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
- The lower pavement
- The upper terrace and its stair
- The cella's basement and stylobate
- The cella's walls: the lower courses
- The cella's walls: the upper courses and the west windows
- Antae at the corners and the eared window frames
- North porch: its floor and the great north door
- North porch: six tall columns
- North porch: entablature, frieze and coffered ceiling
- North porch: its gable and pediment
- East portico: six slender Ionic columns
- West end: half columns on the basement
- Architrave and the frieze of dark stone
- The cornice
- Caryatids' porch: the high parapet
- The six caryatids
- Caryatids' porch: architrave, dentils and roof
- The roof of red tiles and its two pediments
- Gilded acroteria
How each technique is done and every step explained, in 3D: Learn (members).