Building Color/Design Guide

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Darruin
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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Just built this. I like everything except the planks I used, too bright. What would be a better darker alternative?

120 basalt
130 gneiss
100 mirkwood blocks
60 plumwood planks
30 tarsticks
20 elm boughs
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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Larch, Hazel, or Aspen. Planewood is also incredibly dark.
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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MightySheep wrote:Nobody has actually posted any mansion images saying what boards/blocks they used with different wood, everybody keeps making mansions with 1 type of wood :?
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You should try actually reading the thread sheep :P
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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I like this new color system ;)
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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Is that a tar roof? I've yet to see mine have such a white shimmer to it.
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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11 tar, 9 random bough. :)
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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Sevenless wrote:
MightySheep wrote:Nobody has actually posted any mansion images saying what boards/blocks they used with different wood, everybody keeps making mansions with 1 type of wood :?
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=41353&start=50#p552126

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=41353&start=90#p553661

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=41353&start=60#p552265

You should try actually reading the thread sheep :P
Proved my point, the first 2 used same wood in boards/blocks, 2nd guy used single wood type for each so it's hard to infer much from these.
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MightySheep wrote:Proved my point, the first 2 used same wood in boards/blocks, 2nd guy used single wood type for each so it's hard to infer much from these.
By combining both those concepts, you can infer exactly which the primary and secondary for boards and blocks are. You have the information you need to colour your next house from those three posts.
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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108 Basalt
100 Planewood Blocks
40 Spruce Boards
20 Cherrywood Boards
30 Tar Sticks
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Re: Building Color/Design Guide

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130 gneiss
70 basalt
50 marble
100 planewood blocks
35 spruce boards
25 planewood boards
50 fir boughs
5 iron bars
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