HOW TO BUILD CUSTOM MOUNTAINS : Minecraft Survival Landscaping Guide #3 1.13 Tutorial Let’s Play

Hey everybody and welcome on back to building with whip today we are back here for more survival terraforming I am super excited about this one last episode working on our minecraft survival terraforming guide we built up this awesome looking waterfall here thrown in some cobwebs threw in some custom trees around here

And terraform this area out a little bit down in this area to make it look just so so much better than what our default minecraft terrain looks like originally alongside that we also worked on the river itself up in this area way up here in the sky in our custom training area

We built this entire river area here make it look like it’s dropping off the mountains and not looking like that just default minecraft rivers that are just so freakin flat I hurried we had to get some sort of variation to it some sort of height difference

Something else that we get used to mix it up and thank you all so much for the awesome suggestions down below in the comments on the last ones a lot of people recommended bring in some andesite they’re out here to mix up the stone a little bit more as well as bring

In some mossy cobblestone just to make things just a little bit more interesting as well as bring it in a bit more dirt along the base here to make it look more like a riverbed instead of being so cobblestone II which I think are all great ideas I will say though

The reason I kept a lot of these stone in here is because I want to make it look like the water is moving so fast that all of the dirt is just getting swept out of here and it’s not really able to cover too much because all of

The water is moving and pushing that off the edge so if we look down here however the dirt in this area is pretty much everywhere we have dirt and gravel everywhere along the base of that one especially down there because we haven’t terraform that yet however that is

Enough talking about what we did last episode what we’re gonna be working on today hopefully is making this area over here look a million times better by finishing up the mountains we have this whole thing here that we need to do a heck a lot of work on let’s be honest

This area needs some love we need a lot of love in this area here I think the goal for today is going to be completely finishing up this space of the mountains first what we’re gonna do is we’re in a start by bringing in all of the stone so

That we get a better idea of what everything will look like in this area our to sculpt that stone into the shape of the mountain that we want in here next we’re going to come back in and add in some dirt areas with some grass areas

And things like that so those will get a lot of extra life and love to them then after that we will bring in a lot of our snow that we have up in this area and thankfully we do have a snow farm right

In this area so we can get a heck of a lot of that stuff very very easily but we want to make sure that we actually get snow on our mountains then after that if we have time at the end we’ll start bringing in our texture variation

To the rest of this area which is basically a lot of cyan terracotta light or dark gray concrete powder so I just grit guess gray concrete powder and then these areas are currently cobblestone andesite and stone with a bunch of variety to them as I’ve talked about

This quite a few times the easiest way to build these massive terrain projects honestly is just to tackle them one little tiny bit at a time because there’s so many different things that we could really do inside these worlds so it’s no point in going like totally

Crazy and get way way over the board and like burn yourself out on everything so something that I really love to convey and I really want to make sure that you all cannot can’t understand if you’re thinking about tackling one of these projects it’s just breaking things up

Into little tiny pieces and the same way we did it when building this entire thing it looks like a massive project when we got started as soon as we got that spiderweb network of everything here connected up it turned into a much much smaller way smaller project maybe

Not for real but it looked way smaller and we could actually tackle that one so what I’m thinking we do here is we build up the same type of wireframe pattern that we had previously this way basically doing the lines that are going up the mountain so with that

Let’s kick this off into good old fashioned time-lapse mode and I will catch you on the other side as we start to define these lines going around the terrain I thought it would be really cool to come in here do a time lapse form as you mentioned so that you all

Can see more of this format that I’m going for here I try and really roughly create straight lines and then after about two or three blocks in it like at the same direction I try and look above me see which way is towards like a main point that we’ve already set by chance

Which if your guys are starting from scratch unlike what we have here because we’re building off of something you can easily do that by just taking a pillar of stone going straight up in the sky roughly to however tall you want and then you determine your slope off of wherever you

