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Software To Boost Your Builds
Here's a little secret about some of the amazing Minecraft builds and
images you've seen: not all of them were actually made in normal
Minecraft. GASP! Shocking right? It's a little weird to hear for the first
time, but software outside of Minecraft itself is actually a pretty big
part of the creation of many big or complicated Minecraft projects and
screenshots.
MCEdit will load up your Minecraft world in a couple of different views, including a map and one that
looks pretty much like the game, but which can be flown around and edited with almost no lag (delay).
Some folks are of a mind that Minecraft projects should be built by hand, block-by-block in
the regular game, and that's totally fine, but there are others out there who see Minecraft as
more of a creative medium than something that they want to toil at for weeks and weeks just
to get a map done, and we think that's fine, too.
When it comes down to it, we think it doesn't really matter how an awesome map gets made
or a screenshot gets taken, it only matters that it's amazing and that we get to see it and/or
play around in it. Most of the time when you're in a map that used special software, you'll
never know that it wasn't made the regular way, and in fact the ability to edit maps far more
quickly and use special tools actually allows players to create types of maps that we would
never see otherwise. For images, this is even more the case, as the programs that are out
there to create Minecraft screenshots from a map are far, far more powerful and create much
more gorgeous images than the game could ever create on its own.
If cutting down the amount of time it takes to create a building or making the most stunning
screenshots possible is something that interests you, we definitely recommend checking out
one of the following programs. And remember: you only have to use them as much or as
little as you want, and the end result is what's most important, not the way you did it.
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