The Soledar Salt Mine in eastern Ukraine shut down in early 2022 amidst the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian government recreated it in “Minecraft” to raise funds to restore a school hit during the war.
On February 24, 2022, Stepan Bandrivskyi woke up before dawn and got ready for a special day: his birthday. It wouldn’t be a particularly happy one. Hours earlier, a couple dozen miles away, Russian tanks had rolled across the borders of his native Ukraine. The full-scale invasion had begun. Like so many other Ukrainians, Bandrivskyi didn’t know what to do. So he went to work, to the Soledar Salt Mine, a cavernous state-run operation in Eastern Ukraine.
One miner even drew a map of the mines by hand, which the team incorporated into the game’s design. “Thousands of people had to leave their favorite city and the place where their families worked generation after generation. They lost everything they worked for,” Gres says. “Through Stepan and his memories, we recreated the mines in detail, bringing back the place that people loved and cherished for years.
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