How to build the Sorcerer's Keep in Minecraft
the palette · 19 steps · 5 techniques
The palette
Deepslate bricks (some cracked) and polished deepslate for the walls below and above the string courses, deepslate tiles (some cracked) between them; polished deepslate, its stairs, slabs and walls for buttresses, jambs, corbels and the bridge, chiseled deepslate for keystones; purpur blocks, pillars, stairs and slabs for the string courses, sills, hoods, eaves, bands and the crown; crimson planks and stairs for the purple shingles of every roof; purple stained glass and panes lit by pearlescent froglights; cobbled deepslate, deepslate, tuff and smooth basalt for the crag; obsidian, crying obsidian, amethyst blocks, budding amethyst and clusters for finials, the heart and the runes; end rods, soul lanterns and chains; a dark oak door.
Techniques
- Depth on dark walls
- Machicolations
- A steep roof on a set-back storey
- Shingles and trim
- A crown with floating runes
The steps
- Rocky crag of deepslate
- Stair up to the door
- Keep walls: deepslate bricks and tiles
- Buttresses and string courses
- Pointed door and framed lancets
- Great rose window
- Machicolations and battlements
- Corbelled corner turrets
- Upper storey behind the battlements
- Steep roof of purple shingles, purpur eave
- Dormers and the roof's finial
- Crowned tower: the round shaft
- Crowned tower: corbels and the crown of spikes
- Heart of amethyst and the floating runes
- Octagonal tower and its lancets
- Needle spire of purple shingles
- Small tower on its rock
- Slender cone of purple shingles
- Bridge on a pointed arch
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