UC Berkeley Blockeley campus.Gretchen Knell
- UC Berkeley students recreated their campus on "Minecraft" after COVID-19 ended their semester early.
- Events including graduations and weddings have been moved online to "Minecraft," "Animal Crossing," and other online games since the coronavirus spread throughout the world.
- College commencements around the country were canceled, and students have been recreating them online.
A typical graduation wasn't possible this year at UC Berkeley, but students came up with a solution. They recreated their entire campus in painstaking detail, and held commencement in the virtual world, "Blockeley."
Mid-semester, colleges across the US switched to remote learning and sent students home. Since then, other schools like the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Brown have also been built on "Minecraft."
The block-building game "Minecraft," which Microsoft bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, has been one of the most popular games worldwide over the last 10 years. As of September, it had a staggering 112 million active players every month, a number that has reportedly grown to 145 million.
Here's what the "Minecraft" campus looks like.