The palette

Blackstone in every finish (plain, polished, bricks, cracked, chiseled, gilded) for the walls, polished basalt at the corners, gold blocks for the bands, the voussoirs and the piglin's ears and snout, quartz for the tusks; obsidian and crying obsidian round the portal; lava for the falls, shroomlight behind the slits; iron chains, iron bars and lanterns.

Techniques

• A pointed arch in gold
• The piglin head
• Fortified towers
• Lava falls

The steps

1. Blackstone foundation
2. Gatehouse: the lower walls round the arch
3. The arch's golden voussoirs and the obsidian frame
4. Gatehouse: the upper walls
5. The piglin head
6. Towers: the sloping foot and the lower walls
7. Towers: the upper walls, gold bands and slits
8. Towers: corbels, parapets and merlons
9. Gatehouse merlons
10. Gargoyles, lava falls and basins
11. Chains and lanterns
12. Light the portal

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