Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in it.
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Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
From the official release
I know where the shops are. Where the boats are… I know the city pretty well, but I haven’t been there yet.
Louis Erbkamm, maintainer of Arnis
Arnis is also the name of his open source project, which takes real-world data from OpenStreetMap and other sources to turn places you know into Minecraft worlds you can freely explore. Since Louis started Arnis in 2022, it’s reached close to 900,000 downloads from GitHub and about 70 contributors.
Two weeks and a slow prototype
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