Grian – Minecraft Animal Pen Ideas!

Hello my name is green and today i’m going to be showing you how to make animal pens in minecraft these are all based around survival meaning the animals cannot actually get out so as you can see i’ve got a bunch of designs most of them on the wooden side so this

One is completely made out of just log and it’s an irregular shape but also a little bit ovular and as you can see on the floor there is a nice texture to make it look like the animals have actually lived in there for a while

So all you have to do with this is take oak wood and make a rather irregular shape it doesn’t have to be a perfect circle in fact if it was a perfect circle it might look a little bit unnatural so as you go around just take

A quick look at the general shape you’re going for and try and make it a little bit irregular it honestly doesn’t matter too much so as you can see i randomly sort of placed the blocks around the next step is to just raise up the blocks every so often

Raising one a bit higher and one a bit lower as long as every single one is at least two blocks high the animals won’t be able to escape and that’s what’s important here just making the animal pen look good and functional you can obviously make this larger if you want

But honestly this design works in a size about this sort of size so if you made it larger it might look a little bit out of place and too dominating in your scene so as you can see there’s a few bits of decoration using slab and fence and all

You do is go around and every so often add a fence or add a slab on top of one of the logs or two or three or however you want and that’s kind of the general idea you go around and do that and then add a easy spruce fence skate and there

You have it there’s your design i didn’t finish the whole thing because i’m sure you got the idea by now so yeah keep it that size if it’s too big it’s going to look too dominating you might want to make multiple of them to make it work

For all of your animals and then of course if you want to make it look like the animals are actually you know living in there you can take some pods or and some coarse dirt and just add it in the bottom and it just makes it look like

They’ve been treading there you know and defecating there and whatever else and that’s just the idea of getting the texture you just add them completely randomly not too much not too little uh you get the idea very very simple stuff and then you have the entire thing made

Except i didn’t finish the entire thing i’m just showing you how to make them so next up is quite an unsightly design however it is very very functional the idea behind it is just a carpet on top of a fence and it’s done and but the difference

Here is you can actually jump over this you don’t need any gates so the animals can’t get out because it’s technically a fence block but you can jump on it because of the carpet giving you that little boost up very handy next up we have a design

Which is very similar to the first one with a few key differences just it being meta made out of fence not everyone has access to as many log blocks as i do in creative which is infinite so you might want to just decorate a normal fence gate pen

And just add some coarse dirt and podzol again and then in the middle you might want to add some wheat blocks as well as well as a cauldron if you want to decorate it again this is not necessary it’s all things that might help improve the build in some way we’re trying to

Create an atmosphere but also something very efficient and functional so essentially all we’re doing is placing lots of fence blocks and putting fence blocks on top of fence blocks just to give it that extra dynamic detail nothing too special and then adding more pods all just to make it look like it’s

Lifting obviously i haven’t added any animals in here that’s for you to do these are just designs on how to make animal pens and as you can see i’ve done half and we’ll move on to the next one which is obviously kind of similar except this time we’ve used logs in a more

Neat way of detailing it and then we add a slab on the top just to detail it a little better and you just do two and then another two and add a slab on the top honestly this is a very very simple design i don’t expect any of you to

Struggle with this but i think it actually looks really nice it’s very reminiscent of sort of stereotypical western style uh the big posts with the fence around it and again i’ve only done half but you get the idea that you can add a fence gate in at any point and

What’s great about all of these designs is it’s a little bit copy paste you can do whatever you like whatever thing but they fit into any shape you don’t have to make it a perfect circle in fact i recommend that you don’t as i said before but they honestly work at any

Shape so you could make a square one but you might want to consider doing a more irregular shape and as you can see i’ve done half there and it’s pretty much finished and you know you can you can work out the rest i’m sure you’re clever enough to build

It and this one however is a little bit more complex if you want a real build you can make an animal pen with a bit of a roof perhaps this is more of a horse stable and you can see here that the design is very very simple we’ve utilized the

