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The Graveyard! Find the Master Sword but watch out for Ghini’s! (Photos by /EEu3ToDHc3 Here you can see levels 1 and 4! (Photos by /ZAZrA9kxKP Hyrule Overworld, here you can see level 2 and where you find the extra rupee’s in top right. The zoomed in images show a number of small details ranging from the game’s different dungeons and infamous graveyard to small tunnel entrances and river docks. Retro gamer and web series producer Mike Matei then proceeded to upload and share a series of higher resolution pictures of the map he received from McFarland. 24 hours of printing and six hours of painting later, this was created: They then used that to create a file for a 3D printer. According to a report by Retro Gaming Mag, the piece was sold through the Facebook group Trade Sell Collect Retro, with McFarland stating that the person he bought it from had spent six months building the map in Minecraft. Willard McFarland was the one to purchase the creation, sharing the below picture on Twitter.

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