There's a much easier and faster way, but it all depends on your views on child labour.

There’s a much simpler way, Pippen. I’ll just do it. I can build all that, gimme like, a day. With prep time.

When i first heard about this project I was like "yeah right of course dude" but seeing how serious and dedicated you and everyone working on the project is I really think that you guys are going to deliver a mind blowing result

Microsoft should support this project financially and hold all the servers, as well as organizing all the production.

Cant wait to see this turn into Microsoft Flight Sim, and everyone just wants to see their own house and see how accurately it was built lol

It was me who did the math on how long every building would take in the 100k buildings vids comments and I'm glad Pippen has released this. Automation is the key if 100% completion is what's wanted, and it's clear you've put thought into this and work is being done. I do think it's at least possible to complete this project and I really admire what's been done so far regardless of how far it goes on. Also glad Pippen confirmed my math because lots of people insisted it had to be wrong

Rather than using machine learning for match detection, you could have an interactive database, similar to online flag lookups and plant identification databases and so on. It asks you questions about the features of the house -- how many storeys, approximate square footage, roof shape, etc. -- and then presents you with all the designs that match it. If there's no suitable match, a builder can make the build manually and then submit it to the database, specifying the answers to the above questions.

Implement the rotation script, allow it to measure and rebuild by bridging between nodes, those nodes with a degree of error rounded to a lets say quarter meter, use that to make a "hash" (more or less just an efficient compression into a sting that can be reversed quickly and all without errors) to search a database for matching hashes. Then you can apply the rotation script again on the outputs. Remember nose buildings and houses have repetition to them and those nodes can be sub divided, and with sub division you can also make easier customization by replacing segments.

Contact microsoft. They made an AI that recognizes and can find out all the parameters of houses, infrastructure and terrain for Microsoft Flight simulator 2020. that could work together with an AI building buildings in minecraft

Hey Pippen, my name is Anix and I am familiar with the script language that is being used to automate the builds. I'd be interested in joining the team that is doing this. The Macro / Keybind mod is a GUI / Mod for Minecraft that can do a ton of stuff. I have a good amount of experience working with it and understand it thoroughly.

Pippin talking logically while their avatar is aggressively crying blood fuels how chaotic and ambitious this project is. I love it.

The last option is definitely the dream. I really hope it comes to fruition, I'd love to see this done in my lifetime

I can just see the children on their chrome books in 3015 running this multi gigabyte file with ray tracing, learning all about the world 1000 years ago.

Ok this is actually a brilliant fix, massive props to the builders who figured this out

The more this project evolves and advances, the more paranoid I am of the area around me already being documented in a 1:1 scale. It’s inevitable.

The Holocron from KotOR 2, I literally love whoever edited that in

Using copy and pasting, you could re-create all apartment buildings in eastern Europe and Russia with only like 2 or 3 designs.

this would be incredibly beneficial in the UK, a lot of houses are identical all in rows

I think it’s really cool watching these videos knowing that your house is possibly already built and you’ll be able to walk up to it in Minecraft one day

Just an incredible project all around with some great people working on it

Pippen spends 14 and a half minutes jumping between talking about the singularity and a block game This project has sent his sanity down the shitter

To make scanning easier you could use black and white filter for the AI so they don't focus on the different colors

I want to said you, that you NEVER GIVE UP! and when you finished this a project which all world will remember. You can buil other planets "SPACE"❤️❤️❤️

Imagine how fun it would be when the project is complete and have all of Minecraft players flock to the map to build their own home interior! I wonder if a random player could one day visit the map and have a considerably good percentage of checking out a random house with a finished inside!

I think what makes this challenging is imitating the natural landscape of every single part of Earth

It's so strange it could be done so easily. If you asked for every human to build 1 building and some things around it, in 1 hour everything could be done.

One word: baritone On the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft, people use baritone for either large or mundane tasks, just create a skematic using 3rd party software like the ones used for map art or pixel art (modification may be needed) & websites like google map in street view mode for reference. Create a schematic for each group & let their computers run baritone one many many accounts (some even alt). You could even run a program that allows baritone to successfully use world edit. This would be especially useful for mansions along a street as they are largely custom.

Last story hit so hard and was so relateable Pippen thank u for ur awsome content!

This script could change the earth. Literally.

Sad fact: every year there are thousands and thousands new buildings, but having millions of builders would make this just a bit faster

i love finding projects like this. new sub! :)

Incredible video and project, good luck

As someone that currently works in the home construction industry in the US, I can confirm that the same house plan is built repeatedly in a subdivision. A subdivision of 800 houses can mostly consist of 6 available house plans, with limited variable options per plan.

