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Housesteads Roman Fort - Hadrian's Wall

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Hi all!

Housesteads is one of the most famous forts from the entire Roman world. It was built ~AD130 on Hadrian's Wall in what's now northern England. One of 14 or so forts built along the Wall. (See Vindolanda, which sat just a couple miles to the southwest: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687444958 )

It sits dramatically at the top of a long ridge of high ground, with views for miles north and south. It must have been a very imposing sight back in the day.

My build shows the fort as it would have looked about AD 213-235 or so. It was garrisoned by the 1st Cohort of Tungrians -- an infantry auxiliary unit of about 800 soldiers. The fort holds 11 barrack blocks, 3 long storehouses/workshops, the HQ (principia) right in the middle, the commander's home (praetorium) south of it, the 2 granaries north of it, and a courtyard building behind the HQ which archaeologists think was a hospital. All of these buildings are known from archaeology in the ground.

Outside the fort's south and east gates, a "vicus" or town grew up in the 3rd Century. This was home to shopkeepers, retired soldiers, craftspeople, farmers -- folks who made their living selling to the army. It's a lot of fun comparing the regimented order inside the fort walls to the sprawl outside. Two different worlds.

For this build, I relied on the "Stone Beam Mod" by Montmorency. It let me get wall dimensions much more accurate. Each barrack is made up of 1000+ individual 1x2 "stone" blocks. This makes them super-realistic if you go into destroy mode!

The whole build uses 20,000+ individual blocks. I have kept the Sim Speed to a full 100% on my computer, and the FPS a solid 12-13 in the busiest parts of the fort. It's a -huge- amount of "stuff" for a graphics card to process. Still, hopefully it's still playable and enjoyable. Have fun!