Minecraft aficionado Janisko has spent the last two years recreating Chernobyl in this popular sandbox. The first map was called Chernobyl Universe - it is designed to be played in survival mode and aims to reflect the real Chernobyl zone as accurately as possible.
Janisko also promised that there will be maps based on the STALKER series of games "I'm going to recreate both Chernobyl and other southernmost regions of the zone, as well as the Belarusian part and even the town of Polesskoe, for example, to put this in the basis of the Stalker's Dead City map" , — wrote the author on the resource Planet Minecraft.
“When creating this very large map, I use as much data as possible, which I gather mainly from the Internet, for example, from Google Maps and other useful sources. Of course, not all information can be obtained from the Internet, but unfortunately I do not have other sources for collecting data, so because of this fact I sometimes have to go for a little improvisation in terms of the interior and appearance of some buildings, or plan some areas at their own discretion,” added Janisko.
The author also asks to be informed of any information about the Chernobyl zone that is not publicly available by e-mail (). The creation of maps is carried out using programs such as McEdit2 and Worldpainting, and the rest is completed manually. He implements all this alone, and the enthusiast is going to complete everything planned in 2023. Chernobyl Universe v0.002 map, which is still being worked on, .
Source: 3dnews.ru