How to Build a Custom Mountain in Minecraft

[Applause] What’s going on everybody it’s your buddy mog swamp with another terraforming tutorial and this time we’re gonna be doing a tutorial on how to make a mountain and to switch things up we’re actually gonna do this in survival mode uh because i need to build

A mountain so i can just kind of kill two birds with one stone here so as you can see the very beginning step is already in progress which is making a skeleton of your base or excuse me of your mountain now one of the ways i go

About planning exactly where i want the mountain to go is by utilizing the maps in the game so as you can see i’ve got a map here made of my world and i went ahead and took a screenshot of this and then i drew on top of the screenshot

To figure out exactly how i want the mountain to look from above with a bird’s eye view and then i tried to match it as best as i could and this was my first attempt here and i actually went back and adjusted it to be a little

Bit skinnier to match my drawing and just to show you guys what it looks like now let’s actually go ahead and update the map real quick alrighty so we can see the updated map here with all of my lines starting to fill in and what i’m doing is just

Basically creating a 3d skeleton that i will then go ahead and fill in and you can see um with the adjustments i made i got a lot closer to my original drawing that i did on top of the screenshot so when you’re gonna go ahead and do

Your skeleton just try and create little variations as best as you can to make it seem really organic and uh don’t be afraid to put little flat areas that will eventually become cliffs like we did in our cliff tutorials and really just try to make it as random and sort

Of natural as you can because if you just build like a giant sort of pyramid or cone shape like this it can get really boring so you can see uh this mountain was actually created by pouring lava and water on top of each other in secession until i had a giant cobblestone mound

But the downside is that it looks very plain so i’ve had to come in here with tnt to sort of add more variation to the more plain parts of the mountain so i think i’ve said about all i can say uh without just showing you guys the

Process so i’m gonna go ahead and try and build up this skeleton now So Do [Applause] So All righty guys that did not take too too long i hope you enjoyed the time lapse so as you can see i have created just sort of a net or like a spider web of lines that help me visualize where all of the blocks are

Going to go when we fill this in so the next step would basically be to just go and fill this all in with dirt you don’t have to go to this level of subdivisions as i did if your mountain’s a little more straightforward or if you just have

A very very good idea of how you want things to go you can definitely do less subdivisions but i find that it’s a good way to create variation you’ll notice that on these lines going across i’ve put in like little little wiggles and divots and that’s the

Stuff that’s going to start to inform the the mountain’s shape once you start filling this all in because the next row above here is going to follow the same curve and you’ll end up getting some really natural looking variations so that you’re not just going straight diagonally up and you’ll notice once in

A while i’ll put in clips like this so if we fly over here i’ve got this one part that’s straight like that so we can do a little overhang and have a more steep part of the mountain and i’ve got a bunch of cliffy areas over here if i

Stand down here you can sort of tell that i’ve mapped out a cliff very similar to what we did in our cliffs tutorial but again you can add less subdivisions more subdivisions uh you can go really crazy with it whatever is most helpful to you to be able to

Visualize the shape of this mountain and for this particular mountain i think the level that i chose is just about perfect i’m i’m very confident now that i can go in and fill this in and i’ll have a really good idea of where all the blocks need to go uh this next

Step is gonna take a long time honestly it’s something i enjoy a lot in this game and hopefully you guys can find some enjoyment in this process as well so i’ll do a little bit more time lapsing just so you can sort of see how i go about filling in

These little sections here and yeah hopefully you enjoy all right so diving into the time lapse here we’re just going to go line by line or level by level and connect the two sides together of these little shapes we’ve laid out for ourselves and sometimes it helps to

Pick like a cluster to work on you’ll see i’m working in this one little alleyway going all the way up to the top there i recommend flying away frequently just so you can get like a bird’s eye view and make sure everything looks nice and organic and i will just say that

This is sort of an endgame project so you’re going to want to make sure you have an elytra a shovel with mending on it probably efficiency 5 and all the shulker boxes you need because otherwise it’s just going to take forever so whenever you run out of dirt go mine a

Couple shulker boxes full and then fly back and it’ll just make it a lot faster when i get bored of placing dirt sometimes i like to work on these cliffs and you can see i’m hiding lights in there with the moss carpet and the cliffs are just something that breaks up the terrain

