Building the Parthenon
Posted by James on June 26, 2012 · 24 Comments
A video with the still pics taken during the construction of this awesome greek monument. I left everything in there, including a couple of design mistakes, later rectified. Building took place on peaceful mode, majority of materials used were dig out by hand. I had enough stone to build everything, but I realized smooth stone doesnt look very good, so i switched to wool, used instead of marble. I edited in the wool, took a couple thousand units so had no intention to punch sheep for next quadrillion years to get it. Obsidian was used were friezes suppose to be and gold ore for the big east and west frieze on the roof. Gold blocks for the dais and gold ore was also edited in, my world is very poor on gold. Building is an exact replica, at 1.5:1 scale, 50% bigger than in reality. Exact is a loosely used term, since one can place blocks only with 1 meter (3 feet) accuracy. I kept however the proportions of the real thing, 9:4. Final dimensions: 47 wide x 99long x 29 height in the middle. Took aproximately 6 weeks to build.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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You sir? have awsome minecraft skilles. wish i was that good.
what? blocks did you use?
Anybody know where to snag the second song? Not Baba Yetu, but that one which plays during the actual intro of the game.?
Lol,Agreed.Although? Civ 5 doesn’t have religions.
The? music is weird. Another reason to play Civilization V.
Beautiful song!? and great work!
what? the craft ! 😮
Baba Yetu – Civilization? 4 soundtrack.
can? i get the building dimensions????
nice job dude 😉 how? this song called ?
music?
i love it :)?
it’s the music from Civilization 4 Intro screen.? It’s something like Baba Yetu 😀
Epic eh?
this is some really good music. I would be real happy? if I could find out what it is called.
grasz? na citach
Quite impressive.? 🙂
Wow. I would KILL to have the? patience to do something like this! XD
man this is really amazing,… great job !,… inspiration from civilization 4 a? guess 🙂
Hey I made a parthenon, tribute to WWF(World Wildlife fund)? on my channel if u guys care to look at it. I mean I worked real hard and it only has 7 views -_-
@hawost Hey @Zamolxes77 please say me the group of playmusic you? used in your video. Thanks
realy nice work in alpha ;)?
sadly it did, I did a format 2 days ago and forgot? to backup the minceraft folder, map is gone 🙁
Thatsss a nice Parthenon you? got there … It would be ssssuch a ssshame if sssomething would happen to it …
Awesome build, only 1 small problem, wasn’t the statue of? Athene in the Parthenon Chryselephantine (made of ivory & gold)?
no that is actually? a famous picture of one of the destroyed houses on the top of acropolis.