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Cairngorms Recreated In Video Game Minecraft

Cairngorms recreated in video game Minecraft

26 February 2021

To help youngsters learn how to manage a national park, the Cairngorms landscape is recreated in Minecraft.

The virtual world allows users to build anything using blocks. It encompasses 1,700 sq miles (4,402 km) of the park which also comprises parts of Highland, Moray and Aberdeenshire.

The settlements have been cleared out and members of the Cairngorms Youth Action Team are now being requested to establish new communities.

It is designed to get them thinking about the ways in which decisions for planning are taken.

But it is fair to say that the team is not taking the situation seriously.

Remote islands recreated in Minecraft

Sixteen-year-old Campbell from Aviemore says he's been constructing a hill fort at the top of Cairn Gorm which is one of the UK's tallest mountains.

He explained that , even though it doesn't transmit temperature well, it does get the landscape.

"We've been up the Cairngorms and seen the corries. It's easy to spot the Lairig Ghru.

It's as accurate and realistic as is possible. You can tell what location you're in thanks to the different kinds of trees and also if there are trees or not." Pirateportal

Ellie Moore, a fellow player, told me that "while we're trying to construct things and farm there's constantly a flurry of monsters or enemies that appear at night."

"So it's been hard to venture out into the world as you're constantly trying to survive but I'd say where we've been thus far has been pretty precise."

Dan Harris worked in his spare time to create the park.

In the day, he's the planning manager for the Cairngorms National Park Authority.

He added: "They're basically dropped onto the map at the point where Aviemore should be and have been asked to create an area of community or a neighbourhood that meets the aims of the national park.

"So the first thing they need to begin thinking about are how they can protect and improve the natural environment and how they make sustainable use of resources."

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