The amount of creativity that Minecraft allows players is staggering, with a full wiring system, hundreds of different blocks and even music tools. One Minecraft player stretched the music elements to their extremes creating a cover of Still Alive from Portal.
Among the hundreds of blocks in Minecraft is the Note Block, which can be tuned to specific pitches and plays a note or percussive sound when powered depending on the block below it. Some composers create large chains of note blocks to play full songs.
A player going by minoan8128 brought the world of Portal into Minecraft with a cover of the iconic Portal ending song, Still Alive. The song cover involves hundreds of note blocks strung together in a massive chain, with a minecart track carrying the player so the sounds never end up out of hearing range. In the background, detailed dioramas resembling Portal's test chambers are shown, with carefully timed falling blocks adding an impressive amount of detail to the build by selling the effect of working portals. Even small details like security cameras and flickering lights are present and turrets are made with clever use of banners.
The Minecraft community is well known for player dedication to projects, with some like a recreation of Half-Life 2 taking over half a decade. The Still Alive cover must have taken a long time as well, with minoan8128 jokingly commenting that it took "approximately one pandemic" to create. The composition is very close to the original while still maintaining its own flair and the visuals go a long way in keeping the Portal aesthetic in focus.
The song cover is great on its own, but even more impressively the original poster claims it was created entirely in vanilla survival Minecraft. If this claim is true, it would be an incredibly impressive achievement. The building that the majority of the cover is shown in is massive and full of detail, with the outside showing off even more building projects. Such massive builds would have taken a very long time with the material gathering and lack of flying inherent to the survival mode.
Even with spinoffs like the Minecraft movie's fate remaining uncertain, the fan community is keeping the game alive through creative projects and the current developers update the game regularly with new additions. Minecraft is a game with a massive possibility space yet to be explored and it is safe to say fan projects will continue to be its lifeblood.