The IRL Minecraft ClubThe IRL Minecraft Club is a membership-based outdoor recreation community where people participate in a real-world sandbox experience inspired by the creativity and freedom of Minecraft.Members gain access to a large shared property designed to function as a living, evolving world. The land includes forests, farmland, water sources, workshops, gathering areas, and designated resource extraction zones. Within established safety and environmental guidelines, members are free to shape the landscape, build structures, cultivate crops, create projects, and collaborate with other members.Core Activities* Building structures and settlements* Farming and food production* Forestry and resource harvesting* Quarrying and stone work* Crafting and engineering projects* Community events and challenges* Trade and cooperation between membersThe goal is to create a persistent world that develops over time through the collective efforts of its members.Membership ModelRevenue is generated through recurring memberships that provide access to the property, shared tools, equipment, resources, and organized activities.Members can participate casually for a day of outdoor recreation or become long-term contributors who help shape the evolving community.
Food and CommerceAn on-site food vendor provides meals, snacks, and supplies. Members may also bring their own food or produce food through approved farming and agricultural activities within the club.Safety and StewardshipStaff members oversee site operations, maintain equipment, monitor safety practices, care for animals, and enforce community standards. While participants accept inherent risks through membership agreements and waivers, the club maintains reasonable safety procedures and operational oversight.Community RulesThe club operates under a code of conduct designed to encourage cooperation, respect, and responsible land stewardship. Members who violate these standards may lose access to the community.VisionThe IRL Minecraft Club aims to become a modern “third place”—a social environment outside of home and work where people can gather, create, learn practical skills, spend time outdoors, and build something meaningful together.Rather than consuming entertainment, members actively participate in creating the world around them. Every structure, farm, pathway, and project becomes part of a living community built by the people who use it.
Sorry For using AI but it is a better writer than me. Isn’t this a genius as hell idea
>>62338006So you're going to charge people a subscription to camp in the same spot, expect them to (poorly) build the amenities, and find someone willing to insure this?You know what though OP, maybe we can convince the new generation to be contributing members of society by rebranding life as some sort of Minecraft game. They pay a subscription to the IRS and they get to love in a world where they can try and find a place to live and not get eaten by zombies?
>>62338016>* Farming and food production>* Forestry and resource harvesting>* Quarrying and stone workCongrats, you just described the fucking economy. If you want to do this without investing 50B in machinery and bribes for politicians, you got competition in the Amish. But you can try to rebrand the religious cult for social media braindead younglings.
>>62338049>50 billion in machineryOnly simple tools. Pick axes, shovels, axes, etc, to start. As the club grows and evolves they can vote on investments such as machinery as a -portion of the profits get reinvested into the club.
>>62338006Have you ever tried digging a 1 meter by 1 meter hole in dirt?
>>62338006It's a good idea if you are handsome and people like you (are you over 6ft?)otherwise finding land will be impossible. There are however municipalities with a lot of "conservation" land that they don't have any way of improving or utilizing even in environmentally and "socially positive" ways. Basically if you live in a nice area with public land that is under utilized, yes, you're minecraft club could get support from local governments. It relies entirely on your IRL level of charm, and your local government. Or find a rich person who has land.
>>62338006build 5x5x5 (meter) house (just floor and ceiling and support columns in corners)manages to rise the 5m structure somehow from dirt or planksinvites frens on the roof to admire it allredecorates/upgrades to bricks: removes columns #1 and #2guys can you help me with this work?uh guys?guys?
>>62338097>Basically if you live in a nice area with public land that is under utilized, yes, you're minecraft club could get support from local governments.build the nice treehousenails down floor for it to be safepeople playing 6767 moving things a bit, upgradinggo to other part of housestep on exposed nail112 hello
>>62338097Somebody else will have to pull it off. I am autistic, I can’t charm my local governments into supporting the club. I am 6’2’’ though and muscular
>>62338130>I am 6’2’’ though and muscularhonestly that is probably sufficient, I say go for it bro.
>>62338006OP remembered the movie Downsizing
>>62338006Can't help but chuckle that you're describing a labor camp (or the real life economy, lmao). But there is probably something to it. Something like renting outdoor spaces to do that Primitive Technology thing that that youtube guy does.
Its a neat idea but you would need to be really close to a major city to get interest and if you own a good amount of land near a major city you are likely already too rich to need a business ideas.
