This week, celebrated the first anniversary of, the game's most famous battle that saw participants holding the line on the jungle planet against a massive automaton incursion. A new robot offensive to take the Creek is currently ongoing. But despite having a war to fight, one errant helldiver chose to commemorate the battle outside of the game entirely, recreating Malevelon Creek [[link]] in Minecraft.
That player is Helldivers 2 YouTuber Red Monster Thing, who posted a video of his bespoke Malevelon Creek map earlier this week (via). And I have to say, it's an impressive creation. The map features detailed recreations of automaton factories, complete with buildings like laser gun turrets, signal disrupters, and the eye of Sauron-style detector towers.
It isn't just the meticulously recreated automaton paraphernalia that makes the map neat. It also replicates the moody colour palette of Malevelon Creek precisely. The purple trees, the perpetual twilight, the hazy jungle atmosphere that led to the Creek being coined 'Robot Vietnam': it's all spot on. The one part of the map not created by Red Monster Thing is the helldiver skin he's wearing, which was made by Minecraft skinner Dr_Martex and can be downloaded.
The map has clearly been in production for a while, but Red Monster Thing says it's now [[link]] finished. The video above is apparently "one final preview" before he releases another video that details specifically how the map was made. Oh, and the YouTuber also states he'll release the map for free once his channel hits 1,000 subscribers. Currently it's at just under 350, so there's some ground to make up before the map will be released.