The palette

Tuff bricks, polished tuff, chiseled tuff bricks and tuff brick stairs for the stepped base; dark oak logs for the staves, stripped dark oak logs for the posts, plates and beams, dark oak planks and fences for the gallery wall and arcade; dark oak stairs with spruce courses for the lower roofs, spruce stairs for the bargeboards; bamboo stairs, bamboo planks and bamboo mosaic for the golden top tier, gold block for the spire, the hooks of the chain and the lintels, bamboo slabs for the chain's loops; mangrove planks for red bands; painted trapdoor shields; redstone block for the dragons' eyes; shroomlight behind the round windows.

Techniques

• Stacked tiers
• Cross roofs
• The golden chain
• Dragon heads on the gables
• A stepped stone base

The steps

1. Stepped base of grey-green stone
2. Core: stave walls and four portals
3. The altar and its three idols
4. Gallery: its low wall and arcade
5. South porch: posts and benches
6. Gallery roof of dark shingles
7. Porch roof and its little gable
8. The golden chain hung round the eaves
9. Core: the upper walls and round windows
10. Cross roof: four steep gables of dark shingles
11. Carved bargeboards and four dragon heads
12. Tower: its walls and belfry
13. Tower roof: four small gables of golden tiles
14. Four small dragon heads
15. Drum and the spire of golden tiles
16. Braziers and lanterns

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