However, Sandiction isn’t alone in his quest to build planets. Another YouTuber who goes by the handle “LockDownLife” has also taken part. In a video uploaded to their channel in October, LockDownLife constructed a planet consisting of more than 2,000 blocks on hardcore as well. Like Sandiction, LockDownLife also had to ensure they had sufficient food, avoided the complication that is death, and found the materials necessary to construct the world.
Whereas Sandiction created his in the normal Minecraft dimension, LockDownLife opted to create it in the End, Minecraft’s final objective and boss battle.
“I thought building it in the End would be cool,” he told viewers, “because it will be easier to see…and it will just look a lot cooler.”
LockDownLife acknowledged Kotaku’s request for comment but did not respond in time for publication.
But not all creators taking part in this challenge are satisfied to stop at one planet. aCookieGod, whose audience is nearing two million, has aspired to create an entire solar system’s worth of planets in hardcore mode. He hasn’t stopped there, either. In his spare time, he also created a volcano consisting of more than 80,000 blocks. The feat left him physically injured, tweeting a picture of himself with his hand bandaged, stating that it was the “aftermath of building an 80,000 block volcano in twodays” and that “carpal tunnel has entered my life.”
Others have tried to go a different route: to survive on these player-created worlds. PaulGG, another Minecraft YouTuber, uploaded a video this past summer trying to do just that for 100 days. “Surviving on this planet is going to be no easy task,” he told viewers, noting also that he is limited to the resources available on the planet.
Paul played in a save that was devoid of anything but a few small planets spaced some distance apart. Like Sandiction, he noted that the video was an “insane amount of work.”
As a testament to the difficulty that this challenge can entail, Paul was down to a single heart on his health bar inside the first day of his challenge after he was attacked by zombies and creepers. Being this low on health, he noted, made him one hit or misstep from death—and the end of his attempt. Like it was for participants in the One Chunk Challenge, food was a significant problem for Paul in his playthrough. However, by day four, Paul managed to collect enough supplies to fully recoup his health. By days 28 through 31, he was able to bridge the gap to a nearby planet, one made of lava slime, lava, and diamonds. There, he was able to find a nether portal in a cave. A few days later, Paul made it to a planet made almost entirely of sand. Nearly halfway through, he made it into the nether. However, on his return on day 47, the game glitched and spawned his portal in the void below all of the planets. This necessitated going back to the nether and mining enough blocks to build a bridge back up to the planets.
By days 59 through 68, he found the End portal and beat the ender dragon between days 90 and 99. Unfortunately, as Paul tells viewers, something happened to the recording and he lost the footage immediately following the ender dragon’s demise. All this was accomplished without a single death. Mission accomplished. Well done, PaulGG.
YouTuber Skeppy took part in a similar adventure. He had 100 players go on a field trip of sorts around the solar system in a universe not too mechanically different from PaulGG’s. While Skeppy built the bridges for them in creative mode, where Skeppy can fly and has infinite resources, his tourists did not have that option and were routinely put through parkour challenges with the risk of sudden death.
Videos and challenges like this are rather fun. They give those who crave a difficult challenge, one where near-infinite customization is available, the ability to spice up their playstyle. Like the One Chunk Challenge, this is another welcome respite from the more controversial ones that exist in games and is a testament to the ingenuity of Minecraft’s players.
Sandiction has since moved on to create other videos in hardcore, more recently working on transforming the End and bringing the End to the overworld, the first realm players are introduced to when they spawn and the main one the game traditionally takes place in. He tells Kotaku that he doubts he’ll ever build another planet.
“It was just such a massive project that it would be hard to find the motivation to do it again, but it was a really fun project.”
He says he’s seen others mentioning him on Twitter “with progress updates for their own planet they’re building inspired by mine, that has been really cool!”
Kyle Wilson is a freelance games journalist. You can find his Twitter here.
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