Start from so like from here we’ve probably moved about fifteen blocks back but we went up about 80 blocks overall in that height change right there which is really really solid it’ll give us a good general perspective but a lot of this is just me messing with it and

Messing with the different heights and everything like that I try to not go everything up to 255 just as a heads up if you’re looking into planning mountains or creating mountains yourself because that is one way to tall into you need to have some room to build stuff on

Top otherwise it can be a little rinky-dinky up there a little difficult to see all of the patterns and the lines and everything like this but one way that I found while running around here though it’s actually really really useful for looking at this is if we come

Over to this side right here and take a look at the general slopes of everything we can really see that mountain II structure there it doesn’t look like it’s gonna be too flat either there’s gonna be a lot of variation to this one which I’m super pumped with I’ve been

Doing a little bit of experimenting here messing around with different shapes to get my brain back around how I used to build these mountains make sure that I can tell you guys more accurately about what we want to be doing here and how we’re going through this whole thing so

I’ve been working on this section right here I think it looks pretty dang good I’m happy with it I think we have enough dirt spots in there to make sure it looks like it’s not just this all giant stone face well we are building mountains here to add in a lot of the

Variety to it so it doesn’t just look like a wall of stone going up at an angle we want to add in a lot of these dirt and grassy outcroppings that we can later bring in some more stone into it now coming down here to show you how

I’ve actually been building these before we jump into a big old time-lapse of me building all this stuff I figured to be good to walk you guys through a little bit what I’m doing down here as like a each little strip that I’m doing what I’ve been thinking about is basically

Following up these guidelines that we created previously and trying to basically take it up halfway to one of them and then take another point be like kay I want to end at that block right there how are we gonna do that how are we gonna make this connection go so

Maybe we jump up here move over like two blocks this way okay now let’s look back up all rights right there we can go back like two blocks right here and then we wanted to come all the way up to this one and then right there to make sure

That this isn’t just Eve like that creating an upside-down T shape maybe we throw that blocking right there as well and then we can literally just do something like that basically we do that about a billion times and our mountains are done so with that let’s jump on over into time-lapse

Mode I’ll catch you all on the other side after getting everything nailed down here for the style that I want to go through we’re gonna go through a pretty sped up time-lapse here just give you a point of reference for how long this took I made it so that every 10

Minutes in the time-lapse are 30 set or 10 minutes in game is 30 seconds on the time-lapse so it gives you a point in perspective here this was about 50 minutes or so roughly to build everything up across this entire area which for this large of a mountain range

Inside of Minecraft granted we already had all the materials built up ourselves really isn’t too long actually and a few things that I wanted to talk about as we’re going across this as I mentioned previously is we want to bring in those dirt spots we bring want to bring in

Those grassy spots where we can really mix things up what we’re gonna be using those who are later is a lot of area where we can throw a bunch of snow in there which we’ll be touching on after we get through this time-lapse here but as we’re working through this whole part

I really want to show you guys here that it’s it is possible to easily do this stuff it’s basically just one strip up and over every single time with the stone just going basically one strip move over to the next side another strip and after we have defined all these

General guidelines that we did previously it makes it so much easier to try and get that general state of mind in there and get that general perspective for what we’re working for here so we can more easily fill in the gaps it’s basically a game of filling in

The gaps so we do all the hard work up front by creating those weird shaped lines making sure everything in there looks more diagonal kind of wishy-washy in which ways they’re going nothing is going in a directly straight line which then forces us when we’re filling in the

Gaps later on to continue that pattern when then we’re able to create this really cool really natural-looking really messed-up it doesn’t look like this area is flat at all it doesn’t look a man-made which is great it doesn’t look like those typical Minecraft mountains where it looks like somebody

Basically just turned a bowl upside down and maybe extended it up a little bit there off of the top and just kind of did like building it one ring at a time basically a ring a ring a ring and making them smaller as you go up creating that kind of weird mountain

