Building Color/Design Guide

[stya]

1200 limestone
800 basalt
Boards spruce
Blocks hazel

Edited to hide/show tower.

[Scoodles]

150 Flint
80 Sallow Blocks
32 Sallow Boards
18 Hazel Boards
30 Straw
2 Tin

Very happy with this one

[Sevenless]

150 Flint
80 Sallow Blocks
32 Sallow Boards
18 Hazel Boards
30 Straw
2 Tin

Very happy with this one

That's a gorgeous house. I really love how flint pairs with lighter coloured wood.

[Treetheater]

Ok, so... I built a Stone Mansion and I'm fairly sure I had the materials right but when it was done it seems that block 1 and block 2 swapped places... Not sure why..

The same thing just happened to me, and so I investigated in this thread a little bit and I think the guide image is just wrong in that respect. Pretty much every post in this thread detailing a mansion build supports this theory. So I don't know if the community's caught on to it being a mistake or what? I'm sure the more prominent architects know where their woods are going to go just based on experience, but the image should probably be changed to avoid further confusion.




Woods 1 and 2 should be switched on this image! Wood 1 is the roofing and horizontal boards, Wood 2 is the pillars and vertical boards!


I guess i'll contribute my houses too...

The stone mansion is the one I just built, it uses:

1st wood Planewood
2nd wood Mirkwood
3rd wood Walnut
4th wood Cypress

1st, 2nd and 3rd stones are Basalt, Limestone and Porphyry.

Tar for thatching and a cast iron doorknob.

I think it actually looks really nice with the planewood being on the top with the lighter mirkwood as the pillars, but I still kind of what to see how it would have looked if it came out as I originally planned it with the incorrect guide.

I don't remember exactly what's what on the stonestead, I know it uses mirkwood and conkerwood though.

[Pupsi]

damn, lol

[Amanda44]

A black wood and a white wood would be nice .... I know there is an African blackwood, (Ebony) - maybe a bird brought some seeds over.

740 Quartz
660 Basalt
600 Flint

(Acknowledgement to Scoodles ... )

Planewood and Spruce - though I'm not happy with the door or roof. Also, @ Jorb really, why make the window frames and door frames use different woods? It should be reversed, frame would have been planewood, cross spruce.

[DaniAngione]

The Golden Hall of New Thotoshire:



STONE:
150 x Marble

BOARDS:
150 x Hazel
100 x Planewood

BLOCKS:
250 x King's Oak
150 x Spruce
100 x Planewood

I'm particularly proud of this one, mostly because two of the wood types used (Hazel & Planewood) are not native to our region... So we had to do almost a hundred of hour-long boat journeys to 'import' the wood (especially Hazel, which yields only 5 boards per tree)

And also because I was able to really visualize it before building by taking a picture of the "ghost image" and changing its colors on photoshop... I must say I got it really close to what it turned out to be

Here's the photoshop image of what I expected:

[Kelody]

A black wood and a white wood would be nice .... I know there is an African blackwood, (Ebony) - maybe a bird brought some seeds over.

740 Quartz
660 Basalt
600 Flint

(Acknowledgement to Scoodles ... )

Planewood and Spruce - though I'm not happy with the door or roof. Also, @ Jorb really, why make the window frames and door frames use different woods? It should be reversed, frame would have been planewood, cross spruce.

Planewood has black planks, white bark. Poplar has black bark, but neon yellow planks.

[Amanda44]

A black wood and a white wood would be nice .... I know there is an African blackwood, (Ebony) - maybe a bird brought some seeds over.

740 Quartz
660 Basalt
600 Flint

(Acknowledgement to Scoodles ... )

Planewood and Spruce - though I'm not happy with the door or roof. Also, @ Jorb really, why make the window frames and door frames use different woods? It should be reversed, frame would have been planewood, cross spruce.

Planewood has black planks, white bark.

Yeah, but it's not black though is it, lol, it's dark brown ... (the door frame is planewood) I used it with the same combination of stones on my houses and it looks really nice, it also looks darker on them than it does on the tower, it's a shame as I love the stone combo but it's ruined by the door ... nvm, it can't be undone, but in future I would use plum (maybe) for the frames.

[Redkat]

A black wood and a white wood would be nice .... I know there is an African blackwood, (Ebony) - maybe a bird brought some seeds over.

While we are dreaming. There is a tree in the Amazon or somewhere down there in the Jungles of South America that are blue/purple. Only ever saw it once in a magazine so I dont know the name. Maybe Venator can help out.

But Damm - Blue !