Nether Reactor Mapart

Nether Reactor textures
A look from the nearby shore at night
About
Owner	Marmo_D
Category	Pixel Art
Underground?	No
Public?	Yes
Started	25 March 2024
Completed	11 April 2024
Size north to south	131m
Size west to east	514m
Height	121m
Location
Coordinates	X=-576 Y=63 Z=-18816
Dimension	Overworld
Map Link

While planning his builds  Marmo_D felt the need to make multiple as faithful as possible replicas of the long gone Nether Reactor, but some of the blocks he needed were only added and removed from Minecraft Pocket Edition, now known as Bedrock Edition; so instead of using odd blocks with similar colors or using a resource pack, he decided to build the map pixel art of the 4 missing textures.

The maps may not look identical to the source image since both the game and the online tools to convert images into maps have their own limitations..

Thanks to these maps every player on the server can have the opportunity to build and see a replica of the nether reactor without the need of modify their game.

Nether Reactor Core

This map can be obtained by typing /getmap 0 while holding an empty map item at the location (-768 63 -18816) of the respective build, or by copying an existing map of this area by crafting it with an empty map. You can also obtain this map by making a bookshelf with a [map] craftbook sign on the back and the map ID on the third line, then right clicking the bookshelf with any map; if you want to try it there's a fuctional example for this specific map at -768 63 -18816.

Initialized Nether Reactor Core

This map can be obtained by typing /getmap 0 while holding an empty map item at the location (-640 63 -18816) of the respective build, or by copying an existing map of this area by crafting it with an empty map. You can also obtain this map by making a bookshelf with a [map] craftbook sign on the back and the map ID on the third line, then right clicking the bookshelf with any map; if you want to try it there's a fuctional example for this specific map at -640 63 -18816.

Finished Nether Reactor Core

This map can be obtained by typing /getmap 0 while holding an empty map item at the location (-512 63 -18816) of the respective build, or by copying an existing map of this area by crafting it with an empty map. You can also obtain this map by making a bookshelf with a [map] craftbook sign on the back and the map ID on the third line, then right clicking the bookshelf with a map; if you want to try it there's a fuctional example for this specific map at -512 63 -18816.

Glowing Obsidian

This map can be obtained by typing /getmap 0 while holding an empty map item at the location of the respective build, or by copying an existing map of this area by crafting it with an empty map. You can also obtain this map by making a bookshelf with a [map] craftbook sign on the back and the map ID on the third line, then right clicking the bookshelf with a map; if you want to try it there's a fuctional example for this specific map at -384 63 -18816.

A full list of useful map art can be found on the Map Art of MCO page.

Building Process

The first mission was to find the official original textures of the blocks when they were first added, after a brief documentation through the Minecraft Wiki the textures were found in the terrain.png file, witch was extracted from an old and official Minecraft version. Thanks to the tools online setting up the final schematic to use on the server. The building style chosen was the staircase to achieve a more complete color palette and the materials chosen were both hard to grief and hard to get, expecially the redstone blocks that were later changed with lava for sanity. To prevent lava from flowing glass was chosen to encase it. During the building process of the "Initialized Nether Reactor Core", the third map of the group built after the "normal" and "finished" cores, lava wouldn't render on the map after placement, witch caused the substitution of 6464 blocks of glass with stone. Despite the issues, pauses and burns the map was eventually finished.

Blocks That Were Used

• Black Concrete: 15296
• Glass: approximately 14500
• Stone: 12288
• Prismarine Bricks: 10688
• Lava: 9984
• Nether Brick: 9728
• Blue Terracotta: 7168
• Black Terracotta: 5824
• Gray Concrete: 4352
• Ligh Gray Concrete: 2816
• Yellow Concrete: 1024
• Gray Terracotta: 960
• Brown Terracotta: 768
• Red Terracotta: 512
• Cyan Terracotta: 256
• Red Concrete: 128
• Cyan Concrete: 64

17 different building materials were used overall.

Gallery

View in-game from the top of every build.

Examples of the maps implemented in builds on the server