How to build the Palisade Gatehouse in Minecraft
the palette · 13 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Stone bricks with polished andesite, andesite, mossy and cracked stone bricks for the bank's face and the tower's footing, stone brick stairs and slabs for its batter and coping; dirt and grass block for the bank; spruce logs with pointed dripstone points for the palisade, dark oak logs for its stout posts; stripped spruce logs for the pale log walls and boards, dark oak logs for the corner ends, posts and beams; dark oak planks with iron trapdoor bands for the gates; stripped mangrove logs, mangrove planks, stairs and slabs for the red gate posts, rail and bargeboards; gold block for the post caps and the apex; spruce planks and stairs for the pent roof, dark oak planks and stairs for the main roof; pale oak and mangrove trapdoors for the shields; cobblestone and gravel for the road.
Techniques
- Notched log corners
- A fighting gallery on beams
- A clean steep roof
- Sharpened palisade
- Paint and iron
The steps
- Earth bank faced with pale stone
- Palisade: sharpened logs
- Palisade: the rail and the wall-walk behind it
- Gate tower: pale stone footing and the road through
- Ground storey: pale logs notched at the corners
- Painted lintel, red gate posts and the iron-banded gates
- Beams reaching out to carry the gallery
- Gallery: floor, parapet, red rail and a band of shields
- Upper storey: pale boards between dark oak posts
- Pent roof of spruce over the gallery
- Steep roof of dark shingles
- Gables: windows, carved bargeboards and dragon heads
- Lanterns
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