In a YouTube video, PippenFTS called for prospective participants to recreate man-made structures over a rudimentary model of Earth's terrain.

[7] In July 2020, YouTuber MrBeast released a video where he and 50 other people built his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina within the project.

[6] A team of over 400 players has completed construction on multiple buildings from Portugal, including the Algarve International Circuit.

[10] The Build The Earth project primarily depends on two Minecraft modifications to function: Cubic Chunks and Terra++.

Terra++ uses information from geographic data services, such as OpenStreetMap,[11] to automatically generate terrain to ease the building process.