Lets build a medieval village

hiya folks, ive been wanting to do this for a while now and finally have the time required to build a cozy little mountain village located near a castle (at some point hopefully) some hidden caves and a nice little lake.

i have spend about 8 hours terraforming the location in creative mode before setting out to start with a blacksmith,that seemed logical to me because i needed to place the workstations anyway. after a bit of a creativity block today i have set out to build a farming area including a tea room

2 problems that come up constantly though, A. i always tend to build "blocky" houses and B. for the life of me i cannot get roofs to look good.
any advice would be greatly appreciated

i'll attach my progress from the past 2 days to this post.

happy building everyone!

thats what iam always doing, having firefox open in the back and reffering to it as i need for pictures. in fact there's an medieval in on this forum which i totally love and want to rebuild,not copy it but take the idea and make it my own.
that inn also has the different types of roofs i would like to build myself.but iam not sure how to do it exactly.

here's the thread:

Medieval Inn

ok i see, thats probably the problem as i only build with blocks so far. being interested in carpentry and having built my own roof in my house that shouldn't be too hard. it never even occured to use beams and planks

looks great!

dont know why i never thought of using planks and beams..its the obvious choice really
thanks for pointing me towards the right direction.

this is what i came up with so far, first steps.
not sure how to fill that in though.the extended window that is.

i filled it in with blocks then used beams for highlight.

but thats a usefull info about the triangle woodplank

thanks for all the help btw.

how did you make that round roof? ive tried every single angle and couldnt get it to line up.

i used 3 blocks with 3 edged blocks on its side to create an octahedron. then lined up beams to each of the edges pointing inwards, than stacked some more beams at a slightly different angle on top of these. it looked very similar to what you have build. what i found out is when filling in the gaps with planks the gaps between the 3 normal blocks fill up correctly using different lengths of planks. however the gaps between the angled blocks dont line up.

next i tried the same system but with 2 of each blocks instead of 3 hoping the smaller gaps will allow for a correct use of planks..it does not

then i lined up the beams to the center instead of edges of the 3 blocks on each of its 8 sides but it works out the same.my last guess is you made not only the roof with beams/planks but the entire building?

just build a few example roofs like you did in that picture, what i found is it seems to be important at which angle the supporting beam sits.it needs to be either very shallow or quite steep.my guess is that has to do with how the angle rotation is limited on the planks when filling in. ill try the woodplanktriangles too

i wonder if theres a command that shows you the degrees for the different types of angles you can rotate to.

thats brilliant! didnt know that at all. this should make life a bit easier