Tiny Glade: Advanced Build Technique: Arcading

Create your first box structure. Flatten the roof and make your building into a tall box. Make the box tall enough to be two or three stories high.

Using the path tool, draw a line of path on each side of your box- do this on all four sides. You will see arches appear at the bottom of your structure box.

Make a second structure box (be sure to flatten the roof). However, this one will be INSIDE your first box. I am aware the image shows the new box being outside of the first one. I am just demonstrating placing the box.

Once placed, adjust the sides so your second box is fitting inside your first.

Pull the bottom of the box you just created up so it is floating and not touching the path. You must do this so you do not have arches created on the box you just made.

Now select the arches you created in Step Two. Grab the arches and pull them up to the middle of your box.

If you get weird arches I like to call “artifacting” arches, like the image below, we will fix that.

All you need to do is draw a little more path along the side of the box that has the strange arches because few pixels of path were missing from when you first drew path. This will even out the path and fix the arches.

Now add yet another box. (Again, this image is just demonstrating adding another structure box.)

Take your box and push it all the way to the ground, and use the square “squash and stretch” tool to smash it down. You will see that it starts to create stairs.

Adjust the stairs to your liking.

Use the arrows to line them up perfectly with the arches so they look natural. This is how I like them to look.

Now you have your first arches!

Now you will create yet another box. Make sure to flatten the roof! You will place this one just right on top of your current build. Bring the walls in so you can see the details from the other boxes clip through the wall.

You will see more arches form when you push this box into the ground. This is good. This is what you want.

This part is a little tricky. Grab the box that has the first set of arches you made back in Step Two and pull the box to the side. You need to move it to access the newest set of arches.

Just set the box to the side. The arches will vanish. DON’T PANIC. This is ok!

Now pull the small arches ALL THE WAY UP to the top!

Now bring the other box back and put it back into place. The arches will return!

This is what it will now look like!

Enjoy what you created and add some fun details!

Take a final screenshot and show your friends!