Japanese castle
White calcite walls on a sloped stone brick base, dark oak beams, and stacked deepslate tile roofs with wide eaves. Pruned spruce trees around it are the only green.
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Open in Blockroll
All six blocks open locked. Press Space to roll new rules, or unlock a block to swap it.
- 13 × 13 footprint
- 24 blocks high
- Java 1.17+ or Bedrock 1.17+
The blocks
How to build with it
- Mark out 13 × 13 blocks and lay the Spruce Planks floor first.
- Put Dark Oak Log on every corner and every 4 or 5 blocks along long walls, then fill between them with Calcite.
- Roof it with Deepslate Tiles stairs and slabs. Keep the whole build within 24 blocks of height, roof included.
- Give Stone Bricks one job, such as a band under the roof or frames around doors and windows, and repeat it.
- Add Spruce Leaves last and use less of it than you think.
Rules for this build
- The roof overhangs the walls by at least one block.
- Walls sit on at least 2 different depths.
- Everything is symmetrical, except one thing.
Rules keep a build from turning into a box. Follow all three, or roll others in Blockroll.
Related palettes
Cherry cottagePale calcite walls let the pink cherry roof carry the colour, and dark cherry logs keep the corners crisp. Built for a small house in a cherry grove.Snowy cabinSpruce planks and logs read warm against snow, and a deepslate tile roof stays dark enough to see from far away. Cobblestone for the chimney and the base.Pale garden manorPale oak planks with grey pale oak log pillars, a dark tile roof and a single orange note from resin bricks. Looks right in a pale garden or on a foggy hill.