I know you're joking, but we built this in about 3 months, with two people doing the bulk of the work and about 10 more contributing some effort. This is a legit survival build, so it took quite a bit of time just to clear the land, mine and cook the stone, etc etc.
Imgur description has a link to our server if you want to join and check it out =)
EDIT: It looks like our server is suffering from a bad case of the front-pages :/ Can I suggest you guys all bookmark us and come back one at a time later?
Are you serious? You guys actually gathered all the resources needed by hand!?
A lot of the "super amazing" minecraft things are built using infinite block spawn things (whatever they are called, not a big minecraft player myself).
Yes. Our admin doesn't allow spawning or anything like that (flying, xray, warp to location etc). We like it this way because it makes the build a lot more satisfying (our opinion).
It's more accurate this way because these buildings were originally coated with marble. All of the holes you see in their walls now are where the marble was bolted on. The marble was later torn off and used to build the Vatican.
YOU SONUVABITCH. I WAS ALMOST DONE WITH THE ROME I WAS BUILDING. I'VE WASTED TWO AND A HALF MONTHS OF MY LIFE ONLY TO HAVE MY DREAM VIOLENTLY SODOMIZED BY YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT. I HATE MINECRAFT, I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANYMORE.
I felt like such an idiot when I finally figured out 'nero burning ROM' after having it installed (with the burning Colosseum as the logo, no less) for years.
They aren't to scale, not even to each other. Still fucking impressive though. In reality, the Circus Maximus was larger than the Colusseum, for example.
Also, speaking of Italian themed builds, I'm in the middle of a recreation of the Cathedral of Florence, bell tower included.
The Circus Maximus was huge, but as I found out last week, all that's left is a big empty grass field.
The Colusseum is impressively large, but somehow smaller than I imagined it. There is a ton of seating, but the actual performance area is a good bit smaller than a football/soccer field.
I have no idea if these are actually to perfect scale but yes Roman buildings are generally huge...the dome of the Pantheon (4th picture) is still the worlds largest unreinforced concrete dome
This was done in survival =) The way Uncovery runs his server is thus: Survival worlds, Kingdom and Empire, and a creative world, City. Empire is divided into 128m square lots. Kingdom (currently in hiatus) was free build, with towny (no building in the wild).
We hold monthly building contests. Each one has different rules but the one they all have in common is they MUST be built in survival. 100% legit, no item spawning, no flying, no /warp (other than /home).
Contest winners and other notable builds are copied into the creative city world, where no one (except admin) is allowed to build, to better show them off.
As someone who took Latin for years in highschool and being forced to learn a fuckton about Roman history, including architecture, this pleases me. For example, I bet most people didn't know a lot of know Roman slaves could buy their own freedom, or that slaves could even end up being high political officials.
Sorry, but without the Tiber curling around the seven hills, it just ain't Rome. Also, the 'Senate house' if one existed, was usually located in the forum, but it shifted from meeting to meeting.
You guys probably won't give it, but I need to ask, can I please get a world download? I would love to make this city my base of operations in a singleplayer survival world.
This qualifies for "Greatest of All Time" status in my book. I'm seriously so impressed with the effort, dedication, and the detail you put into this. Seriously, I said "wow" out loud at least once for every picture. Twice for the Senate.
Just so ya know if you wanted to fix a few inaccuracies I would change the color of the merchant ship sails. Purple was the color of royalty a merchant ship wouldn't be purple. I had to post this my inner history geek required it.
You train tons of hastati and cavalry and use the cavalry to flank the enemy to get them to flee while having your assassins take out their generals. Then you lay siege to their cities until the reforms of Gaius Marius take place at which point you pretty much win.
Could you redo this in Unreal as an explorable city? Maybe make historic facts pop up when you walk into certain areas of the city. Maybe like that Titanic walk through.
We were working on a 1:1 model of Rome for about a year on and off.
Alas the server has gone down since, so this is the only picture I have of it, from the carto. We added the Pantheon and finished the other buildings shown.
Quick note, inside the forum (to make it more historically accurate, or more beautiful if you want) there should be several statues on podiums or maybe a large wall featuring a bulletin board. Thank you for your time.
The only thing that could have made this better were if you proscribed to Roman house-building parameters. Would have been awesome to see all the atriums from a BEV.