Bullsh á something or another I don’t really know even how people do that but this is a great way here to make it much more natural there are a few parts that I do want to tweak and one thing that I did want to mention kind of that I’ve talked about

At that t-shape previously where I was trying to basically show that we don’t want to have that upside-down tea we want to mix it up so that on one side we have a drop off two blocks on the other side we have a drop off one block and by

Basically carbon copying that pattern throughout this entire area making sure that we don’t have two areas anywhere right next to each other that are the exact same it gives an illusion that the entire area across this entire thing is really really mixed up so just following that simple pattern of upside-down teas

Without like the actual tea shape to it I don’t know what it would be called but without we’re able to create this area being so so cool without too much working and without too much crazy thought in it either at all basically alternating in that pattern going all

The way up we were able to come up with something pretty dang cool as cool as this thing look during the time lapse it is so so much more epic down here on the ground our giant mountain here is now complete on this side going throughout which is

Looking so freakin cool I’m very very happy with the end result of this one I did stop bringing it over to this side just because of the time constraint that were running on now and I wanted to get moving into the next steps of this and

Plus I do want to bring in that quarry area into this rough vicinity right in there so I didn’t I wasn’t too sure on how I want to do the mountains and there yet so for now we’re gonna leave that off but what we want to do next is we

Need to transfer all of this grassy area that we have in here over into being snowy because obviously we’re in the mountains here we need some snow and after that what we’re going to be doing is we’re hopefully going to be bringing in our concrete like gray concrete

Powder as well as our cyan terracotta and here to make that stuff look so much more interesting through there I don’t know if we’ll get the texture variation done for the stone part where basically we have this concrete terracotta II part and then we also have the stone part

Which is andesite and calm and cobblestone mixed up in there I don’t know if I quite have time to get all of that stuff done and I do want to make sure I get this video out to you guys in a timely manner it’s supposed to be

Going out tomorrow at this point we still got a lot of work to do and I have to go to work so down here we have our hidden snow farm with our lovely lovely redstone design right there and if you all are ever thinking about building up a custom mountain range find somewhere

Where you can throw a snow farm right next to it’s basically what we can do is just come in here break up all these guys and get a bunch of stuff out of here I have been doing a bit of the grind work already so we have a lot of

The stuff in here already ready to go so we got all that good stuff a lot of snowballs and a lot of snow layers if you break it with a silk touch pickaxe you will get the snow layer if you break it with a fortunate ruble you’ll get

Snowballs also down here I do have a large number of snow blocks themselves so what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna bring out 12 stacks of the snow blocks basically we’re gonna fill our inventory here with the rest of the snow snow layers that we can and go do some

Building all right we’re gonna do a bit of a before and after area here because I think this is the best way to see this just from a quick transition point of changing all this stuff out from being grass into being snow it instantly makes this area feel so much more on the

Mountainous side of anything right now we have this down here and we have this right here what we’re basically going to be doing just to give you a rough idea before I jump into it is coming through here and just basically going like this all the way throughout just filling in

Snow blocks all over the freaking place and basically you’re placing this top layer of dirt that we had selected that we had placed down just allow it to be a lot more interesting and then we come back in with some snow layers right along here I guess we can actually leave

Those middle ones in there we just need to do the ones that’ll be revealed right there because without Optifine we would be seeing basically I’ll show you guys right here so with Optifine we see that without Optifine we would see that so the mountain would look a little weird

On the side if we didn’t have these big ol snow blocks going across the entire area so I’m gonna go ahead and do this here for a bit and with that our top area is now complete and it’s looking pretty freaking awesome remember this a minute ago quickly jump back in the

Video take a look at this beforehand and compare it to now that is awesome I’m so happy with this there is one little part over here that it looks like I missed though is we need to now to show you guys how we do this one is basically we

Take every block of dirt or grass that would be revealed up here at the top it’s gonna change as we get down below and we want to have some of that dirt showing through and make it look like the snow is not consistently all the way

