How to Understand This Blog

• Will be updated regularly, either weekly or daily
  
• Latest updates will be at the top of the article
  
• the warp commands will be bold and underlined if you wish to visit the section on the server version map.
  
• - (Major) - The Major Marker means something major has been completed.
  
• - (####,####) - This is the Coordinates on how to reach it by foot/air
  
• You can visit the map on the server play.minecraftworlds.info
  

Major Links

• Project 1845 Main Project Page
  
• Live Project Map (Dynmap Map)
  
• Large Photo Gallery of Geotagged Screenshots (72+ Images)
  
• Image Gallery of Weekly Progress Map Snapshots (22 Progress Maps)
  

Construction Update Log

• More of Yuanmingyuan walls and boundaries added and detailed
  

• Outline of Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace) Added to Northwest part of project map just outside of the city wall. Check it out at http://map.project1845.com
  

• More forestry of Temple of Heaven Added
  

• West Chang'an Street Extended
  
• More forestry of Temple of Heaven added
  

• Bohtauri Moved House and began his 4 year studies in Civil Engineering at University, expect far less updates than normal
  

• More Meetings about MinecraftEDU for creating Forbidden City curriculum modules
  
• Work on West Chang'an Street has Begun
  
• 7 Hutong Streets Built
  
• February Snapshot of World Save released
  

• Wumen (Meridian) gate renovations completed
  
• Du'anmen Gate Renovated
  
• Tian'anmen Gate Renovated @ /warp tiananmen
  
• Main Wall of Andingmen gate built @ /warp andingmen
  
• Hall of Supreme Harmony Renovated @ /warp supremehall
  
• 8,800m of moat dug out
  
• 183 Building Foundations Built
  
• 18 Hutong Streets Built
  

• - (Major) - Fuyousi Temple Central Shrine Completed at /warp fuyousi
  
• 52 Building foundations completed
  
• Shop foundations near east gate of Forbidden City completed
  
• 34 Hutong Alleyways Built
  
• Main road along west side of forbidden city outlined
  
• More of Beihai Lake dug out
  
• Temple complex on east shore of Beihai Lake under construction
  
• Started construction of National Ammunition Workshop
  
• completed flooring of main shrine of Temple of Heaven
  
• - (Major) - Reached our 10,000th Download
  
• - (Major) - Reached our 900th Comment
  
• - (Major) - Minecraft Mondays Show - showed as partnering up with Minecraft Edu
  

• 8 Hutong Alleyways Built
  
• Designed a warp board at visitors centre to help players find all the railway loops easier
  
• - (Major) - Minecraft Mondays Show Showcase - giving tours to first-time tourists
  
• - (Major) - over 1500 unique visitors this week!
  

• 6 Administrative office complexes under construction near Tiananmen Square
  
• 12 Hutong Alleyways Built
  
• Entrance buildings near Zhengyuanmen gate constructed
  
• Completing more wall outlines near the projects visitor centre for the Minecraft mondays show showcase coming soon again
  
• You can now donate via paypal USD and NZD to help build Project 1845
  

• 2 Administrative office complexes under construction near Tiananmen Square
  
• 4 Hutong Alleyways Built
  
• Bohtauri flew and moved back from China to back home in Christchurch, New Zealand, so not much done this week
  

• - (Major) - /warp mingwest The Sacred Way completed
  
• Outlines of all Ming Tombs Started
  
• More roads near Tiananmen Square completed
  
• Curved wall sections of Temple of Heaven completed
  
• Approx 3,500m of moats dug out
  
• Tomb Mound for Xiaoling Tomb Completed
  
• Tomb Mound for Qingling Tomb Completed
  
• Tomb Mound for Yuling Tomb Started
  
• Tomb Mound for Jingling Tomb Started
  
• Tomb Mound for Chingling Tomb Completed
  
• Completed outlines for all Royal residences
  
• completed more moat work between zhengyuanmen and xuanwumen gates
  
• completed more moat on southern side of outer city wall. (around Yongdingmen Gate)
  
• Re-textured ice to be identical to water in Authentic Chinese texture pack developer version.
  
• Rebuilt the signboards of volunteers to the project to be more visitor friendly (no longer looking like graves)
  

• Construction of the Bell Tower has begun
  
• 7 Roads Built
  
• /warp deshengmen Started construction on Deshengmen Gate
  
• Started building Xihai Lake
  
• The Sacred Way (Ming Tombs Complex) under conststruction, go to /warp yongdingmen and walk south beyond the bridge
  
• Christmas Day and more moat digging done. Yes I worked on the project on Christmas day.
  

• - (Major) - December's Downloadable World Save Available
  
• - (Major) - Authentic Chinese Texture Pack has released its Version 1.75
  
• - (Major) - 151 Hutongs Streets Built
  
• Week 23 Progress Map Snapshot added to the Picasa Gallery
  
• Outlines of structures of Yonghegong Lama Temple started
  
• Buttresses added and completed to all sides of the Inner City wall sections
  
• Guard Posts have been added from Zhengyuanmen Gate to Andingmen Gate at each Buttress
  
• More moat work has been done to the east of Zhengyuanmen Gate
  
• Construction of walls and flooring of Imperial Examination Halls Completed
  
• Construction of Imperial Examination Academy started
  
• Lanscaping around the river between the Imperial City wall moat and the Inner City wall moat has begun.
  
• Farmland north of Yongdingmen Gate has started being built, (30 Farms Completed)
  

• - (Major) - - (768,-3216) - Southeast Corner Tower Completed. go to /warp dongbianmen and travel west without going through the wall and then over the moat to see it.
  
• - (Major) - /warp yongdingmen Yongdingmen Gate is Completed
  
• /warp zhengyuanmen gate wall completed, Barbican completed, just need to complete the small market and gate shrine.
  
• /warp xuanwumen gate section construction has begun
  
• /warp dongzhimen Main walls and paths in and out of gate completed
  
• /warp chaoyangmen Main wall around gate outline and construction began
  
• /warp dongbianmen Wall section around gate completed
  
• /warp heavensouth - (2762,-1198) - Main Shrine at Temple of Heaven has been completed. Viewable at the end of the avenue at warp or at coordinate provided.
  
• Attempted to start on elephant training yard but that section of the blueprint map is too corrupted to do it as quick as I want, will need to sit down later and redraw the blueprint
  
• Moat Surrounding Zhengyuanmen is completed, starting now to extend it towards Chongwenmen
  
• Buttresses along the southern section of the inner wall placed, now for the trimmings
  
• The main city granary has started construction near Dongzhimen gate