The palette

Cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, stone, andesite, cobbled deepslate and tuff for the dry-stone walls, stone bricks and polished andesite for the flagstone floor and steps; dark oak logs for the posts, wall plate and turf log, dark oak stairs and planks for the fascia and barge boards; moss blocks on a spruce plank deck for the turf roof; stripped spruce for the gable boards; mangrove stairs for the carved capitals; stone bricks and polished blackstone bricks with magma and a campfire for the hearth; anvil, brown wool bellows, cauldron, coal and iron blocks; targets and iron trapdoors for the shields and axes.

Techniques

• A sunken floor
• A clean turf roof
• Crafted timber edges
• An open bay on carved posts
• A lean-to for the racks

The steps

1. Flat ground
2. Dig the forge's pit
3. Dig the steps down to it
4. Flagstone floor and the steps
5. Dry-stone walls lining the pit
6. Four courses over the ground
7. Carved posts of the open bay
8. Timber wall plate and the front beam
9. Hearth and its stone hood
10. Bellows, anvil and quench tub
11. Gables of upright boards
12. Turf roof on its timber deck
13. Barge boards crossing over the gables
14. Smoke louvre on the ridge
15. Lean-to against the west gable
16. Racks of shields and axes, the grindstone
17. Lanterns and the shield sign

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