Down there to the base because that area is not going to be covered in snow so we don’t want that mountains to just have snow all the way down then randomly nothing we want to have a transition period so what I like to do is I like to base

Fill it in like this and then dot on a few of the top of these ones I want to daunt in a few bits of our snow layers just again help break it up a bit more we nee actually need to get you back and then build you right there and then we

Could do something like this and now this one here it doesn’t have a facing block like it doesn’t have a front face – it only has the top so we can just fill that in purely with snow layers right there then that allows us to come

Through this area again and just do BAM all the way down here taking this stuff all the way down to the bottom of where our line is for now now this one is a bit on the taller side so I’m actually thinking down here let’s go ahead and

Leave that just as our dirt block to have a little bit of dirt showing through here so it looks like we have a bit more color variation to the top and so this just being snow all the way up here at the top now that one was a small

Skinny strip so maybe we’ll do the top of this one here together as well just to show you all so we’re gonna be starting here like this and you do get a little bit of lag when you’re filling in that darker darker area down below and the lighting updates go through I heard

Rumors in 1.14 that this is gonna be fixed now in here we basically filled in snow blocks in this entire area it looks a little lame with just being the blocks themselves so if we bring in a lot of these snow layers we can actually mix

This up quite a bit here and maybe we bring that one up almost to a half slab height I love having the layer blocks I wish we had more of these if we had like a sand layer oh man I would be so all over that but we don’t have that right

Now so we’re gonna work with what we can here and then just go like this guy Bam Bam right there I was thinking though like would what if we could have layer blocks of any type of block in the game what do you guys think would be the best

Outside of snow I know a lot of people probably would want to see like grass or sand or maybe like a dirt layer I personally think I would want to see the sand layer as I mentioned then maybe also like gravel I feel like gravel would probably be my number two

Definitely above the grass layer gravel would have way higher priority there because I feel like grass layers would be cool one I feel like that’d be like over detailing rows if we have the blocks that are at least affected by gravity having the ability to like spill out

Over things I think that could be pretty dang awesome I typically don’t cover these areas like this stone areas with too much of the snow bits especially because we’re gonna be coming back in and adding some texture variation meaning those would be broken up but

Let’s take a quick fly back here and see what this thing’s looking by inspired by good ol Mambo Joe right here and that is about a million times better you can see the snow channels coming all the way down right through like right there oh man that is

Perfect that is exactly what I want to see now if we jump down into this area where do we start that general area where we have that kind of the snow level we want to have a certain elevation where we start to taper off that snow it looks like that’s actually

All the way up here at like 120 or so roughly we start doing it up here at least with some of these crops with some of the grass bits in there so that’s something that we can keep in mind as we’re working down on this face throughout over in this area so I’m

Gonna throw in a lot more snow around here and I’ll be back all of our snow layers are now in place across the mountain range and it’s looking pretty great I love the additional look that we have going on here it still is looking like that giant stone monolith though

That I really do want to get away from unfortunately though I do need to go farm up a bunch of terracotta so we can do that I did bring in these sections here as well I filled in this area just for bringing a little bit more along the

Top here because I was not wanting to go farm to our kata yet so this thing is in here now as well and it’s looking pretty great I wanted to bring more of the snow channels coming down making it look like we have those erosion lines with some

Stones bits sticking out in between oh and a bit spike here on this area that will allow us to pretty easily cut out this area for what our quarry is gonna be looking like basically we’re gonna have the mountain coming down a bit of the ways and then some very sheer steep

Steep cliffs dropping all the way down to the bottom and then from there we’ll define our quarry area but that’s not gonna be for another week or two while we’re working on that one for next steps on this current project I need to go gather up a bunch of terracotta I figure

Out how we’re gonna turn that all into cyan terracotta as well as get a bunch of gray concrete powder back in our storage room over in papyrus let’s see if we’re lucky at all and scienter cotta no we have seven regular terracotta oh I thought it was gonna be a full shocker

