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
- Stone podium and the steps
- Atrium mosaic and the impluvium
- Peristyle floors: red and white, travertine
- Outer walls: red socle and ochre plaster
- White pilasters, cornices and small high windows
- Shops and the entrance
- Atrium: four Corinthian columns
- Inner walls of the atrium and the tablinum
- Peristyle colonnade and its red frieze
- The marble fountain
- Triclinium hall
- Baths: the caldarium and its arched windows
- Baths: tiled dome and the furnace's chimney
- Atrium roof: tiles sloping to the compluvium
- Peristyle roof
- Triclinium roof and pediment
- Portico: eight Corinthian columns and the entablature
- Portico pediment, roof and lanterns
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