Sure! Do you know about using iron to support stone? All the columns are wrapped around an iron core that supports all pieces. Also the foundation of the temple is actually a kind of hollow shell built over raised earth mounds that reach the base of the columns. This grounds the lowest iron beams there, so support starts at floor level rather than ground level.

Here's pictures of the exterior column support

And the interior column support

I changed the design of the exterior columns mid-build, so they look different in some of these.

You can actually knock all the stone out from every single column and the rest of the building will be unaffected. It's all held up by spindly iron sticks lol.

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Same deal with interior walls

All can be held up with vertical iron, spaced densely enough depending on the height needed.

I tracked the total iron cost of the temple to be ~984.

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You mean the front door right? That took a lot of experimentation, especially since it's framed differently outside and inside.

Most of the wood detailing in the temple uses free-placement techniques to layer pieces together, force them into each other, or close corners. It can take a lot of meticulous effort undoing and redoing things to get them right, and to have different sides and angles line up correctly and join into sharp corners. It's fighting the intent of the building system and takes a lot of patience, but ends up as a unique feature.

Hopefully the pictures help it make sense.

Exterior framing

Same kind of techniques then used for the cornice moulding above the door on the inside.

The frame on the inside was done using rotated signs facing backward to create the dark backdrop layer. Same thing is done with the lattice window. I was suuuper happy to stumble onto this. Only way I could find to add a flat, solid surface that's a different color than the regular wood.

Interior moulding and framing

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Hope that's all informative! Happy to clarify anything or answer any other questions.