How to build the Samurai House in Minecraft
the palette · 16 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
A terrace of mixed stone (stone, andesite, cobblestone, tuff, mossy cobblestone near the ground) edged with polished andesite and smooth stone; stone bricks under the floor; stripped spruce logs for every post and beam, spruce planks and slabs for the floor and the veranda; calcite for the white plaster, white wool behind birch, oak and spruce trapdoors for the shoji and storm shutters; tuff bricks, polished tuff and tuff brick stairs for the roof tiles with polished deepslate at the eaves and on the ridges, dark oak slabs and stairs under the eaves; polished deepslate and calcite in a checkerboard for the gate house's namako tiles, iron bars for its windows, a dark oak door in the gate.
Techniques
- A raised stone terrace
- Posts proud of the panels
- A hip-and-gable roof with a set-back gable
- A cusped karahafu porch
- Namako walls and a tiled gate
The steps
- Stone terrace
- Cut stone kerb and the steps
- Floor, veranda and its short posts
- Posts and beams
- Walls: plaster over boards, shoji and storm shutters
- Great roof: the tiles
- Great roof: ridge and ridge tiles
- Entrance: posts, walls and lattice doors
- Karahafu: the cusped gable
- Gate house: footing and posts
- Gate house: namako tiles, plaster and barred windows
- Gate house: the great gate and its lintel
- Gate house: the tiled roof
- Gate house: ridge and ridge tiles
- White walls and their tiled coping
- Rain chains and lanterns
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