Grian – 5 Easy Steps to Improve Your Minecraft Boat

So it’s been a while since i’ve been on the server and this guy comes back up to me the same guy and i’m like hey dude what’s going on and he says why don’t you come and see my new house i’ve really improved i’m like i don’t know man your house houses

Last time weren’t great you didn’t really take on boardwalks oh okay so i follow him anyway again a thousand blocks away maybe more i forget and he surprises me he says what do you think of this and i’m like wow that actually looks really really good

You’ve taken on board what i said you’ve got a good palette good shape look at the garden you’ve really taken on board everything i’ve taught you you know what i might just stay on this server have you got a boat for me so i can like go across the ocean and

Make my own house and we can be neighbors and he’s like yeah sure out back there’s a boat that i’ve been working on for a while why don’t you come and take a quick look i’m like sure why not i’ll use that and then i can get started

So i’m here to teach you five easy steps to improve your boat now i say improve it’s probably easier that you start from scratch so five easy steps to make a boat however you want to see it doesn’t really matter so the first step is nearly always the same the framework so

Making the frame is probably the most important part because everything to do with building a boat is about the shape the details are the last stage in this entire process so i’m trying to give you some really good angles on what i’m working on here so i’m trying to create the most boat-like

Shape i can produce using just log and i’m trying to just outline and produce the overall shape before i start filling in the hull and everything else one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they’re making a boat is they start with just a hole and work from there but

If you start with a frame get the shape right and then fill it in you’re going to get a much better result now i’m going slightly overboard here probably just because i know some of you are a little more talented at building and you probably want to see what more can be

Done so i’m producing these extremities of shapes and even giving general curves on where normally you could just have it straight so the biggest piece of advice i can give you for this stage is go on the internet pick a picture of an actual boat and try and copy the shape

Using all of the framework that you can so you have one down the middle then two curving around each side and then some decoration on the front and the back and the top those are based mainly on the black pearl from the pirates of the caribbean so as i’m swerving around you

Can kind of get the idea of how this shape works so it’s done now so we need to work on the hull which is the second step so i’m just taking spruce wood and filling in one block behind the frame all of the wood now this part here that

I’m filling in is the easy bit because it lacks shape i mean you can add a little bit here and there with the half slab but for the most part you don’t have to worry this here is the tough bit so i’ve turned it on its side so you can

See the shape of the hull now from the bottom it actually extends quite far out just flatly before curving up into a steep incline you really need to get that good curvature first on maybe just a single layer before you start filling it out because that’s the entire basis

Of this boat shape and you can see that even once i filled it in i keep on editing the hull of the ship just to try and get that amazing shape you need to have the curvature correct if that means taking a step back looking at it editing

It block by block so be it i have to edit mine a lot that curve at the back is really essential for boats because it’s part of that overall shape now you’ll see that i’m only doing half and i did it indeed only do half with the frame that’s because a boat is

Symmetrical and i’m able to use world edit to save myself probably about two hours of time by doing so so i’m just using world edit to flip it over and paste it obviously if you don’t have world edit you just replicate it over on the other

Side no problem and that’s the end of step two fairly easy because it is trying just to fill in the space however you do have to do a little bit of free forming on the bottom of the ship to get that nice curvature and to be honest with you

Mine’s a little bit funky on to the next stage which is the mast or should i say masts because you actually need more than one another common problem with people who build boats is they tend to only put one in the middle now that’s okay if it’s a small boat and this

Tutorial slash five steps is designed to teach you the techniques so it doesn’t matter on size too much however you do need to make sure that you have three masks if you have a sizeable ship you can also add those little details at the front i put that under this because it

Is a little extra now the middle one needs to be really tall and the two at the front and need to be a little bit smaller you then just add some very simple log going across where the sails are going to be attached to making sure they’re

Roughly the width of the boat itself so it all matches up really nicely on the top i used a bunch of cobblestone wool and fences just to make it look even taller and you can add a flag on that later if you wanted to so making sure

You get these masks correct will dictate how good the sails look when we get to that in the next stage so the shape that i’m pretty happy with the distance between them i’m also pretty happy with you need to make sure that there is an equal distance between them

Now on to the next stage the sales probably one of the harder parts and i will be going over them because there’s quite a few sales to do so you’ll see plenty of them you need to make it look like they have caught the wind meaning

That they have an arched shape going in the direction towards the front of the boat so it actually looks like it’s being pushed along in some way i like to mix in some gray wool along with the white to make it look a little more weathered now obviously they’re going to

Be different sizes of sales so each one is individually crafted again i’m only doing half to save myself some time but you can see how the shape is fairly consistent with this very x-shaped sail with it connected at the corners and it goes outwards when you go

To the middle once you’ve done that you can either copy-paste it or just replicate it over and there you have it you have a set of sails but something is missing and this is a very important part that people tend to forget a real ship has a load of ropes attached

To all the different parts honestly my anatomy skills on the boat is not great but you can see just by using fence and making it simulate gravity you can start to link up the masts and make it seem a lot more natural on top of that you can

Also make these diagonal fences that you can add those sales that are triangular in between so it actually adds that extra sale that it feels like it’s missing lots of people forget about these sales and again my biggest piece of advice is get a picture of a real

Boat and see how it’s done because people just miss out loads of parts again trying to get that shape but this time a little more triangular and you can get that generally see look at the difference that that has made to the boat in general just adding those

Triangular shapes and i’ll give it a good angle so you can take a look and see how it is done however it is time to move on to the final stage of the build which is of course the details now this is any man’s game but i’m just going to make a few

Recommendations on one side so i’ve got some fences there on the side of the boats some little windows they’re not really called windows on a boat i don’t know i’m adding an anchor here on one side with some iron fences and a pretty cool cobblestone shape really nice to

Only obviously put that on one side adding some cannon holes with some cannons now i only had space to add three because of the shape of my boat if you wanted to have loads of cannons that’s something you need to consider all the way back at stage one when

You’re working out the shape i think that looks fine i could have probably squeezed a couple more in and then just around i’ve added some fences and some more windows and that kind of thing on the back you need to add some glass because that’s typically where the

Captain’s office is now i’m not doing interior that would be hell on earth to do but the boat itself is what i’m really after and you could add some like lanterns hanging over that maybe some like proper walkways is up to you now you can obviously add a ladder with one

Of those lookout towers on the top honestly the anatomy of the boat i i should have probably looked it up before i made this video but i didn’t so you’ll just have to put up with my dumb dumb remarks so once you’ve done that you could go

Down onto the deck add some more fences here and there and just add a bunch of crates and then of course they have this like hold where you can store stuff so you just add a bunch of fences around a hole then you know make a little inlet

Where you can put some uh crates and all sorts and you may have also noticed that i sort of roughened up the uh shape of the deck there and then that’s it the detailing is a very small part of the puzzle i obviously under detailed on this build because i want

You to be more creative than i am being i want you to learn from what i’ve done this is just the five steps on how to make a boat this isn’t you know a block by block tutorial it’s supposed to teach you not show you exactly how it’s done i

It’s very hard to explain but i do get a lot of people saying oh this doesn’t actually tell me how to do it because you’re not giving me dimensions and stuff well that’s not what what i want if you’re after a block by block tutorial giver that’s not me i’m here to

Teach you techniques and how to sort of think like a builder and not just you know mindlessly copy someone because you don’t learn anything that way anyway that’s it for me i worked really really really hard on this video so any sort of love and appreciation would be

Really appreciated by me thank you thank you thank you very much for watching good boy