Blockeley

Blockeley is a "Minecraft" server created by students of UC Berkeley which is a 1:1 scale reconstruction of the university campus.
The project was headed by student Bjorn Lustic who got the idea from a sarcastic Facebook comment; 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.
The server was used by the university to host the 2020 UCB graduation ceremony during the COVID-19 pandemic. A two-day music festival was hosted on the server starting May 16, 2020 which included acts such as Cash Cash, Sam Feldt, and Vini Vici. This is the first music festival hosted on "Minecraft".
The ASUC has worked in collaboration with the building team to continue to host events on the server to host events during the continued COVID-19 pandemic.
History.
The project officially began on March 15, 2020, shortly after the university closed the campus and halted all in-person activities. Bjorn Lustic with the help of friend, Hunter Hall, converted a NASA topography scan of Berkeley into a "Minecraft" world using world editing tool. The process of recreating the California Memorial Stadium was completed much quicker than they had expected due to each member's familiarity of the stadium. Future building co-lead and commencement coordinator, Nicholas Pickett, recalls spending much time on the northwest entrance of the stadium as a University of California Marching Band member, while future executive director, Elliot Choi, recalled his time setting up card stunts in the student section as a freshman in the University of California Rally Committee. Choi also suggested the name change to "Blockeley", a play on the city's name, Berkeley, to avoid potential legal conflicts with the use of the university's name.
Building the campus.
Finishing the stadium in just about a week, the team moved on to building the surrounding areas such as the International House Berkeley using tools such as Google Earth to get approximate dimensions of the buildings. Merely being a team of about seven active builders working in their free time, there were no plans to complete the entire campus, until building team member, Evan Quan, posted a public call for builders on the popular "Overheard at UC Berkeley" Facebook page. Overnight, the team's Discord server grew from roughly 10 members to over a thousand with hundreds of students applying to build through a publicly shared Google Form.