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How to build the Tower House in Minecraft
the palette · 21 steps · 6 techniques
The palette
Grey stone bricks with a little mossy and cracked stone for the tower and the hall, polished andesite for the quoins, string courses, corbels and sills; dark oak and white calcite for the timber top storey; red brick tiles with a few mud bricks for every roof. Red curtains, glass and lanterns are the only accents.
Techniques
- Windows that grow upward
- String courses and quoins
- A jettied timber top
- A corbelled bartizan
- A lower hall wing
- An outside stair
The steps
- Stone footing
- Tower: battered base and the ground storey
- Tower: the first floor and its door
- Tower: the second floor
- Tower: the solar, its wide windows
- Floors inside the tower
- Big stone corbels for the jetty
- Timber-framed top storey
- Bartizan: its corbelled foot
- Bartizan: the turret walls
- Hall walls with tall arched windows
- Hall door and buttresses
- Hall roof of red tiles
- Chimney at the hall's end
- Pyramid roof of red tiles
- A gabled dormer over the front
- Bartizan cone
- Finials and the weather vane
- Outside stone stair
- Door hood and the door
- Lanterns
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