University of Bolton Stadium replicated in Minecraft

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I'd be able to get your thoughts on my full-scale replica of the University of Bolton Stadium that I spent three years working on between 2015 and 2018. It has a fully fleshed interior and was the first of many stadium builds that I have done. The video I have attached is only the first part as the tour video ended up being so long it had to be split into three parts. As far as I'm aware it was the first time it had been built in Minecraft.

Cheers

Wow! It looks incredible!

I don't really know much about Minecraft the game but what you have built in it looks fabulous and I'm sure you have pulled your hair out in the process of building it due to it taking 3 years to build.

The amount of detail you have gone to is crackers.

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks very much for the response and thank you very much for the warm welcome as well 

It was painstaking I have to admit given the size of it, and I think there were many occasions where I was close to pulling my hair out haha. In fact about 16 months into the build I ended up demolishing and rebuilding the exterior, roof and upper tiers because I wasn't happy with how they looked. In all I think it took 3 years, 1 month and 30 days to complete

That looks amazing mate

Thank you so much   

Impressive. You must have the patience of a saint. You've done a cracking job.

Well done!

Not a Minecraft player but have seen young folk doing it and whilst I approve in principle with the game in the vain hope that it will develop the next generation of engineers, haven't seen anything like this before. Top job lad - but please get a life

This is impressive !  My grandson tries to make things with Minecraft, however he's not been doing it for too long, and if I show him this it might scare him off 

You'll be looking for the plans for Burnden Park next !

Hipster_Nebula wrote:That looks amazing mate

 Thank you very much

boltonbonce wrote:Impressive. You must have the patience of a saint. You've done a cracking job.

Thank you  It was very much trial and error and I used more than 200 images to build it. I can remember my support worker back along saying to me that if I didn't have Asperger's then there's no way she thought I'd be able to do it. In fact in her words I'd likely have given up after a month

xmiles wrote:Well done!

Thank you very much  

wanderlust wrote:Not a Minecraft player but have seen young folk doing it and whilst I approve in principle with the game in the vain hope that it will develop the next generation of engineers, haven't seen anything like this before. Top job lad - but please get a life

Haha thank you  I am actually at University studying architecture currently so I guess you could say I'm part way there

gloswhite wrote:This is impressive !  My grandson tries to make things with Minecraft, however he's not been doing it for too long, and if I show him this it might scare him off 

You'll be looking for the plans for Burnden Park next !

Thank you  Hopefully it doesn't scare him off, who knows it could provide some inspiration.

Funnily enough I have contemplated building Burnden Park at some point, because I don't think it's ever been done before

Top job.

I prefer Mario Kart on the Wii myself.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Top job.

I prefer Mario Kart on the Wii myself.

Thank you  

Everyone has their own preferences, although I did used to like Mario Kart growing up haha

MattRushton1995 wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Top job.

I prefer Mario Kart on the Wii myself.

Thank you  

Everyone has their own preferences, although I did used to like Mario Kart growing up haha

Ignore Natasha. She doesn't know her wii from her poo.

karlypants wrote:

MattRushton1995 wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Top job.

I prefer Mario Kart on the Wii myself.

Thank you  

Everyone has their own preferences, although I did used to like Mario Kart growing up haha

Ignore Natasha. She doesn't know her wii from her poo.

Oh dear ‍�

This is absolutely amazing. The detail you have gone to is unbelievable. 

Me and my lad play minecraft loads and ive showed him your video.....he wants to do one of the AJ Bell now

He has just got a gaming PC and wants his own minecraft server, I'll be honest and I haven't a clue where to start, if you have any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

y2johnny wrote:This is absolutely amazing. The detail you have gone to is unbelievable. 

Me and my lad play minecraft loads and ive showed him your video.....he wants to do one of the AJ Bell now

He has just got a gaming PC and wants his own minecraft server, I'll be honest and I haven't a clue where to start, if you have any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that  

One thing I'm hoping to do and have been for a while now is to potentially show the build to the club and see what they make of it/whether or not they'd be able to put it to some use at the ground etc. However, I'm not sure how I could go about that

I'm glad to have sort of provided some inspiration there, the AJ Bell is home to Salford Red Devils if memory serves me correctly. It's a relatively simple design as well from what I can tell. Unfortunately I've never played PC Minecraft (I use Xbox One). By "wants his own server" do you mean he wants to create his own world? When building a stadium, in my eyes it's best to start on the main stand and work round clockwise, or to possibly make it a bit more simple, you could always build your pitch first and then build the stands around it (a method common among Minecraft YouTubers). I imagine there will be some tutorials on YouTube as well, hope this helps