Many players who hadn't paid any attention to Minecraft started to watch the video out of curiosity.
In the end, the first scene of the video shocked many people.
"This is real life?"
"This quality, how can this be a game scene? Where's the mosaics? I can't see any mosaics! "
"What's the difference between this and high quality CG? Chen Mo, you're lying again! "
The first thing that appeared was the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City.
The camera passed through the middle of the Meridian Gate, over the Golden Water Bridge and into the Taihe Gate.
When the camera zoomed in, they could clearly see the lifelike stone lions in the distance. They were pieced together from blocks. Although they were covered with mosaics, their charm was exactly the same as a real stone lion.
The camera zoomed in on the white jade stairs. Although it couldn't show off the nine dragon carvings in the middle of the stairs perfectly, the shape of the carvings could still be seen.
The camera zoomed in on the details of the buildings.
The golden glazed roof tiles.
The plaque in the middle.
The palace lanterns on both sides.
The quiet forest and the pavilion.
And the interior of the palace.
Beds, tables, cushions, incense burners, potted plants.
The camera zoomed in on the Taihe Palace. The nine dragon screen and the golden throne appeared in the middle of the screen.
Then, the camera zoomed in on the Taihe Palace. The nine dragon screen and the golden throne appeared in the middle of the screen.
Finally, the camera zoomed out, the gates closed and the background music faded.
But that wasn't the end of the video.
At the end of the video, there was a smaller scene that fast-forwarded the construction process of a certain palace.
Building the foundation, building the red pillars, laying down the golden glazed tiles … It was a complete reconstruction of the construction process.
After watching the video, the gamers were shocked the whole time.
Chen Mo's Weibo post was being shared like crazy with more and more comments!
"Don't lie to me with a documentary …"
"Did you really make this in Minecraft?"
"My mom asked why I was kneeling the entire time!"
"Chen Mo, you're such a goddamn construction genius! Please accept my kneeling! "
"I heard there's a place in Beijing called the Forbidden City that did a pretty good job replicating it."
"I'm suddenly interested in this game! Can you really recreate the Forbidden City in the game? Doesn't that mean any other building would be a piece of cake? "
"It's so detailed! Although there are some mosaics, it's so beautiful, so beautiful that I want to lick my screen! "
"But I want to ask, is it hard to make? Trying to make something like this out of blocks … Yeah, I think I could do it in a hundred thousand years. "
"Of course it's hard, but it's challenging!"
…
There wasn't much promotion, just a Weibo post and a video, and # MinecraftForbiddenCity# was trending all of a sudden!
The video also gained a lot of views on it.
Moreover, the way this video became popular was different from Gokuraku Jodo.
"Gokuraku Jodo" mainly started in the 2-D world. Then, it was fermented by major video websites and finally spread to a larger group of players through brainwashing.
As for the video of "The Forbidden City", it was recommended by major video websites and spread on the news.
In particular, the gaming channels of many news websites treated this video as the most important gaming news of the day, reposting and spreading it like wildfire.
This piece of news was even reported by some TV stations. Many people who didn't even play games knew about Minecraft, and that someone even built the Forbidden City in it.
After all, this video was not as utilitarian as other promotional videos. The content of the video itself was very eye-catching, and it promoted China and traditional culture. It was very popular for these traditional media, and there were no restrictions on the playerbase. Everyone loved watching it.
And the name of Minecraft became more and more familiar to more and more people.
"Chen Mo made a Forbidden City in Minecraft" was a topic that was being discussed over and over again, and it even seemed to overtake Thousand Hells.
This topic was on the hot search list for an entire week.
Two weeks later, just as the topic was about to die down, Chen Mo made another post.
"Minecraft: Rebuild Yuanmingyuan. Note: Still in-game. "
The onlookers were shocked. F * ck, again?
It had only been two weeks since the Forbidden City was released, and there was a new video, and it was Yuanmingyuan at that?
With the influence of the Forbidden City, there were even more people watching this video. The Forbidden City was a building that existed in real life after all, but Yuanmingyuan had been destroyed a long time ago. All that was left was a pile of rubble!
Although there were many educational programs that tried to recreate what Yuanmingyuan looked like when it was in perfect condition, it was too difficult. It would be too expensive to recreate it using computer technology, and there was no profit to be made. How could a normal educational program have the money to do that?
At most, it was just some pictures, but the expressive power of pictures was far from that of a video.
Everyone knew that Yuanmingyuan was amazing, known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". But for a long time, what it looked like was completely up to their imagination, and they had no idea what it actually looked like.
But now, Chen Mo actually recreated Yuanmingyuan in Minecraft!
This time, the onlookers were even more excited, and couldn't wait to start the video.
The video started with a paragraph of text.
"In a corner of the world, there is a miracle. This miracle is called Yuanmingyuan.
"Please imagine an indescribable building, like a palace on the moon. This is Yuanmingyuan.
"Build a dream of marble, of jade, of bronze, of porcelain; build its roof with cedar; cover it with jewels from top to bottom; cover it with silks and satins; build a shrine here, a harem there; fill it with gods and mythical beasts; adorn it with glass, enamel, gold, and rouge."
"Let the architect, who is also a poet, build the Thousand and One Nights, the Thousand and One Dreams, and add gardens, pools, fountains, and flocks of swans, ibises, and peacocks."
"In short, please assume that the dazzling Immortal's Cave in the imagination of mankind, which looks like a temple or a palace, is actually a unique miracle in the world, and that is the Old Summer Palace."
- Victor Hugo.
This was written by French author Victor Hugo to Captain Butler, to criticize the destruction of Yuanmingyuan by the British and French. The words about the Old Summer Palace in this passage became a classic and was remembered by countless people.
The text disappeared, and a map of Yuanmingyuan appeared on the screen.
As the camera zoomed in, Minecraft characters appeared outside the camera. Only then did the players realise that the map was in Minecraft.
The minions walked into the ruins of Yuanmingyuan and found a special portal.
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