Content Creator Made Playable Minecraft Within Minecraft

With Minecraft's expansive set of tools and large modding community, it seems every day comes with a new example of just how open to experimentation the game truly is. Recently, a YouTuber by the name of Dream showed how players can create tons of different game modes through Minecraft's open-ended sense of freedom, starting a new trend around his game Minecraft Manhunt, while others have utilized the game's systems to build a 3D printer and graphing calculator.

Yet few are as wonderfully meta as a new creation by Fundy, a YouTuber who managed to make the entire game of Minecraft playable within Minecraft. This impressive, fourth-wall-breaking feat was seemingly created through some in-depth computer wizardry, with Fundy showing players the result and exactly how he managed to achieve it in a new video.

The YouTube clip begins with Fundy seemingly playing a low-res version of Minecraft, with the environments looking a lot darker and more pixilated but still very much playable. It's here that Fundy reveals to the audience that what they're watching is, in fact, a rendition of Minecraft that takes place on a large screen in a completely separate Minecraft world. If fans needed any more convincing, Fundy actually tilts the camera to reveal that the large screen is floating in the air, with the YouTuber - who is currently in creative mode - descending to show that it's a flat surface displaying an entirely different Minecraft server.

So, how did Fundy do it? The first thing to note according to the YouTuber is that the in-game Minecraft screen actually displays whatever is currently running on Fundy's desktop. Later in the video, he shows how pulling up his webcam, YouTube, or Photoshop achieves the same results, with the screen changing to replicate whatever Fundy has dominating his monitor. As he puts it: "I haven't just made Minecraft in Minecraft, I've made my entire computer runnable in Minecraft."

Using his in-game desktop screen, Fundy then goes on to highlight how the contraption works, telling users "I have a separate server running... Which is coded in Node, which allows me to record my entire monitor." He then shows how Node takes all the pixels from his desktop and converts them into RGB values, stating "all the red colours, the blue colours, and all the green colours; it's going to grab it for every single pixel that's on my screen and then compare it to blocks in Minecraft." It supposedly then sends all that data through a web socket to the game itself, which deconstructs the code and ensures the blocks are placed accordingly. It's undeniably an extraordinary accomplishment and a stroke of genius from the popular Minecraft YouTuber.