Really really well i recommend checking out the cliffs tutorial we did and just seeing the tips we had in there and you can see i’m breaking it up even further by just sort of using like a beachy base for these cliffs which gives it sort of

Like a more tropical feel and i even build a palm tree in a second here just to give this part of the cliffs a more beachy feel um for the more steep parts of the mountain you’ll notice i i definitely place like stone andesite cobble um even a little bit of basalt and

Acacia to sort of make it feel more rocky and yeah i would recommend doing that anywhere where the dirt would otherwise be too tall so in other words if you’ve got any sections of dirt that are two blocks tall you can knock out the bottom block and replace it with any

One of those blocks from your stone color palette this is one of the more tedious processes you can see here i’m spreading moss with bone meal and then i have to go back in once i’ve got a really big patch and clear out some of the grass and the bushes because by

Default it’s just a little bit too much and a way to speed that up is by pouring water like you can see there it just clears it all out nice and quickly for you um so then i go back to working on the back side here which is a little bit

Steeper so you’ll notice it’s a little bit rockier we’re replacing our too tall dirt with the rocks as you can tell and when it gets nighttime sometimes i like to take a break just go light things up with glowstone because eventually the mobs get really annoying so you can see

I’m placing the glowstone there and then hiding it under the moss carpets which is a really great effect and uh yeah i’ll show you a little bird’s eye view here it’s pretty satisfying to watch but you can just sort of see the way i go back and forth almost like a 3d printer

And just fill this mountain in and again i just recommend flying away as much as you can to get a fresh perspective on it make sure everything looks organic nothing looks too awkward or you don’t have any weird like sharp bends in the mountain that just look unnatural

But other than that yeah it’s just very helpful to work in those clusters like i said top to bottom sometimes or bottom to top and wherever the mountain starts to get really steep you can just build in one of those cliffs to break it up a little

And i think it’s a really nice effect you could totally make your mountain a little bit rockier than mine but i was just going for a sort of grassy effect i’m gonna put spruce trees on there and i think it’s gonna look really cool man this looks so sick yeah this is awesome

So yeah you can see the end result here um there’s obviously a bunch more work i can do a bunch more work to do like i said i want this to sort of be a forested grassy mountain you can do a way more rocky mountain and let me just

Show you sort of over here um what i’m talking about this area i wanted to be a little bit stripped bare just a more rockier area of the mountain you could feasibly do a whole mountain like this just using the same block pallet and if i sort of fly away you can almost

Envision how that would look to just do a whole mountain in this style but for what i’m going for i just want certain areas to be a little bit rocky but mainly i wanted a super grassy almost hilly mountain and we’re going to cover it with spruce

Trees i’ll show you the mountains i previously built in this world over here um which have a good amount of those custom spruce trees on them and uh this is about what i’m going for maybe a little bit more dense than this but um yeah we’ll put little buildings on it

For the most part this is done again uh just gotta go back in with the moss finish lighting everything up and then there’s also uh the shore eventually i wanna dig this all down and make like a proper lake bed for all of this and so obviously we’re going to

Need to transition from this grass into the the seabed and there will probably be a little beach area and ashore i’m going to try and do some rocky shores along this thing but i wanted to keep this tutorial a little bit straightforward because all those other details i’m talking about are sort of

Specific to me and this mountain and what i’m going for and i wanted this to be more of a general guide that you could sort of fit to your style of mountain so maybe you have a rockier mountain or you’re doing some crazy color palette stuff or maybe it’s like a

Volcanic sort of mountain i don’t know i don’t judge i just wanted to keep this super open-ended so that you could sort of apply your own flair and your own block palette to it and uh yeah do it how you want it make it your own guys before we end the tutorial

Let’s go ahead and update our map here so that we can see what all that hard work looks like from above so let’s go ahead and uh let’s see i’ll look right at the green dot and switcheroo tada dang that looks really cool

Yeah this is so cool wow i uh i hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial thanks for joining me on this little adventure and uh yeah if you liked seeing this world check out my uh super flat survival let’s play it’s on this world and i’ve

Been working on it for a very long time so yeah uh check that out and otherwise just look forward to more terraforming tutorials definitely leave a comment if you have any questions at all or if you have an idea of a tutorial you want to

See in the future and uh make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it alright guys see you in the next one later [Applause] You