Hello! And welcome to this first ever episode of ChunkBuild! Yep, this is a new series guys! My name is Vidargavia, and in this series we are going to look at Chunk sized houses in themes. So What we will do is we’ll select the theme and I will build three different chunk sized houses and present them in fairly short videos such as these. And what I will also try and do, is try and sort of explain how to build them and sort of what is tricky with these houses. And how you can think about things. So this is the first house, the theme is Asia, and this is a Tibetan house. You can see it as a starter house. It’s a house where you live basically. And what is special about the Tibetan houses is that they are often very Very very plain white but with with with boards of hardened clay or yeah of red boards anyway. And then they have these Asian style roofs that go up towards the edges. But then they have these sections of really colorful walls and pillars and things like that. So that’s what we tried to accomplish here with the exterior. So you can see here around the back for instance. So that’s one of the things or some of the things that they have. Now let’s have a look at the inside. Coming into this house is kind of an explosion of color. But that’s by design, so the idea is that we have quite a calm floor quite a calm floor Especially down here actually with this dark gray concrete. But then we have, well we have calm walls as well I should say. White walls. But then we have ceilings and pillars that just explode in color. And also we have curtains on the inside here. And so yeah, these pillars go up, and they hold up the upper structure that we have up here. In this case It’s so small that all we can fit is a lamp. But, what you do get is when you look at it, when you just sort of pass by, you get that sense of space upwards. To some extent at least and also it looks cool. And it’s an interesting use of the Terracotta blocks, and just showing us that They go really well, of course, with the new concrete blocks as well. The house is functional in the sense that there are spaces for beds, some storage, and some crafting so you could use this as a Starter home. You can also go upstairs to the little Balcony area here although it is really crammed. All right, so let’s talk a bit about the block palette here. Obviously the most prominent thing here is the white. So for that, the base color is the white concrete powder. But to mix it up we’ve added some Diorite. Now, it’s not a perfect match, but you do get used to it, and it sort of symbolizes that the Concrete powder has has broken down a bit into Diorite and it looks fairly good I think. Now for the corners and edges We have Quartz and that also goes really well. Now like we saw before we have the dark gray concrete or, stone bricks as the floor. Obviously the board is the Hardened clay which really contrasts nicely with the white. You could go with red, red or even pink, As well. I will show you that if you want even more of a contrast. This is the pink. I don’t like it as much. It’s just too blue. The red goes well, I think, if you want a really strong contrast. But in this case, because we have the pillars, and the inside is just so colorful I thought it better to go with the slightly more neutral color. Let’s get a block.. And place it up there. Now, For details: Neither of… None of these blocks, is what I’m trying to say, has Slabs or stairs, except the stone brick, so for details we have woods. We have two woods. We have Oak, and we have Dark oak. Now really, the dark oak goes very well with this, right. And so that’s how we make the windows here. We do that, and that’s a window And the contrast here is massive, but it looks really good. But, It would be oppressive if the whole ceiling and roof was made out of that stuff, so we also have the normal oak. And that also goes well with the dark oak, so they sort of complement each other and it feels seamless. Okay, so the blocks of the Pillars are fairly obvious, but it’s black concrete, red concrete, orange concrete and yellow concrete. And then apart from the black we have their corresponding glazed terracotta variants, somewhere, there, and as you can see the blocks go really well together with their counterparts. But the interesting thing is that you can mix and match to get sort of gradients. Which is fairly common in Tibetan architecture. Traditional Tibetan architecture, I should say. So that’s how we make those. Okay, let’s look at some of the details of the build. First off is these lamps, They’re very simple. It’s a fence, a redstone lamp, a lever and a banner. And this idea is actually from a YouTuber called Magmamusen, so I will leave a link in the description to his video. The way you make these banners is you start with an orange banner. Let’s see if we have a crafting bench. Yes, we do. We start with an orange banner and fade it, do a gradient, to yellow. And then you basically