{"id":29,"date":"2020-04-28T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/?p=29"},"modified":"2020-05-07T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:51:16","slug":"mudd-in-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/mudd-in-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudd in Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HMC spring 2020 classes are online. Thanks to some creative students, so is a virtual campus.<\/p>\n<p>When administrators announced that the College would transition to online courses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they probably didn\u2019t imagine the campus would go online as well. But, thanks to a group of inventive Mudders, the HMC campus is coming to virtual life in Minecraft, a computer game that allows users to build anything with virtual blocks.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-3.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-3-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-3-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-3-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe project began when Serenity Wade \u201921 suggested the idea of building Mudd in Minecraft,\u201d says Erik Meike \u201921. Nora Nickerson \u201922 also expressed interest in the project, so Meike shared a link to a server that would host the build out of the HMC campus. \u201cWe started by working with a few friends to build out East Dorm,\u201d Meike says. \u201cA lot of people joined in and it seems like a lot of people have told their friends about it after starting to build, and that has helped it grow significantly.\u201d As of late March, almost 100 users had contributed to the build.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-2.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-2-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe whole campus is built to scale where 1 block = 1 meter,\u201d says Meike. \u201cIt is just crazy how accurate everything is and how creative people are with using the blocks available in Minecraft to create what they wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-185\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-1.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/05\/muddcraft-1-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMC spring 2020 classes are online. 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