mine-city-2000
MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds
From this:
Into this:
Overview
The program works by reading a *.sc2 city file created by SimCity 2000. It then maps the terrain and places all the buildings into a Minecraft world.
See it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6RW6WouGbE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3FkM7GLxKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIF_1SuZLs
Download link for the compiled app
This is a link to the compiled app, so you don't have to build it from the source code yourself: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000/master/release/mc2k-release.rar
Running the compiled app
Run the compiled app using MineCity2000-GUI.exe.
With the first browse button, choose your *.sc2 city file. A good place to look for it would be C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 2000\Cities. But if you can't find it, open it in SimCity 2000, click "File->Save city as" and put it in a place where you will find it.
With the second browse button, choose your Minecraft install directory. It might be C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft or something similar. A sure way of finding it is if you right-click the shortcut you use to run Minecraft, click Properties and see where the shortcut points.
If you want the underground area to be filled instead of empty (So you don't fall into the ground after digging for a bit), select the "Fill underground area" checkbox. But be warned that this also increases the conversion time and RAM requirements.
If you want Minecraft to automatically generate its own terrain around the city instead of having an obsidian wall, select the "Generate terrain around the city" option.
After you choose both of these, click "Convert!". And when the processing is done, you can close this window, open Minecraft and you should see your city among the saved games.
Your antivirus might think that MineCity 2000 is a virus. It's not.
Opening generated worlds in Minecraft Bedrock Edition
This project was started quite some time ago (2014), so it only generates Minecraft Java Edition worlds.
But fortunately Microsoft has released a converter that can transform Minecraft Java Edition worlds to Bedrock Edition, it's accessible here: https://chunker.app/. I have tested it with a world that was generated by MineCity 2000 and it works almost perfectly. The only difference is that you can't fly around as fast, because that was my custom setting in the generated Java Edition world. But as you can see in the screenshot below, the draw distance in Bedrock Edition can be much much greater (Click for larger images):
Here's a video from this city in Minecraft Bedrock Edition: https://youtu.be/w_fU_Cy6xCA
Projects
The repository contains these projects:
- SimCityReader: Reads information about the city map from a *.sc2 city file
- AnvilFile: Contains utility classes for working with Minecraft's Anvil file format
- MinecraftEditor: Contains classes for creating and editing a Minecraft world
- MineCity2000: Creates the Minecraft world with terrain and buildings
- MineCity2000-GUI: A rudimentary GUI for running the program
You need .NET Framework 4 in order for MineCity 2000 to run. I have checked that the project compiles and runs in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2019.
This is a development version, so do not be surprised if something doesn't work.
At the current stage, not all buildings are supported, so there will be some holes between the buildings in a generated world.
Stuff that does NOT work yet:
- Subways
- Highways (mostly)
- Underwater pipes?
- ???
If you would like to help
Let me know about any bugs or other problems you encounter.
If you know a community that might be interested in this project, tell them about it.
If you have the time, patience and skills, you can design a few more of the missing buildings. The instructions are available here: https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000/wiki/How-to-design-and-add-new-buildings-to-the-project. Please let me know if anything is unclear.
Changelog:
The minecraftforums version: v0.1: Buildings:
- Upper class homes 1-4
- Medium Condominiums 2
- Police Station
- Water Pump
- Middle class homes 5
Features:
- Power lines
- Roads
- Ground water
- Trees
v0.1-v0.2: New buildings:
- Middle class homes 2
- Medium Condominiums 1
- Medium Condominiums 3
- Middle class homes 4
- Middle class homes 3
- Small warehouse 1
- Small warehouse 2
- Gas station 1
- Small office building 2
- Chemical storage
- Gas station 2
- Toy store
- Industrial substation
- Convinience store
- Small Factory 3
- Small Factory 4
- Small Factory 5
- Small Factory 6
- Medium office 5
- Medium office 6
- Medium Appartments 2
New features:
- Tunnels
- Railways
- The file selectors on the GUI automatically open at the most probable location for SimCity and Minecraft installs
Fixed bugs:
- Water level is read correctly from SimCity file
- Program does not crash if an object needs to be at a height greater than 255
v0.2-v0.3: New buildings:
- Office/Retail
- Medium office 3
- Medium office 4
- B&B Inn
- Warehouse
- Small office 1
- Port warehouse
- Large warehouse 1
- Small Park
- Lower class homes 1
- Lower class homes 2
- Lower class homes 3
- Church
- Fire Department
- Large Factory
- Medium Factory
- School
The GitHub version:
- Refactored code
New buildings:
- Runway
- Pier
- Middle class homes 1
- Hospital
- Medium Appartments 1
- Small Appartments 1
- Corporate Headquarters
- Abandoned building 1
- Abandoned building 2
- Big Park
- Small Appartments 2
- Small Appartments 3
- Statue