8 Simple Build Tips to Improve your Builds! | Minecraft Tutorial

So I have survived over 800 days in a single hardcore world and I built a lot of cool stuff along the way and throughout all of the videos I’ve uploaded within this world I’ve gotten a bunch of comments of people complimenting me on my builds saying

That they wish they can build as well as I can saying that my starter house is better than anything they’ve ever made all this crazy stuff right and while I obviously very much appreciate all of the compliments and all the kind words regarding my builds I kind of just want

To go through kind of what goes through my mind when I am considering what to build next mainly just to show that I feel like pretty much anyone can replicate the builds I do and nothing I’ve built so far I don’t really think has been all that insane you know at

Least compared to what other YouTubers have done and stuff like that you know so I’ll be giving you guys eight simple tricks to make your builds go from this to this I really hope you guys can take something away from this video thank you so much for watching let’s get into the

Tips I guess this video is actually going to be nine tips instead of eight okay you’re gonna get an extra one right here at the beginning because pretty much whenever I’m thinking about building anything the first thing I’ll do is consult Google if I don’t already

Have an image of what the build’s going to look like in my head if it’s a brand new idea and something that I’m not comfortable building I will pretty much always go on Google to get some inspiration now I don’t want to copy the build exactly from the image that I get

But it’s at least a good way to get like the general shape of the thing I’m going for I also watch a bunch of Minecraft youtubers who are really really talented at building and again I don’t want to copy exactly what they do but using a couple of their like techniques goes a

Long way for example I kind of learned what texturing was and kind of learned how to do it from flip from mythical sausage who are two of the YouTubers that I watched most frequently I think but I don’t think it’s beneficial to completely copy their exact builds but

It can be really really useful if you see what kind of things they’re doing with their our builds and try to mimic that in your own way of course though if you do take anything from a YouTuber and if you’re making content yourself obviously give credit you don’t want to

Be the person who steals a build because that’s just not cool but now to get into the actual lists right so the first tip is probably the most important it’s not necessarily even a tip it kind of is I guess because I’ll give some examples but the first thing you want to consider

Is your block palette you can follow all the rest of these tips but if you have a really bad block palette your building won’t look good I build with a whole lot of wood and stone I feel like you can never really go wrong with a combination

Of those pretty much in any capacity so you kind of just have to mess around yourself and you have to figure out what kind of block palette you want to use this kind of just comes with experience though so you kind of just want to mess around making random builds here and

There just to see what kind of block palette you think works together but I find just a very simple block palette a type of Darker wood paired with a lighter wood will pretty much always look good the second tip here is a super quick one just use odd numbers in your

Builds so as you can see here in our little like wooden starter house thing that I’m going to be building we have an odd number of blocks on this front face this will make it so that there is one block in the middle rather than two this

Will help you a lot when you are putting on the roof and when you’re like adding windows and doing other exterior decoration bits to the house so there’s a really simple rule of thumb just try to stick to building with an odd number of blocks moving on now to tip number

Three this has to do with the building shape now you just want to avoid building with just a rectangle or just a square house it’s really simple to improve that shape to be something a lot more unique and I’m going to show you exactly how to do that so what I’ll

Normally do is start off with something like this I will start off with a main rectangle main square shape to kind of act as the main part of the house that I am building and then from there I will just Branch off other rooms to give you

A more accurate representation of how I actually plan out my build so let me take out all of the walls of this house here we’re also going to remove the roof here too so when I’m actually building something what I’ll do is I will throw

Down a shape like this and then I will just try to pick a couple sides where I’ll throw in some other random parts of the building just jutting out for example this side here let’s bring out an extension of the building three blocks this way and we’re gonna make it symmetrical along this

Side of the wall then we can get rid of the divider that was right here it’s no longer necessary and now the house looks like this a little bit more unique let’s do the same thing here in the front so let’s bring this out three and then

Across here and then out three on the other side and we’re going to use this as the entrance and I suppose let’s get one more little area to jut out let’s bring one over here but let’s not make this one completely symmetrical because it doesn’t really have to be we’ll bring

That one out like that three blocks and then across three blocks here in the middle so now our shape is looking like this I think it’s looking way more interesting way more unique it’s just no longer that main box but as you can see that main box is very much still there

This brings me to the next tip which is about depth now you can have depth in a couple different ways a really really easy way to make your build look more interesting and just to add more character to it is just by putting a frame around the walls kind of like I

