Since then, MattuFIN has been working alone, assuming the role as city-planner, grand architect and builder.Ĭonsidering it a hobby, he builds it in his spare time a few hours every week.Ī single building usually takes somewhere between 30 minutes and a couple hours. I decided to rebuild the existing map instead, tearing down 95 of what had been built, only conserving a few select buildings that I and the others had built during the first phase. I thought about starting a new city from scratch, but then realised that Id gotten too attached to Mattupolis to do that, he remembers. The crew soon started to lose interest in it and in 2013 the last remaining team member was MattuFIN.

I guess we wanted to create something similar and eventually started working on a modern city, not thinking it would result in anything particularly big. Luckily, they found inspiration in one of the worlds biggest map projects.

They had grown short of ideas and needed a new daring challenge to put their minds to. MattuFins own journey began in early 2012 as he and a couple of friends joined forces to start a brand new project. The amount must be in the hundreds, if not thousands, he says.Īs famous poet Lao Tzu once said: The journey of a perfect Minecraft build begins with one block. The way Vancouver seamlessly connects urban environments with gorgeous natural scenery is something I really wanted to recreate in Minecraft. I like big cities so much as I cant get enough of the great outdoors, and I guess thats why Vancouver inspired me so much, MattuFIN tells me. The recipe for it is North American architecture, where he draws inspiration from cities such as Seattle or Vancouver, with the goal to make the city as modern and realistic as possible. I could also use feedback and thoughts on this, as stuff like that keeps me going on creating and adding on to this titanic project.Įven suggestions to personalize certain rooms of buildings, provided you send a picture first.Īs I take a tour through the city, I quickly notice the level of detail in not only the architecture, but the urban planning as well.įor six years he has been hard at work constructing his very own city that continues to grow as we speak. So every now and then Id invite some friends to goof off on and stuff.

Minecraft New York Map 1.7.10 Trial Buildings ShouldĪnd in the distant future, possibly even an entire section of the city may get reworked.

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