Add leaded windows, era palettes and better timber joins

CHANGELOG.txt

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+0.1.8.110021 - Horizontal rails (unreleased)
+
+- Joined rails through posts to matching corners and other timbers, closing the gaps
+  between window framing and the corner posts.
+- Stopped corner pieces adding horizontal returns on an unconnected side.
+- Trimmed the backs of corner rails to the inside post so their cut ends do not show
+  through the adjoining wall.
+- Added close-up exterior and interior views to the new Horizontal Rails Preview.
+
+
+0.1.7.110021 - Timber joins (unreleased)
+
+- Fixed short rail ends sticking out beyond the posts or studs they should meet.
+- Made automatic rails finish on diagonal braces at the right height, including thin
+  walls and short pieces. Continuous rail runs keep their full width.
+- Filled the small missing corners where diagonal beams cross between blocks, so
+  the timber keeps its width through the joint. The joins follow the neighbouring wood.
+- Corrected the diagonal bracing on half-step upper floors in the preview street.
+  The new Timber Joins Preview keeps the earlier saves available for comparison.
+
+
+0.1.6.110021 - Leaded windows (unreleased)
+
+- Added openable leaded windows to the Late Medieval & Tudor palette, with diamond
+  or rectangular leading, all six woods, and raw or limewashed surrounds.
+- Added full and half-depth frames that fit the existing walls and jettied upper floors.
+  Stack matching sections for taller casements, or place columns side by side.
+- Casements swing outwards. Right-click the frame or open pane to operate a column;
+  redstone works too. Neighbouring columns can be opened separately.
+- Windows check the whole column before opening, so an obstruction leaves it closed.
+- Craft leaded panes from glass panes and iron, then add one to a matching post panel.
+  Shape the panels before glazing. Leading swaps one-for-one, and raw surrounds can
+  be limewashed singly or in batches.
+
+
+0.1.5.110021 - Crafting (unreleased)
+
+- Made plain wattle and daub the starting material for timber wall panels.
+- Gave full, thin and short walls the same pattern recipes. Arrange three post panels
+  in a row, column, diagonal or L to make rails, studs, braces or corner/end panels.
+- Made paired designs swap one-for-one without extra sticks. Patterned wall panels
+  can be reshaped back into post panels.
+- Added the missing ways to rejoin thin walls and recover shaped corner pieces.
+- Added single and batch limewashing for every raw cob and daub shape, including stairs.
+- Added crafting hints to the building pieces and rewrote the crafting guide around the new chains.
+- Made brackets from matching timber floors and made roof ridges reversible.
+- Increased the cob stair recipe to eight stairs and added recovery recipes so shaping
+  does not waste material.
+
+
+0.1.4.110021 - Jetty brackets (unreleased)
+
+- Fixed the diagonal supports beneath jetties looking hollow and flickering where
+  they meet the beams.
+
+
+0.1.3.110021 - Walls and era palettes (unreleased)
+
+- Tidied up overlapping timber faces to stop flickering at posts, rails and corners.
+- Closed the gap above lower walls beneath jettied floors with a matching timber beam.
+  The open space beneath the projecting part of the floor stays clear.
+- Grouped the building kit into Iron Age and Late Medieval & Tudor creative tabs.
+  Cob, plain daub and thatch appear in both palettes.
+- Added a survival recipe setting for choosing one or more eras. Shared materials
+  stay craftable when an enabled era uses them. Everything is enabled by default.
+
+
 0.1.2.110021 - First alpha (unreleased)
 
 This is the first building kit for Iron Age Architecture, starting on Minecraft 1.10.2.

README.md

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 All six vanilla wood types are available. Cob comes in blocks, slabs and stairs, and smooth
 thatch and slate roofs have automatic corners and separate ridge caps.
 
+Leaded windows bring some light into the houses. Choose diamond or rectangular leading,
+match the timber and daub to your walls, then stack sections to make taller casements.
+They swing outwards with a right-click or redstone, and each column opens separately.
+Full and half-depth surrounds fit both ordinary walls and projecting upper floors.
+
 ## Overhanging upper floors
 
 Projecting upper storeys, known as jetties, are a central part of the kit. Half-depth walls,
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 The first alpha targets **Minecraft 1.10.2 with Forge**. Everything is crafted from vanilla
 ingredients, and the main content families can be enabled or disabled in the configuration.
 
