wait until 5% of the thing is done in 5 years, and then a AI comes along and completes the entire map in 3 days

What blows my mind is that people can construct buildings in Minecraft thousands of times faster than they can construct them in real life, and yet humanity has still made so many buildings in a couple thousand years that the task to replicate them all in Minecraft seems insurmountable. I get it that IRL builders have made buildings over a much longer period of time and are much higher in number, but it's still mind-boggling to imagine the time it would take to create every single building in a city, let alone the planet.

Bro just went" screw the humans, GET ME THAT CODE!"

As a data scientist you should just make an AI to automatically generate the earth for you in Minecraft. You already manually created tons of buildings in Minecraft to train the AI on

a program like this wouldn't only be good for the BTE project, but for several other kinds of projects. imagine if it were released to the public

Bro goes from a philosopher to a Minecraft builder within 10 seconds

As a software engineer, making a program like that is definitely possible. Hell, I'd even volunteer.

One thing that's probably going ti be a problem though: not every house has a 3D model in google earth, especially in villages. Also it probably will be difficult to get castles to work, even harder to get castle ruins to work, and there are a lot of them all over europe

5:33 My favorite subscribe plug by far from all the KZfaq videos I've watched.

As a programmer, this makes me really excited. I'd love to see the tech behind it and it gives a lot of room for improvements. If the program also logs your actions and isolates the model that you specified on google maps, you could create a dataset that includes the specific building from a 3d perspective, a score on how good the pregenerated building is compared to what you build manually and also let the program save the finished building after manual edits. This way, the program could interpret the manual adjustments and use it to further enhance pregenerated building quality on future models.

Moving from 1 hour per building to one minute per building also opens up the opportunity to create a good set of training data for a machine learning algorithm. By next year you could have an AI good enough that you could click on a building, AI would generate it and show you a preview, you could tweak and click done. From one minute to one second.

Honestly, if they’re able to finish the city centers of like, the 1000 largest/most famous cities, as well as most of the major landmarks, I think that would be more than enough to declare victory.

I really hope the program will be open source in the end. I'm not a builder, but a dev and I'd be interested to take a look at the program potentially improving it and I'm sure I'm not alone. If the program is developed openly, there are dozens of devs that would love to contribute

I love how pippen went from hand mining 1,000,000 obsidian to being a philosopher building a planet in the same children’s game

You are essentially generating an enormous labeled data set for various map features. This has to have some sort of monetary value. I suggest that you save/store all of your labels (answers to yes/no questions and builder settings for each building). You never know what companies may be interested in this kind of data. And it could make or break future funding for this project.

hey, if you are interested, we could generate a 3d mesh of earth, then point out each individual color make an algorithm to select a suitable block, followed by the coordinates of their placement. 1) Create a mesh or a grid precise upto seconds or minutes, lets suppose 5 minutes (more precise = better results), then we go to each corner of the grid and the center and capture 180 images 3x each at an 3 degree angle for the same spot, this would roughly be around 21,834,408,000 pictures. 2) Convert these images into 3d models, then convert these 3d models into schematic 3) Use worldedit and paste them accordingly.

Bro just pulled off one of the most beautiful harmonies in existance for a minecraft video

One important thing is to make sure you get the UI navigation as fast and as smooth as possible, those little buttons will cause a lot of inconsistency and human error, slowing down time building.

You should be outlining the base of the building, not the roof. The roof will change with perspective but the bass is guaranteed to align with the terrain Google maps and other map programs do have automatic outlines of houses and streets and stuff, as well as street view which shows the front of the house. The mapping could be used to generate a bunch of house positions at once, and you can enter the details manually. Or with a bit of machine learning, you could probably automatically assign specific details using streetview images of the house (though this would be difficult to implement)

I love this. You’ve come a long way and I’m so happy to have supported this and been on staff back at the beginning.

The program concept genuinely sounds sick as hell. If something like that is possible, it could have huge implications for creating builds fast. Great video as always!!

This guy is such a good motivational speaker i love it

If we could find a way to have AI scan buildings, replicate them in the UI, and have users make tiny changes (like window placement or structural changes), that would increase the speed tremendously. I’m imagining something like those pixel art websites but it does it in 3D from google maps

I really love how creative this project has been. It’s weird how similar a Minecraft project has been to the development of many real life ambitious inventions/projects. Like, so many people have had doubt and said it was impossible, yet Pippen and his team continue to come up with new ideas and methods to make it work. It’s actually really inspirational to be honest.

this is crazy! i cant wait to see the program be finished and fully optimized. i cant wait to see the earth be built. i kinda wanna visit my home town on there at some point. it'd be great to do so at some point :D good luck!!!!