Even if the AI just made shells it would be HUGE if an entire district would suddenly be more than just brick outlines

Aww the beginning was so beautifully said. This made me so happy

The dedication is absolutely out of this world. Pippen u r a legend

You guys are going about this project very intelligently. I love the angles you guys are attacking this problem from, there are definitely some very intelligent members of this team!

This will be so cool!

We need more people like this, those who have infinite determination to do anything, and that try to tackle challenges, even when they seem impossible.

Fiquei extremamente encantado com esse ambicioso projeto , cara vc é um louco do bem e a comunidade brasileira tá cada vez mais adimirando essa suas façanhas

The fact that script is in its infancy state is impressive since in coding "infancy" usually means it only works 25-50% of the time this dude must be pretty decent in coding

You could calculate the time needed like this: Lets say that everyone builds about 2000 buildings a year, and build for 50 years. Then in that time a single person might build about 100000 buildings. But lets say that they manage to build about 25% more houses every leap year, since they build more small houses or something, That means, about 131250 houses built in 50 years. Now lets say that 2000 people build, that means that in 50 years, about 262500000 buildings will be made, so, at that rate, it will take about 750 years.

Good luck keeping it updated

I’m imagining that you could develop an ai like you said in the video that does all this, and then you have a human checker to check if the building matches what’s on google earth, and if it doesn’t, they can just add a few smaller details. So instead of building, it’s mostly just checking.

I'm confused about one thing; the minecraft world's weight and if it's even possible to fit all of it. The Earth is 12742000 meters. (Looking back at it, you could fit at least 2 Earths in a minecraft world, now that I think about it...) AND According to Quora, a fully loaded Minecraft world will take up 60 petabytes. That's 60000 terabytes. Now, I don't know if this information is *COMPLETELY* true, but 2b2t has a file size of 7 terabytes (7000 GB). You see where I'm going with this. A world download will be IMPOSSIBLE unless you're playing on a NASA quantum computer. This will have to be hosted on a server.

I can't wait until this is done. It would be insane to see my house in Minecraft in the same world as every other building.

This is so naive and awesome at the same time all I can do is cheer and support the effort!

this is a crazy project dude🔥👍

You are doing the Lord's work.

Once this finishes, I imagine people comparing their house in this project to a replica they made as a kid.

The story at the end brought me back to my own experience back in Primary School (US Grade School equivalent). Pretty much there's a rule where we had to sit outside our classrooms during recess, and wait for the teacher to arrive before we could enter. Being the kid I was, I decided to balance my half-filled water bottle on my badminton racket. It fell, from a staggering height of approximately 1 inch to hit the lap of someone else. That someone else was the kid that was allergic to dust, yep you heard that right, dust. I'm not trying to make fun of his condition in any way, just stating that with his condition, his parents were understandably protective of him. Hence he likely reported this minor incident, which was somehow interpreted as a criminal offence. The next week I and a bunch of the other more playful kids, who likely hurt the kid before in some way, were all called down to the principal's office. Someone literally brought out a cane, bout to whoop our asses until the vice-principal stepped in, saying to give us another chance. Needless to say I was traumatised throughout my remaining years at that school. Having grown up, I have mostly gotten over it, but it is still one of those straight up ridiculous experiences I frequently share.

As a Filipino if you ever get to my country good luck- the structures here are chaotic, tall modern buildings here, non-matching weirdly structured houses there, stilts on this house, those 3 houses merged into one, random old af Spanish churches inside Chinatowns

I can't believe it's possible to complete this within my lifetime thank you so much for putting this together and I cannot wait until it is done. Keep up the FANTASTIC work.

*Me, who's in a Database class and semi-fluent in Java* I'm not there yet, but I'm coming. I'll get you that house database.

love the drawn together sneak

This is one of the reasons i wanna become immortal. I wanna see it. When the founders are already dead and seeing their descendants complete it after generations of generations. There i was waiting for thousand of years just to see end. Gonna be a feeling like no other.

Once this is complete, I think you should start a campaign of going around, and fixing things up, or at least making sure things are all good. Love you Pippen ❤

you guys should add an spawn that's under ground somewhere where you can teleport to cities by using command blocks and stuff and coords

The man made aspect of the world isn't limited to buildings. The vast majority of 'countryside' in many nations is farms and fields that are also man made.

People have been trying to build all of the netherlands for some time now, the server is called GeoCraft

This project just keeps getting cooler and cooler🔥💪🏼

A good program to automate the construction under the supervision of humans to check if there was any error and a good amount of volunteers, I think this project is possible in only few decades (depending on how you do it). I calculated that if you have 10,000 people to work in this project, each of them having access to a program which can automate constructions, and each build takes 10 minutes (locating the building, finding the coordonates, letting the program run, checking if there is any problem), it would take 205 years working in average 1 hour per day. So you can increase the amount of people by ten times, you can reduce the time to build by ten times or you can work ten times more (which I don’t think is reasonable or even feasable personally), you can decrease it to 20 years. Even if I didn’t really believe in this project at the beginning (I thought there would only be the big cities but nothing more), with this strategy and this mindset, I think it’s promising and perhaps feasable.

