csx42 – I’m Building The Backrooms In Minecraft. Here’s How.

Foreign For those of you who have been subscribed for a while or those of you who subscribe right now because I won’t know the difference anyway you might know that one of my all-time favorite story Concepts has been the back rooms I’ve played around with the idea in

Minecraft in the past and you can check those videos out by clicking the icon in the top right corner of your screen but before you do that you’re probably going to want to watch this video to the end to see how much has changed I’m determined to make this build in

Particular the largest most challenging and comprehensive Minecraft backrooms experience out there and despite this build already spanning thousands of blocks and well over a hundred different rooms this is only just the beginning if you like what you see today once again make sure to subscribe and ring the bell

Icon to stay up to date with this build as it progresses as well as dropping a like and comment to help me against the YouTube algorithm with all that said sit back relax enjoy and most importantly don’t get lost much like my previous iteration of the back

Rooms you can kind of think of this build like a large maze but unlike that previous iteration which came with its own set of problems bugs and general shortcomings this build aims to fix improve upon and pretty much run away with every concern that previous build raised after the handful of play tests

Run and videos made in the past my own intuition and your comments and feedback led me to understand that there are five major points that vastly needed to improve the first point I’m sure goes without saying but just in case it didn’t the addition of the resource pack

Has been a huge step forward in making this as immersive as possible personally I’m a huge fan of the smaller details in the pack much like the little plugs and the air vents but my favorite detail has got to be the stained carpet texture it’s just the perfect uncomfy addition

To the palette and I love it the second major Improvement in this version of the Minecraft backrooms is the way I’m using portals both in quantity and placement I realize this video has gone on for way too long for me do not I’ve mentioned immersive portals yet so let’s finally

Get into that if you haven’t figured it out yet the immersive portals mod is kind of the driving force of this build and the way it behaves we’re going to discuss how specifically the map Works a little later just know that I’m not here to shuffle you around in a couple spots

Like last time I’ve been extremely careful to make sure that a it’s very hard to notice where portals are and b sometimes going through a portal on top of being unnoticeable is also irreversible who said it was supposed to be easy speaking of which no you can’t

Just follow a wall either in this version of the back rooms I’ve fixed that too the third point of improvement which maybe you gathered from the bits and pieces I’ve shown here and there is that the map is just huge like I said thousands of blocks of floor space and

Over a hundred different rooms so far I will admit if you know the perfect path you could probably bang through it in a relatively short distance however the map has been designed to make it very easy to walk a long way and be sent backwards Without You realizing it the

Fourth point of improvement in this map will be the addition of different imagery and most importantly levels I’ve yet to figure out the right way to execute on the idea how however as some of you have seen in my community tab which is where I’ve been teasing and

Posting various images of the progress of the build the first non-level zero space I plan on including is the pool rooms or the dream pools as described by their creator Jared Pike but as for the standard back rooms experience beyond the normal rooms I’m working with I also

Plan on taking a few pages out of King pixel’s Playbook as his recently developing backroom series is the best source material for the story I’ve ever seen and if you have yet to experience it which if that’s the case it must be a pretty nice rock you’ve been living

Under I highly recommend you check it out I’m going to put links where links usually go you know how it is and the final most substantial point of improvement is the way the map works and how I’ve implemented a form of progression into the project now a magician never Reveals His Secrets but

Today just for you I’m going to pull back the curtain just a little bit so you can get a taste of what my headspace over the last month or so has been like let’s get into it the map functions as follows I’m building the map in large

Collections of rooms or as I’m calling them modules each module of rooms contains three different types of of portals I’m going to put this stone block here as our point of reference the first type of portals are the ones that loop from end to end in a module to

Quickly give you the sensation of walking for forever or at least a very long time there’s a couple of these in each module but uh they do uh very much inflate the sensation of distance traveled the second type of portal is a very sneakily placed portal that will

Take you to and from the next module in the sequence so a bit of a spoiler here to get from module one to module two you’re gonna walk in this room enter this room and exit from the other side so if I’m looking at this hallway I got

Like a doorway right here and a doorway over there and a big old mid space here if I walk in and out the hallway has changed and we’re now in module 2 which brings me to the third type of portal which start to appear after the first module and those will irreversibly set

You backwards without you being able to notice whether it sends you all the way back to module 1 or at least a couple modules back you can never be too careful when making your way around the other way I’m indicating a sort of progress of the player is in the design

Of the rooms module runs rooms follow a very strict and regular design modules 2 and 3 start to introduce a little bit of Chaos in the size and shape of the rooms while modules 4 and 5 go up the deep end when it comes to variety and Wall height

Floor space and room layout I’m currently working on module 6 which we’re going to have a look at together in a little bit but for module 6 I’ve decided that the gimmick will be less chaotic but much larger rooms almost uncomfortably so I plan on building 10

Modules before I lease the first version to the public but in the meantime I’ve still got a lot of work to do and to finish off this video we’re going to do just that and with that said that is the end of the scripted portion of this

Video so if you’ve been enjoying how much Direction and conviction and intent I had in the way I was talking then this video is no longer for you but we are now going to exit um through the ceiling we’re gonna go into spectator mode and if you had any

Doubts about my claims towards the size of this build hopefully they are about to be silenced because uh we’ve got a lot uh there’s a lot there’s a lot to this it’s very large like I said lots of portals lots of different rooms lots of floor space we have one uh

Two three four five modules down and we are working on number six right now which I realize doesn’t have a numerical indicator on the roof I’m going to build it right to now and we’re going to get this show on the road six that’s a I can oh my gosh six

