Block City: Incredible Minecraft Worlds: How to Build Like a Minecraft Master

by Kirsten Kearney

Minecraft—a humble computer game about placing blocks—is a global phenomenon that has captured the imagination of more than 36 million players around the world. Often described as a digital version of LEGO, Minecraft offers an open-ended playing field where players design and build environments that others can explore. For many users, the game’s “creative mode” is its most appealing feature: The game is helping to shape a generation of young architects, designers, and artists.
The most impressive and spectacular achievements in Minecraft design are its cities, which range in style from contemporary realism to fantasy, from historical to futuristic. The product of thousands of hours of work by devoted Minecraft players, these virtual places are the envy of millions who aspire to master the skills to create them. Block City presents a collection of amazing Minecraft cities created by masters, with step-by-step tutorials for readers to build structures and features themselves.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gaming

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2015

Reviews

[Jay Gesin · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book for artistic ideas for building worlds, but after a few pages they seemed to look alike.

[Eli Markman · Rating 5 out of 5]

So you've played creative but you haven't built one whole city yourself? This book will teach you how to build humongous cities; it might take time but it will pay off.

[Erik Fazekas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nóóó, síce Minecraft nehrám, a asi ani nikdy nezačnem, lebo by som na tom závisláčil po nociach... a to asi nechcete :) Potom by už naozaj aj knihy zo Slovartu vychádzali v roku 5052, ako knihy z Fortuny :) :) :) a ešte k tomu plné chýb...
Ale akože mne sa to páčilo.
Nie je to základná príručka pre začiatočníkov. Určite pre pokročilých a úlohou knihy je otvoriť nevídané obzory mladým nádejným majnkrafťákom! Že čo všetko sa v tej šialenej hre dá dokázať.
U mňa to spôsobilo len neuveriteľnú chuť prečítať si nejakú beletriu, ktorá sa bude točiť okolo architektúry a stavania.
Ale bolo to fakt super!

[Hank · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book because of it showing how to make a car and I'm going to try to make a rocket on Minecraft so I can go to space.

[Oscar Reisz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A GREAT Minecraft book for builders, it has tutorials, info and more. Highly recommended.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Saw this book laying around the library and seeing this classified (under the library system) as an adult book, I was hoping that it'll contain some possible insights, motivation, as well as instructions on possible builds for my Minecraft server. Turned out the book (and the title) is rather misleading. This book is an extremely quick read since it seems to be gear towards beginner Minecraft players. While I got information regarding sites/servers of some of these build, the entire book is less of a "how-to" but more of a tips/reference.

I'd recommend this book for beginners as well as those who are just starting out in Minecraft, as the information is mostly elementary. For those intermediate or even advance players, I'd skip this book or read it with a grain of salt.