The finished product is a 24 GB map file, including over 68 billion blocks constituting the continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, as well as all non-instanced caves and dungeons, which is probably more than you’ve done with your day. Once the parameters for the software have been set, the entire conversion process takes approximately 24 hours and requires no human intervention. Prior to the conversion process, I needed to match textures from World of Warcraft to the appropriate material in Minecraft.”

The software converts everything in the game, including all the buildings and natural details, down to the individual tree stump. “I developed software to convert the continents of World of Warcraft into Minecraft blocks using a process known as voxelization. Okay, so maybe not quite so impressive when you find out that this was accomplished using a script instead of placing each block by hand, but let’s not underestimate the ingenuity of clever coding either. That’s got to be some kind of impressive. I suppose it was really only a matter of time, and that time is now – somebody has rebuilt World of Warcraft’s Azeroth in Minecraft.

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