Insane Cloud House – Grian’s Ultimate Minecraft Guide!

We’ve all thought about making some sort of minecraft house in the sky whether it’s on a floating island on a platform on a sky block or even on a cloud however we haven’t had a good way to reach that cloud so it’s always been a bit of a pain to get to

Recently they introduced fireworks to power your elytra in flight so it makes climbing all the way to the sky achievable in only a few seconds which is absolutely amazing so today i think it’s time to make a cloud house in minecraft now obviously once we’ve made the cloud you can put absolutely

Anything on it but i’m gonna go for a mount olympus type style build so we start by making a one by one tower all the way up to the cloud line i’ve made a platform out of snow block which is my preferred choice to mimic a cloud and

Then fly up make sure that that platform is big enough otherwise you may find that you can’t land on it very well and i do recommend that you fill in that one hole that i went down in otherwise this may happen to you boop for i can’t believe i missed it honestly out

Of that whole platform i fell in the one hole that was there it doesn’t matter anyway you can just fly straight back up again successfully and continue with your platform now obviously in survival this is going to take a little bit longer than if you actually have the

Ability to fly in creative but it is completely doable you just have to crouch over the edge and work your way round you will need lots and lots of snow blocks you will want to create a ring around each layer of snow extending it outwards every single time that

Little bit further and building it up until you are above the cloud line you don’t actually want to have your build inside the cloud so it’s only a few blocks deep and it mimics the cloud line completely so that it integrates really really well once you’ve got your surface to work with

This is where we’re going to build our house this is a relatively small cloud and like i said it’s situated just in that cloud line it’s very important that you get that right because if you don’t you could end up with clouds passing through your house non-stop and it can be very

Annoying to see where you are or what you’re doing anyway let’s move back onto the house i call it a house but it’s more like a mount olympus style building so what we’re going to do is a circle in the center or roughly the center of the cloud you will notice that

The cloud itself is not a circle it is intentionally imperfect to make it so it doesn’t look like a ufo so anyway back to the building it has a radius of about six blocks this is quite a small one and this is the smallest i would go to make

It work in fact i would have made it a lot bigger both the cloud and the build but that depends on your resources and time anyway let’s get back to the build so we’ve got a circle and there are columns placed at a equal distance from each other around it that obviously

Depends on what size your circle is you’re working with i’ve then decorated the bottom of the columns with some quartz staircase quartz is the main block choice for this mainly because it goes with the whole cloud theme and keeps it very white and airy and matches that mount olympus style that i was

Going for however you can do whatever you like so to detail this i’m not actually going to give it any walls although you totally can if you want to make a full cylinder because i’m going for that sort of greek style i’m going for some rather intricate but oddly placed

Staircases and slabs around and in between each of the pillars don’t worry if you didn’t catch it the first time there’s a lot more to do so it’s a lot of just placing them behind and in front of each other and it creates this little hook on each side but when you’ve got

Each of them lined up against each other it looks like a series of arches and some nice detailing in the corners at the same time obviously the larger you get on this build the harder that becomes and you’ve got to try and make sure that each of

Them are done exactly the same otherwise any mistake will become extremely apparent this is only the base and it looks a little stonehenge at the moment the actual build that we’re going to use is going to be situated on the top of this column piece

Like i said i didn’t make any walls on this one but you’re totally within your rights to do that if you want so we’re actually going to build the bit where you have living space on top of this platform you’ll see that i’ve just made it a bit

Thicker only half a block as a platform can look a little bit flimsy so by thickening it up it looks a lot more structurally sound once i’ve put in the floor i then wrap around a birch fence just so that i don’t fall off as the bit

Of living space we’re going to make is just slightly smaller than the original platform this is just to make it look a lot nicer and it’s shaped a bit like saint paul’s cathedral in london this was the inspiration for this particular thing i want to add a dome on the top

And have it quite tall if i were doing this again i’d probably add another layer which wasn’t going in straight away i’d have another cylinder exactly the same size so perhaps you would like to try that if you were to undertake this project much like the first one i

Then added a bunch of pillars but a lot more of them and this time actually put in a wall instead of having it completely clear this is where the living space is going to be and while it looks quite square due to its small size you can actually make it look more

Circular by adding some slabs around the top this is where i want to add in our dome making this by hand can seem a bit tricky so feel free to copy me if you’ve gone for exactly the same size otherwise you might want to try using world edit

Or voxel sniper or just experiment with one quarter of it to try and get the shape just right before replicating it round a further three times i’ve used prismarine block for this one because it contrasts really well with the white and it fits in with this palette really

Nicely getting that shape correct can be quite difficult sometimes but with a little bit of experimentation i think you can get it this is about the smallest size you can get without it looking horrifically square so like i said earlier i would recommend making a slightly bigger

Version but this is the highlight of the build the top of this this is what’s going to make it symbolize that greek style slash a little bit of london in it as well what we’re going to do to make this taller is add four bits of quartz that are going to

Meet up at the top where we’re going to make a little spire as well so we want to keep those four bits just over the top of the prismarine not sticking out too far as to intrude the shape of our dome once we’ve got that which is a

Fairly easy bit to do we’re going to add a nice little spike to give it some height on the top of the dome just some more simple quartz pillars will do just fine here and he even added a little bit more prismarine to give it almost a second dome shape although that

Is very very small the extra bit of color works very nicely so as you can see we’ve got our basic shape on top of the cloud you may notice what i said earlier about if i was to do it again i’d perhaps make it a bit taller

Underneath i’m going to add a quick spiral staircase as to get up into the livable area upstairs so it’s just a simple slab staircase around a single pillar you can even make them just one block thick something very easy to use and will give you lots of space to work

With upstairs so as you can see we’ve pretty much got the basis of this build done and as i said at the beginning of the video this is just a concept design using some of the blocks that i would use so we can add some windows on this

Just to make it seem a bit better and add a little color with some stained glass panes obviously you can build anything you like just use the snow cloud idea at the right level and everything will be all right but we can expand this even further we can turn

This into a haven we don’t even have to go down to the surface that often if we come prepared if we add plenty of these grass patches we can farm effectively we could add trees we can make a whole heap of stuff and if you even made this in a

Biome where it snows you could then harvest that snow to expand your cloud and if you run out of snow perhaps you could go and get cobblestone and make the interior out of cobblestone just to give you a solid base and then cover it with snow later on as long as you’ve got

Enough snow i think you couldn’t make a really good opportunity out of this design in fact you could have a nether portal which takes you directly to the nether to collect all your quartz so you don’t even have to go down to the surface at all and one of the other

Benefits of a build like this is you’re so inaccessible to everyone else so if you’re on a survival server people are maybe going to miss it or be intrigued by what’s up there you could take this even further by adding loads of bridges and slightly smaller clouds or even same

Sized clouds you could make an entire cloud city here’s an example of the bridge made by pearlescent moon who helped me extend all of these little clouds out again it’s using birch wood and quartz as our main blocks for this to keep it all in the same style you can

Go nuts with this you could have bridge after cloud after bridge after cloud and it could extend almost indefinitely especially if you had access to lots of snow to continue the progression all the way around i’ve even got a launch pad over there you can see that there’s a

Red cross where you can land in on your elytra powered by the fireworks anyway that’s it for today’s video i hope you enjoyed this concept and i’d love to see what you guys build and come up with in the end thank you very much for watching good bye