How To: Fix the pointy top of an archway

More often than not we come across an archway that has a slightly crooked top. This happens when an archway is made of two unequal sides, causing the blocks at the top to bend to their irregular neighbors.

Sometimes these issues are rather minor and only speak to those of us with a dominant OCD. However, sometimes these crooked tops can ruin a beautiful archway that often benefits from perfect symmetry.

Let's begin with the creation of the archway. The archway I am going to use for this tutorial was made off a template provided by Daybreak, therefore available to every player. Make sure you have enough room and place the "Architecture Tools - Even Radius Arcs". Here, you pick the 16 blocks sized arc, rotate it upwards and place it down.

We could simply paste a copy of that arc on the other side, creating a perfect half-circle, but that wouldn't create a pointy top. We only pick a part of this arc, to create an archway with a pointy top. In this case a 6x13 piece of the arc

We select this part, copy it (CTRL + C) and paste it (CTRL + V) to place it down. We then hit "E" to enter the rotation options and horizontally rotate it to face its counterpart. Once the pieces connect at the top, we can click the mouse button again to place the second half down and dismiss the selection afterwards, by pressing ESC.

Depending on the size and specific shape of the pieces, the top will more or less immediately show an uneven position of voxels at the top. If not, then you picked the perfect parts and can end the tutorial right here!

But if it does, no matter how light, there is a way to fix it - and it involves my very beloved 1v1 board:

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We first have to take a closer look at the top. Using the Selection Tool (3), we can apply a grid that will allow us to determine which piece of the 1v1 board we need.

The picture on the left shows the current shape of the block, whereas the picture on the right shows what the block is actually supposed to look like in order to create a perfect pointy top. Only when the block aligns vertically to the grid can we achieve a nice symmetric shape. We therefore need a new block that is aligned this way and that stretches across an additional half block.

We can find such a block on the 1v1 board. Once we copied that off the board, we can place it into the archway. Select the block with the Selection Tool (3), copy it (CTRL + C) and paste it (CTRL + V). Before you click, hit T to enter Fine Tuning Mode. This way you can place it more easily.

Once placed, the block will probably disturb parts of the archway. That doesn't concern us, as long as the pointy top is created on the other side of the archway. Because now we can simply select the right block, copy it, rotate it and paste it on top of the 1v1-block.

Since the same principle applies to the bottom of the arch, I will simply refer to the top of the page and ask you to do the same to the blocks underneath the top. Once you're done with that you are left with a perfectly symmetrical archway

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