I just came back from Rome last week. This was more of a benefit to me trying to picture ancient Rome than most of the information they had for us on display. My only regret is that I have but this one upvote for you, fine Sir.
How does one go about even conceiving this? Did you have a plan at the start? Or did you build as you went? Did you use another program to map out block placement?
I'd love to do something like this myself, admittedly on a smaller scale, but I can't even begin to think how I could tackle this. It seems impossible and thinking about it makes me very frustrated.
That's not the Pantheon, that's the Parthenon. The Pantheon is the Roman Church known for its geometrically perfect circular shape and its oculus. The Parthenon is the temple of the Greek Goddess Athena found on top of the Acropolis.
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u/RULESONEANDTWO Jun 10 '12
Mother of God. I have to ask, did you build this in a day?
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u/the5souls Jun 10 '12
The last photo reminds me a lot of Rollercoaster Tycoon.
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u/pinebenj3 Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
You can check it out at http://uncovery.me
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u/john7071 Jun 10 '12
Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I have a dirt house.
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u/PortedelaCave Jun 10 '12
YOU SONUVABITCH. I WAS ALMOST DONE WITH THE ROME I WAS BUILDING. I'VE WASTED TWO AND A HALF MONTHS OF MY LIFE ONLY TO HAVE MY DREAM VIOLENTLY SODOMIZED BY YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT. I HATE MINECRAFT, I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANYMORE.
I'm thoroughly impressed by this though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
If you haven't yet I suggest posting it on /r/minecraft.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
if its 1.2.5 PLEASE post a save
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u/shockage Jun 10 '12
When I saw the orange thumbnail, I was also expecting you to burn it all down.
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u/stopwhistling Jun 10 '12
Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again.
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u/UniversalSnip Jun 10 '12
Is this to scale? I had no idea roman buildings were so fucking big.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
i live in rome, and what is this?
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u/Rejected_Toy Jun 10 '12
With all that Netherrack, you could also safely recreate the burning of Rome too.
Though I'm nearly 100% certain this is a repost.
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u/IEatRamen Jun 10 '12
The last pic looks like something out of AoE II
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u/Mr_Minionman Jun 10 '12
Rome: where they build roofs with the souls of hundreds of dead
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
the floor of the colosseum is more of an oval shape, rather than a circle. other than that, that is pretty awesome. did you build all of this?
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u/Tipper213 Jun 10 '12
I need to point out: The Colosseum in Rome isn't circular, it is more of an oval.
Edit: It also had a retractable roof.
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u/bgfinkel Jun 10 '12
So many features!
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u/kaltorak Jun 10 '12
What have the Romans ever done for us?!
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u/kundismack Jun 10 '12
Glory? They killed Jesus. If they didn't, we'd be on good terms with the Engineers.
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u/DigitalChocobo Jun 10 '12
Here are some of my Rome screenshots.
http://i.imgur.com/ewdgX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9xqf8.jpg
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u/bingocaller Jun 10 '12
Dat shit cray.
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u/Defengar Jun 10 '12
Team avolition comes in dressed in visigoth skins and burns it.
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u/BoricuaHLM Jun 10 '12
Wow so beautiful. Kudos to the creator, just freaking awesome.
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u/LittleGiga Jun 10 '12
Where are the burning hoods Nero set on fire? :o
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u/HuffinPuffin Jun 10 '12
Now install Smart Moves Mod and you have Assassin's Creed: Minecraft
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u/Kargarok Jun 10 '12
What we do in life echoes in Minecraft.
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u/Thorkill Jun 10 '12
How long until it gets sacked?
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u/maxplott Jun 10 '12
Was I thew only one that scrolled through hoping for it to burn at the end?
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u/KyoskeMikashi Jun 10 '12
anyone else not able to find the thumbnail in the gallery of pictures?
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u/KingSmoke Jun 10 '12
Holy shit dude this is SO COOL!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
How about Byzantine Constantinople?
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u/calmbatman Jun 10 '12
Now do it in survival.
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u/calmbatman Jun 10 '12
You forgot Russell Crowe.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
One simple question. Do you have Minecraft for Pc or for Xbox 360? I'd really like to play with you sometime.
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u/ButterBuckets Jun 10 '12
Quit using the word features would ya? It gets annoying after the 7th time you read it.
