Taxi Ride in a Blocky City

About this drawing

A Minecraft taxi belongs in a big city, and building cities is one of the things fans love most. Some players create skyscrapers, train stations, highways and entire neighborhoods packed with detail.

Projects like these helped Minecraft move into classrooms. Minecraft Education, released in 2016, lets teachers build lessons in math, history, science and coding inside the blocky world. Students might recreate famous landmarks, calculate areas or program a little robot helper.

Teamwork is a big part of it. In a shared city, one group handles roads, another designs buildings and another plants parks, and everyone has to agree on the plan. Many teachers say the game encourages creativity and problem solving.

A taxi like this could cruise through any of those blocky cities. The best part is that Minecraft has no limits: if the city needs more cabs, more streets or a whole airport, players simply keep building. Some classes even hold contests to see which team can design the most sustainable city, with public transit, green parks and clean energy. Others recreate their own town block by block, learning about maps, scale and local history along the way.

• minecraft
• taxi
• cities
• education
• video games