How to build the Floating Temple in Minecraft
the palette · 18 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Stone, andesite, stone bricks and cobblestone for the rock's rim, tuff in the middle, deepslate, cobbled deepslate and blackstone toward its tip; light blue and white stained glass round pearlescent froglights for the crystals; smooth quartz, quartz blocks, calcite and polished diorite for the terrace; light blue and white stained glass for the pools, waterfalls and mist; quartz stairs and quartz bricks for the steps; quartz pillars with quartz stair bases and capitals for the columns; polished andesite and polished tuff for the cella walls, deepslate tiles, polished deepslate and polished blackstone bricks inside it; gold blocks for the portal, the frieze, the acroteria and the dome, raw gold for its shading, lapis in the pediments; soul campfires and lanterns for light.
Techniques
- A floating cone of strata
- A true peristyle
- Entablature and pediment
- Water without water
- A stair rhythm
The steps
- Floating rock: its deep tip
- Floating rock: the middle strata
- Floating rock: the rim
- Glowing crystals under the rock
- Marble terrace and its balustrade
- Pools and their channels
- Waterfalls of blue glass and their mist
- Stylobate: three marble steps
- Peristyle: twenty-eight columns, bases and capitals
- Cella: its walls and the gold portal
- The altar and its glowing crystal
- Entablature: architrave, gold frieze and cornice
- Marble roof and its pediments
- Drum: its platform and ring of columns
- Drum: gold ring and cornice
- Golden dome and its lantern
- Floating stepping stones
- Marble flights from stone to stone
How each technique is done and every step explained, in 3D: Learn (members).