I propose a range of new blocks and additions of blocks that we already have, that give us the ability to create more vibrant, characteristic and colourful buildings.
Timber frame & plaster
Timber frame is a popular block on the server known as daub & wattle. Currently it consists of four different patterns and a clean daub block. I’d like to add several new patterns and introduce more colours, each of which will be available in a plaster block as well.
Three different types of blocks;
- Timber frame, basically our daub and wattle blocks with extra shapes and colours, will go into this later in this post.
- Plaster, a relatively smooth plaster block similar to the ones we already have.
- Wash, a block which has stone faintly visible.
All types will have similar colours. The colours I propose are:
- Green
- Light green
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- Light blue
- White
- Brown
New patterns; curved saltire, diamond, curved diamond, close studding, herringbone, clover and fleur de lis for timber frame blocks;
- Curved saltire |}{|, a (higher class) variation of the saltire pattern that we already have (the one that goes |x|).
- Diamond |<>|, a very common decorative pattern.
- Curved diamond |{}|, a (higher class) variation of the diamond pattern.
- Close studding ||||, a very common style, especially in England.
- Herringbone |/|\|, similar to close studding, except with diagonal beams.
- Quatrefoil |♧|, a decorative pattern resembling a four leaf clover.
- Fleur de lis |⚜|, a decorative pattern resembling a fleur de lis.
Other suggestions for timber frame blocks;
- Change the name, daub and wattle refers to the infill rather than the studding.
- Northen wood timber colour, black(ish) timber frames seem to be a rather common phenomenon.
- Herringbone brick, an infill of diagonally placed bricks.
- Vertical CTM, tall timber frames seem to be more common than wide timber frame.
Wood blocks
Lately I’m seeing more and more builders using halfdoors to represent vertical wood. I suggest to make an actual vertical wood block.
- Vertical wood, in the colours oak, birch, spruce, jungle and northern wood, and possibly in the various coloured wood blocks as well.
- Northern wood halfdoor and hopper, honestly I don’t really understand why we don’t have it.
More glass
All of Westeros currently has the same diamond shaped window panes. There is a large variety of coloured glass, which can’t really be used in houses.
- Diamond pane, which we already have, but I’d like to see a more homogenous/simple representation, rather than the setup we have now.
- Circle pane, which uses circular pieces of glass.
- Rectangle pane, which uses rectangular pieces of glass.
- Forest glass, possibly in the three variations mentioned above, but in a more greenish colour. This type of glass would be more common in wooded areas and in lower class buildings (forest glass is cheaper to make, but has less quality than normal glass).
- Stained glass, in a couple variations, like alternating stained glass and normal glass or a pane version of the sept window block we have.
Interior blocks
With the recent attention to interior detail, I think it is a good idea to introduce a line of new blocks for interior walls and decoration.
- Patterned plaster, in different variations resembling patterns like diamonds and squares, and different sceneries like forests, deserts, plains and seas with CTM.
- Rectangular panelling, because seeing the same vertical panelling in every castle gets a bit tiresome. Besides, this type of panelling seems to be common in medieval castles.
- Tapestries, which we already have a couple of, but I think there should be more. If possible, these wouldn’t depend on the painting block anymore but are individual blocks so you actually get what you want on the first placement. Various sizes would be nice.
- Paintings, which we already have a couple of, but I think there should be more. If possible, these wouldn’t depend on the painting block anymore but are individual blocks so you actually get what you want on the first placement. Various sizes would be nice, like a 3x3 or 3x2 painting that can be hung above the medium sized type of fireplace.
Implementation
“This will outdate everything!”
To some degree, yes. However, I think it wouldn’t be enormously disastrous. The only place I can come up with that would be more outdated than it already is, is Kingslanding due to the timber frames. The other new blocks would be used regionally.
Therefore, I volunteer to update the exteriors of all timber framed buildings in Kingslanding and any other project that would be disproportionately outdated by the implementation of these blocks.
I'm also more than willing to help designing the blocks, although my experience is microsoft paint.
Here are some pictures to give an idea.
Left to right; a variant of diamond studding, close studding, a variant of diamond studding, herringbone studding & saltire studding.
Curved diamond on the second house.
Barely visible, but herringbone brick infill combined with regular brick infill.
Four leaf clover studding, close studding and a variant of diagonal studding/herringbone.
Different colours of plaster.
Basket weave framing with herringbone brick infill. The windows use various colours of stained glass panes.
Close studding.
Close studding, herringbone brick infill.
Curved saltire.
Curved diamond, four leaf clover, herringbone and close studding.
Herringbone brick infill.
Round glass panes, yellow colour.
Regular glass and stained glass alternating.
