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How to build the Erechtheion in Minecraft

the palette · 19 steps · 5 techniques

The palette

Isodomic courses of quartz bricks, smooth quartz and calcite for the walls, smooth quartz and its stairs and slabs for steps, mouldings, string course, frames, caryatids and cornices, chiseled quartz for capitals, volutes, ears and the caryatids' baskets, quartz pillars for the fluted shafts and the robes' folds; polished diorite for plinths and floors; polished deepslate for the dark frieze with calcite and quartz figures; gold for the columns' necks, the anthemion band and acroteria, lapis for the coffered ceilings; copper doors and a copper grate for the bronze doors, glass panes in the windows; polished granite and granite slabs for the red tiled roofs; stone bricks, polished andesite, smooth stone and andesite walls for the terraces and their stair.

Techniques

  • Two levels
  • Walls that look carved
  • Slender Ionic columns
  • A dark frieze
  • Maidens as columns

The steps

  1. The lower pavement
  2. The upper terrace and its stair
  3. The cella's basement and stylobate
  4. The cella's walls: the lower courses
  5. The cella's walls: the upper courses and the west windows
  6. Antae at the corners and the eared window frames
  7. North porch: its floor and the great north door
  8. North porch: six tall columns
  9. North porch: entablature, frieze and coffered ceiling
  10. North porch: its gable and pediment
  11. East portico: six slender Ionic columns
  12. West end: half columns on the basement
  13. Architrave and the frieze of dark stone
  14. The cornice
  15. Caryatids' porch: the high parapet
  16. The six caryatids
  17. Caryatids' porch: architrave, dentils and roof
  18. The roof of red tiles and its two pediments
  19. Gilded acroteria

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