Building A Minecraft Floating Island The Right Way (According To Mojang)

Floating islands aren’t really something i’ve built too much in minecraft i just never really needed to but today in this video we’re going to be taking a look back at the original construction handbook to see how mojang would build a floating island and see how it holds up to the current

Minecraft building standards because this book came out a long time ago there’s two floating islands shown in this book one of which is a forest island and one has a small castle and i’ll be building both of them plus a third island and we’ll eventually join them all together with bridges

And i think it’ll be really cool because there’s not really an interior to do we’ll be building this on a void world and we just start with a pillar of stone going up to the sky as you can see here in the first two steps of our book

Also if you enjoyed this video and you haven’t already consider subscribing we’re trying to get to 200 000 subscribers sometime this year which would be cool thank you Well that right there is step one and two combined in our book where we built the frame and then we just put the top part on it where we just filled it all in now we have to actually i guess terraform up the size so that they join together and it’s not

Just a skeleton which is the more difficult part but luckily i have a decent bit of experience having to like make natural looking stuff so shouldn’t be too hard let’s get started Do well now i have a blank island stone template thing and i saved it to a structure block so i can reuse it for the other islands that we’re going to be making but that was the hard part of this build done was just terraforming all that but it looks pretty decent obviously

It’s not the exact same as in the book because i can’t see everything in the book but it’s close enough it looks pretty good and i am happy with it now we just have to go on and start adding the grass and other stuff to it all the foliage and vegetation

And there we have it we have our forest island with our grass and our oak trees and our two different types of flowers the dandelions and poppies honestly not that complicated it was pretty simple it only had a few different building blocks in it because it’s an old build but now

We are set to go on and build our second island from the book which is the castle island i’ll be reusing the base of it and just making the top a little bit different making it the island looks slightly different but it’s going to be pretty similar and after that

We’ll do our third and final island which is the one that i’m making myself [Applause] Now we can enjoy sunsets from inside a nice castle tower actually one of four nice castle towers that were slightly tricky to make just because the roof was weird but we figured it out eventually and it’s it’s looking pretty decent for the time it was built like it is

Only made out of about four building blocks but but it’s fine it’s pretty good now and we can just sit here and stare off into the void for uh for as long as we want but all that aside this castle is done also the island is done it’s slightly

Different than the other one but it’s basically the same because i i built it off with the same island base with just a couple modifications and now we have our third and final island to build which is the uh the special island the one that’s not in

The book because there are only two in the book and it’s gonna be a little mountain area we have a castle we have a fourth so why not have a mountain area with some mines There we are our mountains are done we have a nice waterfall coming off the mountains from a little like frozen area glacier mini thing coming off and there’s also a cave down here with a bunch of different ore in case you want to go mining with some redstone torches and stuff like that

Just to make it look spooky but now all that we have left to do is join these islands up with paths connecting them with like little rope bridges by the way the island it’s not a full mountain it’s just a facade in the back because you don’t really ever go back

There but from the front it does look very nice and i also added some little path areas on the other two islands where the little hanging bridges are going to connect up and form a loop that you can run around And now we have three fully connected islands that are all joined together by bridges so you can run around in a loop through like the mountains and the forest and by the castle so you kind of have almost everything you need to have just a minecraft world floating

In the sky you have at least a lot of things you would need it’d be cool to turn this into a map or something like actually make it playable have lava and other stuff that you need for progressing in the game but i do think we should add some animals to these

Islands before we finish here and also maybe a few villagers in the castle i’m not really gonna decorate the inside way i’m just gonna leave it but we will add some cows some pigs some chickens scattered around these little islands especially in the forest because it makes more sense so

Much animals in the forest got some animals around the outside of the castle and some villagers on the inside and i’ll just spawn a few more pigs and stuff like that but uh also in the mountains i feel like we should put llamas that would be

Cool we’ll spawn like two llamas up on the golden grassy areas we’ll probably wander down but i don’t think they’ll wander off i i don’t i don’t think they should but i guess we’ll see if any animals fall off and we’ll also add a couple beds inside the castle for the villagers so

They actually have a place to sleep and now all of our islands have a little bit of life to them and the cool thing is this is a void world so no mobs will spawn to threaten the villagers either and this place looks even better with

Shaders on which add that a little bit of extra lighting and shadow detailing which makes it look a little more realistic especially with the sky texture pack oh i should also unblock that waterfall because it’s kind of weird below and also i blocked it off but there we go

Now it’s going down correctly but i think that’s where we’re going to call the day for this according to mojang video i hope you guys did enjoy if you did be sure to drop a like and subscribe we’re trying to get to 200 000 subscribers sometime soon in the future hopefully this year

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