5 Terraforming/Landscaping Tips & Tricks (Minecraft Tutorial)

How’s it going guys in this video i’ll be showing you five tips i’ve come up with for terraforming in minecraft make sure to stick around to the end for the most important tip if you enjoy this type of tips and tricks video let me know in the comments

On what type of building tips i should do next so the first tip that i want to talk about is smoothing off edges in terrain and this can help to make your builds look more natural and also more polished as well so this is just a normal area that i just

Stumbled across for this tips and tricks video this is all naturally generated i haven’t changed anything here except for remove one tree just for visibility but there’s a lot of areas here where i it’s annoying me how like jagged it is and how much i would change like up here

Over here as well right on this corner really just smoothing out areas like this in a build will just make it feel more natural even though it isn’t like technically this is natural but it doesn’t look natural because it’s very jagged and angular so first to the water area what i would do

Is smooth off these corners with whatever block it is something like that already just makes it look more natural just in this corner so far i might even bring that back and then come over here and maybe place just two blocks there makes it seem more rounded same with

Over here just one block maybe a couple of blocks over here as well and there you go that area right there already looks way more natural than it did before i should probably add one block one or two blocks there as well maybe even one more see

Yeah this is a problem that you may come across as well is repetition to see how it’s just constantly one one block here and then it goes to two so this can make things look a little bit unnatural so what i would do is just change up the entire shape just

Come in and even even just that makes it look more natural but you can have some areas that are more flatter than others even just like that can help fix that problem a lot and then up here what i do is simply just bring this in a couple more blocks just like that

And that area right there is looking more natural over here you can see it’s a little bit steep here so you could just add one block there and also it’s it still looks a little bit unnatural right here so you can always just bring in the landscape like this and

Even bring some parts out where you think it might need to come out for it to look more natural and also making some parts more like uneven compared to other parts can also help make it look more natural as well see that right there you can tell you

Can see this repeated l shape coming up across here so breaking up that kind of repetition across each layer can help sell that the land is is really natural when it’s not it’s actually man-made or man-men altered so this is the final shape that i’ve come up with here it actually took

Me quite a while to try and get this looking as natural as possible but yeah just just playing around with it can make a lot of difference to the area just spending some time trying to get it look right can make make a lot of difference to the background of your builds

So for the next tip i want to talk about cliffs and ways to make them look more interesting so as you can see right now this cliff is very uninteresting and boring it’s just a flat face the only thing it’s got going for it is just this like cool transition with the

The dirt and the stone and that’s about it so i want to talk about things you can do to make this more interesting such as adding an overhang adding stairs and slabs and also areas that increase the amount of depth in the cliff and also just some

Light texturing as well so the first thing i want to do is add in the overhang so usually with overhangs i only want to bring it out by just one or two blocks not too much to where it looks kind of strange so firstly we can just bring out the

The grass layer first pretty much just like that that’s all you need to do and then come underneath and add in some stone blocks just like this just kind of randomize it and then the rest we’re just going to fill in with some stairs and slabs to try and make it look more

Natural and then on the side here it’s a little bit of a weird cut off so what we can do is is actually bring this out and around like this as well and then we’d have to just fill in this area just like that and then just replace

These dirt blocks with stone so there isn’t little bits poking through you can have that if you want to but i just prefer to have it all stoned pretty much and there’s a nice little overhang just that on its own can add a little bit of depth but

Obviously this giant area here needs some work so next what we can do is add in some parts that stick out and parts that go in to the wall as well so so something i’ve already thought of when i first saw this clip is to have a part that goes in here and

Then a little part that sticks out here kind of like a big supporting pillar so firstly let’s create this shape here i’m thinking more of an oval shape that goes in right here so we can just come in and create the outline for it remember not to keep it too symmetrical

We want it to be pretty uneven looking i do want this pillow to be kind of central so i might actually shift this over a little bit more there we go it’s the final shape that i came up with so to make this look a little bit more normal is we can come

In with some stairs and slabs and just kind of smooth out the edges using this even having some stairs not not like this but on this angle as well and then alternating between that and then because this area is so big i might even come in as well

One more like that kind of mimic the bigger shape into it into a smaller shape down here and then just put in some slabs and stairs just like that and that’s a nice little area although i think one of these needs to be a a stair block like that there we go

That looks a bit better now so there’s our little end cove bit and now i want a pillar that kind of sticks out here so i might actually have to extend the overhang right here just to come out one more block just so it doesn’t look

Too weird having the uh the pillar kind of on the same level sticking out from the overhang so to extend this overhang we can just lower this part down here and then bring this out like so let me change one of these two stairs just like that

