Project 1845 - 1:1 Replica Forbidden City, Beijing

[Bohtauri: Project 1845]

Hi all,

Im sure you have heard of Project 1845 and how im designing it to also be used in MinecraftEDU (if not, you can read up about it at www.project1845.com)

I am about to release version 1.5 of the Forbidden City section of Project 1845 as a stand-alone map taken out of the much larger Project 1845 worldsave.

I am planning to make this map save a bit more MinecraftEDU friendly. If you have experienced this map or just have some ideas, please let me know below and ill try to implement them in a way i can replicate those tweaks in future updated versions. I am also developing lesson plans that can be used in the subjects of History, Language, geography (and archaeology which would be part of a series of team building lessons in which the class has to team up to excavate the forbidden city from under a desert)

If you still dont know what this project is. In a nutshell its a 1:1 scale replica of the entire Forbidden City dated at 1748c.e during the Reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. The project contains about 4.8 million hand placed blocks and has every building larger than 4 meters squared in surface area. You should spawn in front of Tiananmen Gate and you have sections to explore including parts that aren't open to the public today and sections that were destroyed during the Kuomintang period before the communists took over. Every building is aimed to be within 90% historically accurate within the limitations of Minecraft.

The map including the forbidden city is regularly being renovated every time new blocks appear in Minecraft. So expect more updated and detailed versions in the future.

The forbidden city is only a small part of the entire project and I will be making smaller snapshots of parts of others parts of the project before the entire project is completed in 4 - 10 years time.

[Eric]

Excellent work! Truly lots of dedication on display here. It would be great for units specifically on China and Chinese history. 

[Rick M]

I'm glad Eric posted in reply because I can compliment both of you in the same place. I installed Eric's Humanities world on our server and my daughter and I have spent hours exploring, reading, and admiring the world. I'm looking forward to doing the same with the Forbidden City. Incredible work, and I'm really looking forward to the MinecraftEdu version. 

[jol...@sd42.ca]

Downloaded this put everything i've tried to unstuff it results in error?

[Rick M]

What's the error, and when do you receive the error? I just did this on a Windows server, I'll list the steps I followed - let us know where it goes wrong for you?

Downloaded the MinecraftEdu - World of Humanities - November 2012.zip file.

Unzipped the file.

Copied the Humanities 2012 folder from the formerly zipped file into (on a Windows server) into AppData/Roaming/MinecraftEdu/ServerTool/worlds/savedworlds

Launched MinecraftEdu and started the Server Tool

Clicked "Select Saved World" and chose Humanities 2012 

Clicked "Start Server with Selected World"

Caveat: I don't know if that's the 'correct' way to do it, or the easiest way to do it, but it works :)

On a Mac, you'll want to find where the MinecraftEdu folder lives. I'm guessing the rest of the path (ServerTool/worlds/savedworlds) would be the same?

Now that I've gone through all that, I'm wondering if you're not looking to run a server, but just run MinecraftEdu locally, offline, and load the world without connecting to a server. In that case, unstuff/unzip until you can get just the Humanities 2012 folder. Find your MinecraftEdu folder and find the Minecraft folder within it. There should be a "saves" folder, and if you've played other worlds, you'll see those world folders in the "saves" folder. Copy Humanities 2012 folder into the "saves" folder, and the next time you boot MinecraftEdu and choose Single Player, you should see Humanities 2012 as an option?

A lot of explanation - hopefully you'll either find an answer or at least be able to tell me where my suggestions stop working :) 

[jol...@sd42.ca]

thanks, got it working, the unzip part was the problem as the file didn't look like any of the other worlds i've used, used a different .rar unzip and plugged the map into my saved maps and it loaded.  

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:45:55 PM UTC-8, Bohtauri: Project 1845 wrote:

[sithload]

Glad it's working!

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[Bohtauri: Project 1845]

The .tbz compressed version can be unzipped directly from the OS in mac,pc or linux (no unzipping software needed). the forbidden city section however ill compress it into .rar since everyone is more used to this compression formation. Its almost ready.

[Eric]

These are exactly the right steps. With one exception --- use the February 2013 version! :)

[Rick M]

True story - I didn't realize I had the old version of the map until I was on dudeguy.com/mceworlds looking at the projects there, just the other day :) Thanks for the correction!

What's involved in making a map work with a new version of MCEdu? 

[Jeremy Chen]

Hi Bohtauri,

My plan is to teach many learning activities with your project. My first go is using the Forbidden City world. I tried to use the Forbidden City downloaded from sourceforge but later found out the city hasn't been completed.

I think I may be able to use worldedit to cut it out from your 1845 project. Or is there a complete one which I am not aware of? I am also waiting MinecraftEdu to be upgrade to 1.6 so I can use the latest texturepack.


I'm teaching Chinese in a high school so your project is a godsend. I can let you know how my plan goes if you are interested.