Start of May 2024 update: Been working on regio VIII (Pompeii is split into nine regions) south of the forum area. Progress is slow but steady. Also continuing to update/remaster the buildings at the forum including the basilica and administrative buildings.

I am unsure when I will have the next blog up, probably when I've completed all of regio VIII.

Working on southern terraced houses of Pompeii and the Sarno bathhouse complex. May not look like much at the present but the hours put in are immense. Done plenty of research on archaeological papers and excavation maps to get the area just right. Google Earth has been a big help too to get a 3D view of the area. I will go into much more detail about these processes in my next update blog, hopefully coming out in not too long :)

PMC! Soooo, I have good news and "bad" news!

Good news, the Creator Analytics update is ready but the bad news is the timing isn't right to launch. I have some IRL things happening that require my undivided attention. All good things though, so no worries there. It's just best to wait until things are settled so that I can return the same attention to the update and you.

Creator Analytics WILL release next month! It took longer than initially expected for a number of unexpected reasons but scope of work also grew in many directions for the best. There's always more to do after the launch but there's more than enough to be useful and fun now and into the foreseeable future and historical past interests. Always nice when things motivate you to go, go, go. Didn't help switching chart libraries last week but know it was the right decision for the short and long run.

You'll see soon and I'm looking forward to having the proper time to respond to bugs and feature requests.

Playing around with new ways to improve the look of the temples of my Pompeii project using blockstates and working with blocks in a new, creative way.

Also been working on a "remaster" of the forum. As my building skills and techniques improve I like to come back to previous structures to revitalize them. Redid the portico of the forum and did other minor changes.


Temple of Apollo


Temple of Jupiter

Had a little fun with pixel art today - made a new icon for my profile and a new banner to go in line with the pixel art. Will update the pictures of my Pompeii Recreation Project content with the new style soon.

No aprils fools from my account. The walls, gates and towers along with the terrain has been updated for my Pompeii project. Go check my latest blog post https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/iv-walls-and-gates/

Did a beautiful render of the city too showing the current state:

I've been on Planetminecraft for 12 years now apparently. Boy does time fly huh?

Hi PMC, hope you're having a great weekend!

After a roller coaster ride of locating, merging, migrating and auditing massive amounts of data (nearly a billion records), I'm back on crossing off front-end features until remaining tasks are down to launch preparation. The bulk of the work is done, last 10% requires pushing through and eventually leaving some ideas for post launch.

Just going to drop several work in progress screenshots from various analytics sub-pages and let them do the talking: