Oh yea haha, I'm blue, one of the admins of the project. The sewers you'll find in our upcoming map release will have the newest version of the sewer system. I've been pretty much the only one planning and working on it, its been quite the labor of love. Lots of Easter eggs and miles of tunnels to explore.
@@jerecakes1 if you're able to, I definitely recommend! And now with the cost of the Java license you get bedrock for free and vice versa. If you bought bedrock in the past you get Java for free
Yo, 3 year veteran builder on Greenfield here. dope vid, crazy to see some builds I worked on represented here lol. The next update we're dropping is going to nearly double the size of the map, and is probably our most realistic update to date. But yeah, there's a lot of planning that goes into stuff like this, and we use real life references from google maps for most builds, especially major ones. My 2 major projects have been a high school and a new neighborhood, and both of those have probably taken literal hours of research just to figure out what they should look like. It seems like a lot of work, but its really fun if you're a city planning/architecture nerd like pretty much every long-time builder is
I was thinking, it feels from an external perspective kind of a waste that this whole thing is based off of north american urban landscape alone. Has there ever been a push for (likely smaller) neighbours built in the style of say, (South)-East Asia's cement-and-steel cityscapes, small medieval European cities, or even more exotic things ranging from the Middle Eastern, African, to stuff like a modern interpretation of what 21st-century native american cities look like, larger antarctic bases, or underwater cities?
@@OldDanTucker honestly i agree with him but not too much, i think an american style chinatown, or a germantown, or even a historically african american neighborhood facing gentrification would be pleasent, although he does a bit too far with the building midieval castles and antarctic bases in the middle of an american style city
@@RRRR-jr1gp It's mainly based on NA cities because those are A: Most familiar to the majority of the build team, as well as a large portion of the general minecraft community, and B: NA cities tend to have grid-layouts, especially on the west coast. Anyone who's tried building on angles in minecraft knows its REALLY annoying to do, especially when it comes to interiors and details, so being able to have a standard grid for most of the city is nice
I remember downloading this map last year and i wandered for hours around the highways and suburbs. The size of it is truly insane. You can also see a greenfield dymap of the whole map.
Known about this since it started, can't believe you're just finding it!! Every single building is decked out inside, and their plans are to fill out their entire mountain map. Absolutely wild ambitions
Now, Imagine Greenfield as if It had been overtaken by nature, with leaf bridges connecting buildings, Broken trees creating brdiges between the Broken Windows of Ancient skyscrapers, and a Server created in a map like that, that'd be gorgeous
Imagine it was the 2nd Scenario he mentioned: after decades, even centuries of holding against the Zombie Hordes, Greenfield finally fell, the former inhabitants, either fleeing, desperately surviving, or turned into the undead, and you have been sent by one of the last surviving other settlements to reclaim this once great city.
What a surprise to hear about greenfield again, I don’t think I’ve heard anything about it since 2013. I used to love downloading cities and exploring them such as greenfield and broville.
There's a server that used to be super awesome called Vindex City that was like a modern city with jobs and economy. It was the coolest server I've ever played on. However, like a year or two ago they removed the server rule that prevented you from killing people without reason and it fell into anarchy. The police force couldn't keep up with the rampant murder rate so everyone just left. Now the server is dead except for the handful of spawn campers that still hang out there
It certainly would be an amazing experience, tho the hardest part would probably be to get enough people into it (something that could happen as a mega collab between creators and their respective communities)
I remember playing on greenfield in 2013 back when I was in 5th grade and being absolutely amazed even then. Nearly 10 years later I'm in my 3rd year of university and I wonder how much more amazed I will be if I ever log on again. Such an incredible build.
If the project has been going for about 12 years, and there are 8,000 fully furnished buildings, then that means, every day for the last 12 years, they would have had to build about 2 buildings. That doesn’t even include roads and other things. Just buildings.
Im building a city by myself with ocasional help but just doing all the infastructure, roads, train lines, sewers and subway tunnels took far more time and effort than buildings and since i have other towns scattered around the main city id have to connect all of them...
I saw a comment from a veteran building saying that the map is going to double in size soon meaning it's closer to 4 per day - just that the map hasn't been updated to match that statistic
It's also 105192Hrs in game time and the average tall/skyscraper building can take about 8hrs on average.. with having builders all over the world in different timezones it wouldn't be an issue to pump out 2 buildings or 4 a day
I'm pretty sure Greenfield was included in the old Minecraft Construction Handbook I had like over 7 years ago maybe and I was amazed by its size even then. Crazy that it's been continually updated since then and looks as good as it does
@@Bluecolty I wished there were a Million Players who watch Adam Something's videos on 'Lets ban Cars (No, really) and on Trains and then act on it. MC should be used to explore how real citys could be 'UN-f-ed', so to speak. I bet said videos, let alone speaking with real Architects and Scientists, will inspire people to do epic stuff.