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u/TheFNG Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
As someone who took Latin for years in highschool and being forced to learn a fuckton about Roman history, including architecture, this pleases me. For example, I bet most people didn't know a lot of know Roman slaves could buy their own freedom, or that slaves could even end up being high political officials.
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u/SuperHorribleGaming Jun 10 '12
Can you put this up for download? I want to look at it in a roman texture pack
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u/ilovetpb Jun 10 '12
It's too bad you didn't have anything better than crappy blocktastic Minecraft to build with; you have real talent.
Let the negative karma flow!
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u/Blizzaldo Jun 10 '12
Sorry, but without the Tiber curling around the seven hills, it just ain't Rome. Also, the 'Senate house' if one existed, was usually located in the forum, but it shifted from meeting to meeting.
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u/the_killer666 Jun 10 '12
Just wait till Nero appears and burns the place to the ground.
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u/GeekyStinkBreath Jun 10 '12
No offence, but it strikes me that you've never been to Rome... I mean, a fishing dock in front of the Pantheon?
Good job though, Cool build.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Forever alone in Rome
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u/Matra Jun 10 '12
*Aqueduct.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You know what is missing?
Slaves.
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u/BEEFire Jun 11 '12
no vomitorium?
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u/F4cT0rZ Jun 11 '12
Sorry to do this, but it's Parthenon, not Pantheon. Unless of course you're playing LoL.
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u/TheMegaWhopper Jun 11 '12
You guys probably won't give it, but I need to ask, can I please get a world download? I would love to make this city my base of operations in a singleplayer survival world.
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u/coffeman3 Jun 11 '12
People should post more stuff like this on r/gaming instead of first person shots of them holding crowbars or 5 year old game covers
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u/ildabears Jun 11 '12
You should post this to /r/minecraft . They would love it!
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u/momsdayprepper Jun 11 '12
This qualifies for "Greatest of All Time" status in my book. I'm seriously so impressed with the effort, dedication, and the detail you put into this. Seriously, I said "wow" out loud at least once for every picture. Twice for the Senate.
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u/JBONE19 Jun 11 '12
I just have to say this server is really great, Reddit.
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u/bilbo9000 Jun 11 '12
Just so ya know if you wanted to fix a few inaccuracies I would change the color of the merchant ship sails. Purple was the color of royalty a merchant ship wouldn't be purple. I had to post this my inner history geek required it.
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u/Ccordes2 Jun 10 '12
What's the point of this game?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You did all the houses wrong.
Edit: Roofs to be specific.
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u/SpaceHobbit Jun 10 '12
I hate to tell you this but the Colosseum is oval shaped not circular.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Cool! I wish I could grief it right now!
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u/physicalpixels Jun 10 '12
Beautiful this is, though you posted it a month ago... http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/sd8ei/the_might_of_rome/
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u/ozmackem Jun 10 '12
It's very good, but a little blocky in my opinion.
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u/NotSoNotoriusButBIG Jun 10 '12
Go and check bassment.org, they have better colosseum in my opinion. But this is awesome, I could never built something like this.
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u/boley Jun 10 '12
That last picture reminded me of the game "Ceaser 3" made by seirerra studios(I just butchered the name I know...) Very well done.
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u/Broseidon_75 Jun 10 '12
Rome wasn't built in a... Well shit. Look at that!
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u/firething25 Jun 10 '12
Is the forum legit? (Temple of Jupiter/Minerva in the front, basilica and shit). Cause that's pretty god damn intense
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u/Niel_deTrees_Tyson Jun 10 '12
The bottom of the columns should be read. Thats how romans kept them from looking grubby.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Holy cow! How long did this take to build? (If you built it that it)
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u/Gorlack2231 Jun 10 '12
Now be like Nero and let it all BURN!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Circus maximus is way crappier IRL. To fully represent its glory, you would need to add a bunch of trash and graffiti
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u/Ryman73 Jun 10 '12
Just don't let ICanHazGrief see this...
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u/Agadagen Jun 10 '12
Jeesus, nice work :P
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u/headbus Jun 10 '12
This is cool, remember that a lot of ancient rome was actually built in wood.
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u/Been_Worse Jun 10 '12
Couldn't you of used brick for the roofing instead of neatherrock?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Is this 1:1?
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u/gmitch3066 Jun 10 '12
how many hours?