You deserve more subs, we can get it done faster, we just need more people.

I swear this is the most optimistic and ambitious take you could possibly have on this project, love this.

these videos are so well edited and people dont even notice it

You could also do a collaboration with a larger KZfaqr to get more builders.

what you said about copy paste is 100% correct. my neighborhood is literally the same house over and over and over but with slight variations and stuff. my bedroom was in the exact same place as my best friend's for a while. there are some differences. my house has a room where the garage would be because the guy who owned it before us did modifications.

I can’t wait to see what happens with this I’ve followed it since the very start and I’m so excited

I’m so glad that you’re taking the semi-automated route. I’ve been wondering if LiDAR-type technology was the way to go for forever

bro i cant wait to watch this again when your done in about 10 years im guessing

Good luck!

This is a legendary project

Can't wait to see my own house on that server, would be a little creepy lol Imagine that i go in, and see my furniture the same way like irl, that would be straight up scarry

The finding of matching buildings probably wouldn't be that hard. Here's how to do it: 1. given some database of real-world buildings extracted from Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, build a set of unique buildings, and then 2. map world position areas to these unique buildings, stored with rotation data and such, via a hash table. This should make the lookup time for a matching building O(1), given a volumetric range in world-space.

I respect the project you've started, whether it's YOU finishing it or the next generation.

You finally finished the goddamn project

There were 4.372 billion buildings were in the world as of September 2021. Thus if 1 building is built every second it would only take... 139 years to complete

Crying from the story at the end.

The most astounding thing about this project is the fact that you're still at it despite how ludicrous the idea and scale are.

i remember geofort used generic stone bricks for housebricks and orange wool for roofing and another block for roads

Now for the last building use chisel and bits and recreate it to the final pixel.

This is an amazing idea

Speedrun Building Tip: Build in Layers Its probably easier to have a general structure you can add layers of details to OR outsource to more people in a competition or across time to do instead.

"80,000 years to completion!" "Wow thats more than a year!"

It sounds like that program is already good enough to do things like trees. I bet areas of wilderness could be cranked out pretty fast already

MFS did something similar to step 1. MfS is a flight sim though, so it is possible the buildings may not be as detailed.

Once this will be finished and It'll be great !

Ngl this is actually pretty epic.

It makes me wonder when we'll see the day that Pippen & the rest of the gang ends up making an A.I. supercomputer that advances so quickly that it destroys civilization. Imagine dying to a block game. LMao

Imagine if we could create a system that made posible for people that are interested on having their house made accurately by themselves in BTE. Maybe if you offered an entrance to the project for a fee with the specific purpose of them building the ir own house. It would make work so much easier. Cause many people are invested on this, so they paying 1 to 2 dollars for having his real life house o minecraft would be appealing.

”80 000 years” ”Wow thats more than an entire year” Yes, that is indeed more than an entire year

I’m hoping they have really good cybersecurity, because it would suck if someone happened to hack in and delete everything!

i'm halfway through the video and dude's been doing so much math it went from 80,000 to 40,000 to maybe half that to now only 400 days, and now he's getting into AI. i swear by the end of the video the number will be negative

automation is the answer. I've always loved playing with code, seeing what I can make it do. at the moment, I'm making a backrooms world of endless yellow rooms, endless caves, endless buildings, all in a spooky world outside of reality.

The school suspension story reminds me of me in middle and high school. I got suspended probably 80+ times to the point I just didn't care any more. The best part is over 40 of the suspensions was for going to school while suspended, and the remaining half was mostly got reading in class while the teacher was talking. Thinking back, I have no regrets, and I would probably do it all again, just smarter.

The copy/paste method would be extremely efficient- and, we have the computers and technology that can do it. Quantum computers and Quantum mechanics. Create a database, ignoring any color, and suddenly... You've got it.

In all seriousness, here's a PSA for everyone: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, work on Build the Earth unless you 1. have the time for it, and 2. genuinely enjoy it. I would hate to see people slaving away, wasting their life on a project whose purpose isn't to get finished as soon as possible. Remember he said that if it takes thousands of years to complete, not only is that OK, it's awesome! Why? Because Build the Earth is supposed to be fun, not a soul-sucking addiction. Be safe out there, alright?

The last part was just sad

Can't wait to copy and paste this project when complete for when I force my kids to play minecraft

The fact that I can see this completed someday is.... great