Blockeley’s back, with an 1893 campus and a Bancroft Library archive

Blockeley lives on, with its builders constantly creating new images of the campus in the Minecraft video game. The virtual campus can be walked and flown through in-game on May 15, at the student club's second annual Blockeley commencement. (Blockeley image) Last year's mock commencement at Blockeley University, a fantastical virtual model of UC Berkeley created in the Minecraft video game, made headlines as an imaginative response to the COVID-era postponement of Berkeley's 2020 graduation ceremony. This spring, Berkeley will hold its own Class of 2021 Virtual Commencement , at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 15. But Blockeley is back, too, and bigger than ever. Now organized as a campus student organization called Blockeley, the students and alumni who  last year painstakingly replicated more than 100 of Berkeley's buildings and landmarks with a game many of them first played as tweens will hold a second annual Blockeley commencement in Minecraft at 10 a.m. on May 15. The group of about 30 active members began planning in late 2020 to hold a repeat ceremony in 2021, unsure if the campus would have its own.