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Blockeley is a Minecraft server created by students of the University of California, Berkeley, which is a 1:1 scale[clarification needed] reconstruction of the university campus.[1][2]
The project was headed by student Bjorn Lustic who got the idea from a sarcastic Facebook comment;[3] as the project grew more than 500 students applied to help build the server. Growing from the initial plan of building Memorial Stadium, Lustic and his team would go on to work on the rest of the university.[4]
The server was used by the university to host the 2020 and 2021 UC Berkeley graduation ceremonies during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5][6][7] The server hosted a music festival presented by Beauz and produced by their artist manager Antonio Di Puorto and his team. The two-day event included guest performances by Cash Cash, Sam Feldt, and Vini Vici and 60 more artists.[5][2]
The Associated Students of the University of California has worked in collaboration with the building team to continue to host events on the server during the continued COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
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