And then we can start the pillow like maybe right here have this come down maybe have it one wider maybe even bring it up from the bottom and not have them connecting can can also create a an interesting kind of shape to a cliff like that and then also just

Just come in with some stairs and slabs like this you don’t need to do stairs and slabs on every cliff you can leave it as blocks but it does help to make it look more detailed and interesting using stairs and stuff because it just gives you more

More options to smooth off areas and such and then maybe even add like some kind of little indentation like that and yeah so there’s our little detailing here and then on this side what i might do is actually raise up the grass a little bit to come up to about here

And see if that can give us an interesting little shape as well to this cliff so as i’m raising this i don’t want to just raise it on this one layer because that’s obviously going to look weird so i’m gonna have to bring out this entire thing

Out probably bring this grass layer out to about here and then just gradually build it up from here and there we go there’s that completed little uh raised up kind of dirt hill right here so for the final finishing touch something i like to do but not always is to add

Just some light texture to the cliff my favorite two blocks to use for texturing on cliffs is stone bricks and andesite just because they’re not too different from stone blocks and it’s not that noticeable now i’ll show you guys how to do it by hand right now but in the last tip i’m

Going to show you how to do it really quickly if you’re playing on creative so make sure you check out that final tip so just for light texturing i like to just do like maybe for this area maybe a total of 10 to 15 of each block

Maybe even less or more just kind of play it out and see how many you want to do but for texturing you want to try and keep it as random as possible like there might be some parts that have two blocks next to each other which is fine

But just try and cover every area with the texture you don’t want to have like one clump of texture and then one clump doesn’t have the texture so yeah that looks pretty good for the stone brick you can see i included up here also on the pillar

Inside this area over here and all the way over here as well now we can just come in with some andesite maybe put some right next to the stone brick as well maybe have some close to the stone brick and to me this looks a little bit strange so i think i

Need to change up just a little bit of placement so i might condense it a little more right here maybe add one just under that part there and then we’ll chuck in a little more underside over in this area and there we go there’s our completed lightly textured cliff you can always

Add more or less texture if you want to it’s not that big of a deal you can also add more or less texturing blocks too but overall we’ve turned this previously boring cliff into a nice interesting kind of feature so if you had your base like situated

Right here and you were taking a screenshot of it you’d have a nice little backdrop of it but personally if i was getting a picture i’d probably get this nice flower forest in the background to be honest but yeah so there’s how to change your cliff into something a little more interesting

And just before we move on to the next topic i just wanted to show off this one build that i made with my friend ritz who has since quit building unfortunately he was an amazing builder but i created this with him and it just showcases a bunch of the

Points that i made like using stairs and slabs and all this crazy texturing as well as the overhang here and also you can even add in small details like this like a an actual waterfall that comes down and it goes over this little entrance into this cool

Little area i mean in here can be whatever you want you can even leave this closed if you really wanted to but yeah that’s just uh some more ideas for you guys all right so next is just a bit of a quicker tip but it’s

To do with rivers so this river here is from my river update idea that i made a couple of weeks ago and this one was the lush variant it’s also just something nice you can do to any any river that you want and it’s just to make it more lush and overgrown by

Adding like lily pads and leaves and extra grass and and flowers and bushes and trees sugarcane and all that kind of stuff all the sea grass and and leaves as well inside the actual water as well as little tiny rocks but adding all of this together can create a really lush tropical feeling

River so say if you lived like right here like next to the river or something it would be a nice like addition to your base just having this nice little area you could also add like a little small dock or something as well and yeah that’s just a a cool idea for

Your river if you live near one or wanted to do up one just just for the hell of it because it is pretty fun to do for the fourth tip i just wanted to quickly touch on beaches so you may notice this here is just the default minecraft beach is

It’s kind of steep it goes quickly to the bottom of the ocean it’s not very wide as in like it quickly changes to grass along here and it’s very patchy as well so build that me and extra created a little while ago now was this which is actually what was our

Beach upgrade post and you can see the many things that i would also change to beaches um as showcased in my tropical update idea is having them be a more gradual decline into the ocean like this instead of it being so steep like over here for instance and then also making them

Wider as we go back into the grass you can see it’s a lot wider the whole beach over here and it also transitions into the grass in a nice way kind of merges together and you can see as well uh we added a bunch of little rocks we use stone buttons as well

For tiny rocks and then slabs and stairs for for slightly bigger rocks and then when you come into the ocean as well there’s even bigger rocks out here and here’s the beach that i created in the tropical update idea it’s a little bit more simple than like there’s no palm trees or

Anything like that but you can see this version it also has a very gradual incline to the ocean and this one’s more of a reef where it has lots more coral stuff like that and it’s it can make your beaches look really nice having this

