A YouTuber who posts under the name smill has taken Minecraft off the screen and onto a receipt printer, printing a new blurry screenshot every two seconds and producing roughly 0.5 frames per second for a full survival playthrough. The setup feeds Minecraft frames to a tiny thermal printer like the sort you see at shops and restaurants. Smill posted a short teaser on social media showing how the printer spits out a new, fuzzy image every two seconds, which leaves players guessing where mobs are or whether inventory items exist until the next strip of paper appears.
The channel has around 50,000 YouTube subscribers and a history of deliberately awkward or extreme challenges. This run is the same sort of stunt work, except it has prompted pushback. Many commenters accused smill of wasting receipt paper and harming the environment, noting that thermal receipts often cannot be recycled because of chemical coatings. Smill replied to critics with the single word “funny” and the line “I just love deforestation.” Those quotes have been shared along with clips of the printer feeding out another barely-legible frame.
The stunt is inherently slow. At 0.5fps players need patience and luck to survive surprise Creeper encounters or navigate caves. It is also expensive relative to more conventional streams, because the printer consumes a steady roll of thermal paper during the run. The teaser clip and the ensuing debate have pushed the playthrough into viral territory, with viewers split between amusement and annoyance. The full video promises more of the same paper-driven confusion, and people are watching to see if smill manages a coherent progression or just a long, printed series of near-misses.
For context the video clip being widely shared comes from YouTube:
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Minecraft
Developed by Mojang Studios
Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.
- Genre: Simulator, Adventure, Arcade
- Platforms: Amazon Fire TV, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Gear VR, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- Release: 2016-12-19
- Publisher: Mojang Studios
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Age Rating:
ESRB E10+ / USK 6 / ACB PG / CERO A / GRAC 12+ / PEGI 7 / CLASS_IND L
- IGDB Rating: 80.7/100
