Minecraft Player Builds Incredible Cyberpunk Scene

A talented creator builds a Cyberpunk-inspired city in Minecraft and renders the project with extra visual effects, creating a sight to behold.

Though Minecraft has been a capstone in gaming culture for over a decade, Mojang's sandbox building title continues to evolve with features like new Netherite Ore to mine. Yet those extra distractions have not taken away from the game's incredible potential for creative construction, as seen with a Cyberpunk-inspired city build posted to Reddit today.
Deltagon's scene, uploaded to the r/gaming subreddit, looks like something straight out of the sci-fi world of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: Immense stacks of dark buildings with neon signs and windows shaped every which way that are connected by the occasional bridge, but mostly traversed via flying cars. In the comments they say their build took 60 hours over two weeks.

The build was done in Minecraft because Deltagon says they "have an easier time bringing [their] ideas into reality" through the game, and they've included a separate imgur page full of in-progress photos and a gif of their city as it came to life. After creating the build they used a program called Mineways to convert it into files that were imported into blender for rendering with proper lighting and camera work.

The Minecraft creator has posted multiple projects to Reddit, including another Cyberpunk-inspired "slum" in November 2019 that offers a much closer look at their process in regards to finer details like the flying cars — also made entirely out of blocks. Building in Minecraft is truly an art form, as Deltagon's work and other examples of projects like a recreation of Hogwarts from Harry Potter show.

Yet Minecraft is not only impressive because of what its players can accomplish through intended construction methods. The community surrounding the game has also shown its innovativeness with projects that are frankly hard to comprehend, like building a playable recreation of Metroid Fusion from the Game Boy Advance entirely in the vanilla experience using a custom shader system.
There's also something to be said for CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, releasing in September for current-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X, and able to stream through services like Nvidia's GeForce NOW. For the Cyberpunk genre showcased in games like these to inspire such creativity out of people like Deltagon is no small feat.