How To Plan Out A City! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 57]

Hello everyone my name is pig Soros and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide how are you guys doing I hope you’re all having a great day it’s Friday and we’re gonna round up the week by doing a little bit of City planning on our ongoing kind of industrial

Fantasy medieval project thing I really I’m still not entirely sure what genre this whole project falls into some folks in the comments have said it’s a kind of industrial thing and it kind of is but more of a fantasy spin on industrial verging on like a little bit of

Steampunk I don’t know I’m not certain quite how it’s all gonna come together yet but I’ve done a little bit more work over here mainly just placing some of the cyan terracotta around the walls of this ravine and I decided after Harold’s hyper detailed this stuff got to keep

The back half of the ravine a little bit simple so I could try out you know which which style I liked better and maybe just do a little bit of remedial work after the fact the problem with that of course is that by placing all of this cyant arakata

I have now completely run out of Terra Cotta and I need to go back to the Mesa and get some more but instead I’m gonna put the ravine project on hold it’s clearly like a long-term thing that we’re gonna have to do a lot more work

To in the near future but I don’t want to do that today instead I want to make good on my promise to to a little bit more of a video about city planning and how exactly we can turn this giant Plains biome into a functional city starting of course with the basics and

That is roads I really like this pathway style I think we will probably go with something like this in the long run which is good because it makes it nice and easy for me to install new pathways all we have to do is walk around right

Clicking with a shovel and we get free pathways pretty much anywhere we go and that is thanks to the wonderful pathways blocks which you just get by right clicking with a shovel like so and it makes all of this planning out a little bit simpler on these gracia biomes now

To help me out with this I actually have my camera account logged in and some folks have been asking me exactly how the time lapses and stuff in this series are done especially seeing as we don’t have access in this version of Minecraft to any kind of mods interface although

There are some mod interfaces available but the main one minecraft forge is not available right now and now there are any of the tools that allow you to kind of record and playback your gameplay like the replay mod in this case I’m using a second

Logged in with my world open to land as open to the local area network so I can log in with a second minecraft account from the same computer actually and it’s actually recalling over here on this screen so from a bird’s eye view we can

See where I am I’m that tiny little blue dot and the diamond helmet down there and you can see the path I’ve just built as well and a lot of the time I will use my second account to log in and just kind of take a look at stuff from a

Different angle and it allows you to get a kind of wider perspective on things without having to just step back or like take a rocket and fly away every couple of seconds or enderpearl away from your build and then look back at it which can be quite convenient when you’re working

On at larger projects like this and this is definitely one case where I would love to use that so we’re actually going to switch back and forth to the eye in the sky as we continue with this project and I’ll be able to show you guys a

Bird’s-eye view of how our city is developing and where I think certain things should go so it’s gonna be a bit of a different episode we’re gonna get a different perspective on things today but I hope you guys will enjoy it now obviously we don’t have a huge amount of

Structures in place right now but we do have a few features like the central ravine at which from the eye in the sky view actually looks kind of misty at the bottom which is going to be my intention but we’re going to do that effect with kind of a stained glass layer and

Instead of having just render distance take care of it because the the mist there is actually just because I have my render distance on the camera account set a little bit lower and as for around the wall here I think we’re probably going to have a path that goes around

Here as well and so it’s gonna be impossible to walk up against the wall here and obviously we’ll have to take care of these occasional little things like these dark oak vlogs not going any further down than the surface we’ll be able to walk around by the back of the

Wall here and there’s probably going to be either some sort of central plaza or another building here some people in the comments have suggested that having a bunch of hairs is really close together if it’s an industrial build we’ll make a lot of sense a lot of this stuff tends

To be kind of crowded in industrial builds and I like the sound of that I like the idea of just packing in builds and making the city streets feel very busy so I think that’s what we’re going to do and obviously this has the impression of a kind of dirt track dirt

Path kind of thing which is why I’m thinking maybe we straight too far from the the medieval or steampunk theme we tend to we’re probably going to keep this fairly firmly fixed in the realm of fantasy here now obviously I’m gonna have to work around stuff like the bed but yeah

This is all working out pretty well so far I do need to throw down a few buckets of water and get rid of some of this grass much as I hate to do it because the grass is actually a really nice thing to have aesthetically speaking in these Plains biomes you

