Minecraft gamers spend 8000 hours recreating parts of Ayrshire towns during lockdown
Prestwick, Ayr and Alloway — thanks to one of the best-selling video games of all time.Dilan Flanagan, Eoin McCann and Joanna Kennedy, all 20, spent a staggering 8,000 hours building exact scale replicas of Ayrshire locations on Minecraft.And the hope is their replica locations can be accessed and appreciated by the masses.The trio spent months during lockdown on a private server, as they set about the task of surveying areas of interest, before applying their calculations to their task at hand.And the results are certainly impressive.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now.Get all the local news in your area – plus features, football news and the latest on the coronavirus crisis – at your fingertips 24/7.The free download