ROMECRAFT started as a personal texture pack for me and my friend H07HawK, just after Minecraft Beta was released in 2011, to better suit our little city we affectionately named "ROAM." It was an ancient roman city, with only roman themes - of course made for fun. After building a 1:1 Pantheon, I decided it needed to be spiced up with some new textures, and so I decided to start to learn how to use paint.net to texture the game. The first version, called "RomanCraft," had little detail and was overall miserably done. Soon after, I got sick of the ugly armor in Default, and made some subpar 16x16 Roman skins. Eventually, as my skills grew, I began to replace more and more textures, and learned to properly shade. I researched Roman building techniques nonstop, learning all about the architecture of Ancient Rome as I went. I focused mainly on a time period between 200BCE and 150CE, being my favorite time period of Rome.