8 years of building a virtual city in Minecraft, young people are determined to learn architecture to pursue their passion

The threshold of university opening with countless turns sometimes makes us extremely bewildered. Except for a few people who have a clear direction in the future, most of us have experienced the feeling of not knowing what we want, what to do, which school to attend, what major to study. In fact, many people have had to retake the exam or even give up their education because they are not interested in their major. At that time, the only way for us to find our passion was to experience many things, including playing games like the story of gamers in this article. It is thanks to the knowledge of architecture and urban planning gained when building a virtual city in Minecrafthe found his dream and decided to major in architecture at university.
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MattuFIN intends to build a virtual city that simulates real-life buildings in Minecraft since 2012. At that time, MattuFIN implemented this plan with a group of friends, but only a year later, the project collapsed. fell because the other members couldn’t keep their patience. Only MattuFIN did not give up, he decided to destroy most of the things he built to start from scratch with a city of his own called Mattupolis.

Hard work from that day on, Mattupolis is now complete and the result after unremitting efforts is a truly amazing city, true to the smallest detail with life inspired locations. real, mainly in Seattle and Vancouver.
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Worth mentioning, all the design and construction of the city is done by hand, by one hand MattuFIN. As a hobby as well as a mission, he regularly spends a few hours a week building the city. Each building can take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours to complete depending on complexity.

Working on Mattupolis with related research has brought MattuFIN a wealth of knowledge in architecture and urban planning. This inspired him to major in architecture. As this gamer said, without Minecraft and Mattupolis, he probably wouldn’t have applied to college to study architecture.
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Witnessing how Minecraft has inspired players, it’s easy to understand why even though it’s been out for years, the game still has such a large community. Mattupolis is just a small drop in the ocean, we will definitely see more impressive works of gamers in the future.​