As a beginner builder still, this makes me happy. I've always struggled with building and I often have to take multiple attempts at building it for the building to be approved by my team leaders. Most of these errors are to TPLL. TPLL seems like one of the things that might be programmed automatically, which would be sweet.

That "Minecraft Overlay" program (even without the automation features) is something I've always wanted. Like you said it's way too slow to build large stuff in Minecraft, so a what's basically a Minecraft version of Microsoft Paint or Photoshop could go a long way. Surprised no one has come up with this already, or at least made one that's prominent enough to be an industry standard (to my knowledge professional builders still use Worldedit or other in-game Server Plugins to make their work).

Data about roof types, window count, building material and so on is actually extremely valuable for a wide variety of Government use cases. Make sure you capture that intermediate information as well as it could quite literally be sold to help fund the team :) Many countries do also have free vector map data - i.e. much more detailed versions of OpenStreetMap - which when combined with the Google Maps 3D API (in cities where 3D coverage exists, it's not very broad at the moment) can collectively fully automate much of this too.

okay but hear me out, a ai powered machine that uses image recognition in order to scan through a city and basically automate the process of outlining the buildings as well as the window placement and roof types, any building its not sure about it will make out of red wool that will have a sign placed on it saying what its not sure about so a human can go in and fix any issues so then all a person has to do is add extra details to fill out spaces theoretically increasing productivity from 1000 in 16 hours to closer to 1000 in 6-8 hours which is much more realistic playtimes

"But that opens Pandora's Box, which of course, we will." Ah, human nature.

This could be a phenomenal tool for map making as well. Super cool

As a programmer, there is even more data for maps available then you think, 90% of buildings have a height and outline from the mapping service, so instead of clicking, it already knows, Other data is also available for machine learning ai, which can detect tree type, windows, and roof type, wall colors, and all of that by just using the data with no inputs, that how games like microsoft flight simulator generate the world, this project could generate every building randomly, then allow people to touch them up

This project seems like exploring stars irl : takes a long time and a lot of ressources, but find some things that benefit us all. What you are getting done benneffit all the builder's community across minecraft. And for this, thank you

this breakthrough is so crazy i can almost feel the buildings coming inside of me

I wish that when I'm older, something like 35 or 40, I can see in my recommendations this project being completed

this is absolutely mind blowing. keep it up, this is awesome!

it doesn’t matter if you live here, or a dirt hut. Once you place a bed next to the crafting table furnace, it’s a home

Hey man, I've been here from the very beginning, and let me tell you; keep pushing, especially when I know your viewer numbers have dropped; all you need to do to keep things on target on the social media side of things is to keep going. I will be with and support BTE, and this channel all the way, Godspeed.

that's one hell of a developer recruitment pitch. Wishing y'all the best of luck on this terrifying task.

Just subscribed for tier one, keep up the good work! Loving this determination 💯🙏

Am I the only one just blown away from 5:33 ? Pure beauty out of no where

as a musician, that resolve in the subscribe message was so unexpected and amazing.

Obviously im no expert in computer algorithms, but as someone who studied it in college: i love your focus on improving efficiency by shifting optimization focus from improving building speed to memo-izing repetitive build patterns. Very clever

As a software engineer, this is going to be extremely challenging without the aid of massive funding / time. 1) 5:58 - This requires integration of google maps software onto an application , this is not possible unless the google map's software is external. (The BTE program serves as an interface). 2) 6:06 - Google Maps's API does not have an output that returns the length of "ruler". 3) 6:24 - This definitely is not possible , the 3d structures in google maps aren't physical objects rather instead extensions of the ground . This means they do not have a surface. However a program can be created to "harden" the buildings. Additionally this process cannot be automated without the use of machine learning. 4) 6:45 - This is not possible unless a similar Minecraft engine is created. This should be created in such were it can understand the user's inputs exactly as well as output to minecraft. 5) 7:15 - This would be an example where windows are symmetrical , the program can be designed to handle this scenario properly , however if there are even slight fluctuations of window designs, it would be even more tediously complicated. 6) 7:25 - This is true however the roof shapes acts differently for each roof dimension , the roof dimensions may not always be a rectangle , sometimes they could be a triangle , oval , pentagon etc. It's not easy to automate this. 7) 8:31 - Similar to point no. 4 , this would be extremely tedious and would take years to properly implement. 8) 8:48 - Generate -> Boom , This may be possible through single player worlds however multiplayer worlds work differently, this requires higher level action as the user of this program would need direct local access to worlds. Wish you guys the best of luck!

