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News from the build

This is where updates on Malta in Minecraft appear: new places as they are finished, how the islands are built from real survey data, and progress towards the full world of Malta, Gozo and Comino.

Malta's rock layers: from a giant dirt band to the geology map

12 October 2026

How I gave every cliff in Malta in Minecraft the islands' real rock layers: a 120-block dirt band, a desert that wasn't Malta, a 14-layer geology map, and a cliff that changed every build.

Rebuilding the Azure Window and the Inland Sea tunnel

12 October 2026

The Azure Window fell in 2017 and no survey can see inside the Inland Sea tunnel. How I rebuilt both in Minecraft from photos, and everything that went wrong on the way.

Progress #1: Gozo and Comino in development

12 October 2026

Gozo and Comino are in development with the real seabed around them. Mainland Malta is next. What you can already see, and what went wrong this month.

Why build Malta at 1:1 in Minecraft?

12 October 2026

Where Malta in Minecraft came from, what a 1:1 Malta really means, and how real survey data becomes a Minecraft world you can explore.

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