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How to build the Belfry in Minecraft

the palette · 19 steps · 5 techniques

The palette

Bricks for the walls (a little granite, mud bricks and mossy cobblestone near the ground), smooth sandstone, cut sandstone and chiseled sandstone for bands, quoins, arches and copings, sandstone for the bell chamber and the octagon; deepslate tiles and deepslate bricks for the hall's slate roof; lapis blocks, gold blocks and polished blackstone bricks for the clocks; dark oak trapdoors for the louvres, dark oak logs for the bell frame and bells inside; oxidized and weathered cut copper and oxidized copper for the crown and needle spires, gold blocks for the orb.

Techniques

  • Brick with stone bands
  • Stepped gables
  • A tower in stages
  • Traceried bell openings
  • An octagon and its crown

The steps

  1. Footing and the market floor
  2. Cloth hall: brick walls and the market arcade
  3. Cloth hall: the steep slate roof
  4. Cloth hall: two dormers
  5. Cloth hall: the stepped gables
  6. Tower: the lower stage and its deep portal
  7. Tower: clasping buttresses
  8. Tower: the first offset and its pinnacles
  9. Tower: the middle stage
  10. Tower: the great clocks
  11. Bell chamber: traceried openings
  12. Bell chamber: the bells
  13. Corbel table and the balustrade
  14. Octagon of sandstone and its lancets
  15. Four corner turrets with needle spires
  16. Copper crown: the bell roof
  17. Copper crown: the open lantern
  18. Copper crown: the needle and the gilded orb
  19. Lanterns at the portal

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