5 Friends Build Exact Replica of their Malacca School in Minecraft Survival Mode
5 Malaysian friends who all of them are 22 years old and they are student from the school on Jalan Ayer Leleh, Bukit Serindit who are Jasmine Tan Mei Xin, Oh Soong Teng, Gorden Goh, Wong Jun Jian, and Kuan Xiao Xi are the five individuals involved in building the virtual SMJK Yok Bin, Melaka.
They started the project in the middle of pandemic because they could not meet due to the restrictions imposed by the first Movement Control Order (MCO). Tan who drove past school one day and suddenly have the idea of building the school with her friends in Minecraft hit her. Then the same night she brought the idea to the table and was expecting them to take it as a joke but in the end all of them agreed and that is how it started.
Kuan added that they had no specific motivation behind starting the project other than having fun together. They have built the school in survival mode in Minecraft where their school is not only it is vulnerable to zombie attacks but they have to manually source for building blocks from the vast world and if the group was build in creative mode they did not have to source for material, but the mode will grant them ability to fly so that they can have a better viewing also.
They spent 15% of the time planning, 15% clearing the building site, 40% constructing, and 20% doing final touch-ups. The remaining 10% was possibly spent on having fun.
In the beginning, they had a lot of fun bombing the construction site with TNT because the area had mountains. The four-minute long video gives netizens a virtual tour of the school they built in Minecraft. Hundreds of Facebook users commended Tan and her friends’ effort, while some former students of the school can be spotted saying that the video brought back a lot of precious memories for them. Tan said netizens can download the map of their school here.
