Greenfield is a fictional city created within the 2011

sandbox game A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined goal, or with a goal that the players set for themselves. Such games may lack any objec ...

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus Persson, Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java (programming language), Java programming language, the ...

''. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. The city was started by ''Minecraft'' user THEJESTR in August 2011. As of May 2025, there are approximately 1.4 million downloads of the city map. According to ''Planet Minecraft'' statistics, Greenfield is the second-most downloaded ''Minecraft''

map A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on ...

of all time. Greenfield is designed to resemble the West Coast of the United States, heavily inspired by

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

, and is built to a one-to-one scale, with each block's size being one cubic meter. It has various features of an actual city, such as industrial areas, ports, public transportation, suburbs, a downtown area, and an airport. With thousands of builds, Greenfield is continuously being worked on with an increasing standard of build quality. Almost every building has elaborate interiors, which are inspected for functionality each time a new build is published. A group of 10 people supervise the city, and more than 400 people have helped build the city. As of the latest release, Greenfield has 39 districts.

Reception

Gina Lees, writing for ''

PCGamesN ''PCGamesN'' is a British website with articles about PC gaming and hardware. History Parent company Network N was founded by James Binns (formerly of Future Publishing) in late May 2012. ''PCGamesN'' launched the following month. PCGamesN ...

'', listed Greenfield as one of the best ''Minecraft'' cities, writing that it has "incredible city detail" and that one "can spend ages wandering through the different areas". Stephany Nunneley of ''

VG247 Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in London. Founded in 1999 by Rupert and Nick Loman, it owns brands—primarily editorial websites—relating to video game journalism and ot ...

'' called the city "amazing", and Chris Carter of ''

Destructoid ''Destructoid'' is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author. Enthusiast Gaming acquired the website in 2017 and sold it to Gamurs Group in 2022. Histor ...

'' described it as a "living and breathing" city. According to Bryan Lawver of ''

Screen Rant ''Screen Rant'' is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and comic books. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including Comic Book Resources, Collider, MovieWeb and XDA Developers. ...

'', Greenfield's level of detail makes it resemble more of "a screenshot from ''

SimCity ''SimCity'' is an open-ended city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright. The first game in the series, '' SimCity'', was published by Maxis in 1989 and was followed by several sequels and many other spin-off ''S ...

'' than a blocky ''Minecraft'' creation when viewed from above". Dmitry Lapunov, also writing for ''Screen Rant'', stated that the city's features make it "look believable", calling the city "a project of sincere passion". Nate Crowley of ''

Rock, Paper, Shotgun ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' is a British video game journalism website. It was launched in July 2007 to focus on PC games and was acquired by Gamer Network, a network of sites led by ''Eurogamer'', in May 2017. History ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' ...

'' found the

terraforming Terraforming or terraformation ("Earth-shaping") is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to mak ...

of the landscape to be more impressive than the city itself, saying that it reminded him of planet builders in ''

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is a Science fiction comedy, comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), radio sitcom broadcast over two series on BBC ...

''.

References

External links

*
''Planet Minecraft'' page
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Greenfield (''Minecraft'') Minecraft Fictional populated places in California Projects established in 2011 Video game locations