First of all, i want to thank you for all the great feedback on my blog.

You really seem to like it. Since some people already asked about roofing, i will do a post about this and explain how roofing work, especially on round buildings.

Circle base roofing

Since i think it can be confusing sometimes on how to build these things exactly, I’ve made a short 1:20 Clip to go through the building. An important note, there is a reason why I’m putting the square roofs above the triangle foundations. I will explain that further down.

So this video should explain the process for the most part, but i will still do a little in-depth, so it can be better adopted on other buildings.



This is the Blueprint we will be using for this build. There is something special about this size of a circle for those roofs, that’s why I’m mentioning that.

NOTE:

You can not walk on the triangle roofs, only climb. You can walk on the square ones.



This is what you would usually get, when you place the triangle roofs above the triangle foundation. This is a little bit annoying tho, because you have to put 2 triangle floors now to hold the inverted roof. For this reason, we will put two square roofs there,

so we end up like this:



The next step is putting the triangle roof all around the top.



Now comes the tricky part, you sadly can’t just snap the inverted roof pieces in there. They have to have something to hold on, this is why we need to build 2 triangle floors and a wall there.



This way, you can snap the inverted roof piece in there. You always have to do this, whenever you build with those pieces.

After that, you can just do it all around and snap the roof onto it.

At the end you just go around with normal triangle roofs to close it off.



Roofing curved walls with triangle and square foundations

So this will probably be our general case, you have to close something off with a roof and you have a small turn, which you can’t fill with normal roofs. This one is pretty simple.



So we have a wall with triangle- and square foundations.

The thing that worked on the Circle base, won’t work here. You can’t place a square above a triangle and the other way around here. Otherwise it will look like this:



What you want to do is just follow the foundations. Triangle above triangle and square above square. Always keep in mind, for the inverted one, you need a wall behind it. Otherwise you will not be able to snap it.

This is how it should look like then.



If you want to build it higher (assuming you have built the circle as shown in the last post)

You want to do the same thing as with the foundation. Just follow them

(usually square -> triangle -> square -> triangle inwards)

Again, always make sure to have a wall where the inverted roof will be.

Decorative & functional Square roofs

I will not explain too much here, since the post would get too long then.

The circled base roofing is probably the stuff where the most people have problems with anyways. So i will just give an example what kind of details you can get even into a square base, just by building more detailed roofs.

(This build is not a design i would build exactly like this, it’s just to show off some functions)



So i hope you liked this post about roofing. If you still have questions about it, or more specific stuff – just leave a comment. I will read and answer to it.

The next thing i will probably do is show practical and efficient builds for things like

Wheel of pain, Maproom etc.

If you have any more suggestions on what topic i should do something about, also leave a comment. You can also contact me if you want to show off any of your builds.