Arnis
Generate any location from the real world in Minecraft!
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Arnis creates complex and accurate Minecraft Java Edition (1.17+), Bedrock Edition, and Luanti (Minetest) worlds that reflect real-world geography, topography, and architecture. This free and open source project is designed to handle large-scale geographic data from the real world and generate detailed Minecraft worlds. The algorithm processes geospatial data from OpenStreetMap as well as elevation data to create an accurate Minecraft representation of terrain and architecture.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: game modding tools · 96 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Education
- GitHub
- Games
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Could you build this?
Partial Parsing OpenStreetMap geospatial data and elevation models to procedurally generate valid Minecraft voxel worlds (Anvil format / Bedrock leveldb) requires specialized GIS data processing and Minecraft binary format engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture typically uses Rust or C++ to stream OpenStreetMap XML/PBF data alongside DEM (Digital Elevation Model) GeoTIFFs. The hard parts involve spatial triangulation, semantic feature mapping into voxel blocks (roads, roofs, walls), and direct low-level serializing into Minecraft's NBT and Anvil region chunk formats without crashing client world generation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 216 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #172 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- A Minecraft mod that generates the world at 1:1 scale · hn · 2026-10-26 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- realworldmc · github · 2026-10-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Pebble, an open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition · hn · 2026-06-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MinecraftCircle · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Minecraft Pixel Art Generator · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- World Explorer · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- NewMinecraftServers · ph · 2026-10-11 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- EndCraft · github · 2026-10-07 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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