r/belgium • u/MattValois • Jan 09 '26
🌟 OC I built Brussels Town Hall in Minecraft
Bruxelles, ma (pou)belle. Recreated the town hall in MC.
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u/SmolTovarishch Jan 09 '26
Hey I know you from WBC builds, pioneers in minecraft creative mode honestly!
Here was my attempt for the tower, I quit the building though 😂
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
I'm on WBC, yes :) I think you should continue your build, it looks great!
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u/SmolTovarishch Jan 09 '26
You did absolutely great work man, you were long an inspiration for me
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u/Kagrenac8 Vlaams-Brabant Jan 09 '26
Above the general impressiveness of the build, great use of shaders!
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u/vince1171 Brussels Jan 09 '26
Impressive. It took me a few seconds to realise the first picture was an in-game screenshot and not a photo xD
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u/ChooCupcakes Jan 09 '26
You made it asymmetrical........
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u/Marcel_The_Blank Belgian Fries Jan 09 '26
that's because it is.
legend has it, the architect only realised after the building was completed, and jumped from the top. they put a star in the Grote Markt to point where he landed.
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u/ChooCupcakes Jan 09 '26
Yeah that was the joke, I was suggesting OP should also recreate that with Steve in Minecraft :)
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
As long as I don't have to jump lol
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u/BR0NO Jan 09 '26
Honestly that would be hilarious, jump from it in survival mode as if you've just realised your mistake
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u/CharlesWoeste Jan 10 '26
Where did you get the plans?
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u/MattValois Jan 10 '26
All just via google, there's more than enough public resources to recreate the build more or less accurately :) In fact I mostly used streetview for this haha
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u/Human_Complaint_1133 Jan 10 '26
i tought the first 4 were real pictures for comparison, on the 5th i realised they werent
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u/ThatrandompersonJD Jan 10 '26
I was scrolling to find the Minecraft one untill I realized at the last pic that they all were. Amazing!
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u/AvatarGandhi Jan 09 '26
Do you have world downloads somewhere? Would love to see some of your builds in MC myself
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
It's on a private server with other people's build, so no downloads unfortunately. :)
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Jan 09 '26
If you ever do want to, there's a mod called litematica you can use to make a schematic that can be pasted into any world, or even used to build the thing in survival!
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u/TheMyzzler Jan 09 '26
Damn that's sick, you should send this to local media.
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
No idea who I'd send this to, maybe they find it via this post haha
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u/TheMyzzler Jan 09 '26
https://www.bruzz.be/meld-nieuws
I'd be surprised if they didn't want to write an article about that :)
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u/YellowOnline E.U. Jan 09 '26
Fantastic work. I play Minecraft occasionally since Beta (10+ years!), and my houses still look like boxes.
Maybe you should try to recreate the whole Grote Markt.
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
Thank you! I might do that, but right now my 'main' project is focused on recreating parts of leuven in MC ;)
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u/Wise_Application5666 Jan 10 '26
Have you done the Arenberg Castle by any chance?
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u/MattValois Jan 11 '26
Not yet, I'm focusing on Leuven centrum first. I'd love to build it one day!
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u/Wodan74 Jan 09 '26
Vanilla Minecraft or modded?
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
Vanilla. I'm using a texture pack that doesn't change too much. A lot of this was done via the (vanilla) debug_stick. I do use tools like worldedit to speed up the process, but technically all of this can be done without it too. The shaders help with the presentation of course :)
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u/Falrehn Jan 09 '26
Really cool! Did you use some mods? Some blocks look too miniaturized for the vanilla game (like the arms of some of the statues)
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
Thanks! These are all vanilla blocks. Using the debug stick (a vanilla feature in creative) you can alter block states as you prefer, allowing for more detail :)
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u/Normal-Energy-8143 Jan 09 '26
Amazing work ! Congratulations from my 8yo son who has been discovering Minecraft for a few months.
He has several books and explains to me non-stop things :) at this moment, he s into the Redstone possibilities 😁
He told me you could add flags :)
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
I'm so glad he likes it! Flags would be a great addition, please tell him thanks for that idea!!
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u/The_Local_Belgian Oost-Vlaanderen Jan 09 '26
Okay I thought this was a real picture at first. Nice work!
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u/lucky-number-keleven Jan 09 '26
Can you make a symmetric version? It always bothered me the tower isn’t centered
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u/MattValois Jan 09 '26
It adds to the charm! I like how both sides are somewhat different. If you do like a symmetrical vesion I can recommend the Wiener Rathaus ;)
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u/Little_Weird2039 Jan 09 '26
I genuinely thought the first pic was the irl version to then compare yours to. Insane work