How to build a simple Custom Tree [Minecraft Guide]

Hello everyone my name is beagle and welcome to a quick minecraft tutorial video where i want to show you my process behind building custom trees and i want to show you some methods that i compiled over my time building them and also some small tricks that you can use to make

Them look ever so slightly better so this is the type of a custom tree i want to show you how to build today it is a small custom oak tree it has a curved trunk it’s got some branches hidden behind the leaves to add some detail and it’s a overall

Relatively simple tree to build as far as custom trees go and i think it is a very good starting point if you ever want to get into building custom trees so the first thing you want to do is you want to make yourself a trunk that you will be building off of

Now you don’t have to use oak wood you can use all clothes that is totally fine but then be sure to cover up the tops with slabs like this or stairs i’m going to show that in a little bit so make yourself a custom trunk somewhat like this

Is a pretty decent example now by the way this is not a block for block tutorial this is more of a method showing process right i just want to show you how i make them so you can come up with your own ways of making them so to make your trunk slightly more

Curved you can add some stairs here if this is a log you can add a slab here that makes it look slightly better and then you wanna bring up the bark from the bottom or the trunk i should say kinda like this and make it look stable

That is the point of this step of the process now this doesn’t look half bad but this doesn’t look good these slabs being on the same level so what you can do is break this and just have a bark block like that that makes it look slightly better and i

Think i’m happy with this so now i’m just gonna place a few blocks kinda like this it will make it look slightly more natural as you can see makes quite a big difference and you can even go and make some roots coming off of the tree as well so maybe we can

Do something like that maybe something like that that’s pretty good have a stair there and if you really want to go detailed you can put some old clogs in between kinda like this make it look like the roots are indented in the ground let’s add one over here

Yep now this is basically everything you need for your trunk and the bigger you make it the more branches you will be able to fit onto it so usually i do right about four branches coming off of every single side and i use a mix of sprues where are these called fences

Spruce fences and spruce gates and you don’t need to use spruce gates most if you’re playing like on a server and you use spruce gates most likely no one is going to notice but i i do it anyway so we can do something like this just have some branches with smaller branches

Coming off of the sides and you can also curve them once you get comfortable with building trees but this is a beginner’s guide so we won’t be doing that maybe do something like this that’s pretty good and add some small branches here just so you have as many branches as possible

Because we’re gonna put the leaves on them anyway so you won’t be able to see the small parts of them somewhat like this right i think that is a very neat effect that i’m trying to achieve here so we’re gonna have orphans like this and we’re gonna place

Some gates like that yeah the gates add a nice bit of variation make the branches slightly more natural i think this needs slightly more stuff here so we will do that and the neat thing about gates is you can actually place them like this right next to the fences you

Can’t do that with fences because they connect up like this and doesn’t look so good so yeah if you want to have two branches right next to each other this is the way to do it nice okay so this is a pretty solid set of branches we have here i think

So we can move on to placing leaves onto them and the way you do this is you just place leaves on all of the branches from all of the sides don’t forget about the buttons the bottoms are the most important parts because those are the ones that you will be

Seeing the most unless you’re like flying over it with elytra and this will be slightly tricky to do in survival but it is definitely possible it’s just slightly annoying i do recommend either bringing ender pearls or scaffolding of some sort to make this slightly easier for yourself

But yeah you’re just gonna place leaves all over the branches like so and that will give us a good start when it comes to the crown of the tree so i placed all of the leaves and all of the branches and this is the result as of right now

I know very pretty right so we’re gonna try to convert this into something that looks somewhat like this so what you want to do is you want to layer the leaves on top of each other kind of like this and then bring them up towards the middle right

And you can see that we have just a single block here and it’s kind of like a staircase towards the top so we’re gonna do here to kind of negate this is we’re gonna place some leaves kinda like this we’re gonna bring out the middle towards this

Yep yep that looks pretty good and now we have slightly more verticality as well because we need to add more leaves here now we can place more leaves and the more leaves you place the better the tree will look yeah it’s basically impossible to have

Too many leaves on a tree in this game so just to keep placing and keep placing especially on these edges these are usually the most rough looking so you wanna make them look as natural as possible and then you wanna bring out the center towards the sides like so that’s looking pretty decent

Okay so we’re gonna switch our attention to the bottom for a second what you wanna do is you wanna add more weight from the bottom as well and what you can do what i really like doing is you can do this you can kind of do these droopy leaves

So just place like two blocks of leaves all round the thing one two one two and it doesn’t have to be on the edges it can be towards the middle as well one two and that’s looking pretty good this is probably the nicest effect you can do with leaves this drop you use

Yeah that’s not bad at all we need slightly more weight towards the top and i think we’re gonna have one more layer of leaves on the top as well because this is starting to be slightly tall yep that is a nice effect also if you don’t like having

A leaf block kinda stay out like this then you can break the fence behind it and place the leaf block there that is usually a better effect so yeah this is probably the most time consuming process of them all but it’s usually also one of the more fun ones

And try to avoid symmetry and continuity here you can see we have kind of two similar looking blocks there so try and break it up whenever you can so you have the least amount of symmetry possible let’s try breaking this up you can kind of see pattern forming here

Three blocks two blocks one block it’s almost like a pyramid so i’m gonna do this and that is slightly better and just go around your build and kinda add sections to it to make it look more broken up okay we are almost there now another technique you can use i haven’t actually

Used it on that one and you can try to make your leaves kinda like fluffy so what you can do is you can break a block and have a block above it and that kind of looks pretty decent if you have a bunch of them in correct spaces kind of like that

Yeah it does make it definitely look way more natural this is not a easy thing to do and you might fail your first few attempts trying to do this technique but it’s definitely something you should keep in mind when building these things is let’s try doing one here

Let’s get avoid this as well this is kind of like erection rectangle here there we go proper english so just break a block there and it looks way more natural as well maybe let’s break a block here and maybe let’s break one more block over let’s say

I don’t even see a good opening to break another block and congratulations your custom tree is built except there is always room for improvement right so you can do a bunch of fun stuff with foliage and coarse dirt and whatnot around your trees so let me just grab these blocks real quick

There we go maybe one of these one of these and one of these oh okay and what you can do is you can put coarse dirt below it now usually in real life there is slightly less grass below the trees because the leaves take up all of the sunlight

And it’s slightly dimmer underneath the trees so this also does kind of make sense if you’re building slightly more realistic trees that is something you could keep in mind just place some coarse dirt around it will also make the tree look more natural in its position it’s not gonna look like you

Just placed it there right it’s gonna look like it actually grew there so it’s a nice effect maybe one there and maybe one there and also you can place some rocks around it just to break up all of the brown so you have a whole green section and a whole brown section

And a gray section will just add some variety to your build so let’s do something like that that’s not bad at all i like that and you can also place some grass and ferns around if you’re doing survival i don’t recommend placing tall grass because store grass and survival is the devil

But small ferns and small grass always work really well i think so let’s just place those all around we need some more coarse dirt here and if you want slightly more color you can go for brown mushrooms now you need a low light level to place these so you need to be

Careful where you can place them i i can’t place it here but i can place it here right they kind of look like one of those mushrooms that grow on the sides of trees if you kind of let your imagination takeover yeah and that is basically all you need

To build some small custom beginner custom trees i really like these things i built them a lot and i hope you learned something from this video and that now you can kind of grasp the theory behind building this so yeah i hope you enjoyed the video have a wonderful rest of the day

And i will see you in the next one bye