How a Limerick student recreated his hometown in Minecraft

Leaving Cert student Mateusz Bartnik is the founder and team lead for Ireland’s affiliate to Build the Earth, a worldwide collaborative effort to recreate the earth in Minecraft

Mateusz Bartnik and his recreation fo MTU

On the rare occasions that he gives himself a break from studying, Mateusz Bartnik likes to build. The Leaving Cert student is the founder and team lead for Ireland’s affiliate to Build the Earth, a worldwide collaborative effort to recreate the earth in Minecraft.

The 18-year-old first started playing the popular computer game when he moved to Ireland from Italy. Though born in Poland, he spent most of the first ten years of his life in Modena before moving to Limerick in 2016.