Design from the last when using the log and the slab but this time made it a bit more uniform and given it a roof and hey and more details so as you can see i’m just laying out some log on the floor in the same square pattern it’s actually

Very simple nothing that’s that different from the last one however if you want to make the stable bit at the back there’s a little bit more building involved you’ll want to raise your frame up a few more blocks five or six blocks will do and then

You’ll see that we want to put just a roof over the top so that it’s nothing more than supported roof just the frame and the roof nothing else so once you’ve got your four supports as always we do a little bit of an overhang using stone blocks or rather cobblestone blocks the

Half slab and the staircase do really well here because we want quite a shallow roof i’m just utilizing the half step every time to make sure that it looks very shallow and curved then all you need to do is take your slab block i’ve chosen dark wood because i feel

Like it fits in this scenario a lot nicer than a lighter color however you take whatever you need again just the design process here and you just put them along to cover the entire length of your shed or your stable whatever you want to call it and you can see that

That’s very simply done however you may want to decorate it a little bit further by adding some hay now if you’ve got horses in there that’s a problem because the horses can actually jump on top of the hay block and get out so if you place them on the floor the horses can

Just get out whenever they want so what we do here just to make it look a little bit nicer is just some fence gates or even just some fences just to block them off and it masquerades itself as detail however it’s actually just to stop the

Horses getting out but you may find that animals do find a way out and you have to try and make it so they can’t escape but it still looks good and that’s half of survival building for you trying to work with animals and stuff like that but

Also trying to make it look good and again you can add any of the sort of blocks on the floor to make it look like horses are actually living there and you can make it as wide or as large as possible this is all scalable building

And then you can just add the overhang on the other side exactly mirror what you did on the first side that you did and it’s very simple stuff and then you’ve got a nice little stable nothing too big this is an animal pen and i feel

Like a barn and a shed is its own video and i will be doing one of those in the future but for now just a simple pen like that this is how i would go about it something very very simple indeed and now that we’ve sort of shown this one

This is one of the more complicated ones we’re going to move on to the last one as all of these are sort of wooden based although you could use any other block i’m going to show you one that’s more cobblestone based now there is a reason why all of these are using similar

Blocks that’s because you need the fence blocks and there are only a limited amount of them however the cobblestone is a good alternative and as you can see from the shape that i’ve produced it’s an irregular shape using what looks like a dry stone wall and how you create this

Is fairly simple it’s what i like to call an organized mess you can place a lot of random staircases wall blocks and slabs in a irregular shape much like some of the first designs that i showed you and just keep placing them and then as you go around the hard part about this

Is trying to produce a little pen that animals cannot escape because somehow they always find a way and to make sure that it looks good and that they can’t escape is the challenge here so utilizing the fence blocks and the half slabs you can create these little gaps

In the walls themselves just by adding more of the same kind of blocks so mostly what i’ve done for this wall in particular is just adding slabs on top of staircases and staircases on top of staircases in a very organized mess as i said earlier it’s kind of hard to grasp

This concept and lots of people often think too laterally about this you need to just have a go at it if it doesn’t look quite right it’s by eye a little bit abstract and you’ve just got to play it by ear for every single one

As you can see it kind of looks like a little detailed wall that’s crumbling and stuff but it should function as a proper wall you may need to raise it up a few blocks if you find that your animals are escaping and as you can see

That’s kind of it it’s one and a half blocks thick most of the time and the problems that you may encounter the most is where you have a fence cobblestone block on top of one of the normal ones they hop on the little one and then just

Find their way out so make sure you put half slap on top of every single cobblestone wall that you place and then of course just adding the little messy details inside the pen makes it look a little bit more used that’s probably one of my more favorite

Designs but as you can see all of these designs work as nice decorative pens for animals utilizing wood and fence and all those kind of things as you would expect on a farm and that’s it thank you very much for watching i need to say thank

You again to bot box and add just me and becky chan i think some of my crew members that helped put a lot of these pen ideas together thank you very much for watching good boy