How to Build EPIC Towers in Minecraft! Builders Academy!

Hello and welcome back to the builders academy here with me lemon slice and today we got a fun one we are doing towers how to build towers how to be creative with them all the different types and shapes you can create and i’m going to be giving you all of my

Best tips for towers so without further ado guys first thing i want to do is say if you’re not subscribed go ahead and do that look at this ratio it’s pretty nasty and also if you haven’t watched the s p go check out the s p

A brand new episode just came out this week without further ado guys let’s get into it and the first thing i’m going to show you is the base of the towers and how to get the shape correct so when one goes to build a tower the first thing you need to do

Is lay out the shape on the ground and what i’ve created here for you is all of the shapes that i have personally used for towers and all of them are great ideas starting with the smallest which is a 3×3 ring of walls and you could even shrink

That down to a 2×2 for a tower and that is the absolute smallest you could go but this is the smallest i like to go and then the 3×3 and then this version of the 3×3 where they’re out one block and this is my personal favorite shape

For towers right there so keep that in mind and then you have the same one with a block in between them and then we have the five by five now this one’s more square and is used in different ways but uh then we have over here have the five with one block

And then we have the enormous big boy right here the big five two one two five whatever you wanna call that that is four absolutely enormous towers and typically i’ll only use this if i’m making the base of the tower really large and then put something like

This in the middle and then shrink it down to the smaller one like this and have it like a tiered tower if you want to take a quick screenshot i would right here and i’ll even fly over top so you can get the correct dimensions so here’s

All of the nice little shapes that you can use for towers so today i’m going to be picking a shape and building a tower from top to bottom showing you all of my tips and how to build some of the tricky things like roofs and other towers sticking out of them

And stuff like that guys so first off let’s pick a base shape which is the first step you should take when you’re making a tower as i said before this one right here is my favorite so that’s what i’m gonna use and we’re gonna start over here

Facing this way and i’m gonna use this same shape so one two three and then diagonal three diagonal three again and right there we have the base of the tower the next thing you do is bring your tower up and right here i brought it up about 15

More blocks so right here we have the cylinder layout for our tower the next thing that you need to do is you need to make the bottom of the tower a little bit bigger than the rest so there’s three things you can do here to make it look

Bigger the first one is you can just outline the base of the tower with stairs which i will show you in a second the second is you can use some plants like this make some planters all around the bottom and stuff like that and the third

Is you could do some kind of design with stone have it come up and do all sorts of crazy things so let me show you a couple of those examples on my tower so here’s our first example and obviously the easiest one but it also works really well so there you go

Just stairs all the way around the base and the bottom and it looks really good and does exactly what we want open up the bottom a little bit wider than the top example number two is the plants and right here is an example of the planters and stuff you could make

Obviously you can make different looking ones in this don’t even use wood you could use hoppers and stuff or cauldrons to hold your leaves but i think this looks decent and again it works well exactly what we’re trying to get done but guys my favorite way to go about it is just

Like this just make some interesting mosaics stone-ish kind of stuff and the way i start doing this is i just start placing some stuff like this use some walls maybe put some stairs in there like this maybe i’ll put another stair in the middle and then some

Slabs on top and then you just kind of start copying this around to all of the sides and then do something similar on the corners for example the corners are just a block a wall and a slab and the front is just this strange little design i

Came up with and when you pull away it looks really nice from all sides and it makes the bottom go wider so for today i’m going to be using this one and for all of these guys you’re also going to want to add an entrance so we can just pop out all of

These just like this add in an upside down stair there and we can go ahead and put our door right there there we go now we have a door in and we have the base wide so the next step guys is the windows and i’m going to give you

Some tips for windows and decorations like that so i’ve covered a bunch of different window designs that i’ve used in the past and the simplest one is stair stair and then windows in between and that one’s super easy and simple and it looks decent then over here it’s the same

Thing just with some trapdoors or you could even do slabs and then some open fence gates in the middle over here we have some trap doors on the outside of two stairs just like that and how you do this is just put blocks in the middle and trap doors on

The outside and that one also looks really nice from all angles so those are some of the simple ones and now we’ll move on to more of the wide interesting ones and right here is the classic the stairs stairs and fences in between and this is just

Like this two upside down ones and a normal stair in the middle and this is my favorite the classic and you can even add another stair on the top and the bottom to make it just a little bit larger and look a little bit cooler so there you go

And then over here we have something incredibly similar except the stairs are facing a different direction and it’s three tall you’re doing wall fence wall just like that and you could do this on that one just make it one taller but this one’s also another cool design

Finally guys you can even use lecterns they look so cool as like a little railing with posts and stuff and i think using them for windows looks really nice as you can see right here so this is the window design i chose to go with and once you do that you can

Also add in some decorations maybe you want to add some hanging leaves or some hanging plants or something like that you could even take chains right here and maybe your walls and you can do something like this i’ve done this before where you put a wall and then a chain

Running up the corners of this piece right here and once you get all the way to the top you can do the same exact thing where you just place down a wall to hold it in place like that and a full block block on top and you can do that on all sides

Just to give a little bit more detail on the sides of your building if you want to do that and i know i’ve been talking fast and talking a lot but hopefully you are getting a lot out of this learning how to build towers but next thing we’re going to do is talk

