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Can someone who is more familiar with Minecraft explain how the physical structure of something like this gets built? Is it by placing blocks one by one, or using some third-party program and then importing it into the game?

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It depends. In most cases it's definitely one by one, but external tools do exist. Tools like World Painter, MCedit, and the server side mod World Edit especially are used in large scale projects.

https://www.worldpainter.net/ https://www.mcedit.net/ https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/worldedit

Mcedit is a popular program for large scale building. Additionally a lot of players use various mods which provide things like mirrored modes(so if your structure has symmetry you do an order of magnitude less work). A lot of massive structures are built by hand though. It's not as bad as it looks to build something massive by hand if you have a lot of detail in what you are building(the best builds always have lots of detail). Stuff like westeroscraft is mostly built by hand with some mods.

Hasn't MCEdit not been updated since the Aqua update?

I don't use it so it may have become out of date without me realising.

Correct, MCEdit is an amazing tool, but hasn't worked for a few versions ever since they updated the way in which blocks were stored....

The "Making of" video on https://uncensoredlibrary.com is extremely light on details, but you can see the player placing entire columns with a single click at one point.

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