do two boards with blacks. And there you have the banner. And then you just put that on all four sides of the lamp. Like that. They are a really nice touch, and they actually kind of make this build, in some ways because they really stand out and they feel distinctly Asian. So we have to thank Magmamusen for that. Next detail I want to talk about is the pillars, so we try and base them with something calm And then we go in a gradient from red to yellow and see how far we get. So in this case all we do is get to the Terracotta blocks. Now You shouldn’t be afraid to place the different terracotta blocks next to each other, the patterns don’t line up or anything, but the colors, Do line up, or do match so it’s not really a problem. So in this case we go from black to red to the orange terracotta, and then to the orange concrete, and then, further out here, to the yellow. And we do the same here. Now there is Only one yellow Terracotta block, and that is down here. And that’s just how the design fell. But really, if this house was bigger, we would use more of that because it’s a nice block. The third detail we need to look at is how you build the ceilings. Basically in this case I started out by doing this board around, Just resting on top of the hardened clay. And then, two blocks from the corner, I went out a block, and then up a block, and then up a block. And then you do that on all the sides. For this here, it’s a little bit smaller this roof, so you go down a block and up a block and up a block for this. Now this block here is kind of strange, but it’s just to tie in with this line here so that the roofs feel connected. You can do this variant as well, Where you do this as a full block, but actually I think I prefer it like that even though it looks funny in some ways from some angles. But I like that you can see half the Hardened clay there. The final detail to talk about is something that was actually missing when we started the video. And that is these item frames with Sunflowers in them. Now this board looks a bit boring without them to be honest, and if you look at Pictures of houses from Tibet, traditional houses, you can see that they often have these yellow dots lining their boards. And this item frame and Sunflower trick is kind of a neat way to simulate that if you will. And what it does is it really makes the border pop which I love. So there you have guys the first of these videos in the ChunkBuild series, the Asian themed house. And we’ll be back shortly actually with the next part in this series. And we will continue with the Asian theme. But… It’s going to be from Mongolia in this next episode. But anyway for now guys, if you liked the video leave a like, leave a comment: What do you think of this build? And, if everything goes according to plan, you will find in the description a link to a world download of this house. So check it out guys, and you can plant it into your own world. Well, I’ll see you next time guys. Bye Bye! Video Information
This video, titled ‘Chunkbuild 1: TIBETAN BUILD | Asian theme (Minecraft 1.12)’, was uploaded by Vidargavia on 2017-05-11 15:30:02. It has garnered 2955 views and 79 likes. The duration of the video is 00:11:31 or 691 seconds.
Chunkbuild is a new series on the channel! In today’s episode 1 we show off a chunk sized (16×16) Minecraft Tibetan Build as our first house in the Chunkbuild Asian theme!
This build is available to download as a structure block here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3m8gPuag_jbkhPZDF4WHBxNDQ/view?usp=sharing
To use this structure in your own world, download it and put it in the structures folder in your world save folder. Then give yourself a structure block (/give @p minecraft:structure_block), place it and set it to load, entering the file name as name.
Chunkbuild is a series where I will show three builds per theme, then go on to a new theme, ad infinitum. Each build fits in a Minecraft chunk, ergo Chunkbuild. The themes will vary tremendously, so if you don’t like a style, just give it a week or so and then check back.
In these videos I show of the build, comment on the block palette; details of the builds and show you how to do elements that are hard to build or interesting.
The theme this time is Asia. Asian architecture is probably mostly know for it’s Hip-and-Gable roofs and the Minecraft hipped roof with raised corners, and this Minecraft Tibetan home has that, with a twist. 🙂
The walls are traditional tibetan white, a mix of white concrete powder block, quartz and diorite.
Other features of this house include heavy use of the Minecraft 1.12 Blocks – white concrete powder blocks, black, red, orange and yellow concrete blocks, and red, orange and yellow terracotta blocks!
We also feature shiny paper lanterns, originally created by MagmaMusen. His video about these can be found here:
The lovely music is SERENITY by Jason Shaw and is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.