id also recommend checking out vertoak city, its pretty old now, but its a massive fully furnished city, full of chests of items, signs, an overarching story, and secrets
Glad that greenfield is getting some attentions, also glad that you found out greenfield, one thing I absolutely like about greenfield is its realism. Is very interesting to build such a huge city that doesn't exist in real life.
one of the first thing i watched on youtube was a minecraft series set in greenfield about surviving with various disaster mods... i didnt know it was still going and the modern version looks a lot different, better and larger than the one i remember... this minecraft city is very nostalgic to me
Back during the 1.10ish days, I actually went through this map with Redpower and Industrialcraft and retrofitted a lot of stuff in Greenfield with a working powergrid. Ended up getting out of MC for a bit after that and when i came back the Project Red/Redpower stuff was pretty much gone from Forge so I never really got to finish my project. Cool to see they're still building up the city, tho
The absolute scale of this is just unimaginable, and the most mind boggling thing is that it’s only 20% done as of 2020, after 10 years. I can’t even imagine what it will be like when it’s done.
@@Staurcomb I think if you’re building something on a 1 to 1 scale in Minecraft then it will always be speed building, especially in Creative. It takes much longer to build 1 meter irl than 1 right click in Minecraft
@I like Chicken Art is not exactly a waste of time. But art on such an unimaginably large scale just for the sake of being so large is. Think how many hours, days, *years* by many people would have to go into such a project. There's just no reason to spend so many resources on something so pointless when their current (already quite large) project suffices.
i remember playing greenfield years ago i was so blasted by the size of it it was the biggest minecraft map i've ever had seen by myself it was such a cool feeling adventuring the city
I remember an old RU-vid series that was basically just about using mods to destroy GreenField. I always thought the map was cool, and am glad it’s getting more recognition!
@@galaxianovagamingvods nope, cant walk yet. and theres no food yet so i dont care (ps: is this just gonna go thruout the entire script or something lol)
i remember hearing about greenfield about 7 years ago even by then it was a pretty dope thing to look at but man I had no idea it would go on for THIS long
There used to be a quite large server back in the day called "Cheesium". On this server we had the Greenfield map for a few years I believe. The server had a factions system. I remember me and my friends ending up finding a nice street and then we all got ourselves our own houses. Until another faction moved into the neighbouring street. A fierce war broke out that lasted a month. It was very destructive to the streets. So fun
i’m curious about how the BTE project is being tracked? like how will we know if it’s done? 50% done? 10% done? is there an efficient way to see which parts of the earth need more work?
Iirc, the plan is to build different parts of the world in different worlds and later, they will splice them all together following the custom map projection they had to solve for previously. So, the progress is probably based on how many finished worlds they have and the percentage finished off worlds that they're still building on.
I've known about Greenfield forever now and has been my inspiration to make my own city like it, and also the amount of Koto&Sen videos I watched their was a disaster was amazing back in like 2014
Yeah ive known about this ever since i returned to minecraft/ started playing on pc,its fun to play in sandbox alone and try to add on to the map, i always had a dream that one day there will be a server with greenfield map, with real jobs and property that you can buy and currency, with like car mods, basically like a realistic minecraft server in every way, that would be one heck of a dope server.
Minecraft is a crazy reality in its own, and with what we do with it only mimicking a small fraction of our own existence. Everyone who plays it is a god, but those who master and push it and themselves to its limits are legends.
what shocks me is that many years ago I had a save of greenfield and it was basically a normal minecraft city size with incomplete interiors, looking at it on this video made me completely speechless of how perfectly done their work is rn and how big they expanded it
I’ve got a map project that I started on PS3 back in 2014. I don’t work on it very often anymore and when I do I don’t get very far, but it’s already big, and getting bigger. The map style it was originally started on is difficult to build on since there isn’t much space to work with. I didn’t use a super flat map, and I used to build around hills, lakes, and coastlines but now I’m doing a lot more terraforming as far as reclaiming land from bodies of water and blasting mountains away to make room for housing developments. You can clearly see the progress in my building style, from narrow roads only 3 blocks wide in the early days, to highways 15+ blocks wide in my recent work. Homes used to all be 6x4 blocks with only 1 block between individual homes. Now they’re all much larger, with fully furnished interiors, sitting on well defined properties. All of this built on console edition using no commands. Every block placed one by one.
3:12 thats an insult to us cities skylines players thats cities skylines not sim city we are nothing like simcity they do not compare to us even in the slightest bit
Been playing on Greenfield since before Greenfield mall near downtown on the other side of the canal was removed and the large suspension bridge near the opera and baseball stadium was removed and replaced by a tunnel. Greatest map ever.