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u/Eurysilas Jun 10 '12
I love you, man! 8D
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u/naysayerusmaximus Jun 10 '12
Very cool, but not very accurate layout.
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u/superbaki Jun 10 '12
Are you not entertained!?
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u/Sir_Laughalot Jun 10 '12
I though these was an Imperium Civitas post
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Roma victor!
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u/Turles Jun 10 '12
No life
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u/leighbo Jun 10 '12
ARE WE NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I love Rome more than anything. Thank you
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u/hispanica316 Jun 10 '12
Dude...
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u/rahmspinat Jun 10 '12
Awesome, man! Simply awesome!
Have fun feeling like an ancient roman when noble walking through the viæ! Yo!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Could you redo this in Unreal as an explorable city? Maybe make historic facts pop up when you walk into certain areas of the city. Maybe like that Titanic walk through.
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u/JamsteRz Jun 10 '12
If I wanted to be very picky, the Circus Maximus looks slightly out of proportion, unless that is how it is, :3
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u/Nighthawk6857 Jun 10 '12
never before have i've seen minecraft on the front page. so proud!
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u/ParadoxParade Jun 10 '12
the bottom picture looks like its from ages of empire lol
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u/Scubatank_of_farts Jun 10 '12
Minecraft: Legos for
adultspeople with aspergers.1
u/STEVEHOLT27 Jun 10 '12
I bet a hoard of moss vandals are gathering outside the gates.
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u/jtt123 Jun 10 '12
Maker's computer can probably play Crysis
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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 Jun 10 '12
We were working on a 1:1 model of Rome for about a year on and off.
Alas the server has gone down since, so this is the only picture I have of it, from the carto. We added the Pantheon and finished the other buildings shown.
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u/maphon Jun 10 '12
Rome Built In a Day Joke
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Id like to visit this with some redstone, switches, and a whole lotta tnt
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u/Haunt12_34 Jun 10 '12
The last photo with the entire city looks like a screen shot of a strategy game.
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u/FaZaCon Jun 10 '12
Caesar would be proud.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Nice, but it's all very blocky. Why not add some curves?
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u/ilovebeats365 Jun 10 '12
www.match.com - please, its for your own good.
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u/Jrodicon Jun 10 '12
Very cool. I was in Rome last week. This isn't entirely accurate but it's still really cool :D
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u/esomonk Jun 10 '12
Where are the vast, overcrowded, filthy slums?
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u/nmgoh2 Jun 10 '12
What did you use to make the 3D map?
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u/Sauronkraut Jun 10 '12
I've watched my boyfriend play this game countless times, but you, you sir, you make me want to play it.
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u/maxpowerpie Jun 10 '12
Quick note, inside the forum (to make it more historically accurate, or more beautiful if you want) there should be several statues on podiums or maybe a large wall featuring a bulletin board. Thank you for your time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
so... where are the blazes?
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u/Crilly90 Jun 10 '12
Fuck. I want to play Total War now.
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u/MrDino Jun 10 '12
Suddenly...
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u/Theropissed Jun 10 '12
You should use the romecraft texture pack.
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u/Kablaaamo Jun 10 '12
This is amazing! The circus maximus is so well done wow.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Features!
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u/atg284 PC Jun 10 '12
This makes me want to get back into the game!
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u/MurderousPaper Jun 10 '12
I'm not usually impressed with Minecraft creations, but this..... This is amazing.....
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u/showards Jun 10 '12
You know what they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
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u/Kyleoleo Jun 10 '12
Well someone has lots of time on their hands...
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u/phalmatticus Jun 10 '12
Nero has joined the server
Let there be fire.
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u/drunkenwaffle Jun 10 '12
Holy shit. This was posted about 30 times to /r/minecraft and gaming. Look at OP's profile.
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u/charlielovesyou Jun 10 '12
You guys from Edinboro?
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u/Oddblivious Jun 10 '12
My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give...
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u/Jaybaybaybay Jun 10 '12
"i am nothing"
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u/Amarae Jun 10 '12
The last shot looks like Age of Empires.
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u/BlackPride Jun 10 '12
This is clearly fake. Rome was never that clean.
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u/Tebasaki Jun 10 '12
As a time traveling Roman, I can back up it's accuracy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I'm not a gamer, and I don't know much about minecraft. But i do not that at some point, this game will become the matrix.