Did with the block palettes over there this is a design I use in so many of my builds you just have some strip Spruce and some Oak and then you just kind of go around the walls with those blocks and then you put some Spruce stairs in a

Spruce trap door in the middle and it adds this nice little Archway this also kind of ties back to making sure you’re building with odd numbers because if you’re building with odd numbers you can add more pillars in the middle of the walls and it should work out

Perfectly in some cases you might not be able to add a trapdoor but it’s okay still just the upside down stairs does the trick pretty well and even if you don’t want to add the pillar in the middle you can just throw more trapdoors on the top makes the building look more

Supported even though that doesn’t actually matter because the building doesn’t have to be supported in Minecraft it’ll obviously still stand without the support beams I will usually also make sure I frame out the main square or rectangle that I started out with so you know you can see me doing

That right here with these logs and this is where the different layers of depth can come in so right here right this wall I’m looking at currently doesn’t have as much depth as this wall but I think that’s okay you don’t necessarily need the same level of depth all the way

Around to make it look good you can make depth in different ways one easy way of doing this is just by you know putting a window right here and then putting stairs on the top and the bottom that just creates a little bit of depth to

The window it makes the wall look a bit more interesting and this is a window design that I use all the time I put an extinguished campfire above a fence gate open the fence gate put a spruce trap door next to it this adds a bit more

Detail and depth to an otherwise pretty plain looking wall now that we have some depth in the building let’s start talking about the roof now figuring out the right roof blocks will definitely come with some practice as well but one thing I can suggest to you all don’t

Make your roof out of the same block you used for the walls that’s just a very simple tip that I think will make the roof look better and stand out more if I used Oak for this roof it will just be a Big Blob of Oak you know across the

Horizon and I feel like you want to have a bit more color variation in there so for my roof here I’m going to use a deep slate I typically like to work with the main shape again I just kind of keep coming back to the main rectangle I

Built to begin with so I’m going to work on the roof of the main section and then we will work on these side sections so there’s a bunch of ways you can make a roof there are some really complex ones out there but I’m just going to give you

Two very simple roof designs that can look good in most settings the first roof design is probably the most simple what you’re going to do is you’re gonna come one block over so you want it to overhang everything just adding a little bit more depth to kind of you know

Relates back to the last tip so you’re going to take stairs you’re gonna have this stair that’s like diagonal to the pillar here Place one stair on the back side of it that is upside down as you can see down there it’s an upside down stair then turn your character around

Place a stair on top of that and do this all the way to the top so just upside down stair regular stair and then you will eventually hit the middle and since this is odd you will hit one block in the Middle where I like to put an upside

Down stair facing this direction and then I’ll also come here turn around Place one star on top of that and then let’s replicate this to the other side and just like that you’ve got a nice pointy roof in the middle this will pretty much always look good

Unless I guess you have a really really long face that you’re trying to make a roof for might look a little bit out of out of place there but if you build with a decent scale in mind if you build kind of small this roof will work pretty much

Every time and then a slight variance to this roof so you’re going to start the same exact way with the upside down stair right here but instead of another stair you’re gonna put a full block and then a stair so an upside down stair full block regular stair until you get to the

Middle and then when you reach the middle you do the same thing with the upside down stair in the middle there and then you also just put the full block and then another stair facing this direction I think this roof design looks better just in my opinion and it also

Gives you more room on the inside of your house for you know storage needs or anything like that and notice how I’ve only Built the trim of the roof so far this is intentional because when I make my roofs I like to have a trim of a

Different block so in this case the trim is going to be just you know regular cobbled deep slate but then as for the rest of the roof for now let’s just fill it in with deep slight Bricks now that I have the main rectangle roofed off we

Can start working on the rest of these roofs and you could also easily blend the two types of roofs together that I just mentioned and I’m going to do that over here so on this side we’re just going to do the regular roof that just uses stairs all the way up until the

Middle also my apologies it was raining in the last clip I think I forgot to change it so it didn’t rain in this world my bad it should be fixed now once again though in the front we’re gonna do this very simple stair roof and let’s

Connect it up to the rest of the house and now we have a full roof on the entire house it might look a little complicated at the moment especially if you’re very new to building but if you just keep practicing with the roof designs I gave you and you you know try

To connect them up together as well as possible you’ll definitely get the hang of it pretty shortly the last thing I want to mention with the roof is a chimney I didn’t really start adding chimneys to my builds until pretty recently and I didn’t realize how much

They actually add to the overall Vibe of your village or your little compound it helps a lot because you’re going to see like the smoke from a distance and it makes it look a lot more lively so let me give you one very very basic chimney design