Can’t right-click the grass blocks with a shovel if they’ve got you know the grass entities growing on them so we do kind of need to get rid of some of that if we want to work with the path here we’re gonna connect this one over here

With the path that we’ve got in front of the house and I can already see from my bird’s-eye view that this is kind of making sort of a a parallelogram almost like a box with those kind of skewed diagonal sides a little bit so maybe we’re going to end up making some houses

That suit that pattern a little bit more easily one of the things that’s always going to impress people when it comes to Minecraft builds is having a build that isn’t just a box with straight walls you know what I mean like angled walls and stuff like this are actually relatively

Straightforward to do once you know a few things about building and so we’re going to work with a little bit more stuff like that we’re going to keep these paths going out in kind of diagonals to guide us towards making a house with angled walls there we go

That’s all connected up and this is still kind of an awkward space in which to build a house but then take into account that this entire place doesn’t have to be taken up by the building we need to leave a couple of blocks around each side for you know dressing it up

With leaves and flowers that kind of thing it could even have a garden out the back or something like that to make things obviously you know in a city you might not necessarily have a garden open in the middle of this space but we can play around with stuff like that a

Little bit there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to this stuff and yeah we can we can make a house that fits this space quite nicely now obviously you know there are certain schools of thought when it comes to building a lot of the time people will

Want to build their structures first before they think about how these things are connected up because otherwise you feel like you’re boxing yourself in a little bit and you can’t really fully create the build that you want to in this case though I think of it as kind

Of a challenge it’s it’s a restriction that we can add to ourselves to kind of chat what exactly we can do with this space and of course there’s nothing to stop us pushing these roads out further a little bit obviously we have to do a little bit of terraforming before that can happen

And on these sides we have some very definite boundaries but say the house feels like it needs a couple of extra blocks space in this direction we can always just move the path later there’s nothing to stop us doing that we can edit this anytime we like so we’re gonna

Move on here and I think it’s probably going to make sense to continue this wall around here but have some way of getting up onto the next kind of tear of this city so I think up this way we’re gonna actually have an organized staircase let’s grab some stone brick

From the chests over here and make a start on that now normally I’d be tempted to build a staircase that just went from here straight up onto this and kind of followed the angle of this path but I’ve been looking into other sort of staircase designs and looking at some

Stuff in my local neighborhood as well and there’s a promenade down at the Brighton Beach which actually kind of has a lot of angled staircases the staircases will actually kind of force you to walk around here and walk up that way instead of you know having a path

Directly up and it saves a little bit of space in terms of your town planning because you don’t have to just make a straight staircase here it can be a little bit more flush with the walls so what I’m gonna do is build up this wall

Here as though it’s one of these wall sections on this side and we’re going to put the stairs in behind that wall here going up onto the little plateau kind of bit up here we’re just gonna throw down some stone brick stairs for now we’ll probably change up the materials a

Little bit later but I think that’s gonna be a solid start and we’ll make the staircase a little bit wide because a lot of the paths I’m working with here seem to be kind of three blocks wide so I think having a three block wide staircase makes sense here as well once

Again we can adjust that later if we need to I’m gonna replace the dirt here with grass just cuz it makes it nice and easy to get this place shoveled back into shape with the grass path there we go this also naturally leaves us a little

Bit of space here that we could do maybe a corner fountain or something with in fact I might kind of narrow the path a little bit in that area maybe widen it a couple of blocks to this side just so we can fit something like that in with this

Corner and it feels like a nice corner to do something like that it’s not going to be exceptionally symmetrical because the wall is but we could always once again modify that a little bit if we want to and behind here we have a nice little staircase now that will take us up to

The next steps in the city but I don’t just want the path to go this way I want the path to go out in this direction as well and once again we’re gonna have to clear out a bunch of grass because this Plains biome is absolutely full of the

Stuff but if we keep the path going over here once again kind of following the line of the landscape that we have here following this little low section of grass we can bring the path back around here and this is probably going to be an area where we’ll fill in these ponds and

Build a few more buildings just along this row here in fact this might be another place where we can make kind of a terrace of houses all centered on this location of course if this ravine here is going to be the center of the town itself then it sort of makes sense that