+Start with plain wattle and daub, surround it with matching planks to make post panels,
+then arrange those panels into rails, studs, braces and corners. The same patterns work
+for full walls, thin walls and short pieces. Paired designs swap one-for-one, and offcuts
+can be joined back together. Item tooltips give a reminder while you build.
+
+You can limewash pieces before or after shaping, singly or in batches of eight. The
+[crafting guide](docs/BUILDING-GUIDE.md#crafting) covers the wall patterns, floors,
+brackets and roofs.
+
+## Building through the ages
+
+The series covers a broad span of traditional buildings. Creative tabs group the pieces by era:
+**Iron Age** starts with shared cob, plain daub and thatch, while **Late Medieval & Tudor**
+contains the timber-framed houses, jetties and the rest of the current village kit.
+Basic materials appear in both palettes.
+
+The framed palette takes its name from the late medieval and Tudor buildings that inspired it.
+Mermaid Street grew over several centuries: Historic England dates the
+[Mermaid Hotel's timber frame](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1251961)
+to the late 15th century, and records a 15th-century front range and 16th-century wing at
+[5–6 Mermaid Street](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1251938).
+These are building palettes for Minecraft rather than exact historical reconstructions.
+
+For a survival world set in a particular period, choose one or more eras in
+`config/ironagearchitecture.cfg`. Shared recipes stay available when any selected era uses
+them. All eras are enabled by default. See the [configuration guide](docs/BUILDING-GUIDE.md#era-palettes)
+for the settings.
+
 Iron Age Architecture works independently of Iron Age Furniture. You can use the two together
 to build and furnish your village.
 

docs/BRACKET-FIX-CANDIDATE.md

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+# Jetty brackets — 0.1.4.110021
+
+This records the local checks when the candidate was prepared. References to uncommitted
+work and hosted checks describe that point; Git history records later commits and merges.
+
+The brackets beneath jettied floors now have outward-facing sides and end caps.
+Their previous outline ran clockwise, which turned the extrusion inside out and
+showed surfaces behind the support. It could also expose coincident faces at the foot.
+The corrected outline has the same shape and removes its duplicate closing point.
+
+The renderer also discards clipped fragments that have no area after conversion to
+Minecraft's float vertex coordinates. These fragments were found at the attachment
+while checking the actual packaged bracket meshes. Block IDs, metadata, recipes,
+collision footprints and bracket drops are unchanged from the era-palette candidate.
+
+## Review
+
+Launch the ordinary Eclipse client and open **Jetty Brackets Preview**. Look underneath
+the half-block and whole-block projections, especially from either side of a support.
+The earlier four preview saves and the frozen 0.1.3 bundle remain separate.
+Existing brackets receive the geometry fix automatically when the new version loads.
+
+## Verification
+
+- 36 unit tests pass. The added bracket-face test failed against the previous outline
+  and passes with the corrected one across every valid footprint, reach and direction.
+- Build, generated-resource checks, Java 8/package audits and the Eclipse production
+  classpath check pass. Normal Eclipse output is synchronized without the test mod.
+- Packaged core, saved-world reload and the 0.1.2 preview import pass all 4,448 saved
+  states, 1,077 recipes, placement/drop checks, rotations, mirrors and walking checks.
+  The core run also repeats the eight era policies and 16 content configuration cases.
+- The native client inspects actual baked bracket vertices in every available wood,
+  reach and saved rotation. Each emitted bracket face must have area and point out
+  of the solid. The first packaged check caught collapsed attachment fragments;
+  the renderer correction passes the same assertion.
+- Twelve native captures include close views of a full bracket from both sides and
+  the feet of half- and full-reach brackets. Both era tabs retain their expected contents.
+- The new preview is saved and reloaded with Architecture alone, without the test mod.
+  Automated checks and captured views remain separate from the user's gameplay review.
+
+Runtime SHA-256:
+`135db73299ec934d6040172dfd1901b143c3b4aaf71c7b4d177971162f1e386d`
+
+Checked runtime evidence: `D:\IronAgeArchitecture\manual-testing\brackets-0.1.4-checked`.
+The failed unit/runtime evidence remains under `brackets-0.1.4-early` and
+`brackets-0.1.4-final`. The latter also holds an initial passing native run before the
+closeup cameras were lowered beneath the floor. No failed result was relabelled.
+
+The separate candidate is `D:\IronAgeArchitecture\candidates\0.1.4.110021-jetty-brackets`.
+It includes the runtime, sources and Javadoc artifacts, checksums, screenshots,
+receipts, clean preview ZIP, source snapshot and manifests.
+
+The changes remain local and uncommitted on `feature/1.10-era-palettes-and-joins`.
+Nothing has been pushed, merged or published for this increment. Hosted CI has not run.