The Most Realistic City in Minecraft

With full interior, nonetheless. 7 years later, here is the City of Toronto at 1:1 scale.
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[@Gamefruitpulp]

Thanks for stopping by Building Toronto! We were able to make Union just as confusing in Minecraft as it was in the real city! 🤣

[@Alpine1]

Thanks for having me! I can't wait for the new builds, looking forward to Scotiabank Arena & the CN Tower :)

[@Gamefruitpulp]

@@Alpine1 Hopefully you won't have to wait too long for the CN Tower! It is planned to be started in a few weeks!

[@organ5899]

Curious if you guys plan on building the PATH?

[@organ5899]

Nevermind just answered my own question. Hadn’t gotten that far yet lmfao

[@Gamefruitpulp]

@@organ5899 We have a couple parts of it built, it is not on our immediate list to tackle, but when builders feel like a change of pace that is one of the things they work on!

[@Alpine1]

The real reason why Union is so confusing: Large engineering projects (such as train stations and airports) typically start from a much smaller point, and have additions added on over time as demand for the services increase (or fluctuate). It is directly influenced by the willingness to spend, as a function of revenue, government funding, political atmosphere (for example around election times), and the priorities like upkeep versus new expansions versus renovations. This is why most airports are inconsistent in quality and architectural style, you’ll notice the same thing at Union. Another big hint is something is “always under construction” when you visit!

[@northscylla]

Love Toronto. I’m from Europe and studied there a semester. Watching this made me want to come back. Although you forgot to show the dreaded 401 highway :’)

[@agentzapdos4960]

That's not in the current "building perimeter"; the dreaded Gardiner Expressway is being built, though!

[@gamenightfeldon2897]

I've started building a city in my minecraft world thanks to you. I used your videos to plan it out before building it and it's going really well so far!

[@Alpine1]

Hey that's great to hear! If there's any gaps in information, feel free to let me know what else you'd like to learn :)

[@kaktusman1285]

same!

[@aaronforklifter]

woah. so cool to see the city in minecraft and it looks so weird with it having no people lol

[@Alpine1]

Check out some of the NPC quests! It really brings it alive, it's a lot of fun

[@zentoa]

Full interior jeezus

[@Immbrodie]

a time for greatness, brodie2024

[@DJ_Ryder]

brodie2024

[@ARealTaco]

Left this to play while showering Surreal experience

[@Arachnid-Man]

wait up!? Full interior?

[@Alpine1]

Oh yeah, it’s pretty insane. One of the more intricate and detailed Minecraft cities of the past 10 years!

[@Arachnid-Man]

@@Alpine1 Wow, no way! 😃 I'd like to visit it sometime!

[@Alpine1]

@@Arachnid-Man Do it, it's awesome

[@Altomulus732]

LOVE watching your vids!✨️

[@Alpine1]

Hey, thank you!

[@Edzilbur]

Thats some serious commitment from Gamefruitpulp. The roads *sigh* 2 wide? I mean the city is good it's just the roads that umm, yeah

[@Gamefruitpulp]

We had to choose between road lines or 2 block wide roads :(

[@Alpine1]

Gotta do what you gotta do for 1:1

[@yzarbo]

Great video

[@updr1ft]

train video from architectural engineering man

[@Alpine1]

Stonks

[@stefanlagrange188]

Nice looking city! I see the streets mostly align with the Minecraft 'grid'. Not sure if this is intentional, but the buildings look a lot better than those weird diagonal ones in the Build the Earth project.

[@allancoelho6905]

Build The Earth aligns it's grid with a triangular projection, that's why some buildings look weird, but that's the most accurate projection of a globe to a flat map, with very little distortion, unlike Mercator's projection (the one we learn and use daily) that has most of the map slightly stretched, especially Canada, Europe and Russia, due to how up north these 50ish countries are Build Toronto doesn't use any special projection, nor rely specifically on IRL coordinates, so they can align it however they want

[@vonfrank42]

Yes, for this project we purposefully decided to align everything to Toronto's Grid, which is 16.5 degrees offset from true North/South. As a result, every building doesn't have to be awkwardly rotated like it is in the Build the Earth project.

[@gamepcttb-ttbgame4199]

How long does it take to finish

[@jordnchn7907]

i always find trying to get that high reflective blue skyscraper glass to look good in minecraft is so fking hard! still to this day i still am trying multiple ways to make it look good, but still no answer. like in this map showcase, you can really see how hard it is to get the blue curtain wall skyscraper facade to work nicely, i usually try to add mullions or some sort of indication of support to show that its not just a blue glass block, sometimes i alternate between light blue and dark blue stained glass as well but sometimes that looks @ss anyone have any ideas how to nail that blue skyscraper glass effect in minecraft?

[@hussvrx4264]

u could show it with distant horizons mod

[@agentzapdos4960]

The server has no mods so that anyone with vanilla Minecraft can explore it.

[@hussvrx4264]

@@agentzapdos4960 oh makes sense

[@Alpine1]

@@hussvrx4264 Yeah I tried, but my game didn't like it lol

[@hussvrx4264]

@@Alpine1 hahaha

[@taveshdeonandan9079]

Did they add the Eaton Centre

[@Gamefruitpulp]

Not yet :)

[@agentzapdos4960]

I don't think it's reached that far north yet, and probably won't for a long time since they're building south to the lakeshore now.

[@daith360]

Broski what size would you recomend to make a nyc style aparment

[@Alpine1]

Depends on what size we're talking! You could go anywhere from 10x20 to 40x60 on the large end

[@daith360]

@@Alpine1 ok thank you

[@liamcoolcool]

NOT MINECRAFT, UNSUBSCRIBED!!!!

[@Alpine1]

My man, you need to make it to the 14 second mark 😂

[@Gamefruitpulp]

@@Alpine1 We did such a good job they couldn't tell?

[@DJ_Ryder]

BRODIE2024

[@Immbrodie]

@@DJ_Ryder YES

[@zentoa]

Full interior jeezus