By Alec Meer on October 8th, 2010 at 6:48 pm.
Look, we do try to write interesting, entertaining or at least semi-legible words about games, not just point and bellow ‘HERE IS A FAN-THING ABOUT A GAME WOT WE QUITE LIKE.’ Sometimes, though, it’s hard not to just go ‘awwww’ and ‘Oh God I want that so much.’
The constructor of the above delight, a man from a land down under is here. Sounds as though there’s a hundred thousand similar projects out there, but a fine starting point to do it yourself would be the ‘standardised papercraft’ downloadable schematics here. See two bigger pics below.
Here’s the early stages, with jumbso explains was done during the gaps in his work days:
“This is what I spend my time doing at work (When I’m not working hard, obviously). Papercraft, of minecraft. Two incredibly nerdy things but I think the results are pretty cool. I don’t understand how people have the patience to sit there and make pagodas or anything shaped differently than a box, though.”
And here’s the finished models:
08/10/2010 at 18:55 miked says:
Fill the pig with bacon and hit it like a pinata!
08/10/2010 at 19:09 noobnob says:
And a creeper piñata would be…
Well, it would make any party the bomb.
08/10/2010 at 20:13 Spliter says:
@noobnob
Holy shit you’re a friggin genius!!!
08/10/2010 at 18:55 wcanyon says:
Epic. I’m laughing at work and the people around me are wondering if I’m an idiot.
08/10/2010 at 18:58 Dominic White says:
The dent in the pigs head looks like it got whacked by a rambunctious miner and his busy fists.
08/10/2010 at 20:19 DJ Phantoon says:
I would call the Miner feisty, but that is just me.
08/10/2010 at 19:13 amanda says:
What is point, please?
08/10/2010 at 19:16 Tei says:
It looks cute, and having it on your table is a reference to this fantastic game.
08/10/2010 at 20:31 Hmm-Hmm. says:
He thinks it’s fun to do?
08/10/2010 at 21:03 seventhrib says:
Down the Line?
08/10/2010 at 19:20 Simon says:
In before the usual suspects bitch and moan about the quantity of Minecraft coverage and/or make personal attacks on Notch.
08/10/2010 at 19:44 The Tupper says:
Oh come now, Simon.
You’re better than this: just ignore those hypothetical future trolls. Don’t throw them future-fodder.
08/10/2010 at 20:00 BAReFOOt says:
Damn, I wanted to do an “In before ‘In before the usual suspects bitch and moan about the quantity of Minecraft coverage and/or make personal attacks on Notch.’.”
08/10/2010 at 20:13 The Tupper says:
Actually, I trounced both of you – I AM a future troll and I posted my reply to Simon’s post before he even wrote it.
08/10/2010 at 19:20 clive dunn says:
I’ll be impressed when someone makes a 1 to 1 scale model of the Enterprise out of paper squares.
08/10/2010 at 20:01 BAReFOOt says:
I’m impressed, when he folds those cubes solely by using C-x M-c M-butterfly in Emacs, running on that Minecraft computer. :D
08/10/2010 at 19:21 Lars Westergren says:
You know, if one of my friends have a Halloween masquerade party this year, I’m totally going to make a Creeper costume. Then I’m going to sneak up behind people and go “ssssSSSSS”!
08/10/2010 at 20:04 BAReFOOt says:
I think I’ll build a life-size creeper out of wood, and add a motion detector connected to a sound module and growing green eyes. Then I’ll try to sneak past it when going to the bathroom at night. ^^
08/10/2010 at 20:51 jonfitt says:
Gah! That would scare the crap out of any ‘crafters at the party, and may result in you being smacked upside the head!
08/10/2010 at 19:26 Kirrus says:
Can you put John Walker’s post (I think an ‘oops’ is applicable there) up on the subscribers newsletter pretty please? :)
11/10/2010 at 22:17 DrazharLn says:
Aye!
08/10/2010 at 19:28 Pod says:
I like John’s article the best. Down with this article.
08/10/2010 at 20:50 DJ Phantoon says:
It’s only a model.
08/10/2010 at 23:24 Deccan says:
Shhhh!
08/10/2010 at 23:57 Wandered In says:
ssssSSS!
09/10/2010 at 00:16 jeremypeel says:
Just… DON’T. HISS LIKE THAT.