And also a nice little thing as well is having these trees kind of along the edges it looks more like a realistic kind of beach because most beaches have like this heavy tree line around the sides of it and stuff or at least the beaches i’ve seen and yeah so that’s

Just a few tips on beaches hopefully that helps you out with making your beaches more interesting if you have a build near a beach or something can make your view a whole lot better and for the final and most important tip in my opinion is to download and use world edit and also

Voxel sniper now these two are plugins for a server that you would have to set up and obviously would only be useful in creative mode so this isn’t really a tip for survival or anything like that but if you are interested in building builds in creative mode then this is like a

Game changer i’ve i’ve never created a build that hasn’t used world did it and pretty much all the builds that i have done some major like terrain changes has has been using voxel sniper so for instance let’s just say i wanted to have a big kind of mountain right here in this spot

Right here and normally obviously you’d have to place blocks and it can take hours and hours to do that but with world editor and voxel sniper you can do this in probably just a couple of minutes and i’m going to show you right now how i would do that so firstly

What i’m going to do is set my voxel sniper brushes which are a piece of gunpowder and also an arrow so i’m going to set my brush to a ball and the command to do that is slash b space b and then i’m also going to add

The smooth modifier at the end of this just so the ball is nice and smooth and then i’m going to change my brush size by doing slash b and then the size i want which is going to be five and then lastly all you need to do is

Set the actual block you want to use so you do that by doing slash v and then the block so i’m just gonna do stone and then all you have to do is just right click with your gun powder and then you can just place some giant

Balls of stone so i’m gonna try and make just a general shape of a mountain that i wanted right here out of these balls of stone don’t worry about getting it too perfect because we’re going to smooth it off in in just a few seconds so there we go

There’s the just the general shape that i wanted for this mountain so next the command that we’re going to do is slash b space bb this time which stands for blend ball instead of just ball and what this is going to do is pretty much just smooth off

Everything and to do that i’m going to use the arrow instead of the gun powder to smooth off all this stuff and there we go so that’s shaping up kind of well so the next step that we’re gonna do is actually do slash b space e space

Melt and what this does is it changes both your brushes so for the gun powder it’s gonna bring blocks out towards you and then for the arrow it’s actually going to push blocks in and with this command we can kind of get some more control on the

Areas that we want to raise and lower and smooth off as well there we go so that’s just the general shape that i wanted here just a simple mountain so now we can switch back to the blend ball and make sure to use the arrow and just go around this whole

Thing and just smooth everything off just like that and there we go that we got like a nice kind of mountain shape so now let’s just say i wanted maybe a grass layer on top of all of this stone here so all you’d have to do is with world edit get your wooden

Axe select one corner of the entire build and then come up to the other corner over here and then set your next position by doing slash slash pause two and then the command that we would need to run is just slash slash overlay and then the

Block that you want and i’m gonna do two because that is for grass block and then you can see what that has done is put a nice grass layer across of everything you see that it also affects in like a kind of a rectangular shape we’ve already

Selected so it’s going to put grass blocks on top of these trees and stuff which you would have to remove by hand yeah so there’s like a nice little mountain obviously it looks a little bit out of place you’d have to spend a lot more time and that’s trying to get it to

Look more natural using more commands i’m not gonna go too in depth with this because this is just the tips and tricks video i’m not trying to teach you guys everything about all these plugins and stuff but i might do a tutorial for that in the future

But with with voxel sniper and world did it you have a lot of powerful commands to you that will help you speed up a lot of building processes and i’m just going to showcase a few of those that i used in some of my builds so over here is quite

An old build of mine and i just wanted a really flat area to work with so all i did was select this corner and then fly all the way over here and then select the other corner down there and i just set this whole thing to grass

Blocks and that just gave me a nice flat area to work with so i could create this build obviously it looks a bit weird from from any other angle but i only need like this kind of angle which it looks normal in i also used voxel sniper and welded it for my sky

Update idea quite a bit i used it to shape these whole floating islands also to add in pieces of coal and iron everywhere automatically instead of having to place them in by hand and you can see i used it to kind of sculpt these little bits that come out here as well and

Add in this nice little river waterfall thing you see over here i came in with the um the melt tool and i also added this like little waterfall bit that comes down right here and then also over here for this island you can see i did a command called

Replace and with that you can actually replace like certain blocks with other blocks as well so i just replaced all the stone blocks that were here with more stone cobblestone and also mossy cobblestone just to create this nice textured stone look for this um dungeon island that i made and yeah so

Those were just five tips and tricks for uh terraforming if you enjoyed this kind of video then just let me know in the comments on uh what type of tips and tricks you want me to cover next and thank you for watching and i’ll see you guys in the next video you