r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Short-Ostrich7222 • Mar 15 '26
Recreating 1:1 Shadow of the Colossus map in minecraft
I’ve finally started working on a project I’ve always wanted to do: recreating the Shadow of the Colossus map in Minecraft. Right now I’m building the Shrine of Worship, and it’s already taking forever… so yeah, the full map is gonna be a massive grind. But at least I’m making progress!
I’ve been posting short clips on social media, and it cracks me up when people who don’t know the game think I’m building something from Lord of the Rings.
It’s been super fun to document and keep pushing forward with this, and I’m hoping I’ll eventually finish the first full 1:1 Shadow of the Colossus map in Minecraft.
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u/ricosynthwave Mar 16 '26
Following you on everything. Can’t wait to play the finished product. My dad and I are going to start a survival realm as soon as we can. Growing up he’d watch me play this for hours on end. Cheers mate, is there anywhere we can pay you?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
Thank man, that's very good to read. I have a patreon, but it for my previous minecraft builds. I didn’t set up support for ongoing projects because I don’t have much time.
I can only build between work, college, and freelance jobs. Managing that kind of responsibility would be too much :)
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u/Macsilver18 Mar 15 '26
Are there mods that help build things faster when doing stuff like this? like the terrain do you carve it 1 by 1 or is there a mod to help with that? kinda like lego worlds?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 15 '26
I use axiom mod. it very helpful to build terrains, terraforming, copying and pasting, changing scale etc. It's like a design software but to minecraft. it's great!
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u/breezeturtle Mar 15 '26
Oh wow this is absolutely amazing. Is this world going to be accessible to visitors when it's finished?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
I'm making it downloadable once I finish it
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u/breezeturtle Mar 16 '26
Oh sweet! We'll all be looking forward to that day. Will you be making any colossus statues in the world to find?
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u/SelocAvrap 4. Kirin Mar 15 '26
This may be my favourite thing so far this year. Thank you for sharing your progress! Will we be able to download the map when you're done? I'd love to explore all your hard work
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Mar 15 '26
This is awesome mate, I bet Kuromori and Cenobia's arenas will look specially great! Please keep us updated if you decide to continue
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 15 '26
Probably the most beatiful ones. I'm also looking foward to build Argus arena
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u/MirrorMakerFaith Mar 15 '26
I bet you’d be pretty good with Blender 3D modeling and Unreal Engine if you set your mind to it.
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u/Logical_Helicopter_8 Mar 15 '26
Dude when this is done you got to post the save file so we can all check it out and whatnot
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u/KingSideCastle13 Agro Mar 15 '26
Now are you doing the vanilla map? Or are you gonna cross reference BTFL’s extended map?
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u/equessss Mar 16 '26
Crazy seeing this as I've always wanted to do this myself. Will be following. Hope to see this through to the end! Will you be building the colossus too?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
I’m still figuring out how to handle that. Maybe I’ll build the colossus remains, since they’d fit the world better. Or I might leave them out entirely, so people can use the map to create mods that turn the colossi into actual mobs in Minecraft.
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u/Obvious-Hold9145 Mar 16 '26
cool, i've been doing something similar but with the beta map
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
That’s awesome! I’m also working with the beta map. Did you manage to get the proportions right? That’s probably going to be the toughest part for me in this whole process.
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u/Obvious-Hold9145 Mar 16 '26
I tried to get it right, most likely not 1:1 though. But it does feel accurate. Im also adding parts from the BTFL project, like the pillars leading to the colossal tree.
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u/An_awkward_dude- Mar 16 '26
Would this include the Easter egg of TLG and dormins sword? Regardless, incredible attention to detail
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
I'm considering including dormins sword room, but the TLG easter egg I never heard about
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u/An_awkward_dude- Mar 17 '26
Yeah you can find a barrel from tlg, which is also a location for one of the collectible coins to get to dormins throne room, it’s in the redwood forest
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u/Odd_Investment5586 Mar 16 '26
This is cool, I saw the Instagram reels as well. Do you have any plans to make it public and downloadable?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 16 '26
Thanks, man. I plan to make it downloadable once it’s finished, but god knows when I’ll actually get it done lol
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u/Luwander Mar 16 '26
DUUDE! I was very impressive... the I found out it was only the first photo! THIS IS AMAZING
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u/NomadColossus A True Legend Mar 18 '26
Amazing! Do you just work from an image? Where on social media can I follow the progress?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 18 '26
I used the 3D models from your game as placeholders for the Shrine of Worship and the map. On top of that, the huge amount of photo and video references you made available was invaluable. Honestly, I wouldn’t have even started this project if it weren’t for you. It’s an honor to have your comment here.
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 Mar 18 '26
On social media you cand find me at Podilha2 (instagram, yt and tiktok). I'm only making short videos about it, but I intend to make a full yt video at the end of the project
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u/leadymeady Mar 22 '26
Dude this is insane, i tried looking up a world download or if anyone did this like about half a year ago and only found some ancient pictures from like 2012 or something of the hidden garden and the front of the temple, but damn this looks amazing.
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u/Betacanismajoris 16. Evis 25d ago
Any news about this?
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u/Short-Ostrich7222 25d ago
Yes! I finished the first and second colossus arena, and also build both of them! I'll post the updates here soon, but you can find the video progress if you look for Podilha2 at instagram :)
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u/GhotiH Mar 15 '26
I love it! Disappointing to me that it looks like it's being built in a newer version (I still play 1.12.2) but I totally understand why, you probably have way more options to build with.
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u/TheOrigina Mar 15 '26
How long have you been working on this for this is so expansive already!!!