Great that you mentioned AI in the end. I was thinking the whole time, that this might be invaluable for the project. E.g., training an AI on 100-200 manually built houses of a certain style (with their outline as a feature), might enable the model to instantly create similar houses for a given house outline. This might enable the automatic creation of houses for each area/city after just a short training period.

I have two points of criticism on this: 1. To me, and emphasis on the “to me,” the project was about the process rather the result and although I understand the project was created to complete the earth, I found beauty in the fact that we may never see the end result. Its kind of like a testament to attempting to replicate all of current human achievement in another world Think “he who plants the tree may never have its shade cast upon him.” 2. I’m not sure how much of the earth has 3d mapping, but I know that my area barely even has clear imagery and I can only assume there’s much more of the earth with this issue. So this would really only help with cities which account for a small percentage of establishments, although yes they are more significant. Call me old-fashioned but I’d rather stick to my WorldEdit wand and keep building with in-game commands. Again, this is only my personal opinion on the matter and this critique is not to be taken to heart, simply taken into consideration.

There are *so many* buildings that are literally copies of each other in real-life cities and suburbs. For example: NYC brownstones, four-plexes in Minneapolis, apartment highrises across the globe, suburban pre-fab homes, trailer homes. It would probably be pretty simple to find the developers that were putting up the most common ones in any given area, and start with making those and pasting them where they should be. Then you have a *lot* of filled in, true-to-life space, and filling in the rest becomes easier, and also less space for a program to fill in. For buildings that are identical except the paint jobs, it'd be very easy to adapt what you have to randomly generate (within presets) the build palette each time you paste one.

The music when he said 'subscribe' caught me so off guard. 😂 Beautiful singing man!❤❤❤👍👍👍

Imagine what you could do with 10,000 builders building for 8 hours a day

im a developer and this really excites me, doing the calculations, if one person used this method it would take 125 years to finish the earth however with the dozens of developers you have that time can be cut down to like 5 years with enough people, this program is possible to make and i would really like to explore it, i have experimented with procedural generation before and this is very doable

This is an interesting idea! Of course, there will still be plenty of manual work on old and/or unique buildings, but for the general ones... It should work

bro im gonna be dead by the time this gets finished but keep up the work bro your doing great!

As a builder in this project, I believe that this will be very useful. I am very exited for this new program and I do think that this could bring the project to be finished in under a decade.

This is already insane, but wait till the program is done and we iterate on it with an auto detect tool. Just click auto detect and the options fill themselves with guesses done by an AI. It may not get everything right, but it will be so much faster to fix two things than to input all of them

I love how humans innovate not only in things that matter to society in general but in everything that interests them. Building the Earth has no productivity in real life but we're still developing this. Insane.

Completing this would legitimately be a huge human achievement. I mean building the entire world to scale even if somewhat automated is insane

That subscribe intermission resonated on a spiritual level tho

Another way this could be improved if the program also read the OSM tags for how many floors a building has and the roof type. That would decrease the time of needing to manually select the outline points of a building, and you would only need to specify the elevation of the building and possibly correct the height of the floors, if it's incorrect. This of course relays on the accuracy if the OSM outlines, and if the building has these tags. If the program used these tags, this would also incentives people to contribute to the OSM database, by correcting the outlines and adding these tags for buildings in their city. When I first started building I did this process for my selected area and the large surrounding area around. It didn't take me long, and plus since the outlines were now correct, I didn't have to correct them ingame. The editor for OSM itself offers cadastre layers for many countries, that you simply enable, and trace the lines to correct the building outlines, eliminating the need to navigate to your countries GIS service and finding the building coordinates there.

Entire video just boils down to "Wouldn't it be cool if we could make a computer program do this?" great job lad.

I remember seeing someone calculate the amount of work this project would take and it would take actual thousands of years, by calculating the current population and the rate of change of new structures being made in real time. Sure, training models and automation would help tremendously--but They don't even come close to reflecting what the things look like in reality and the funny part is that photogrammetry, satellite data, and more have already produced way more polished results in Microsoft Flight Simulator. This is just a Patreon cash sink like Star Citizen, Chronicles of Elyria, and Dreamworld.

