Activities to `` reproduce on Minecraft '' a university closed by the spread of the new coronavirus epidemic are becoming active



In the US, where the number of

people infected with the new coronavirus exceeded 200,000 on April 1, 2020, many schools have been closed and online home learning has begun. Under these circumstances, American university students have launched a project to ' reproduce your university on Minecraft '.

Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft-The Verge
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Andrew Guo, a third-year student at the University of Pennsylvania, launched a project called 'Pencraft' to recreate the University of Pennsylvania campus on Minecraft. The students participating in Pencraft are recreating dormitories, food trucks, sculptures, etc., and some students perform the task of 'correcting the position of buildings and roads'. Pencraft's goal is to celebrate an online graduation ceremony, recreating a university closed by the new coronavirus. A comparison between the actual University of Pennsylvania and Minecraft's Pennsylvania University looks like this.


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'I am the first of my family to graduate from college, so my graduation ceremony is not just for me, but for my clan,' said Nadia Sajida-Bay, a fourth-year student at Pencraft. 'I had no chance to say goodbye to my friends and teachers because I was suddenly shut down, I didn't have the opportunity to finish what I had done, and I didn't have the opportunity to sorrow.' Nazia says that by working with Pencraft to recreate the university campus, 'I feel the sorrow of losing has become more gradual.' It is said that the number of students participating in pen craft has now increased to hundreds.



It's not just students from the University of Pennsylvania that are doing the same. Students from Boston University, the University of California, Los Angeles, Northwestern University and South Louisiana Community College have also set up Minecraft servers and share their work on Discord, Facebook, Reddit and more.

'I don't think I'll ever return to campus while I'm alive. If I go to campus, it won't be a campus in my memory,' said Jay Gibbs, a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago. . However, it is possible to reproduce a 1/1 scale campus in Minecraft. At the University of Pennsylvania, the 125-year-old traditional ' Pen Relay' relay competition was canceled due to the effects of the new coronavirus. However, Pencraft students are working with the Pen Relay staff to replicate Pen Relay.

Some groups hold events personally without a formal organization. On the server at Oberlin University, the student cafeteria of the Oberlin Student Cooperative, which is used by a quarter of the students, is reproduced. However, the menu is limited to ' raw chicken ' and ' seed ' available at Minecraft. The University of Texas server also recreates the famous “ UT Tower ” as a university landmark, with some students holding birthday parties inside the tower.




The method of reproducing the campus is also devised, and there are groups that share architectural PDFs etc. that have filled in fine details from reference photos and memories. It seems that a cat named 'Domino' is reproduced on the server of the University of Texas at Austin, and a server at the Berklee College of Music builds a part of the school building with 'quick sand'.

For the graduation ceremony season in May, students from different universities called Quaranteen University (a combination of `` quarantine '' and `` teen '') will join the graduation ceremony in 2020. A special server for doing so also appeared. The graduation ceremony at Quaranteen University is scheduled for May 22 and May 30, 2020, and 706 students from 278 institutions have already booked in the fourth week of March 2020. Some mothers ask students, 'Is it possible to reserve one seat at the May 22 ceremony?' Quaranteen University was inspired by the news of a 'virtual graduation ceremony' held by Japanese elementary school students at Minecraft.

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Mitch Smith, President of Shockbyte , which operates Minecraft server hosting service, said that demand for Minecraft servers began on March 12, 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized COVID-19 as a pandemic. Reported to soar five times. Also, the unprecedented increase in Google searches for 'Minecraft server hosting' in the United States also indicates the overheating of Minecraft popularity in the United States.



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