How to build the Castle Watchtower in Minecraft
the palette · 12 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Stone, andesite, cobblestone, tuff and stone bricks mixed for the rough stones of the base, with stone, andesite, tuff and stone brick stairs where it steps in, polished andesite and smooth stone for the long and short corner stones and the top; smooth quartz and smooth quartz slabs for the white plaster walls, eaves and bargeboards; polished blackstone with its stairs and slabs for the window frames, sills, gun ports and the stone-drop slots; iron bars in the windows with black concrete behind, an iron door; polished deepslate blocks, stairs and slabs for the roof tiles, deepslate tiles and their stairs for the ridges; dark oak planks for the ceilings, gold blocks for the gable ornaments and the golden fish.
Techniques
- Musha-gaeshi curve
- Long and short corner stones
- Black-framed windows
- Triangular and cusped gables
- White eaves and golden fish
The steps
- Stone base: the curved foot
- Stone base: rising straight to the top
- Stone base: the top and its edge
- First storey: white walls, black-framed windows, gun ports
- Stone-drop bays at the front corners
- First roof: charcoal tiles, white eaves
- Triangular gables on the first roof
- Second storey: white walls and windows
- Second roof and its cusped gable
- Top storey: white walls and windows
- Top roof: the tiles and its gables
- Top roof: the ridge and the golden fish
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