That’s where a lot of people are going to want to go and they’ll have houses relatively close by and this road here actually leads squarely on to this other odd geological feature which I’ll switch to the Birds Eye camera counts so you can see this this is actually a really

Neat kind of geological formation I mean it’s just a series of gullies in the terrain it’s just where the other kind of ravines and caves and stuff that that sort of generation has reached the surface there and I think that’s gonna be a fantastic place to start a mine for

This town as though the people who’ve been excavating this ravine have needed to go and mine for resources and have found this natural cave system that they can go down there take a bunch of iron from to make all of the tools of their their particular industry I think that’s

Gonna be a pretty solid go and there’s another um another entrance to that that we can link up to in this direction as well and this is going to follow along with the the kind of grass path design it’s not gonna have like a formal staircase like it does over there

Because this is more of a workmen’s route kind of leading to that area whereas I think that staircase well at least to the ravine is also going to lead to the kind of upper part of town if we have this path going relatively straight over here it actually links up

With this section very nicely I think I might bring it over by a couple of blocks in this direction just to give the path a little bit more of a dynamic feel to it so it doesn’t feel like it’s just a straight road but this cave

System is going to wind up with a couple of entrances to it maybe one of the entrances can be a little bit more automated than the other perhaps we can have mine some stuff coming up to one of them and all of the workmen would leave through

The other entrance so the resources get dropped off somewhere else in the fiction of this world there’s a lot of different possibilities so we could kind of take that wherever you want to take it really let’s continue the path over along this section of the plains and

We’re actually coming back up along here to the place where I think we’re gonna have the higher city so maybe we will stop this off around here and once again follow this natural line of terrain around here so that we can create another section of wall here and then

The rest of this terrain here can actually get sunk down a few blocks just gonna generate an awful lot of grass for us but that’s fine I could use for us all the time so with that wall kind of guiding us towards another staircase into the city

We’re probably going to take this path over a little bit just to make sure it’s not a completely straight path once again and we’ll bring it up around here I think I’m running out of materials if her to build the wall in my inventory and I don’t want to lose momentum on

Where we’re at over here so I’m probably going to leave the wall and come back to that for the moment but at least we’ve got an idea of where the entrance to the next section of that is going to be and we can adjust the path as necessary if

We switch back over to our eye in the sky you’ll notice that we’ve also now got a couple of similarly sized plots for our houses so that could just as easily be a design that we kind of copy over from one to the other maybe modify

It ever so slightly or we can go crazy and adjust a bunch of different designs to fit whatever space we have over there so I think that’s probably gonna be a good start for this little area I do want to continue this path up towards these mountains as well because it feels

Like someplace that we would need a path up to eventually I think it’s gonna be fun to build a little bit of stuff up in the mountains maybe a couple of cabins maybe even some kind of I don’t know monastery or something like that I’m not

Entirely certain what I want to build up there yet I haven’t really thought that far ahead but there will be options for the future and I think laying in a path over here is gonna naturally lead us to want to build something that the path goes to that’s another fun thing about

Doing these little infrastructure touches like this and building roads is that especially on multiplayer servers if you build a road then people just start building stuff alongside it because they’re interested in the road having landmarks along the way and places that it goes a road can actually inspire

You to build some more stuff along it just because you want landmarks to be there on the road and I think that’s kind of a fun thing to have laid in here for the future I can already imagine stuff popping up around this just because we’ve laid the foundations for

What’s gonna be then the middle kind of two blocks of our city here what I have in mind is actually to make the back half of the ravine and this area over here near where the kind of mountains and the tiger and stuff are to actually

Turn most of this area into a kind of giant castle which is gonna have some various buildings within its walls as well as a central keep but I think it’s gonna be fun to have a castle built around the ravine almost in the innocence almost like it’s kind of

Protecting the ravine with its with the two different we’re gonna have two different like wings of the castle kind of spread out around it and so the people in the castle are going to be monitoring the workers who are actually actively working in the ravine and kind of dredging up whatever energy or

Materials that happen to be piped up from the depths there so these areas here we’re probably going to leave for you know the occasional dwelling and maybe like a work yard kind of thing but I expect there would be a path kind of along the edge of the cliff here and

