How to Build This Large Statue in Minecraft

Hello everybody it’s me major graft and welcome back and today we are doing a much requested feature we are finally going to be doing a tutorial for this angel statue that has taken pride of place in the gardens of my cathedral here as you can

See for a very long time we’re going to be showing you how to make this and as a bonus we’re going to be giving you some ideas if you don’t want to do a boring old stone statue for all of the different alternatives you can try out

So the first thing we’re going to need is a base and that’s really simple we are going to just use these here and do a three one one and then three to make a circle like that so one one three one one three one one and then we’re going to come up two

In the next layer like that really simple and there we go once you’ve done that you’re just going to finish off with some stairs all the way around like so it’s a bit fluffy but you know how to do this so in and out and in and out like that

All the way around until you’ve completed the entire of your base now you can of course seal this up completely if you want it will just matter what block you use for this bit because it’s not going to get seen but it might make the next step a little

Easier to do now you’ve got your base in i thought the most straightforward way of showing you the body shape and all of the different blocks is actually to do it in stages and layer it up one by one and just to make sure that you put each

Layer on the right position on the one below it i’ve put a reference slat a reference block here so that you know where each one sits so as long as you pillar up on that same one for each one you’ll see there there and there and so on

And make them go the right amount forward from that i’ve put in blocks so that you can see them really easily that block there corresponds to exactly the middle block right in front there so your first layer layer number one if you put two blocks up and then start

Building forward from there that is layer number one then we go up one that’s layer two or one that’s layer three and so on and that will get you all the way up to layer 23 there’s 23 full lays that i’m going to show you right now

So here we go as i said i’ve laid out all 23 layers one at a time here so if you want to build this all you’re going to need to do is pause every time you see a new number pause build that and then move on to the next number and then

Pause and build that i know it’s going to take a little while but this was far less painful than going through each layer on the video which would have made the video like i don’t know 40 minutes long and nobody wants that so hopefully you can follow this through watch out

For what block types are being used you will notice that on a lot of delays there is cobble that was just there from actually building it by hand in the first place so you can miss out the cobble entirely if you want you can

Leave it in if you want it might help if you’re building that in survival it depends if you’re doing it in survival or creative but once you’ve got all 23 layers in you should have the entire body from the bottom of the gown all the way up to almost the shoulders and then

We will put the shoulders and head on afterwards and if you’ve followed all of those steps nicely you should have this which is looking quite like what we’re aiming for but we need to finish this off and we need to do head and shoulders and wings and they’re really easy we’re

Gonna do the head and shoulders first we’re gonna do two and then three like that and we’re gonna come in at the sides and pop in those like there and then we’re gonna get some andesite and do two rows of three either side and then you can choose whatever you like uh

And i just used something different here just to put the texture up you could use some underside stairs if you wanted your choice and you just do two that way and then one that way and there we go now i told you wrong actually you need a

Three by two there and one more sticking out that way and then what we’re gonna do is the middle two here we’re gonna do upside down stairs like that one there and one there like that and once we’ve got to this bit we’re gonna take our

Cobble and go to three more up we’re gonna do that all the way front to back like that and then we’re going to put three more there like that let’s add the sides of the heading now we’re going to carry on with cobble on top of these upturned stairs you’re

Gonna go three up all the way and then in the middle so there we’re going to put one there like that then we can come back in with our couple stairs we’ll come back in with those couple stairs we’re going to do an upside down one there and right on there

And then we’re going to flip that around and do the exact same thing on this side and now as you can see we’ve got the shape of the head coming on nicely we just need to put some features on the front so we’re going to come here and

Not on the first block with the second block we’re going to do an upturned stair there like that then we’re going to miss one out there and on this level we’re going to do a normal one like that and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to come

Down here and we’re going to put an upside down one facing outwards like that and like that which just makes the eye sockets as you can see it gives a suggestion of a face without being too detailed the problem with uh minecraft is that even at this scale if you try and put

Detail like a nose on it does look a bit silly as you can see so less is more when you’re detailing a statue like that and then on top we’re just going to finish that off with the crown and pop in two more like that we’re going to come

In with the stone bricks we’re going to do a horseshoe shape like that one more there and then pop in and stare and stare and that’s it all done our last and final job then is to get these wings on and as you can see they are actually you know what maybe a

