Minecraft in the real world

[strife]

I guess the accessibility of minecraft for youth is the benefit here, but sketch-up is easier to learn, faster to use, more accurate, and you would actually have a usable work skill by the end of it.

I've used it to plan everything from packing the P.O.D. with all my boxes when I moved (and I new ahead of time that everything was going to fit). To designing outriggers for my kayak. To showing my clients what they could potentially do with our materials. To providing full schematics for architects to use in conjunction with their drawings.

I don't want to be a negative nancy, but to me, this is a great idea but it's a little bit like using a stapler to hammer in a nail. Yeah it works, but it ain't the best choice of tools.

Yea, you're spot on. This is just cool because it's using minecraft... it's not cool because it's the most effective way to do it.

Sketch-up is awesome... I design furniture with it... It's great for mapping out exactly how much of each type of material you need.