About how to make the roof because i feel like that’s where a lot of people fall short so the things that i use for my roofs are going to be stairs and slabs to outline it which is going to be spruce because that’s the color i’m using sometimes i’ll use trapdoors and i’ll

Show you on what and then you need at least one roof color and maybe two would be better if they complement each other and here’s an example of some of the great two color combinations using mostly terra cotta and then some wool also but these all look really nice and can be used

Together for roofs of towers finally guys you’re also gonna need an anvil a wall a fence and an iron bar now if you’re in survival and you can’t afford the anvil don’t use it you can just use a wall or a block but for the walls and the fences

Guys make sure they do match your build in the way that they’re supposed to and also make sure you get either an iron bar or a chain for the very tip so we go up to the top of the building and the first thing i like to do is bring

One slab out from all of the sides of the tower just like this and go all the way around doing this once you have that you can either leave it like that or choose to place one more block out and this is typically what i do just to create a little bit of

A different shape but it looks good if you don’t as well next it’s time to start building up the tower so i’ll just take one of my terracotta colors and i’ll go all the way around just like this and what you need to think about is it sloping so right now

We have it just like this a small one so what i’m gonna do is leave these corner ones at this height and bring the rest of the other ones though up one block just like this and now we can take a step back and think about what we want

This to do so now what i want this to do is probably come up one in all of the middle blocks but then all the other ones we’re just going to bring in one instead just like this and then up just like that now we could

Take another step back and take a look at it and i think it looks nice we’re gonna do the same exact thing though we’re just gonna make sure we have one on the very tip here like this and then bring it up a little bit more

So you can see we have this shape here so we’re gonna bring it up maybe two and then you can take a step back and look at it and you can say yep that’s looking good i think what we want to do is now just bring it into the middle

And go up three with that and we take a step back and boom look at that that’s perfect now i see a lot of people leaving their towers a little too stubby so if you accidentally notice yourself doing this what you need to do is bring it all up

Taller so for example if i think this is too stubby i can bring this whole layer up one block and this whole layer up two blocks for example and then bring this one to three tall and i can take a step back you see there we go the tower’s a little bit

Taller and then i want to add a block on each side just like this whoops and there we go now the tower’s a little bit taller and less stubby than it was before so now underneath the top right here what i want to do is cover up this pink

Piece right here so i’ll put a stair typically just like that on all of my sides of the tower and then to decorate a little extra more if you want you can add another slab or something but honestly i think it looks fine with just that next another thing you can do

Is replace a stair here and on top of every block put a stair just like this a stair on top of every block and then on every flat facing side put a trapdoor and this will create a cool line going up the side of the tower and if we do

This on every side it’ll make it look really really fancy because it’ll have this line going up and make it look like the tower is being held in place almost so let’s just take a look with those two and you can see exactly what i’m talking about there so

Now comes the very top and what we’re going to do is anvil wall fence and iron bar and that just creates a nice sloping point right there and boom the tower roof is looking really awesome but now it’s time to mix in our secondary color if you are using a secondary color

And you just go around and kind of place it in there make sure it’s not too polka dotty make sure it’s somewhat grouped up just a little bit because you don’t want it to look too spotted and boom there we go a little bit of texture and variation and we’ll even do one

Right there as well so boom there we go the top of the tower is looking gorgeous so you know how to make the shape of the tower you know how to make the base wider you know what kind of windows to make and you know how to make

A beautiful roof on the tower and the last thing i want to show you is how to make another second little tower coming off of it i’m not sure what it’s really called i’ll pop a picture on screen right here of what exactly i’m talking about but

Let’s teach you how to do it so first off pick the side you want it on and you’re probably going to have to knock out your window and then next what you want to do is just kind of create a little almost staircase kind of arm coming over to where you want your

Tower to be and i think just about there is good so now what we can do is connect it up like this and then we want to add a little bit of detail so i’ll put a stair here and replace this with a stair and then put another stair under there

And then i can even do something like this to create extra detail right there boom and boom perfect and now just a little bit of detail something fancy coming out of it and now we start actually building the tower so the way i do this is i just create a little

Three by three just like this this is a perfect size for the tower and i’ll bring it up maybe two blocks just like this and then i’ll bring it down another one or two blocks underneath and bring it to a point using stairs like this underneath i’ll also put a wall

A fence and that may be an iron bar but i think it’s fine just like that and then at the very top we’ll do a roof similar to the exact same way we did it up here so there we go the simple roof on there

As well and you can do the trap door and or stairs on this also but finally i like to pop in a little window right here and you can even add in stairs on the top and the bottom let me do that real quick this one’s gonna go here and then this

One’s gonna go underneath just like that and there we go another secondary tower coming off of the one we already have and what a beautiful tower we have created so thank you guys so much for watching today’s episode of the builders academy and hopefully these tips

Help you out i tried to give you everything i could possibly think of that have helped me in the past with my towers and if you do make some cool towers send them over in the discord it’s also rate my build section of the discord where you can toss in your builds and

I’m going to be doing a video rating people’s build so go ahead and do that that’ll be a really fun video to create and if you’re not subscribed and you’ve made it this far in the video what are you doing you should subscribe and i’ll see you

Guys next time on the builders academy don’t forget to check out the smp and peace out it’s been lemon slice