I’ve actually been using some of the path blocks already just to kind of make this look like it’s an area that people walk a lot it’s kind of muddied down somewhat and one of the cool things about this going back to our bird’s-eye view again here is just how obvious it

Becomes that where there are larger roads I want to build kind of city buildings and that kind of stuff and where there are just these kind of broken up paths that’s clearly more for pedestrian access and people just kind of walking back and forth rather than like major roadways that people have to

Get around the city that’s got to be a great reminder to me later on when I inevitably absolutely forget what it was I plan to build in a specific area the roads that we’ve built around here kind of inform what we want to build in future speaking of future builds one of

The things I mentioned wanting to do is a kind of old town section out here in the swamp and I think this path is going to be perfect to travel from here towards that and kind of curve around towards the section in the swamp where it’s actually going to be taken over by

The kind of boardwalks and stuff like pontoons that are going to be floating on the surface of the water and that’ll be kind of a area obviously we’re going to leave this area here a nice wide berth so that when we end up working on the interior of

That house and building the rest of it we’re going to have plenty of room to do that but I think for now this path going out in this direction seems like a good start to you know made making sure we have access to this area for later the

Houses in this old town section are gonna be a little bit dingy a little bit smaller and as a result I’m making the parts and the spaces between the paths a little bit smaller as well we’re just going down to a a kind of two wide path

Here and leaving maybe a you know 10 to 12 block gap in between the two parts and that’s gonna make for a nice kind of compact house design later on and the whole area is going to feel a little bit more kind of cramped together with little dwellings and you know shacks and

Stuff like that if we fill out this swamp kind of waterside area with stuff like that maybe even people who make a living fishing kind of in the swamp or kind of getting you know boat transport taking people back and forth that kind of thing wow there’s a lot of lava down here

Somewhere can you hear that it is merrily bubbling away down here my goodness me alright I think we need to nip this in the bud now be a nice easy source of obsidian forest looks like there’s quite a lot of it down here as well yeah oh hello entire cave full of

Lava well yeah hopefully we should be able to get rid of that this is what I’m talking about by the way when it comes to turning fire spread off I know I mentioned that in the previous episode and oh boy would we need it there because as soon as we started building

Anything wooden on the surface the lava would set fire to it and there would it would be incredibly like it would be inconvenient for a start but it wouldn’t immediately be obvious why I’m surprised this tree he hasn’t set on fire with the amount of lava that was underneath there

Of course even turning fire spread off isn’t gonna stop players from being set on fire so I think it’s probably best that we get rid of that lava while we can so around here we’re going to kind of have the path that follow the waterfront around here it’s gonna widen

Back out a little bit as it gets a little bit closer to the center of town where all of the the industry and stuff happens they’re switching back to the camera account in the sky once again you can see that over there in that top right-hand corner where the old town

Section is going to be the parts are just going to get narrower and narrower and the space to build is going to get a little smaller and I think that’s a good thing I think that will lend itself to some nice kind of cozy builds and-and-and little rundown shacks and stuff like

That here’s another place where the path is going to divert a little bit we all have another path leading up into the swamp around here and I think the witch Hut is even like a few maybe a hundred blocks or so that way but this also

Leads straight to this cave and maybe we could end up using the cave for something it’s actually got yeah there’s a bit of water and stuff falling down into there maybe we could end up using this as a tertiary entrance to the cave or maybe it can just lead here and we

Can cover the cave entrance over and continue the path on into the swamp but I think for now at least that’s as far as I want this path to go and the same goes for this one actually because we’re right up on our little earthworks here

And I don’t want this to necessarily be all the roads leading to this place but maybe this road will lead up to here and then there could be some sort of I don’t know maybe a storehouse or something like that seems like a good place to have the entrance to a small building

Where people can maybe store their equipment or any of the resources that they’ve picked up can be put there overnight or something like that some that was somewhere it’s a good place to store things and yeah having a path leading up to that kind of makes sense

To me I’ve been spending a lot of time in the top half of this bird’s-eye view we have here so now I think it is time to work on the bottom half starting with the path that’s gonna lead around from this house and as we mentioned before

It’s gonna be fun to have a path that leads around the side of this wall here so I think we might divert this path off in this direction and kind of have it go go past here maybe with some sort of fence up to make sure that the the townspeople these fictional townspeople

