Building With Grian – Floating Islands!

Hello my name is green and today i’m going to be showing you how to make a floating island but before we start you need to make sure you have a couple of things you need voxel sniper and world edit if you don’t know what these are they’re plugins for your server that

Allow you to do the commands that i’m using okay so let’s get straight into it the first command that you’re going to need is b over d1 you need to use the gunpowder and set your block to stone using v space stone you then need to set

Your brush size to whatever you want but i start with a bigger brush size so i use 10 to begin with i layer a blob all over using the gunpowder right clicking and the shape that you make on the floor will determine what shape your island’s

Going to be in the middle it will become clear later why so you continue right clicking raising up the mountain out of the ground and slowly making your brush size smaller so that you generate peaks you may notice that i have a separate blob that’s not attached to the bigger

One this is because i want to create a smaller floating island next to my big one so that they complement each other floating islands tend to look nicer if they have little ones around them so it really focuses on the big one so again i continue using that same technique right

Clicking on the mountains and making my brush size smaller and smaller to get to the top of the peaks now voxel sniper isn’t particularly accurate at very small sizes so once i’ve got to b1 that’s the smallest size you can get to the peaks flatten off at the top so what

I’m gonna have to do is finish that bit off by hand but first i just need to finish getting all the peaks up to the height that i want it’s important to make this as tall as you want or as small as you want i find that the more

Stretched out it is the better it looks now from this point on you might want to just make sure that you use be over again with the gunpowder just making sure that everything is right because after this stage we won’t be able to edit this very much so it’s important

That you get this right so now that i’ve done that i feel like it’s necessary as i said earlier to go and finish my peaks by hand there’s not a huge technique to this but i do tend to raise the block in the middle up to where i want the peak

To be and then using the blocks adjacent to it in a cross i then try and complement the steepness up to that peak it’s kind of the same every time so there’s not much variation but on the bigger ones i do tend to go even higher just making sure that everything’s in

Proper scale with each other and once that’s done everything there is kind of ready you need to now select the entire region that these peaks are on this is very important that you pay attention here and you need to go on to the bottom layer and do forward slash forward slash

Copy once you’ve done that you need to go and fly into the air where you want your sky island to be you need to look into the air and type forward slash forward slash flip you need to look directly up once you’ve done that you do forward slash forward slash paste and

There it is this is actually the bottom of the sky island we’ve been working on this entire time which is why i said you can edit it so this is what the bottom of the peak looks like voxel sniper doesn’t work upside down that’s why we need welded in

Order to flip it this is probably the most complex part of the build and it’s done now so from here we then use exactly the same technique that we used while making the bottom half but we use it on the top half now the same command

Of b over d1 and raising the mountains instead of out of the ground out of the bottom of our peaks once we’ve done that you might want to make sure that you have land to use on your sky island so you may notice that i’ve left some of it quite flat and i’m

Just sort of doing around the edges larger peaks and mountains so that they complement the bottom and i try and sort of match the scale of the peaks i made underneath once i’ve done that on the flatter areas i tend to add just a gentle slope or a

Hill so i have something to build on now i realize i’ve probably gone very fast when trying to explain it but once you get your head around the commands it is quite easy to grasp and if you need extra help you can check out my voxel sniper and world edit tutorial that

Cover the basics of everything i’m using here anyway okay so back to the build i’m then generating the peaks again using b1 just trying to get it as high as i can to within the smallest block that i can but of course i am going to

Have to finish off the peaks by hand because voxel sniper isn’t particularly accurate so we’ve essentially repeated exactly the same process give or take a few differences in shape that we did with the bottom half the only difference is that these peaks may be a little bit

Smaller and on top of that we may have actually created a little bit of mess underneath the island by using the be over command because voxel is a little bit messy sometimes and get rid of that with be melt you can also avoid this by making it void under and while we have

The be melt be fill on our clipboard for the arrow and gunpowder just go around the sides of your island making sure that it’s all nice and smooth and the transition from the middle to the bottom doesn’t have this ring around it and it has a nice smooth transition once you’ve

Done that you then want to go back to using b over but this time you want to put in a d3 so that you have a depth of three and you want to change your block to grass using v grass you then right click all over your island and overlay

It with grass this is the top soil layer and then underneath we want to texture it so that it transitions and it isn’t just a stone dirt divide what we want now is to use b space sb m v r stone to replace the stone and v

Dirt we go around adding the dirt in little splatters all the way around and then we just change our block to cobblestone and then do a layer a little bit lower than the dirt and then again with clay once we’ve done that we’ve created the texture that goes down

Underneath on the spires apologies if you find that this is going a little bit fast but i’m not trying to bore you and again you aren’t supposed to be copying me i’m showing you the technique and if you have to you can go back over and look at all the different commands okay

I’m now going to give you the command on screen which is kind of long and this is to create grass i won’t say them all but hopefully you can follow them on screen and right click with your gun powder using them everywhere if you don’t feel comfortable using this or you keep

Messing up just use bonemeal it might take you a little bit longer but that’s fine then i move on to use bee tree to just place vanilla minecraft trees all over the island and then once i’ve done that i also use be big tree to set it to

A different tree and give that a little bit of variation once i’ve done that i then move in and give it the final touch of every single sky island a nice little waterfall and i consider that completely finished as you can see this technique once you get down all the commands and understand

The basics of fox or sniper is fairly simple it is a step by step and that’s why i thought i’d do a tutorial on it because i thought my way of making sky islands was pretty unique and i thought people would find it very easy to make their own as long as they

Could get their hands on world edit and voxel sniper anyway that’s it for today thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this video please let me know and if you have any more suggestions this again was another suggestion and i just happen to have a nice idea on how

To film it please let me know in the comment section below goodbye