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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
- Footing and the market floor
- Cloth hall: brick walls and the market arcade
- Cloth hall: the steep slate roof
- Cloth hall: two dormers
- Cloth hall: the stepped gables
- Tower: the lower stage and its deep portal
- Tower: clasping buttresses
- Tower: the first offset and its pinnacles
- Tower: the middle stage
- Tower: the great clocks
- Bell chamber: traceried openings
- Bell chamber: the bells
- Corbel table and the balustrade
- Octagon of sandstone and its lancets
- Four corner turrets with needle spires
- Copper crown: the bell roof
- Copper crown: the open lantern
- Copper crown: the needle and the gilded orb
- Lanterns at the portal
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