Little bit dragon like rather than angel like i don’t know but i like them either way i hope you guys do too and they are really quite simple despite them looking a little bit complicated maybe we’re going to start at the back here and we’re going to build this

H shape and then you can see the stone bricks form essentially three lines one up here and then one down to the middle of the wing and then one defining the outside of the wing and then once we’ve got those three in we’re going to fill in the

Stuff in between which in this instance is the cobble so on the back of our statue we’re going to start here with a stone brick where this cobble is we’re going to pop one in there and then two each side like so now on this video i’m

Just going to do one wing obviously you’re just going to mirror that exactly to the other side you can pop in two down either side we sort of make a h shape if you like there and that’s where things start so then to start making these wings

We’re gonna go here and go one up and one out and then take that out there and then we’re going to go one out this way and then two more like that take that out so that’s where we’re starting with here and then we’re going to go

Diagonally one back and one across so if we go one two and then place that there we can take those out like that see see what i mean like that diagonal and then that’s gonna go three up like that then off the back of that we’re gonna do

Another diagonal move so one and then two and then put your block in like that so again one more diagonally backwards and this one’s going to be a three as well like that and then just to finish off to the point we’re gonna go straight in front of this block and one

Up take that out and then make it up to two like so and that’s the first of our three lines done so our next line starts here and what we’re going to do is we’re going to pop a block in there and then come out one to the side and then get

Rid of that like that so we’re essentially we’re starting down this line instead of this line now then we’re going to come under here and do one out and then take that out this is going to go down five like like that that’s five and then on the

Same row we’re gonna take it one down and one out and take that there and this time we’re going to go down six so that’s four five six like so and then this is going to start curving back in so we’re going to do another one of these diagonal moves here so

One there one there and then one there and then we can take those out like so you can see these diagonal moves that we’re doing here this one’s going to be four down like that then we’re going to do another diagonal move like that take those out and that’s

Going to be two and then we’re gonna do a diagonal one like that and one more diagonal one like that and that is our second line you see how it curves inwards back in towards the back and for our last line out on the far edge we’re

Going to come in here first put one here like that and then we’re going to go diagonally out like that and then take them out that’s going to be too long and then we’re going to do a diagonal move and do three two three and then one more diagonal move like that

And this one’s going to be six long four five and six now finishing this off is really simple we’re gonna do diagonal moves backwards in towards the back again you can see how that one has moved in that way well this one’s gonna move in the same direction so

From the back here we’re gonna go in here and do a diagonal like that and we’re gonna do four there we go and then another diagonal here and that’s going to be a three then we’re going to do a diagonal take those out and do two and then we’re

Gonna do just like we did on this one we’re gonna do two ones so just like that that’s one diagonal and two diagonals so this is the shape that you end up getting that’s our full scaffold we just need to fill these wings in and we’re done and to show you

How we fill these in we’re going to just do layers you can see how we’ve got one two three four five six seven layers here that we can do we can look at it from the back and we’re gonna start here on this long six we’re gonna do six and

Then a four of couple so let’s go over to our our finished one here so on this six the longest outside one we go two three four five six and then in the middle we do a four like so so that’s our first layer done so now we’re doing

This layer here and we’re gonna start here on this three and we’re gonna go one two three and then one more dance that’s four there we’ll go to the bottom here and we’ll go one two three four five up like that so you have that and then we’re gonna

Come back here count two down and then the next one there so you’ve got a two gap and then here and come all the way down right the way past here and we’re gonna stop here with two extra to go so you can see the shape that that makes there our

Third layer here is equally simple we’re going to start here and do a four down which neatly fills that gap there i’m gonna go down to the bottom here and we’re gonna go five up just like we did last time three four five and now we’re going to fill in this

We’re going to just leave one gap and start there and go all the way up until oops until that gap is closed there now we’ve done one two three we’re on layer four here so we are going to come on top of this here and do six upwards four

Five six which should match nicely there and then underneath on the same one we’re gonna go down five and then we’re gonna do go down three like that layer five is slightly more complicated i think but not too much more we’re gonna come in here so we’ve done that

Layer so we’re doing this layer now so we come in underneath the stone brick there and we’re gonna pop two in one two and then here we wanna go out here like that and we’re gonna go all the way down until we touch the stone brick there you see just like

That there and we can fill this in here with five like that then we’re going to come underneath and do three and then what we want is one so we’re going to go like that and then take that out you see how we’ve got one sitting there two more layers to go and

