How to build the Pharos Lighthouse in Minecraft
the palette · 12 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Polished granite and granite, with their stairs, slabs and walls, for the fortress, its towers, battlements and stair; polished diorite for the tower walls, calcite for the quoins and pilasters, smooth quartz for bands, cornices and sills, chiseled quartz for the friezes; black stained glass panes for the windows; copper doors, cut copper and a copper grate for the door; smooth stone and polished andesite for the terraces, diorite walls for the parapets; oxidized copper for the Tritons and the cupola, gold for their shells; quartz pillars for the lantern, campfires, fire, magma and shroomlight for the beacon, copper blocks for the mirror; gold and raw gold blocks for Zeus with a lightning rod for his spear.
Techniques
- A tower that tapers
- Quoins and bands
- A fortress base
- A lit beacon
- Statues in layers
The steps
- Granite platform and its talus
- Round towers at the corners
- Battlements and the great stair
- Square tower: the lower stage and its bronze door
- Ledge and the upper stage
- First terrace and its parapet
- Bronze Tritons blowing their shells
- Octagonal tier
- Round tier
- Lantern: columns round the fire and the bronze mirror
- Cupola of green copper
- Gilded statue of Zeus
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