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Intro
Hello, I'm Zorg (or zOrg)! Twelve years ago, I began the world's largest library project on my now-lost account, Zorg_. I lost the details to get back into it, sadly! It was last edited on Planet Minecraft in 2014. Sadly, I lost the world file around 2015 at 2 million Bookshelves, so cannot even re-upload it. I used Commands for that project. Some of you may recall the Library of Wissen project. Here is the link.
Welcome to the most ambitious project of my life -- and one of the largest and most time-consuming in Minecraft history, by a single builder in Creative Mode. I'm building this by hand (Creative Mode) in 1.8.9 since I dislike 1.9+. The texture pack is one of the greatest I've ever seen: Winthor Medieval.
Story of the Library
So, I built a little story for the project. First was the fictional flag, which I'm thinking of removing since it just doesn't look great to me. Either way, this turned into a fictional group that founded the Great Palace Library called the Order of Light. They were a British Christian group in the 1930s and 1940s. The Library was built between 1932 and 1949.
The Architectural Style
The story is really just a way to better humanise the project and explain the strange style and scale of the Library. I went down the German (WWII-era) route for the buildings and the French route for the gardens (formal garden movement). Regardless, this opened up an area for education, as I could tell the visitors about history, books, freedom, censorship, and libraries. Just some of my favourite things. (See 'purpose of the project?' down below for more details.)
The sources, real and feigned, are variations on a theme more than they are varied. I was primarily inspired by the great halls and palaces of England and Europe, and their parterres. I feel like Nick Carraway, looking into the world of extravagance or grandeur, depending on your view. Regardless, what strikes me most is the blinding splendour, and the leading lines (when dealing with screenshots).
Chief styles include Stripped Classicism, Gothic, Neoclassical, Art Deco, Baroque, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Prairie, Elizabethan, totalitarian Classicism, English Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, and Greek (Doric).
For actual examples, I went down eight roads (across the build, not just the exterior of the palace proper):
- Rundale Palace, Blenheim Palace, Buckingham Palace, Gardens of Versailles, Hardwick Hall, Hofburg
- Ziggurat of Ur, Dur-Sharukkin ziggurat, the Giza pyramid complex
- Library of Congress (all three libraries), New York Public Library, the Library of Alexandria
- Nazi Zeppelinfield Tribune, New Reich Chancellery, Haus der Kunst
- Lincoln Memorial, Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum, Les Invalides, Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Tomb of Mausolus, Anıtkabir, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)
- Mines of Moria, Erebor (Lord of the Rings, Alan Lee)
- Jedi Temple (Star Wars)
- Malfoy Manor (Harry Potter) [based on Hardwick Hall]
When can you download it?
The project might be ready by Christmas 2025. My rough guess is that it'll require 2 million Bookshelves, 40 million blocks, and 3,000 man-hours, across a 3,072x3,072 World Painter map (almost completely Air save a single layer of Clay at level 180). The palace and gardens proper will largely be above ground and span roughly 2,700 by 1,700 blocks, making it one of the largest gardens in the world, crushed only by the Gardens of Versailles (and it's likely the largest hand-built in Minecraft). If you walk around the entire build -- as you might with a library or museum tour -- you're looking at 3+ hours. Flying will be much faster. (But, when you do, fly close to the ground when possible: like much of classical architecture, it was built for the spectacle at ground level.)
Purpose of the project?
More than just the world's largest library, which has been my weird dream since 2012, I want to make it educational. I want to include Signs or something, with names of books. As many books as I can write out. I also want to give some background on the architecture, and might include a 'history' section for libraries through the ages. In this modern age of libraries, halls, and various historic buildings closing or being demolished, and books being rewritten or banned, I believe it's more important than ever that the younger generations learn something of our vast cultures and histories. This is me playing my small part, I hope. Since it's not strictly a WWII lecture and not about any particular nation or body of control or era in time, I don't want to overly focus on German history or totalitarian more broadly. I hope to include a large array of books for people to consider reading, and touching on many different pieces of history.
Learn this, if nothing else: the sovereign beauty of the human spirit, and how free it must remain. Never let somebody tell you what to read, or what to burn, or what to turn towards or away from. I may not agree with a book or enjoy its narrative, but I defend to my last the right to publish and read it. In the words of Heine: 'Wherever they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'
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Block counter: 100,000/40,000,000
Hours counter: 20/3,000
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'As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.' - Jung
'Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another.' - Paine
'Knowledge is power.' - Jefferson
'For stony limits cannot hold love out.' - the Order of Light's motto [Shakespeare]
'The place of care of the soul.' - the Library's motto [Hecataeus]
Hello, I'm Zorg (or zOrg)! Twelve years ago, I began the world's largest library project on my now-lost account, Zorg_. I lost the details to get back into it, sadly! It was last edited on Planet Minecraft in 2014. Sadly, I lost the world file around 2015 at 2 million Bookshelves, so cannot even re-upload it. I used Commands for that project. Some of you may recall the Library of Wissen project. Here is the link.
