The palette

Deepslate in every finish: deepslate bricks and tiles (some cracked) for the towers, polished and chiseled deepslate for the trims, reinforced deepslate for the frame; tuff, tuff bricks and polished tuff mixed in; polished basalt; sculk, sensors, shriekers and catalysts spreading over the floor; soul lanterns and soul campfires; sea lanterns behind the slits and in the warden's eyes.

Techniques

• A portal set deep
• Deepslate textures
• Curling horns
• Sculk that spreads

The steps

1. Platform: the first step
2. Platform: the second step
3. Platform: the floor
4. The reinforced deepslate frame
5. Towers: the walls
6. Towers: pilasters, niches, slits and cornice
7. Ramps up the towers' sides
8. Shoulders and the brow
9. Brow cornice and crest
10. Horns: reaching out
11. Horns: curling up
12. The sculk spreading from the portal
13. Sensors, shriekers and catalysts
14. Soul lanterns and soul fires
15. Light the portal

How each technique is done and every step explained, in 3D: Learn (members).

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