Or a g but it’s a sex module six is very small right now despite the rooms being very big we’ve got a long hallway got this big room here which has a small room with an entrance over there we’re gonna get to that in just a second

Coming through this end of the hall we’ve got this big room that’s got like a weird shelf of floor and another Shuffle floor with a little opening up there and if we go back into the aforementioned big room with smaller room on the inside we can have a look

Inside and oh my gosh it’s bigger on the inside what a lava concept no um this is how uh you end up on that shelf in the room so I only have one looping portal in module uh six so what I think I’m going to demonstrate at the very least

Is how I’m putting these portals together and how I’m making them look as seamless as I am because there is a lot that’s going into making these portals actually work you know without you being able to notice there’s a portal there or at least without being told you get the

Idea one of the biggest challenges in building these back rooms is that it’s really hard to come up with new ideas for rooms yes I’m building big rooms and that’s fine but keeping the variety interesting is definitely easier said than done so you know what I think I

Know what I’m gonna do I am going to build something that exits here there’s going to be something out of here and uh don’t worry about the purple room don’t worry about the purple room I’m going to build another room that comes out of here and this actually you know

We’re gonna make a very small entrance because this is going to be another big room I really like the idea of doing just uncomfortably large rooms you know what actually no this is going to be a small room with a very very like horrendously tall ceiling so we’re gonna

Make a square room and uh once again if any of you needed a reminder because I know this bothers people and I think it’s kind of funny that it bothers people not using world edit we’re just doing it by hand all of this all of this

All of this is done by hand I’m gonna build the first little bit of wall here and then I’m gonna throw together some commands that will um get the uh rest of the walls up but again like I said this is going to be very very like uncomfortably tall I’m gonna build stuff

That exists in the higher levels of this room but for now we’re just gonna make a tall room that’s got a portal on the other side of it that seems unreasonably tall enough uh air that is uh horrendously tall room and now I need to make a uniform pattern of

Lights the light is probably not even going to reach the bottom of the room now that I’m thinking about it if I put a light here yeah no the bottom of the room is still very that is horrendous anyways let’s put the portal here no too

Small we could put it here though right that’s enough room that should be well enough room so here’s what I’m gonna do I’m going to place a entrance to the end of this room as well as the one in the hallway that you already saw and we’re

Just going to place the portals and you’re gonna immediately see one of the biggest challenges that I’ve had to face with every portal I add to this build so if I light this up let’s clean up the blocks fill in this fill in that fill in those let’s walk through here add

Everything back and what’s already obvious is that the lightning conditions from one side of a portal do not carry to the other side of the portal what this means is I need to replicate these lighting conditions here allow me to kind of do this and uh

You’ll see what I mean the light for this is one two away from the block that’s just above here so if I go let’s try and be consistent if I go one two that is the closest source of Lights to that portal so what I’m going to do

Is I’m going to fill in this room now let’s cover all of this up something else I don’t need is this portal here because no one’s ever going to see it because of course it’s two-way from that side if I’ve played my cards right what we should have is a seamless line

Between the rooms or something relatively close to it oh I forgot I Didn’t Do It on the other side but here’s the thing about the light on the other side the light from all the way up there is not reaching the ground the only light coming into this room is

Coming from this fake room on the other side so what I’m guessing is if I just straight up block off this room because there’s no light coming into it if I block this off that should be the seamless transition we need oh there does appear to be a little bit

Of a misalignment maybe I’ve made a mistake maybe I’m ill-informed on the science of lighting in Minecraft I’ve just had a thought you know what it probably is hmm let me have a look oh no I’m stupid you know what it is it is the ambient occlusion from that wall being

Too close let me fix this by bringing the wall out just a little bit more again I don’t really have to cover up the ceiling and use the right wall blocks for this but it makes me feel a lot better about things and I’m thinking

There we go look at that perfect so we can walk through and back and there’s no apparent lighting change let me real quick get rid of this unnecessary portal and just like that we’ve got ourselves a portal now let me uh see how this feels it definitely feels a

Little weird to just have a small hole there but that is so just unnerving what’s probably going to happen with this module playing with height and distance is like for example say I put a doorway here that just for whatever reason spits you out like here in just a weird series

Of just large gaps and confusing geometry um I mean confusing geometry is the name of the game in terms of the back rooms but I digress you get the idea so with that short demonstration out of the way I am going to leave you uh I’m Gonna

Leave You here I’m Gonna Leave This is going to be the end of the video so I hope you’ve enjoyed what you’ve seen today and I hope you’re just as excited as I am to see this project progress if you are do consider subscribing to the

Channel as I’m going to be posting more videos you know as I get more levels and you know Concepts and ideas what I have you whatever whatever happens um those are going to come out if you have any questions about this build do let me know because I would love to do a

Q a kind of video about the build as uh as it progresses and maybe do more of those as more questions arise however that is all I have to say that that is that is the video that that’s the whole thing the whole shebang you’ve seen how

It works you’ve seen how it’s built you’ve seen how I’ve dealt with lighting you’ve seen all the challenges I’ve had to face this has been a lot it’s been a headache it’s been a blessing and a curse but I love it I love the concept I

Am so excited about this build and I hope you are too but that is gonna do it with this video I need to start I need I need to shut up and like edit this and get it out so you all can enjoy it but

That is good with the video so if you like this video and you want to see more stuff like this then do consider subscribing and sharing this video to your friends places things and blah blah blah that is good for this video and I will see all of you in the next one

And I’ll talk to you guys later bye