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Architecture Multiverse (CN) — 1.21.11 BETA33
Changelog: Forbidden City Corner Tower Reconstruction and Chinese Architecture Expansion
English-language version coming in a future update.

Architecture Multiverse continues to expand its historical architecture collection. Following the earlier Giza work and the first Wanchun Pavilion and Forbidden City Corner Tower showcases, this update takes the Chinese architecture section further. The biggest change is not simply adding more roof decoration: the Forbidden City Corner Tower has been separated from its earlier fantasy-inspired interpretation and given a new, independent reconstruction based more closely on the real building's proportions and structural layout.

THE FORBIDDEN CITY CORNER TOWER — NEW STRICT 10× RECONSTRUCTION

A new independent destination, Forbidden City Corner Tower (Authentic Reconstruction), has been added. This is separate from the previous corner-tower showcase, so the new model does not have to compromise its historical layout to preserve the older artistic version.

The new tower is built at a nominal 10× scale. Its main square building is based on an 8.73 m × 8.73 m core, represented by approximately 87 × 87 blocks. Unlike a simplified symmetrical pavilion, the corner tower uses an asymmetric plan, with shallow 1.60 m porches and deeper 3.98 m porches. The northern and western sides represent the outward-facing city-wall fronts with smaller porches and windows; the southern and eastern sides represent the palace-facing fronts with larger porches and doorways. This difference matters: it changes the silhouette, the circulation, and the appearance of the entire building.

The roof has been rebuilt around the tower's distinctive three-tier composition. The lower level includes waist eaves; the middle level integrates four hip-and-gable porch roofs; and the upper level uses two intersecting hip-and-gable roofs with four visible gables. The new design deliberately avoids carrying over the previous round-pavilion or conical-roof shapes. Continuous yellow-glazed roof surfaces, clearer intersections, and restrained ridge details help the roof read as a connected architectural system instead of unrelated decorative pieces.

The timber framework has also received a substantial pass. The model interprets the five-pu and seven-pu dougong bracket hierarchies at different levels, keeps bracket projections within their eave boundaries, and introduces a column-reduction layout rather than simply filling the interior with a grid of supports. Concealed beam-end treatment reflects the intended paliang structural language. Floor and ceiling heights have been organized around the documented central-space and porch differences, rather than using one height everywhere.

For the colors, the reconstruction keeps a relatively controlled Qing imperial palette: vermilion, dark timber, cyan-green decorative bands, and yellow glazed roofs. It does not turn the structure into an oversized gold ornament, and it does not introduce an invented Chinese signboard merely to fill an empty space. The tower sits on its own display platform and remains protected as a constructed architectural exhibit.

THE EARLIER CORNER TOWER IS NOT DELETED

The BETA32 corner-tower interpretation has been preserved in its original dimension as the fantasy-inspired Li Jing / Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Mansion (托塔李天王府邸，天庭艺术版). The new Forbidden City Corner Tower is a separate destination. In other words, the artistic build and the more historically constrained build now exist alongside each other rather than one overwriting the other.

WANCHUN PAVILION — TWO DISTINCT VERSIONS

The Chinese architecture expansion also carries forward the Wanchun Pavilion changes made after the first professional showcase. The earlier Wanchun Pavilion model has been retained as the Peach Garden Flower Pavilion (蟠桃园·花亭，天庭艺术版), while a separate Forbidden City Imperial Garden Wanchun Pavilion (紫禁城御花园·万春亭) destination focuses on a more historically oriented 26× interpretation.

The more authentic Wanchun model has received additional refinement to its column supports and stonework, lower and upper dougong layers, layered eave silhouette, and the transition from a square base through a polygonal form toward the rounded upper composition. Doorway and lattice details, decorative ceiling treatment, roof tile rhythm, and a restrained vermilion-and-blue-green color scheme have all been part of this continuing work. These remain architectural reconstructions in progress, not declarations that every original feature is complete.

WHAT REMAINS AND WHAT HAS NOT CHANGED

The existing foundation of 50 regional architecture destinations remains part of Architecture Multiverse. The earlier Ancient Egypt and Giza content, including the major pyramids and ongoing Sphinx-area reconstruction, is not being presented as newly completed in BETA33. The wider Giza archaeological complex is still a longer-term goal; only selected major monuments and related areas are implemented so far.

The Chinese showcase structures continue to use existing vanilla blocks and block states, rather than custom microblocks. The new strict corner-tower build is divided into staged construction data rather than being treated as one enormous single-command paste. The included build notes report 976,750 structure blocks, 280 structure tiles, and 70 construction stages for the strict corner-tower reconstruction; the recorded roof-shell and main-column support checks passed during preparation. Those checks do not replace an end-to-end test in every player world.

CURRENT STATUS AND LANGUAGE

This is still a beta release. The authentic Forbidden City Corner Tower and Wanchun Pavilion are continuing reconstructions, and their proportions, ornament, and technical details may receive further corrections. The project is moving toward a wider historical architecture collection, not claiming that the entire Forbidden City, all Chinese landmarks, or the complete Giza archaeological complex has already been finished.

This release is intended as the Chinese-language (CN) build for Minecraft Java 1.21.11 with Fabric and Fabric API. An English-language edition is planned for a future update; it is not presented as already available here.