Build Builde Tipes Moste Usefulle | How To Build Structures

Have you ever joined a survival server and had THIS happen to you?
someone goes up to you and says

HEY! Come and have a Look at meh HAUSE
ITs rlly gr8,
sure, y naught, I've gaught nothing bettah to do...
which is BTW LIEK a good 1000 blocks away from spawn
just to find this....

foot note, not saying grian's house is not good or anything just tha his methods are abit outdated
if you look on the date of his video its like 4 years old before we had alll this fancy crap in MC
so uh yeah dont flme me xD no hating just trying to improve on his origional thing. Enjoy :)
he's super rpoud of himself and ur just liek
> SHARP_SIREN.wav


Step 1: picking the correct pallet
this step is extremely important as it will ultimately dictate what style of building you should approach the following strucutre. I have made 4 pallets randing from the easiest, the one at the top to one of the harder ones down the bottom. (relitively easy and hard) I have also sorted them into three groups, roof, foundation and body, the roof being the gold blcok, the foundation, emerald and the body diamond.



Step 2: Get rid of unnessary details

Highlighted in the build shown above is a technique called "slab spaming" definied as the repetion of usless patterns, notice how the walls are cluttered and plastered with staircases and fenses? this is a big no no.

ahh thats better no random log beams, no stair cases or fenses, this is a fresh start for the building a clean slate. (I removed the roof because it was absoblutely hiddious.

Step 3: Highlighting foundations
Foundations are acturlly very important in the general shape and feel of the build, a good solid foundation makes the house feel stable and secure, able to lift up the upper floors a fantasy house generally tends to have.


Step 4: Creating intresting shapes
These shapes add intrest and life to your build, you want to make it seem that you are not bound to the grid of minecraft but instead free to do what ever, you can achieve this by incorperating diagonals and spheres, bringing your build out of your computer so to speak and into real life.



Step 5: Boundary layer filling
I really dont know what to call this detail but it is very important to the style I am doing, so I will just call it boundary layer filling, so basically, you have too floors and the space where you transion from one floor to the next loos weird without this fillings, these fillings add detail and deapth without creating clutter and mess, they act almost like a frame for your windowsills or bocanies, generally really coool lil detail to have.




Step 6: Coloring


Now it is finially time to use your pallet, replace all your mask blocks with the blocks in your pallet, and now you are finished!





I have made a plot on builders refuge...

./plot h Qulaey 8
too see the house.

 

@Build Team

 

XD IKR the build team has a history of slab spamming.

 

Very true.

 

@Snerp GRAVEL BUILDERS BE LIKE

 

I know right! just look at the quartz thing,

and the wall around gavel! it still gives me nightmares xD

this pmc post.... after looking at this, I look at wynn ct and think
yeah..
its not that bad..
https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/sanctuary-of-nereid/

 

Ikr cinfras wall is the worst thing ever imo

 

No offense, but I find the example house you made in this tutorial looks a bit messy, in terms of block choice at least. The design of the house is amazing and better than anything I could ever make, but the blocks sort of just confuse me.

Although it’s probably just that I personally prefer less different blocks in smaller builds.

 

Well the house has a couple flaws as you mentioned, but other than that I think it looks great!

 

Yeah.. but the thing is I've tried just a single block color for the houses once, and it just doesn't work. It makes it look too plain. I guess its just the style that is employed., also yeah might've overdone the roof abit. I think as long as the colors look sort of the same its kinda alright, but I get what you mean. Welp this is only one specific style, I'll whip up a design that is neater, maybe in the next week or two.

 

Yeah, I also don’t usually like single block designs, but usually end up using only 1-3 different blocks for the walls.

 

This looks so awesome! I love it!

 

i dont know if to follow on the joke or unironically say something...

 

Its both xD

 

I like using howdy to greed someone.

 

Arrr' y'all f'rom g'ol texas arn' ya boi.

xD

 

I think that is more like a pirate than a Texas guy



你永遠不知道....hehehe

 

I can read chinese BTW, and you said I will never understand ;)

 

Bilingual more like G o o g l e T r a n s l a t e

 

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