We got 17 stacks or 17 more how many are in here we almost got a full stroker box the Terra Cotta if we add everything in there together I think we do need to go do a bit of mining session up in the Mesa so I’ll probably jump over there

See what’s going on with that one then gray concrete what do we got and it’s all gray concrete we don’t have any powder let’s take a look at our gravel and sand reserves though gravel we are pretty hurting for we don’t have a whole lot there sand I do think we have quite

A bit of the stuff oh yeah were you we’re good to go on stand now cool cool good didn’t know also side note well we’re over here I’ve been working on redoing the sandstone texture so it’s not that smooth sandstone anymore so now we have smooth

Sandstone as a block that we can get in the game so I moved it over to that one and I like this texture a lot let me know what you guys think on that well I’m thinking about it here’s all of our different sandstone textures that we

Have currently so we have danced it on itself right there we’ve got a smooth sandstone and then we got cut sandstone there then we got our chiseled up there with our creeper face and then I’ve also brought the N stone and the end stone brick in here to be this same color

Palette so we got n stone brick and stone right there it’s like a cobblestone II texture let me know what you think on those taking a super quick look at our screenshot of our mountains here this is how I want to bring in that new color bringing in all these

Different variations throughout the entire place I think with that type of a frame we can actually do something really cool in here figure jumping right on the time-lapse or this one would be a great way to go as you can see we’re bringing in a lot of the different cyan

Terracotta as well as the like or gray concrete powder sorry I keep getting that one wrong but what I want to really convey here is that we’re using that dark gray concrete powder or just gray concrete powder whichever you want to call it to make that look like more of a

Darker wetter spot so I’m trying to inlay that in using the cyan terracotta as the primary block in here and occasionally bringing in those dark ones as we get further and further into this one I did start bringing in more of the concrete powder in there because I think

It gave a nice change to everything but overall I’m really happy with the lines we have in this and with that final texture variation added into our beer that is gonna have to do it for today’s episode after that I did come in and bonemeal a few spots around here just

Get a bit of grass growing in here to break things up a bit more and add a little bit more life into this areas feeling very flat and blocky so I want to bring in some grass to add some variation to that one thing I did want

To note here well we’re in first-person mode because you guys probably couldn’t see it too well from the time-lapse is more or less how I’m hiding the gray concrete powder in here it’s basically the under layer of our terracotta blocks well sometimes I’m bringing up as like

Full spikes and things like that I think it worked out pretty well especially up in this area that’s probably one of my favorite parts of it is would be right in here if we can land that maybe we go third-person mode right here and you can see the different ways that the gray

Concrete powder in here is defining the terrain and adding a lot of highlights and dart I guess dark dark contrast bit there let’s let’s go with that being the word anyways I hope you guys all enjoyed the today’s episode looking into all this stuff I do got a comment or

Question the day we’re ready to go hear from the King team why is the V and then King Team it one word I don’t know are you going to do anything with that huge space under there terrain I could totally see some cuff sort of caverns in

There I have been thinking about doing something underneath I was thinking about first starting out with doing like a joke of a series or a small series surviving the dark and basically go down there with some iron tools and a stack of torches and maybe some food and see

How long we can survive and basically see how long we can survive maybe build up a base or something like that underneath the caverns and go with that area though is if you guys have played Skyrim in our familiar with black reach that’s the end goal and wow these

Mountains are looking pretty epic here now that we have this not just a straight line cutting it all off now that they’re drooping all the way down there oh my gosh everybody this is absolutely insane yes the end goal is to turn something into black reach sort of style down

There basically mystical cavern giant mushrooms all that cool stuff so hopefully we can actually make that happen but that is gonna have to do it for today’s episode I’m gonna leave it right here on this view that is just absolutely amazing Liz it that like button if you did enjoy today’s episode

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