16. The Carpenter’s Sawmill Home
What This Idea Means
A bustling functional house located beside a river or stream, built to process raw timber into refined planks for village expansion.
How to Make It
Position the build over a flowing water source. Construct a thick timber frame cabin ($8 \times 11$) featuring an attached water wheel structure made of spruce slabs and trapdoors. Build a log chute or log ramp leading down into the water, and fill the outdoor yard with stacked bark logs, axes in logs (iron axes in item frames), and wood chips (stripped log slabs).
Tips and Variations
- Use stonecutters and saw-like mechanisms built with iron trapdoors to simulate a functional sawmill interior.
- Place button accents on log ends to look like timber cut pins.
- Variation: Add a horse-drawn log wagon loaded with woods parked right outside the yard.
Materials Needed
Spruce logs, stripped spruce logs, spruce slabs, stonecutters, iron trapdoors, buttons, and water buckets.