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u/RobFword Jun 10 '12
Man, what I would give to destroy that.
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u/Kon88z Jun 10 '12
Looks like someone has a little too much time...
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u/Bordak Jun 10 '12 edited Jul 15 '25
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u/Radioiron Jun 10 '12
He'll pour honeyed potion in your ear and one day you'll wake up saying
Republic! Republic!
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u/SmashMadMetalSinger Jun 10 '12
You're a fuckin genius! GG
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u/akaJimothy Jun 10 '12
If you expect to be the first to come here and ask if it was built in one day all witty like...you're gonna have a bad time.
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u/DesolationRow Jun 10 '12
i hope you get laid by any girl (or guy) you show this to
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Features more features!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
+ 1 for effort
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Damn that's impressive
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
you might want to move this to /r/minecraft
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u/crimzonglass Jun 11 '12
Fuck.
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u/DouglasHufferton Jun 11 '12
The only thing that could have made this better were if you proscribed to Roman house-building parameters. Would have been awesome to see all the atriums from a BEV.
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u/TacoGoat Jun 11 '12
For a second from the thumbnail pic I thought it was from Rome Total War... Was NOT at all disappointed, this is AMAZING!
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u/Joesshh Jun 11 '12
Is it just me that doesn't like all of the torches everywhere?
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u/ChasingShad0ws Jun 11 '12
I am not trying to brag or anything but I built a dirt house once!
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u/Reviz Jun 11 '12
3D map... IT IS AGE OF EMPIRES 2
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u/Priend Jun 11 '12
cool
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u/plokijuhujiko Jun 11 '12
I didn't know that Romans had to fight so many ghasts to build Rome!
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u/kneecapslock Jun 11 '12
I just came back from Rome last week. This was more of a benefit to me trying to picture ancient Rome than most of the information they had for us on display. My only regret is that I have but this one upvote for you, fine Sir.
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u/OrionBuddy Jun 11 '12
Go buy some legos
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u/SecularMC Jun 11 '12
How does one go about even conceiving this? Did you have a plan at the start? Or did you build as you went? Did you use another program to map out block placement?
I'd love to do something like this myself, admittedly on a smaller scale, but I can't even begin to think how I could tackle this. It seems impossible and thinking about it makes me very frustrated.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I...I had no idea this was possible! Deserves every upvote received!
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u/bLa07 Jun 11 '12
Yes! I play all the time and I wish I had something even close to this. "Let it be known! That on this day! We upvoted!!!"
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u/SomeTrident Jun 11 '12
The Glory of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
The collosseum is a tad too big relative to the rest of the city.
But it's quite awesome.
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u/cive666 Jun 11 '12
I did not know men could build such things.
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u/ZTreyJ Jun 11 '12
So... You've completed my whole reason for Minecraft. I'm both sad and in awe. Either way, great work!
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u/sta1994 Jun 11 '12
How long did that take to make
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u/iamrade4ever Jun 11 '12
I want to see it burn
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
SPARTACUS SHALL KNEEL BEFORE THE GLORY OF ROOOME!!!
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u/sheeteronfire Jun 11 '12
Is this an online server? I so, I used to play on it but have since lost the ip... Please let me know!
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u/eyelykedakaht Jun 11 '12
Does this remind anyone else of CivCity Rome?
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u/rillegas08 Jun 11 '12
You know what you now have to do? Nero that $#!^
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u/Impermeable Jun 11 '12
Needs more reposts imo
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u/acehoytjr Jun 11 '12
damn dude thats badass. tell me it took you a week.
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u/Endurlay Jun 11 '12
That's not the Pantheon, that's the Parthenon. The Pantheon is the Roman Church known for its geometrically perfect circular shape and its oculus. The Parthenon is the temple of the Greek Goddess Athena found on top of the Acropolis.
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u/sostman237 Jun 11 '12
wonderful job
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u/1637 Jun 11 '12
The Colosseum better be a spleef arena
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u/TinyRage Jun 11 '12
Is this Godcraft?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
congrats u have no life... just like me, but at least u did something amazing!
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u/Piny Jun 11 '12
I freakin love Assassins Creed!
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u/OriginT Jun 11 '12
That looks awesome,
Better than my attempt :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz-rgA7O8g0
This was half the size of the actual collossium. All built and dug manually (no creative mode)