A Working Minecraft Rubik's Cube

What do Minecraft and Rubik's Cubes have in common? Not a lot, really – except that they're both made up of lots of small cubes. Clay artist Wuzu Clay used this shared cubeitude to make not one, not two, but three exceptionally detailed, functional Minecraft Rubik's Cubes, which required hundreds of tiny little polymer clay cubes, and took a very long time to make, because five out of the six sides on each cube was a different, tiny diorama.

The first cube was by no means simple. One side was a taiga scene, with a few tiny pine trees, and then an even tinier chicken with an even tinier egg. To accompany the taiga, Wuzu made a miniature desert scene on the yellow side of the cube, with itty-bitty cacti and some matching creepers. The orange side of the cube became a little diorama of the Nether, with lots of different sizes of magma cube, a hoglin, and plenty of lava, and the red side of the cube was a mini Mooshroom island, complete with tiny versions of the giant mushrooms and a happy little Mooshroom, too. The white side of the cube then became The End, with twisty chorus fruit trees and some menacing endermen, with the bottom left blank so it could sit on a shelf. 

Wuzu's second cube explored some new biomes: The warm ocean, with an angry little pufferfish, among colourful coral; a snowy taiga with a snow golem and a couple of arctic foxes; a desert village with an iron golem keeping guard over a terracotta well; a Nether scene with a strider family, a wither, and a LOT of fire; and perhaps the most Minecrafty scene of all – a cave, full of zombies and spiders. 

But Wuzu's third cube is perhaps the most impressive of all. With all the practice (and a few more updates), Wuzu decided to take on some even more detailed scenes, beginning with the Warden in the Deep Dark biome, surrounded with sculk blocks. The other sides featured an Enderman having a look around an amethyst geode, a few axolotls hanging out in a peaceful lush cave, and a crimson forest with some piglins and a hoglin. The final side on the final cube was a warped forest, complete with a ghast suspended on a tiny transparent piece of plastic.

Everything in these builds was made out of polymer clay, with some detail added on to blocks like amethyst and the faces of the mobs with paint pens. And yes, all of the Rubik's Cubes are totally useable, so you can make tiny little mixed scenes, like an Enderman contemplating the Nether, or an axolotl hanging out in The End – but it is quite fragile, so it's best as a decoration!

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