Although the project's first allegiance is to the books, the inspirations for the aesthetics and architecture of their original designs are wildly diverse: visuals from the HBO show, fan concept art, crude hand-drawn diagrams, photographs of international cities, historical research on medieval urban planning and of course, their own imaginations. In a world as big as Westeros – and a community as devoted and enthusiastic as WesterosCraft – there are a great many spaces to fill in.
That’s the spirit that seems to infuse WesterosCraft and its community: both a painstaking faithfulness to its source material and a desire to innovate collaboratively in the spaces where canon offers no answers. Naturally, someone in WesterosCraft has not only built it but given it the wholly original name of Harbury – as befitting a suburb of the nearby Harrenhal – after brainstorming for ideas with other users on the forums. There’s a scene in the novel Clash of Kings, for example, where Arya Stark visits a small village that is never named. But it's been built and you can go visit that in game.” Some of the stuff that's been built hasn't even been mentioned in the books. Even now with hundreds of people, there's still a ton of work to do just on the map itself. “If we had never gotten popular, the project probably would have died a long time ago, because it's so much. Take a look at a few photos and videos of their work below, but check out their website for much more.Despite the growing demands of WesterosCraft, Granberry describes its vibrant, devoted community as not only one of the most rewarding parts of his work, but also the most essential to its success. Hopefully we’ll see the entire world of A Song of Ice and Fire at some point in the future. The group has created other components of Westeros as well, including Dragonstone, Harrenhal, Pyke, and more. They included a photo gallery and a link to their website,, where you can learn more about the project and donate to help the cause. The efforts of the group got noticed recently because of a post on Reddit. Using a Minecraft Server, it took a group of over 100 builders, lead by Tech Lead Will Blew and Project Lead Jacob Granberry, more than 4 months to create King’s Landing. Case in point, a group of players have gone to great lengths to recreate King’s Landing, the capital of Westeros from HBO’s hit television series Game of Thrones and George R.
The free-roaming online building game allows you to create entire worlds in surprising detail. Minecraft is an amazing game that is so simple yet so complicated at the same time.
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