Raise a little cottage

Stroke walls onto the map, top them with a gabled roof, and slide a door along the wall. Your first building.

Comfortable Know your way around the tools 4 steps

Video coming soon. The written walkthrough below is the whole build.

Written walkthrough

Buildings draw on the map like a floor plan: walls under your finger, a roof from a switch, doors that slide. This is the same build as the Little Cottage card in the Learn tab.

1. Open Build

Open the World tab, then tap Build. The Build card is sections: Draw, Shape, Grow, Color, Openings.

2. Draw the walls

Open Draw and tap Wall, then stroke a small room on the map. Segments click down along the grid, and corners appear at the bends. Close the loop and you have a room. (The Ground switch up top decides how the building meets a hill: Carve or Sit atop .)

3. Roof it

Open Shape, then tap your building on the map: its outline lights up. Flip Roof to On and try Gabled, Flat, or Slanted. Turn the spine spins a gabled roof around. Foundation, Ceiling, and Trim live on the same face.

4. Hang a door

Open Openings and tap Door, then tap a wall, on the map or in 3D. Drag it along the wall to slide it anywhere. Windows, garage doors, and skylights hang the same way.

The Color section paints the building part by part: outside, inside, floors, roof. A cream cottage with a coral door is five taps away.

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