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How to build the Roman Villa in Minecraft

the palette · 18 steps · 5 techniques

The palette

Polished andesite for the podium and its moulded edge; yellow terracotta for the ochre plaster, red terracotta for the socle and the frieze, black terracotta for the atrium's painted dado; smooth quartz for pilasters, cornices, window frames and pediments, quartz pillars for the fluted shafts, chiseled quartz for the capitals and quartz stairs for their flares; brick blocks, stairs and slabs for the terracotta roofs and the bath dome; calcite and deepslate tiles for the black and white mosaics, smooth stone and polished diorite for the travertine court; water in the impluvium, the pool and the fountain; iron bars in the small windows, copper doors, decorated pots, lanterns on iron chains.

Techniques

  • A roof round open courts
  • Columns with a real order
  • Low pediments
  • Depth on plain walls
  • Volumes of different heights

The steps

  1. Stone podium and the steps
  2. Atrium mosaic and the impluvium
  3. Peristyle floors: red and white, travertine
  4. Outer walls: red socle and ochre plaster
  5. White pilasters, cornices and small high windows
  6. Shops and the entrance
  7. Atrium: four Corinthian columns
  8. Inner walls of the atrium and the tablinum
  9. Peristyle colonnade and its red frieze
  10. The marble fountain
  11. Triclinium hall
  12. Baths: the caldarium and its arched windows
  13. Baths: tiled dome and the furnace's chimney
  14. Atrium roof: tiles sloping to the compluvium
  15. Peristyle roof
  16. Triclinium roof and pediment
  17. Portico: eight Corinthian columns and the entablature
  18. Portico pediment, roof and lanterns

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