Don’t end up wandering into the magma stuff where it can be a little bit more dangerous or maybe this has happened recently enough that they haven’t had a chance to put a barrier yet or maybe people just have the common sense not to walk on magma blocks which I know I

Don’t but some people might I guess but yeah we can bring this around here and we can kind of have it move alongside the wall again maybe turn some of these raised sections of grass into little gardens or something like that we could put some flower beds and stuff up here

If this feels like a bit more of a kind of public park for people to walk through especially because it ends up with this a little section over here which I really like and I do want to turn it into some sort of little public rest area where people can hang out

There’s a nice lake here in a tree and it just feels a little bit more peaceful and secluded around the corner from this wall here so now charlie we want to pass out leading up to that once I’ve cleared all of the grass away with a bucket of

Water and yeah the part that’s gonna end up around here and then we can start to convert this area into something else will connect the path up on this side and I think that’s gonna wrap up just nicely there I’m probably gonna come back through and detail these paths a

Little bit more as well but obviously it’s kind of nice to have the infrastructure in place likewise over here I think this path is gonna be best if it curves away from this building again because like I said we don’t know quite what form that building is going to take

Right the second but it’ll be nice to have this path connect up to the path over here as well and it creates this little wedge-shaped area of space which we might be able to put something fun in maybe another small house or something like that and it’s worth noting that although I’m talking

About this stuff in terms of houses a lot of the time that’s just a general term meaning whatever I want to build here like they don’t all have to be residences they can be things like blacksmiths and shops and you know market stalls and that kind of stuff

There can be stuff like that all over the place that I just haven’t decided exactly what I want to go for yet all I just go I just think house Civic building of some kind and then just leave the rest of my imagination whenever it comes to building the thing

In that particular area but hopefully this has been enough of an example that you can kind of get the idea of my thought process when it comes to planning out this city build and this is probably going to be one of the largest things I’ve ever built so it’s gonna be

Very ambitious I think I’m looking forward to building even more of it once we’ve got the foundations in place so I’m gonna actually cut away for right now just so this episode doesn’t end up like an hour long of me just rambling about I don’t want to build here and

I’ll come back when I’ve done a little bit more work on the lower half of our bird’s-eye view map and I’ll be able to wrap up the episode telling you guys what we’re gonna work on next so I think that’s gotta be it for this layout

Session if we switch over to the bird’s eye view you’ll be able to see what I’ve done and I have really done a huge amount in the bottom half of the map there because there’s a lot of other geological features lots of like wells and stuff this sort of natural dips in

The landscape that I need to fill in but I think it’s gonna be help to alleviate open for other stuff obviously the bottom left-hand side of the map and around the left-hand side of that ravine is probably going to be taken up by this castle build but I’m gonna plan in a separate

Video so make sure you look out for that in future and yeah I really like the fact that Old Town gets kind of smaller over there in the top right and overall I think this is gonna be a really nice layout to work with it’s at least gonna

Provide a little bit of inspiration for where some of these buildings are going to go when we design the rest of the town which we’re going to do we’re probably not going to continue this project like over the next like however many episodes we are going to break

Those up with some more interesting stuff some more kind of technical stuff some more like challenges things like respawning the end dragon and stuff like that is going to come up so I’m sure you guys will enjoy a bit of a mix of videos I don’t want to stick around on building

For too long for the folks who’d prefer other projects and adventures and fun times but now I’ve put together the structure for the city I decided it’s probably time to give this place a name and this is the name that I had in my head before I even started this project

I just knew I wanted to build a someplace with this name and this is what I’ve decided to call it this place is got to be called founders forge and this is going to be the central kind of town of our world it’s gonna be the first town ever hence kind of founders

It’s gonna be the first town we actually build here and the forge park kind of comes from the fact that they’re bringing all of this molten metal and stuff out of the earth and they’re gonna be putting that to good use for tools for energy that kind of stuff I hope you

Guys like that and I hope you guys will enjoy seeing this city come together over the next weeks and months and however long it takes this is gonna be quite a long and ongoing project so we’re gonna break it up with some other stuff but I’m really looking forward to

Doing a little bit more building with you guys in this series so that is gotta be it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide thank you so much for watching my name has been pixel rifts don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if

You want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now