Minecraft is a sandbox gaming game that lets you create amazing things to show off to your friends. Lego is a tangible toy that you can spend lots of money to create something once and keep it forever. It is a way of expressing your love for the creations you’ve made. Both have a lot in common so it’s not surprising that the two worlds often meet.
It’s the result of a myriad of cool things, like this awesome zombie design from Cirelectric on Reddit. Somehow, Servers smoothed out figures make the zombies sort of cute, even if they’re still looking for brains. This connection also means that people will go out of their way in real life to create amazing things, such as this Minecraft piston from RJMBricks.
YouTuber RJMBricks is a specialist in Lego builds. He has created an earthquake simulator and a driving simulation. They’ve now built an actual Minecraft piston. The amount of bricks, planning and work that went into this is staggering. RJMBricks even uses different colours to mimic the game version, making the textures look authentic.
The mechanics involved are fascinating, too the RJMBricks trying to determine how to make the piston move. Due to the weight of the components the design challenge caused Lego pieces to warp.
The video has been extremely well-liked. RJMBricks announced that they had 38.875 subscribers at the time the video was released on April 24. At the moment of writing the video done over 2.2 million views however, the channel has nearly doubled to 94.8k subscribers. It’s always satisfying to see hard work rewarded.
If you’re more intrigued by things being built in Minecraft than the other way around, you ought to look into one YouTuber’s Pac-Man minigame. It’s definitely creepy.
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