We’re gonna do this one here now and we’re gonna start actually attached to that there so we’re gonna go down seven so that’s two three four five six and seven like that and at this point we’re going to come one out like that so we can do that and

Then take that out and then this one comes down five like that we’re going to tuck one in underneath that there and just to finish off down here we’re going to go off that last stone break and put pop one on top and then we’ve got one layer left and it is

Absolutely the simplest layer we’re just going to come underneath here and the last stone brick and we’re going to go two three four just like that and that joins us up so then we can see that occurs down naturally there from the back to the bottom of that spine and

That’s it once you’ve done it one side you’re going to just mirror it the exact opposite on the other side and that is your complete statue done well done if you got this far it’s looking great but i think we can still make an improvement now i did say

We would show you some variations so that you don’t just have to rely on the stone you can of course change things up for yourself but just to give you a bit of inspiration i thought i’d make a few variations myself before we have a look

At them though i would really love to ask you to subscribe we are less than 50 subscribers away from hitting 1000 mark yes there are only 49 tickets to the thousand club left so grab them while they’re hot guys and i would appreciate that but let’s have a

Look now at some of our variations so here we can see here’s the standard one the second one i tried out here was a sort of sandstone prismarine you’ll notice that where we have some variations of stone between the stone stone brick the andesite and the cobble

Here they broadly just correspond to a different kind of block so you can see i shot the cobble for the prismarine and the stone brick for the dark stone and dark prismarine there so generally speaking you can go off what kind of blocks there and change them so there’s

The sandstone and prismarine with a little bit of bling at the top i couldn’t resist that um and then we’ve got the the quartz statue a very classical looking uh with a little bit of the trying to get a little bit of subtle detail in with the chiseled in there but it’s

Mostly smooth i have to say then we’ve got the blackstone variety very imposing it would look fantastic with a homemade nether fortress or alternative a second nether theme here i love this block this nether wart black i don’t know why it’s so vivid and cool and i thought it went

Really well to make that sort of dress feel with the darker tones on the top a little variation there using the stone brick the the nether brick sorry the red nether brick for the head you will notice that when you’re picking your own blocks if you want to try your own

Designs for the head because it has stairs you have to pick a block variety that has a stair variety to it so you know prismarine quartz and then you can see there the red nether brick here we’ve got a red sandstone version again looking for um blocks that have the stair variant there

With again i tried going for something a little bit different tried the gold wings not sure how i feel about them but i don’t know maybe flex in a little there if you’re in a survival world that looks nice you can imagine a few rows of

Them again you could do the gold wings on like the gold on the quartz or the gold on the blackstone have have fun if you want to really show off your material resources we’ve got a wooden one as well i think maybe this is my least favorite of the selection i don’t

Know see what you think guys put comment in below and tell me which one you think looks best out of these i’ve tried again with the copper i probably should have used the waxed versions originally the wings had slightly more aged uh variations for those three veins

But as i’ve been building away these have been changing color not gradually getting to their most weathered state but that maybe that’s a look that you like to go for gives a bit of signs of age to them i went all out crazy with some of the new

Nether blocks on this one i quite enjoyed this one i love this block here is it crimson hyphae uh i love how it just subtly kind of shimmers and i couldn’t resist putting in some overgrowth on this one with that lovely turquoise uh there with the wood

Again i went for a slightly different color on the head i thought that just made it pop a little bit i’m not sure it would have looked quite the same had we gone with that same turquoise color so a little bit of variety and then of course

Last one we have the ruined angel i don’t think you could have statues without thinking of ruined temples ruined churches whatever so i’ve snapped off a wing here and just let it fall to the ground obviously i’ve had to do a bit of re-jigging to make it

Look roughly still the same shape only collapsed into the floor and we’ve added some debris in there changed some to the stairs instead of the full blocks to make it look like it’s uh all smashed up we’ve added a bit more of the mossy and the cracked stone down

Here and of course all of the overgrowth and cobble there i quite like that one um it’s a bit more low-key but i had fun building that that was certainly the most challenging of the ten to come up with i think guys i hope that’s giving

You some ideas for your own worlds uh if there’s anything else you’d like to see me have a go at and give you a hand with build wise don’t forget to leave a comment and i will consider every single suggestion but for now guys that’s it if you’ve

Made it this far well done i hope you’ve enjoyed this and we will see you in the next one