In Minecraft, you can basically do whatever you want. The blocky, near-infinite game world has been a haven for creative minds for years, with so many wacky and downright amazing in-game creations to be hold. And this guy just added to that long list of great projects.
In Minecraft's "Caves and Cliffs - Part 1" update, players can mine for diamonds in an underground cave.
The Minecraft player, who goes by the name GenericRedstonGenius on Reddit, managed to create a fully functioning basketball court in game that you could actually play in. According to Game Rant, the user used a combination of obsidian, pressure plates, wood planks, slime blocks, red dye, and item hoppers to achieve the feat.
A video of Generic playing basketball on the court they made was shared on the Minecraft subreddit recently, where it has already earned over 23,000 upvotes at the time of this writing:
As you can see there, the player is sown attempting what looks to be slam dunks using some red dye as a ball and some makeshift jumping platforms to launch them up into the air. They made the hoop using a item hoppers, where the red dye basketball will be placed to score. To get the "ball" back, the player goes to their inventory screen.
But while this is amazing enough, the original Game Rant report also says that this fully functioning court can be made with ease in either Creative or Survival Mode. This can be a huge thing if you want to replicate it, since it will often take you ages to make something if you're not using the game's Creative Mode outright.
Either way, other members of the Minecraft subreddit look to be pretty impressed with the project. They were even talking among themselves about the setting of specific rules to govern the game, so it could be played full court among two teams of players. Some people were even comparing it to a variation of basketball called Slam Ball, which used trampolines to help players dunk - much like how Generic's jumping platforms worked.
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Other Games Recreated In Minecraft
As astounding as the in-game basketball recreation is, it is not the first game-within-a-game attempt in the long list of Minecraft recreations over the years. Other people have already tried this, and the results are quite interesting as well.
YouTuber Mysticat, for instance, managed to recreate an entire game of Frogger (you know, that old school arcade game) within Minecraft. But the project wasn't entirely done from scratch, as per Game Rant: Mysticat used an old project wherein they were able to create a moving car. And when the project was done, they asked YouTubers to try to beat it, with hilarious results:
Another game that became part of Minecraft recreations is a version of Pac-Man, made by another YouTuber, Fundy. The map was designed to be almost identical to the one in the original, and it presents an angle of the game that's never been explored before: what if you were in the maze and not looking down on it from above? Here's the video:
Have you come across other games-within-the-game in Minecraft before?
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Written by RJ Pierce