Welcome to the most ambitious project of my life -- and one of the largest and most time-consuming in Minecraft history, by a single builder in Creative Mode. I'm building this by hand (Creative Mode) in 1.8.9 since I dislike 1.9+. The texture pack is one of the greatest I've ever seen: Winthor Medieval.
Story of the Library
So, I built a little story for the project. First was the fictional flag, which I'm thinking of removing since it just doesn't look great to me. Either way, this turned into a fictional group that founded the Great Palace Library called the Order of Light. They were a British Christian group in the 1930s and 1940s. The Library was built between 1932 and 1949.
The Architectural Style
The story is really just a way to better humanise the project and explain the strange style and scale of the Library. I went down the German (WWII-era) route for the buildings and the French route for the gardens (formal garden movement). Regardless, this opened up an area for education, as I could tell the visitors about history, books, freedom, censorship, and libraries. Just some of my favourite things. (See 'purpose of the project?' down below for more details.)
The sources, real and feigned, are variations on a theme more than they are varied. I was primarily inspired by the great halls and palaces of England and Europe, and their parterres. I feel like Nick Carraway, looking into the world of extravagance or grandeur, depending on your view. Regardless, what strikes me most is the blinding splendour, and the leading lines (when dealing with screenshots).
Chief styles include Stripped Classicism, Gothic, Neoclassical, Art Deco, Baroque, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Prairie, Elizabethan, totalitarian Classicism, English Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, and Greek (Doric).
For actual examples, I went down eight roads (across the build, not just the exterior of the palace proper):
- Rundale Palace, Blenheim Palace, Buckingham Palace, Gardens of Versailles, Hardwick Hall, Hofburg
- Ziggurat of Ur, Dur-Sharukkin ziggurat, the Giza pyramid complex
- Library of Congress (all three libraries), New York Public Library, the Library of Alexandria
- Nazi Zeppelinfield Tribune, New Reich Chancellery, Haus der Kunst
- Lincoln Memorial, Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum, Les Invalides, Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Tomb of Mausolus, Anıtkabir, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)
- Mines of Moria, Erebor (Lord of the Rings, Alan Lee)
- Jedi Temple (Star Wars)
- Malfoy Manor (Harry Potter) [based on Hardwick Hall]
When can you download it?
The project might be ready by Christmas 2025. My rough guess is that it'll require 2 million Bookshelves, 40 million blocks, and 3,000 man-hours, across a 3,072x3,072 World Painter map (almost completely Air save a single layer of Clay at level 180). The palace and gardens proper will largely be above ground and span roughly 2,700 by 1,700 blocks, making it one of the largest gardens in the world, crushed only by the Gardens of Versailles (and it's likely the largest hand-built in Minecraft). If you walk around the entire build -- as you might with a library or museum tour -- you're looking at 3+ hours. Flying will be much faster. (But, when you do, fly close to the ground when possible: like much of classical architecture, it was built for the spectacle at ground level.)
Purpose of the project?
More than just the world's largest library, which has been my weird dream since 2012, I want to make it educational. I want to include Signs or something, with names of books. As many books as I can write out. I also want to give some background on the architecture, and might include a 'history' section for libraries through the ages. In this modern age of libraries, halls, and various historic buildings closing or being demolished, and books being rewritten or banned, I believe it's more important than ever that the younger generations learn something of our vast cultures and histories. This is me playing my small part, I hope. Since it's not strictly a WWII lecture and not about any particular nation or body of control or era in time, I don't want to overly focus on German history or totalitarian more broadly. I hope to include a large array of books for people to consider reading, and touching on many different pieces of history.
Learn this, if nothing else: the sovereign beauty of the human spirit, and how free it must remain. Never let somebody tell you what to read, or what to burn, or what to turn towards or away from. I may not agree with a book or enjoy its narrative, but I defend to my last the right to publish and read it. In the words of Heine: 'Wherever they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'
-
Block counter: 100,000/40,000,000
Hours counter: 20/3,000
-
'As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.' - Jung
'Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another.' - Paine
'Knowledge is power.' - Jefferson
'For stony limits cannot hold love out.' - the Order of Light's motto [Shakespeare]
'The place of care of the soul.' - the Library's motto [Hecataeus]
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