Nah that's dumb. Normies (aka: families - your only viable target market) will not want to do this. Better to use the land to plant strawberries/blueberries and charge people to come pick the berries.
>>62338357me? I would plant cotton and put my farm near atlanta
>>62338006>blablabla rules blabla>membership fee blablaSounds like some shitty reddit polycule.
>>62338006>In the USA? No way!Alright. Before we even start, most towns have crafting, foraging, garden and a geology clubs as well as swap meets where a lot of the video game in real life folks could reasonably get their fill. What OP is describing is going to run into a whole lot of trouble in 75-90% of the first world countries. Let's start by assuming your in the most relaxed US state and not in South America here. >InsuranceYour range of activity is extremely wide here, if your offering an ongoing membership in exchange for access on private property you are opening your doors to being sued into non existence. Your waver is going to be at least 40 pages long as it has to cover 20 different fields of work.>Zoning Lets say you want to set up your club right in the middle of town. You give the community development board your proposal and they say no, it's planned as commercial. Fine, you put it in your backyard. They say no, that's residential. Ok you you need a blend of commercial and residential no biggie. You magically find one and submit. They say no. Why? Well because you plan to pine and that needs an environmental survey as well as an erosion control plan as well as an engineers sign off as well as... You get the idea. You need a unicorn of a property that lets you:-Mine-Log-Set up part time residents-serve food commercially-house animalsAll while having the natural recourses for continued use in both aspects of mining and logging.>PermitsIf you want to build? You need a permit. If you want to make a quarry? You need a permit. If you want to hunt, fish, cut down trees, breed animals you need... A permit.How much money would this actually take?-Aggregate Production Operations (Quarry)$1,500 - Commercial Retail Food Establishment License $600 + $500 annually -Livestock & Nursery$100 annually-Commercial building application$25,000-Standard special event permitranging from $50 (under 500 attendees) to $150 (1,000–3,999 attendees).
>>62339477Part 2>a social environment outside of home and work where people can gather, create, learn practical skills, spend time outdoors, and build something meaningful together.Ok. Let's ignore the absurdities for a moment and explain how you could feasibly pull something like this off.>1. Zoning, Insurance and RegulationsTo start, your going to need to find property. Your looking for a generally outdoorsy place, with prebuilt or pre-zoned land specifically marked as recreation or institutional. A summer camp fits these requirements, if your lucky you can rent land from these camps which already have a significant amount of the legwork done. Otherwise you need to apply the land for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to prove to your local government your recreational land will not kill people.>2. Event Planning, General AttractionsNext on the docket is deciding what goes on and where. Forget damaging or destroying the environment for one second that's not going to work. What will work is diet versions of the actions your describing. Instead of chopping down a tree, you can teach chopping firewood in a regulated and controlled environment with section zones for cutting and chopping with proper PPE like goggles, a face mask, gloves etc. Instead of mining, teaching how to used a chisel to create a (no larger than 12" tall) structure like a stone campfire circle or a trail. Any buildings will have to be completely non permanent and cannot be higher 10 to 12 feet. Using rope works really well for non permanent structures.Hunting and fishing must be regulated, technically children under 10 can hunt and fish for free with a licensed adult but anyone above that age has to have a license.Essentially, anything that poses even a miniscule danger to human safety has to be completely neutered. >3.Costs and ExpensesYour going to need to pay. Like a lot, were talking in the ballpark of 50-250k a year at minimum. The longer the place is open, the more it costs.
>>62338016A post industrial site will be hard to manage, permit and insure which is why the places that do things like this tend to specialize in larping as medieval (Duché de Bicolline) or colonial period (Colonial Williamsburg) or civil war era (Billie Creek Village) or wild west ranch (Frontier Town Adventure Park) or even post apocalypse (Oldtown) and zombie themes (Wasteland Weekend) that keep people using hand tools and not adding a bunch of completing electrical systems, but many of those thing, besides Duché de Bicolline, are temporary pop up events instead of permanent villages.
>>62338006How do the members earn money to pay their subscription fees if they're all performing back-breaking hard labor all day at some blokes ranch for zero dollars? I think you underestimate the effort involved in refining raw materials and building things generally. You're an idiot and life isn't a video game. Grow up
>>62338311It's rebranding. Like Slavery was rebranded to communism.
