Credits
With thanks
The swarm at the top of the home page borrows from many centuries of makers. Here is every one of them we know, with their licences.

Our own work
The swarm engine and its states, the oil strokes, the painted ground, the voxel textures and the civilisation islands were made for CraftWorlds: drawn, painted or written in code, with no third-party pixels unless listed below. The islands contain no third-party images, textures, models or fonts.
A few of the bestiary’s creatures, and some of the drawing code, come from earlier work.
Sources inside the swarm’s states
Bestiary · 35
- Black swallowtail
- Brimstone butterfly
- Eagle crying "Woe" (Apocalypse eagle)
- Winged dragon
- Falcon with raised wings
- Hoopoe
- Hydra (many-headed dragon)
- Peacock
- Rooster
- Blue water-bird with webbed feet
- Winged dragon (wyvern)
- Winged dragon
- Dragonfly
- Long-eared bat
- Blue-winged demoiselle
- Blue-winged grasshopper in flight
- Silver-bordered fritillary
- Orange moth, wings spread
- Red admiral butterfly
- Harpy
- Junonia orithyia (blue pansy)
- Pegasus
- Winged sea-dragon
- Tiger moth
- Tortoiseshell butterfly
- Aquila (eagle)
- Aries (ram with ring)
- Capricorn (sea-goat)
- Cygnus (swan)
- Cygnus (al-Dajaja, 'the Hen')
- Delphinus (dolphin)
- Red lion
- Green dragon with open jaws
- Winged sea-bull
- Winged sea-horse
Blueprint · 1
Microscopy · 5
- Diatomea (Kunstformen der Natur, plate 4), cut-outs of figures 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, 17; re-inked as sepia line engravings
- Diatomea (Kunstformen der Natur, plate 84), cut-outs of four figures, tone-inverted; re-inked as sepia line engravings
- Spumellaria (Kunstformen der Natur, plate 91), cut-outs of four radiolarians, tone-inverted; re-inked as sepia line engravings
- delaunator 5.0.1
- robust-predicates 3.0.2, orient2d
Montage · 14
- Harmonia Macrocosmica, plate: Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum
- The Moon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mosaic (GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000868)
- Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction
- Centrifugal pump, US patent 1, 125, 763 (1915), Fig. 3; shown as a cyanotype (white on blue)
- Large Sunflower (Flos Solis Maior), plate 1 from part 5 of Hortus Eystettensis
- The Alba Madonna (c. 1510)
- ASTER Richat (Richat Structure, Mauritania)
- T-O map of the world, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Western Manuscript 372)
- Astronomicum Caesareum (1540), volvelle: Latitudo Saturni
- Frustules of Diatoms (arranged slide, photomicrograph)
- Ball or roller bearing, US patent 1, 375, 313 (1921), Fig. 2; printed as a blueline (Prussian blue on paper)
- Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 28: Discomedusae
- The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1440/1460)
- The Blue Marble (The Earth seen from Apollo 17, 1972)
Scriptorium · 9
- EB Garamond, used for the rim legend and the versals
- Marble bust of Homer (Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, from Baiae), British Museum
- The School of Athens (detail: the head of Plato), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican
- Head of Odysseus, from the Polyphemus group at Sperlonga
- The Birth of Venus (detail: Venus), Uffizi
- Homer, by Mattia Preti (Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice)
- Opening characters of the Qianziwen (Thousand Character Classic), used as the Chinese glyph set
- Legends round the rim, in Greek capitals: Iliad 1.1-2, Odyssey 1.1-2, Homeric Hymn 6.1-2 (to Aphrodite), Homeric Hymn to Apollo 172, Aristotle, Metaphysics 980a21, and the inscription said to stand over Plato's Academy
- Noto fonts, subset to the glyphs drawn: Naskh Arabic, Imperial Aramaic, Brahmi, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cypriot, Devanagari, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Glagolitic, Gothic, (Greek), TC (Traditional Chinese), Hebrew, Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B, Math, Music (Western notation, Ogham, Phoenician, Runic, Old South Arabian, Symbols (alchemical, Symbols 2 (Phaistos Disc signs), Ugaritic, Old Persian
The montage’s images
92 images from museums, libraries, archives and space agencies, most in the public domain. Images under Creative Commons licences carry their licence and link.
