Use the Foundation & Deck Lattice Deck tool to create a base area that is 2 tile larger then your house. Here you can see the house walls on the Lattice Deck. The exposed area of the deck will become the deck that goes around your house. You can always adjust your deck area by using the deck tool to expand or subtract (holding the ctrl key to delete).

Add the temporary supporting walls around the edge of the deck as above. Use the Page Up keep to show the grid.

It is so easy to roof. Simply click on the Hipped Auto Roof from the Roofing menu and the above will be automatically created for you.

Use the Page Down key to take you back to the level just below the roof. Add floor tiles to the second floor of your house.

Now add the walls for your second floor.

Remember to use the Page up key so that when you use the Lattice Auto Roof it will roof the second floor.

This is what it will look like once you auto roofed the second floor.

Use the Page Down key (all the way down to the first floor) and we will now delete the outside walls to expose the walkway around the house. To delete walls, select the Wall Tool and hold the ctrl key while you drag you mouse over the walls that you want deleted.

I've also deleted the inside inside walls too..

Here I am deleting the inside inside walls of the second floor...

nice and clean....

Notice the deck and awning on the house?

Using a Wood color Upright Column, I am placing them at about a 2 tile interval around the house.

Adding a longhorn balustrade fence around the perimeter completes the deck.

Continue the adding of the Column and fence around the whole perimeter of the deck.

Lets add a cheap connecting wooden stairs at the front...

double width

done?

and add the railings

Quick and easy?

Back view

left side view..

Congratulations on building your first Roof Covered Porch deck.

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