How to build the Swamp Witch House in Minecraft
the palette · 18 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Mud, muddy mangrove roots and coarse dirt for the pad, mangrove roots round the feet of mangrove log stilts; stripped dark oak logs for the girts, the deck beam and the floor beams, dark oak stairs and fences for braces, corbels and railings; spruce and dark oak planks for the deck and the ground floor's boards, pale oak planks and stripped pale oak wood for the bleached first floor, dark oak logs for the posts; deepslate tiles, dark oak, mossy cobblestone and spruce patches for the roof; purple and lime stained glass panes lit by pearlescent and verdant froglights; cobblestone, mossy cobblestone and stone for the tower's foot and the chimney; blackstone, polished blackstone bricks and deepslate tiles for the hat, purple wool for its band and a gold block for the buckle; soul lanterns, a cauldron on a campfire, a brewing stand and coloured candles on the porch.
Techniques
- Stilts and braces
- Deliberate crookedness
- A twisted, sagging roof
- A witch's hat
- Glowing windows
The steps
- Mud pad and root feet
- Mangrove stilts
- Girts and knee braces
- The deck and its edge beam
- Rickety stair up from the mud
- Ground floor: dark boards and the door
- First jetty on its corbels
- First floor: wattle and daub, leaning west
- Second jetty and the gable floor
- Crooked tower: the stone foot and the first floor
- Crooked tower: bending to the top
- Twisted roof: the patched tiles
- Gables, the crooked window and the spike
- Witch's hat: the brim and its purple band
- Witch's hat: the drooping cone
- Leaning stone chimney
- Cauldron on its fire, bottles and the brewing stand
- Rickety railings and soul lanterns
How each technique is done and every step explained, in 3D: Learn (members).