I see trash in Minecraft’s build components; It is much easier to simply download the map and wander in the splendor of other people’s creation. And if you already have the ray tracing beta of Minecraft for Windows installed, I can heartily recommend also having a look Nvidia RTX Winter World: a huge, rich and very, very beautiful custom map in which you help Santa to throw a festive item while you trade sweets with his elves.
Authorized by Nvidia and mined by competitive builder Ushio Tokura, the dazzling, snowy wonderland is clearly meant to showcase Nvidia’s ray tracing prowess best graphics card. But there’s also a charitable side, and it’s all brought together – over 30 million blocks in total – to support Great Ormund Street for Children Hospital and the Home for Christmas fundraising campaign.
Along with Santa’s grotto, lavishly decorated banquet hall and numerous carnival fairground attractions, you can visit a replica of GOSH itself, to read the hospital’s history or scan a VR code will take you to the campaign’s donation page.
It’s lovely stuff and there’s more to do. A series of short fetch quests shows you and the proper rectangular Saint Nick lying on a Christmas party, and if you wander the beaten path you can explore the hedge maze, take the train Go for a roller coaster or relax with some friendly penguins. There’s also a working Christmas market and a good one too – unlike the ones I’ve been here in London that cost £14 for a sausage. And I love how the different areas are contained in giant snowballs, connected to a railway line that you can ride on a standard choo-choo-train. No wonder Tokura took over 300 hours to build.
If you haven’t gone through the (admittedly difficult) process of enabling RTX features in Minecraft, or you don’t have a graphics card that can support ray tracing, you can always donate directly to GOSH. To play RTX Winter World, download the .mctemplate file from Minecraft planet, place it in Minecraft’s world_templates folder, then select it as a template when starting a new world.