Hold me.
08/10/2010 at 21:13 Wulf says:
Haa, those are marvelous. Hooray for creative endeavour! I’m tempted to try my hand at that… Maybe even reproduce something from an everyday line of toys as a Minecraft papercraft toy. Blockimus Prime, maybe?
08/10/2010 at 21:53 dragon_hunter21 says:
I think you guys are just doing this to piss off the guys who whine about all the Minecraft coverage.
Carry on.
Also, the creeper might just be the worst prank ever against a Minecraft player.
08/10/2010 at 22:55 Aerozol says:
Yes! Instead of playing Minecraft these holidays, I’ll make the blocks and play it in ‘rl’. Will be awesome.
08/10/2010 at 23:17 capital L says:
Somebody with a 3d printer should get industrious and make some Minecraft Lego knockoffs. I swoon just to think of it…
08/10/2010 at 23:05 MD says:
Hah, this is wonderful.
08/10/2010 at 23:16 kenoxite says:
He probably works in a nuclear powerplant.
08/10/2010 at 23:19 Spacewalk says:
Rock, Papercraft, Shotgun.
08/10/2010 at 23:52 tigershuffle says:
go here for all your paper folding goodness
http://papercraftparadise.blogspot.com/
the tanks are :) lol
09/10/2010 at 00:15 Spook says:
thanks for the link the weapons are o.0 and they have the Geralt model http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/the-witcher%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ctorturer%E2%80%9D-now-available/
09/10/2010 at 00:18 jeremypeel says:
I know it makes sense that the models could be so accurately recreated, being made up of about 3 or 4 flat textures and all…
But it’s still kind of weird to see paper models looking EXACTLY as they do in the game, isn’t it?
09/10/2010 at 04:45 terry says:
It is because I would instinctively punch them.
09/10/2010 at 10:24 Temple to Tei says:
I punched the screen
Ok, I didn’t but I did think it was a screenshot at first.
09/10/2010 at 09:20 tomeoftom says:
I love RPS like you wouldn’t believe, but pleasepleaseplease could you fine writerfolk stop making posts on novelty paraphernalia and the like? Reading about the original art, ie. games, is much more interesting than reading about the fan art that it has spawned.
09/10/2010 at 09:57 Dreamhacker says:
TomeofTom:
You may be of that opinion, but a quick survey has revealed that 92.33% of RPS’ readers love reading about games AND meta-stuff on games. In addition to this, do you realize that some games are completely built around the meta stuff, especially playerdriven games like Eve Online?
09/10/2010 at 11:36 tomeoftom says:
I know you’re half-joking here, but anyway: I hardly think papercraft models come anywhere near Eve’s breadth, political intrigue, and gargantuan conflicts on the intrigue-o-meter. AND! Eve was designed with those kinds of super-shenanigans in mind, so they become an integral component of the game itself. Conversely, Minecraft doesn’t change in the slightest if someone creates a papercraft model, or draws a comic, or writes a song, or (to get specific) makes a Left 4 Dead mod.
09/10/2010 at 11:38 Dominic White says:
Controversial new concept:
Not at all interested in an article? Don’t click it.
09/10/2010 at 12:27 tomeoftom says:
Dominic White: Snark not really necessary; I tried phrasing it politely. Not really sure why that would be disallowed.
09/10/2010 at 14:34 Deacon Blues says:
No one is saying that you aren’t entitled to your opinion, but Dominic’s solution would fix your problem, and prevent those of us who want to have actual discussions from having to read you asserting that RPS should make major changes to its content because you asked nicely.
09/10/2010 at 16:14 tomeoftom says:
“those of us who want to have actual discussions from having to read you asserting that RPS should make major changes to its content because you asked nicely.”
I will leave that there and allow the double-irony to sink in.
09/10/2010 at 09:26 ColdSpiral says:
I for one welcome our cubic overlords.
09/10/2010 at 09:53 Dreamhacker says:
I’ve already made a paper-Creeper and have it standing by my keyboard. Papercraft for Minecraft is a perfect fit! :D
11/10/2010 at 13:02 JellyfishGreen says:
It worked! Paper Crafting Bench is my new Companion Cube.
04/12/2010 at 13:56 mDFRSDF says:
PUT A FIRE CRACKER IN THE CREEPER