This is what I always wanted to do, but the project was so big, this made me shed a tear, I'm so happy that someone could do the dream I could never do.
Gosh I was wondering when Greenfield would get the recognition it deserved. I used to use it all the time for fun little LAN parties me and my friends would have. And when I was a super nerd, we used to use it for some Minecraft Machinima series'. I didn't even realize they had a build team until this video.
I haven't heard about greenfield in a long time. I remember when me and my cousin would load it up in a server and would roleplay together on it. It so crazy to see how much more they worked on last since I seen it
You should also take a look at a guy called Astrophagy, he’s working on a giant world based around his DND campaign. It’s not nearly as big as bte or greenfield but it’s a really small team (like 6 ppl or smth) and it’s really cool!
Greenfield in combination with the Create mod would be mind blowing (more so than the map already is). You could do a Cities Skylines style "train ride through the city" video with actual working train and subway rail lines.
I knew I’ve seen this before and then I thought of kotoandsen natural disasters and it brought me back and it is crazy that however many years ago I knew about this but never knew what it would become
Greenfield has a special place for me. It's the first and only map I've ever downloaded and it's so amazing. I need to get the new map. I havent seen it since the early 1.14 days when the whole concept was still really new. Clearly it has come so far
I _knew it had to be Greenfield._ I have a save file from it circa 2021....it's beautiful. It's full of amazing little details that you'll get lost in. Worth downloading.
thanks for bringing some attention!! we've been through a lot lately with a major update in the works, so it's nice to see creators helping out to get some support :)
I would love to see large gamemode played out on this map, maybe even a mode where the region of the map is randomised. Like a hungergames with a random area in this city, but then a larger version with teams maybe. Just one idea for the possibly millions of possibilities for this map.
It’s crazy to see how far people will take this game. I grew up playing Minecraft like many others, and to this day I am still amazed at the incredible things that people have done in this game. These large projects become more and more ambitious with each passing year, honestly super impressive.
Greenfield was one of the coolest city maps I've ever run across, first from the old MC youtubers Koto and Sen, SGCBarbarians' Crafting dead series, all the way to SSundee's GTA server in Minecraft series.. I've used this map for a few projects myself, and truthfully, it is a site to behold.
You can also have a look at Broville! It may not be as realistic or expandable as Greenfield, but it's a cool city nontheless and feels a lot more Minecraft-y!
You know with the new create .5 mod that adds in-dept train systems and stations and schedules., as well as having the trains pick up stuff from farms....This would add some amazing public transportation and a very viable possibility for playing in this city for survival Minecraft...The possibilities with this map are endless...
Could you imagine how badass it'd be to run a zombie apocalypse server on this map? VMW guns, cars, and enemies, an economy, survival mechanics, and some custom monsters.
Please also talk about Mine in Abyss. It does not trump BTE or Greenfield in terms of scale, but the whole concept of a steampunk-esque civilization encapsulating a giant hole full of lore, creatures, and ancient tech is just so cool!
9:16, You could probably do that with A.I. I mean it would be pretty difficult for someone to code(It'll probably take a full team and some years) but it certainly isn't impossible. If you are actually trying to create something like this for a project I suggest hiring some kind of developer
Right about now is the 10th anniversary of starting my original mincraft map, which I've developed entire countries within and never played another map. I started Minecraft around version 1.4, but it got stuck updating at 1.9.4. If anyone has any tips or tools or software for updating or moving a preserved world into the modern version I would love to hear about it! Whether or not I can update my map I plan on playing my same original map forever. No matter how cool the new updates are they are never as cool as continuing to add to what I've already built
You know what I am wondering? What is Greenfield's urban design? Does it have good public transportation? Is it car dependent, or does it have cycling lanes everywhere?
Sadly it seems to follow the "American way", completely car dependent. Look at all those parking spaces and triple file roads throughout the city centre. Kinda made me a bit sad that even in Minecraft where people had the opportunity to design a good city they were so indoctrinated that they just made the exact same mistakes again.
@@Mrsuperdestroyer That is too bad. Heck, New York City isn't completely car dependent and has quite a few good cycling lanes (I think). Doss Greenfield have a subway? What about public squares?
Pretty sure I have a copy of greenfield stuck on a failed hdd for way back around when it started popping up. I'm excited to one day get the data back from that drive and see.
That concept of an endless city biome isnt impossible. The lost cities adds a procedurally generated city world generation, its in the rl craft pack im pretty sure. It generates a post apocalyptic city setting that goes on forever, while it doesnt have the same level of detail, theres functioning subway tunnels, every building is enterable and has loot akin to a dungeon, rivers and such carve the city into sections and bridges span across said rivers. So TECHNICALLY it isnt impossible and maybe if the mod had more detailed generation it could be to this scale, but unfortunately not at the moment.
