When building a large forge fireplace, you can use anything for the sides---ore, cloth, benches, wooden thrones, and you can also use benches and I am sure other things for the mantle….I am going to use cloth, but the same principles apply no matter what you decide to use.

1) First, as always, you need to gather your materials.

2) Normally you would start in tile one and work your way down, so your work in a “closer” tile does not block tiles farther back, but once you place the forge it will be hard to work in tiles 2 and 3, so you need to go ahead and build the mantle over those tiles first.

NOTE: Every time I say “cloth” I mean two pieces of cloth joined into a single object. Using single pieces of cloth will result in an ugly “gappy” fireplace.

3) In tile two, stack and lock down
-true black cloth,
-true black cloth
-a fireplace topper. NOTE: Some toppers will need to float at least one clear space above the cloth mantle or they will slip underneath it. Things lkike night shade, bloodmoss. And a lot of things you can walk through have this problem.

4) Raise the topper as high as it will go (13 spaces)

5) Raise the top cloth 12 times.

6) Raise the bottom cloth 12 times.

7) Take a stack of 2 kindling and lock it down under the mantle.

8) Take another stack of 2 kindling on pile it on top of the first kindling. Lock it.

9) Raise the top kindling 7 times.

10) Raise the bottom kindling 6 times.

11) Repeat steps 3-10 in tile 3.

12) Place your forge, targeting tile one.

13) Now we are going to build the sides. You want to start in tile one with brick red cloth, and you want to target where the cursor is pointing to have the cloth leap up onto the bellows.

14) Stack the cloth in this order:
-red red gray
-red red gray
-red red gray
-black black, fireplace topper

15) Raise the fireplace topper once with the dec tool.

16) Repeat steps 13 - 16 on the other side of the forge.

This is one of my favorite types of fireplaces because you can dye the cloth to simulate bricks or stone. I’m obviously went with a brick one, but to make a stone one, just replace the red and gray cloth with varying shades of gray, starting with 2 piles of 2 ledium gray, then 2 piles of 2 darkest gray, then 2 piles of 2 medium gray, then going one shade lighter on up until you reach the mantle. You must however  use true black for the mantle if you wish  to avoid ugly cloth lines...