A Minecraft fan has revealed their incredible creation, showing off a trading card game they created using in-game maps. Minecraft remains one of the most played games in the world, with its sandbox gameplay giving players total freedom over their own experience.
Despite Minecraft's initial release being over a decade ago in 2011, it remains a true essential for any gamer to play. Its impact now spans far beyond the gaming industry and pop culture, with Minecraft: Education Edition being used in schools around the world to help children learn in new and creative ways. With Minecraft holding the title as the best-selling game of all time, its cultural impact will likely only grow as time passes, with its simple graphics and easy-to-learn gameplay giving it a timeless feel.
The creation comes from YouTuber VintageBeef, who created the trading card game on the HermitCraft private server. The trading card game uses the in-game maps as cards, with each block hand-placed to resemble each card. In the video, VintageBeef explains that each card is made up of 16,384 blocks, with 150 cards in total to collect. It's a huge endeavor for any player to undertake alone, but the Minecraft community is known for its dedication to huge builds. One fan is even recreating Pokemon's Kanto region in Minecraft, which again is sure to take an extremely long time due to the scale. Ultimately, as long as Minecraft remains popular, fans will continue to dedicate themselves to these time-consuming builds.
The depth of the creation seems to have no end as VintageBeef goes into more detail. The user shows off the different types of cards that can be used in the game, with player cards, item cards, effect cards, and health cards all shown off as part of the creation. The world that is revealed in the video even has three arenas for the game to be played in as well as a card store where they can be purchased. Card games have been added to Minecraft before in the form of a mod. A modder once added a playable version of Uno to Minecraft, but that required the mod to be downloaded, whereas VintageBeef's creation uses only vanilla mechanics to work.
The immediate future is extremely exciting for fans of Minecraft despite the age of Mojang's sandbox title. The company continues to provide regular updates, with Minecraft's upcoming 1.20 update providing players with a new cherry blossom biome to explore. Also, the update will introduce archaeology, which promises to be one of the biggest shake-ups to Minecraft's core gameplay in a long time. In the past, Minecraft has relied on spinoffs like Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Story Mode to remain in the public eye, but new updates to the original always catch fan attention. If Mojang continues to support Minecraft like this into the future, there might be no need for any spinoffs or sequels any time soon.
Minecraft is available on PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and most legacy devices.
