City of Newisle

''This page is about the official Minecraft map by Blip Noir. For the Discord Server, see City of Newisle (Discord)'' The City of Newisle | Solo-built Modern Minecraft City, or simply Newisle, is a Minecraft map, built by Canadian player Blip Noir.

The map is a large modern city, with 7 unique towns and a mass transportation grid. The city began construction in August 2010, and has remained updated regularly since. As of November 2020, it is one of the most downloaded Minecraft maps on Planet Minecraft.

Early History
Blip Noir began construction on Newisle in August of 2010, as he had been interested in cityscapes and skyscrapers. The map began construction in Minecraft Alpha, and was initially built in survival mode. Since the addition of creative mode in September 2011, it has been built exclusively in creative.

Version 1.2 and release
On July 3rd, 2015, Blip Noir uploaded the map to Planet Minecraft, captioned "City of Newisle v1.2 | Solo-built modern Minecraft city". The map at the time of release became known as Version 1.2. Several months earlier, he uploaded the map to the Minecraft Maps site under the title 'City of Newisle'. The map has been downloaded 70,000 times on the Minecraft Maps site and over 240,000 times on Planet Minecraft, making it the 45th-most popular map on the site. The City of Newisle has amassed over 800,000 downloads through Blip Noir's official channels though with other unauthorized sites and apps picking up the map the true count is likely over 1 million downloads.

Post-1.2
After 1.2, Blip Noir has continued to update the map. This includes the addition of new buildings and towns as well as revamps of old designs from the original map. Blip Noir has been working on Version 1.3 which will feature 2 new towns. He releases a monthly prerelease on the Discord server.

Content
The map features 7 towns (including 2 cities) and several highways and mass transportation systems. The cities are Newisle, the largest urban city. It also includes the smaller city Rockwood, the modern development Fallout Bay, and the rural towns Cliffcrest, Grand Tree, Briar Valley, and Tumbleweed. Version 1.3 plans to add two new towns titled Stillwater and Juniper Peak.

The cities of Newisle and Rockwood both feature their own transportation system. The cities are linked together by the Regional Express Rail (REX). There are also several highways in the map linking them.

Legacy
The Newisle map is one of the most popular Minecraft maps, with over 800,000 downloads. The map was covered in a video by AntVenom in September 2016, which has more than 3,600,000 views as of 2020.

The success of Newisle formed a dedicated community around the map. There is an official Discord Server, as well as a multiplayer Newisle server. Players can apply for builder on the Discord and gain permission to build on the Minecraft Server, and are allowed to add anything they see fit to Newisle so long as it fits in.

Spinoff Maps
Newisle: Lights Out is a special version of the map, released on January 17th, 2020. It has all light features in the map removed.

Newisle: Community Edition is a port of the official server for the map, with input from community builders elected through the Discord server.