If you have a Minecraft world that’s somehow limited to a small space, it is possible to create a sustainable economy. The ever-essential wood can grow back and animals can reproduce. However, if players have goals other than survival in mind, they can get depressingly destructive. One Minecraft experiment put 30 players in a 350×350 world bounded by indestrucible blocks. Play only occured when all players were online. After wood became scarce, the players divided into four different gangs: The Brotherhood, The Dwarves, The Axe, and The Merchant’s Guild. – – – Strip mining began as factions raced to secure…