Tower material count please

[Enjoyment]

Well first of all, if basalt was actually black, yes maybe it be ok, but basalt is not black, it is charcoal and rather dull, it looks much darker as paving.
I was going to use basalt, bloodstone and iron ocre for the mountain itself to give it a stone look with cracks through which you see lava or something like that with a tiny cemetery next to tower
and plant some poplars on the hill sides here and there as they are the closest u can get to dead trees as they have much less foliage as all the other trees.
Now I have to rethink all that i guess. It is for sure not a practical place to use, there's no surface on top, pretty much all taken by tower and almost no flat surface anywhere except for where the road turns at corners where i have small 4 x 4 flat spaces. It is huge, has a 30 x 30 base , it is 7 tiles high with each tile fully maxed in elevation, the pyramid\mound is about as high as the height of the tower, it took a huge amount of dirt hehe.

You can demolish the old tower by hand if not too much time have passed. Also take a look at cedar as decorative trees - it has very twisted trunk and may fit your theme. And cherries/plums could fit black/red color as well.

[Shyruban]

Na will not demolish, will adapt , i wanted trees that look as close as possible to dead trees, not trees with colors

[Shyruban]

Here's a couple screenies of tower and hill\pyramid.

[Enjoyment]

Na will not demolish, will adapt , i wanted trees that look as close as possible to dead trees, not trees with colors

Both plums and juniper has way less foliage than poplar then. proof)
UPD: Oh, man, demolish that! Those toxic yellow wood won't fit any theme))

[Shyruban]

Well i like the light green of the bay willow, would have looked better and somewhat sickly if tower would have come out the way it was supposed to, which is what i wanted.
I'n keeping the tower, not demolishing and rebuilding. will improvise something.

[tyrtix]

weird, my tower have basalt columns but i feel they look differently than that... maybe the colour of other stones makes it look different.