All you’re going to do is break into the top of your roof and then we’re just going to throw some Cobblestone mix in some regular stone in there too until you get to a decent height just even say right there is fine throw a campfire on top of that and surround the

Campfire with trapdoors this is a very very simple chimney design but I think it gets the job done really well I’m going to make this a little bit different give you like the second level of chimney design but I just wanted to provide this one just to give you some

Kind of an example and the only thing I’m really going to change here is on either side of the chimney I’m just going to make it look like it’s a bit more supported this is the chimney I would probably add to this house there’s more complex ones you can make

Obviously but this is a pretty simple version all I did is just throw a couple supporting pillars on either face of you know that first little tower that I built also now that I put in the roof we have a bunch of gaps up here let me go

Fill all these in really fast all right now that that’s done let’s talk about the next tip which is texturing and this one’s also really important and kind of underrated in my opinion because for a while I would have just left this build as it was standing right now but we can

Definitely still improve this pretty simply All I’m gonna do here is break away some of the oak logs in the walls and we’re gonna replace them with a different Block in this case it’s going to be stripped Oak gonna do this all the way around and it’s gonna add just a little bit

More texture to the entire build this is definitely another thing that comes with a bit of practice I’m still very much learning how to texture myself I am by no means a master at this but I’ve done it enough where I can understand at least a couple combinations of blocks that look good

Together when trying to texture and with this texturing in I think the walls look so much better it’s a really small thing but I definitely think it helps a lot you can texture in other places as well not only just the walls like the flat walls you

Can texture your roof really easily so in this case here we have a deep slate bricks as the main block on the inside so if we get some deep slate tiles and you throw those in every so often it just adds a little bit more character to

The roof of your house and I think it helps a lot now tip number seven use leaves okay so leaves are incredible in making builds look better and if you want to use the exact leaves I’m using germsy boys better leaves look amazing I will leave a link to um you know his

Leaf pack in the description down below if you would like to use it these just go such a long way when you’re detailing the exterior of your houses what I like to do is I will take some and kind of drape them down the sides of the roof

And I like to keep it a little bit realistic like how a Vine would actually fall down the roof of a house like keep it going One Direction action like diagonally slanting down the house I personally really like oak leaves but you can use whatever leaves you like to use

It doesn’t really matter all that much they all look pretty good now this whole tip is just kind of about exterior decoration in general but mainly focused on leaves they just do a whole lot I’m going to move on a little bit here to Windows so you kind of already saw one

Window design that I like to do that’s very simple I usually use this on walls that don’t have much depth in them already but let’s say this wall here if I want to put a window this already has a lot of depth so what I’m going to do is I will

Still use the stair probably just on the bottom and then just very simply gonna throw two Spruce trap doors as window shutters and that is it very simple window design there’s also some bats on the inside they are chilling but very simple window design that I still think

Looks really good so let’s do a few of these all the way around the build alright so we got a whole bunch of Windows now all the way around this place except for one side I don’t really think a window would look good here if I

Only want to make a one block window it looks kind of awkward from the outside you can still do it like this doesn’t look bad I don’t think definitely still doable and I don’t want to do a two window here because I don’t think that looks particularly good I

Like having like window shutters on the outsides so instead what we’re going to do here is another very simple exterior decoration technique and that is a flower bed so all you’re going to do for this is just put some grass like so put some trap doors I prefer Oak

Trap doors for this underneath the grass and then just put some flowers down and that is it super simple but I think it looks way better than it was when it was just a bear and also we did not add a window on this front side because that

Is going to be the door and now this house is effectively done sure there’s more you could do to it but I wanted to keep this really simple just to show how you can pretty easily go from this blocky house to this much more unique looking

Structure and I only have one more final tip for you guys but it’s a very simple one hit subscribe now I’m kidding it’s use creative mode like I’m doing right now just go crazy in creative mode figure out what kind of block palette you think looks the best figure out what

Kind of roofs you want to build use all of these tips potentially in Creative before you try to use them in survival because it’s much easier to see your entire building in creative and to see if you actually like what it looks like because things look way different from

The grounds than they do from the sky so something can look really really good from the ground but then when you fly around it it looks kind of awkward so using creative mode is your best friend practice making houses just build a bunch of really random houses that’s

What I would do all the time on my old creative worlds but thank you guys so much for watching this video I really hope there was at least one thing you were able to take away from this I really appreciate you stopping by and I will talk to you soon bye