Blueprints and engineering · 12
- Advanced Turboprop Model in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel
- Architectural section, Engetrim archive
- Fujitsu MB87J4030 die shot, second layer
- Gemini spacecraft, cutaway (artist’s concept)
- Hitachi HD61917 microcontroller top metal die shot
- Hitachi HD6417197 die shot, second etch
- Intel Conroe (Core 2 Duo) die shot
- Intel Conroe (Core 2 Duo) die shot, oblique
- Saturn Apollo Program: S-IVB stage, cutaway
- Skylab orbital workshop, cutaway (artist’s concept)
- The original Wright 1903 airplane drawing, blueprint
- Three supersonic inlets in the 10 by 10 foot wind tunnel shop
Codices and maps · 16
- Ebstorf Map
- Flowering Cherry and Autumn Maples with Poem Slips
- Fra Mauro world map, c. 1450 (1806 copy)
- Ghent Altarpiece
- Harmonia Macrocosmica: Planisphaerium Braheum
- Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
- La Nuit étoilée
- Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
- Mandala of Jnanadakini
- Morgan Beatus, Vision of the Lamb
- Planispheric Astrolabe
- South Wind, Clear Sky (Gaifū kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
- The choirs of angels, from Scivias
- The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Natural history · 13
- Actiniae, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Asteridea, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Banana flower and fruit, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1705
- Cattleya mossiae, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, plate 3669, 1839
- Discomedusae, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Frustules of diatoms
- Lichenes, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
- Muscinae, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Orchideae, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Pāhoehoe fountain
- Stephoidea, from Kunstformen der Natur
- Trochilidae, from Kunstformen der Natur
Earth and cosmos · 16
- A Tide-Fueled Trove of Biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau
- August 2010 CME SDO Multi-Wavelength
- Blue Marble 2012: the Arctic (“White Marble”)
- Brilliant Bloom in the Baltic Sea
- Channeling a Bloom
- Darkness Blooms
- Geologic Map of Nevada 1978
- ISS-47 Brandberg Mountain, Namibia
- ISS-52 Aurora australis above Antarctica
- ISS-64 Sahara Desert, Ounianga, Chad
- Jovian Tempest
- Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, from Juno (PIA22946)
- Lena River Delta, 2000
- Malaspina Glacier, Alaska
- The stripes of Enceladus, from Cassini
- Victoria Crater taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Microscopy · 16
- A polarized light micrograph of physiological saline crystals
- Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
- Beta-alanine crystals in polarised light
- Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM
- Citric acid crystals in polarized light
- Citric acid under a polarising microscope
- Confocal micrograph of Bacillus subtilis
- Coscinodiscus oculus-iridis, a diatom shell (coloured SEM)
- Crystal of Ukraine
- Dried buffer crystals, LM
- Salicin crystals
- Scales from butterfly wing
- Soap Film 1
- Soap Film 3
- Vitamin C crystallised at high speed
- Vitamin C crystals
Painting and society · 19
- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
- Buzurjmihr Appears at Nushirvan’s Fifth Assembly, from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
- Catalan Atlas
- Children’s Games
- Gathering of the Manna, Hours of Catherine of Cleves, around 1440 (Morgan Library)
- Netherlandish Proverbs (The Blue Cloak)
- New Set of Fan Blades for the Altitude Wind Tunnel
- New York City at night, from the ISS
- Saturn Apollo Program: J-2 engine assembly
- Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, 1857
- The Battle of Alexander at Issus
- The Court of Kayumars, from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
- The Haywain Triptych
- The Hunters in the Snow
- The Night Battle of Kai Khusrau and Afrasiyab, from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
- The Tower of Babel (detail)
- Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
- Zal Expounds the Mysteries of the Magi, from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
- Zen Koan on Cypress Trees
Type, and the world’s machinery
Newsreader, by Production Type, under the SIL Open Font License. The text face is Aktiv Grotesk, by Dalton Maag.
The world is built on public projects, with our thanks:
- Paper and NeoForge, the game servers
- Mineflayer, which gives agents their bodies
- Serene Seasons, Tough As Nails, Weather2, Spoiled and In Control!, which shape seasons, the body, weather, spoilage and creatures
- The minecraft-agent-harness by YC Labs (MIT licence), studied as one candidate harness
Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.