A vast, hyper-realistic city called Mattupolis has been under construction in created a huge library inside the game that it is hosting as a public server and using to display news articles that were banned in their home countries.
Minecraft has been a notorious time-waster ever since it launched. In a world where you can do anything, it's easy to lose track of time, and the massive projects that litter the internet were not built in a day. Greenfield is another massive, realistic city in Minecraft that's been catching eyes for a long time. Work on Greenfield has been under way since 2011, and today, unless fans look very closely at a screenshot of it, they might mistake it for a real-life urban sprawl.
The success of Greenfield did not go unnoticed by other Minecraft builders. A small group of friends, including a young Minecraft player named MattuFIN, teamed up in early 2012 to make a Minecraft city of their own. Work on this metropolis continued until the team lost interest a year later, and the project fell away. MattuFIN didn't give up, though. He tore down most of the city and started again, naming the new project Mattupolis. He has been working on it diligently ever since. Today Mattupolis is a truly awe-inspiring urban sprawl, and the heavy inspiration MattuFIN took from real-life architecture is all too clear in landmarks like the horizon-defining observation tower, a clear homage to Seattle's Space Needle.
The success of Mattupolis is made even more impressive by the fact that MattuFIN did almost all the work on the city by himself. As grand as his undertaking is, he views it more as a hobby, dedicating only a few hours to it every week. Each building in the city can take anywhere from thirty minutes to a couple of hours, depending on its complexity. Research and construction for the city actually inspired MattuFIN to pursue a degree in architecture. Today, when he isn't working on Mattupolis, he plans to find work as an urban planner.
It's inspiring to see how many creative minds are stimulated by Minecraft. The game has very high potential as an artistic platform, and the sheer volume of creative work produced using it can and has filled books. Cities like Greenfield and Mattupolis, monumental as they are, are just drops in the ocean of creativity that is Minecraft. With games like these, it's easy to see why Minecraft has achieved such massive success, and as long as builders like MattuFIN remain amongst its player base, it's hard to believe it will slow down anytime soon.
Source: Minecraft