PippenFTS: the one guy who can make eating a bag of chips look epic.

This is so freaking cool dude! I’m always impressed with the amount of detail that you put into your work. This is extremely impressive that you guys built a whole code for this. I can’t wait to see what you do next.

A stable diffusion like model to convert Map images to minecraft models would probably speed up this process a lot

You can tell this guy is really passionate and struggling to explain computer science. Fun video, glad someone is showing this project to the public and keeping it going.

Can’t wait for my suburban stroad hellscape to be recreated

Very well, let's start development. Shouldn't be that difficult to get this working. Someone else mentioned Google Maps before, and I think Google might actually have some nice datasets you could use when building this tool. Their own 3D-generation tool used in Google Earth and Maps needs to draw their dimensions from some place, after all.

amazing vid aside, the guy harmonizing subscribe at 5:33 had me in tears 😭

The only thing is as cool as this sounds, I believe that the beauty of something like Minecraft earth comes from the time and commitment built into it. The seemingly impossible dream is what makes it so cool. With an application you are removing part of that, thus even though you are doing the same thing it just feels different

Man, someone should try building the earth irl, that would be cool

God I love you, this is insane, so excited to see the progress

I'm already subscribed but 5:33 is what pushed me to the LIKE button. I need an extended version of that

this is the first time in over a decade of regular youtube usage that i have subscribed on command... wow that choir

One thing to look into, is a shocking number of homes are built by just a few builders and are largely identical with some cosmetic differences, and not just on one suburb but many suburbs across many cities. With a little research you can create prefab and research all their projects and essentially just paste mass quantities of houses. Same concept with chain businesses, most use identical blueprints all across the country, so with a little research, one person could realistically build say every McDonald's in the world in just a few days/ weeks. Same concept with fast food, gas stations, Walmart etc...

I am lost for words to describe how amazing this is.

Honestly, it would be cool if people would try to furnish their empty homes (if possible). Feels insanely cool!

What an absolutely fantastic "subscribe" harmony. Jacob Collier would be proud

Someone will probably make an AI bot that builds the entire earth in minutes

i didn't realise the start of a minecraft video would give me existential dread since the mc credits.

Cant wait for brazil to be done, i really want to explore this world

Bruh you earned a sub with that harmonization alone 🤣🙌🏻

Dude your vocals on subscribe are well composed awesome work.

If every house took 1 minute, then it would still take 7 and a half thousand years…

I can see this tool being used in many new ways and could be a whole new way of building things

Yes. Our minds are synchronizing in this moment. Incredible video.

I'm sorry but noone's talking about the harmonies at 5:33? that was beautiful!

This is amazing I can’t wait to see what this looks like when it’s finished

This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen? Gl

truly one of the most quality videos i've seen lately. maybe i've ever seen, actually...

I watch too much Hermitcraft. I laughed so hard when I realized you were using the same tune that's Scar's timelapse music here. 12:54

Incredible, another thing to consider is that with a BTE building program it would make it easier for beginner builders like me, and would allow more people to join BTE

0:22 That feeling when you _instantly_ recognize the clip here as being from Kurzgesagt

the acapella subscribe bit was astounding lmao good job on that

What about using some sort of image AI? I feel like with the surge in AI developments recently, its a quite logical step. You could use the Google Earth 3D view of buildings along with an image recognition AI to determine the shape and colours present, then feed that into your hypothetical block generator which would chose the appropriate blocks, colours, and shapes to match. You could even implement yet another AI in this step too, since certain blocks like stairs, slabs, etc. have complicated placement and effects on the overall look of a build. Then you'd just need humans to review the results. It could also train on completed builds, such that it would improve throughout its use. It would require even less human input and be far more versatile!

Looking forward to see this adapt to different cultures, especially informal dwellings seem like they'll be interesting! Also .. wouldn't comprehensive GIS height maps and scans be able to help set up a base or detailing? Like they might be able to automate 3D layouts, cutting those seconds of manual work .. and lidar scans might also help detail open nature areas? Though .. having worked with height maps first hand .. there are of course times when those absolutely do not line up/or need double checking with something like google earth

Wow. This is beyond Minecraft.

Every now and then I am reminded of this project lol.

There is another way to shave off quite some time East Europe and East Asia are fairly fond of mass produced houses, and there isn't too many of them. Same building can be seen anywahere from Poland to North Korea Building those house once an dthen copy pasting them will let you finish a small town in a couple of hours