Tutorial: How to build a Warcraft 1-style Barracks

 Yay, new content! It's been a longish summer, but I'm back! And I've got work to do on my textures with all this 1.8 non-sense. Perhaps I'll make some of the structures in 1.8 once I get a chance to find them and post them as Sketchup models...

But anyway, this is the barracks from Warcraft 1; it's incredibly easy to build (compared to my other buildings), use your favorite stone, half-stone, and color of wool (or contrasting stone/dirt). This makes a great early base or Nether base, since it's entirely enclosed. You figure out what needs to go inside, but I've fit a good cobble generator, a mushroom farm (under the floor), storage, and a well with room to spare. Then I planted trees on the roof and had a tree farm too.

Enjoy!

Tutorial: How to Build Walls

For all of your castle-building needs! These walls aren't strictly from any Warcraft- like many of my other builds, but they should go well with the Warcraft 2-style towers. And I should mention; this isn't really about building multiple sorts of walls, but rather, building every wall connection you could want with a fairly complex wall (i.e.: A straight wall and its matching 90* turn).

Tutorial: Warcraft 2 Mage Tower

 I've just finished designing (using my sketchup components ) a Warcraft 2 Mage Tower. It's 33 high (slightly higher than the top of the flag on the Scout Tower), and fits into a 27x27 block area. I drew it using smooth stone, half-stone blocks, lava, and blue wool; you can substitute any color you choose (though I'd recommend using something that has a fire-proof equivalent - the lava coming from the sphere up top might ignite the whole thing otherwise) to match your scout/cannon towers as well.

Tutorial: How to build a Warcraft 2-style Cannon Tower

Here is the quick pixel-plan for how to build a cannon-tower. You'll notice it's pretty similar to the Scout tower - in fact, the image used for the scout tower is a cannon tower. There are some bits missing or unclear in the pixel plan, and so I recommend looking at one of the other files available so you can get a better idea of what's going on. You can still build the shell with the plan though.

The plan for it actually works (it shoots!); an omni-cannon fits inside. If you look at the sketchup plan, you will see the parts and pieces.

Alternatively, you can download the schematic file.