In the past, people have tried making Minecraft things in real life, like building recreations of a piston out of Lego. But it's not like you could ever recreate redstone, the magical material that's ...

Building a computer is one thing. Designing a computer from scratch is another. Doing both of those things in the confines of Microsoft's smash-hit sandbox game Minecraft is, I want to say, absurd?

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