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06-19-2017, 03:14 PM
Someone spent 2 years painstakingly replicating China's Forbidden City in 'Minecraft'
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Okay, that's dedication.
A small team of Minecraft users have spent more than two years building a virtual model of China's Forbidden City.
SEE ALSO: The Lego 'Minecraft' Mountain Cave is the new biggest set in town (http://mashable.com/2017/05/18/minecraft-lego-set/)
The effort eventually came down to two guys labouring over the course of over two years, to lay down billions of bricks to eventually recreate the 600-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site (http://whc.unesco.org/archive/periodicreporting/apa/cycle01/section2/439-summary.pdf).
The team was led by 22-year-old Su Yijun from Guangzhou, who orchestrated the plan from scratch in 2014, as volunteers dropped out one by one from the gargantuan task, Sixth Tone (http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000347/aspiring-architect-minecrafts-virtual-forbidden-city) reports.
Their virtual creation covers a square grid of 100 million blocks, and even replicates furniture inside, from the Emperor's throne, to the traditional Chinese-style beds of the time. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/forbidden-city-minecraft/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Okay, that's dedication.
A small team of Minecraft users have spent more than two years building a virtual model of China's Forbidden City.
SEE ALSO: The Lego 'Minecraft' Mountain Cave is the new biggest set in town (http://mashable.com/2017/05/18/minecraft-lego-set/)
The effort eventually came down to two guys labouring over the course of over two years, to lay down billions of bricks to eventually recreate the 600-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site (http://whc.unesco.org/archive/periodicreporting/apa/cycle01/section2/439-summary.pdf).
The team was led by 22-year-old Su Yijun from Guangzhou, who orchestrated the plan from scratch in 2014, as volunteers dropped out one by one from the gargantuan task, Sixth Tone (http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000347/aspiring-architect-minecrafts-virtual-forbidden-city) reports.
Their virtual creation covers a square grid of 100 million blocks, and even replicates furniture inside, from the Emperor's throne, to the traditional Chinese-style beds of the time. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/forbidden-city-minecraft/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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