LEGO Minecraft is SO Underrated: Building a Massive World Diorama!

Hey there thanks for tuning into duck bricks i’m chris and well i think lego minecraft is a really underrated lego theme you see a lot of people tend to not really pay too much attention to lego minecraft because of its fairly blocky aesthetic and mostly because if

You don’t play the minecraft game maybe you might tend to overlook it because simply these sets won’t interest you you see when minecraft came out around 2014 i personally was kind of done playing the minecraft game i went through a whole minecraft phase when i was a kid

But past that i really kind of just stopped playing the game so when they first came out i kind of just ignored the minecraft lineup all that changed back in 2020 when lego released a minecraft set with a kai minifigure now this was a version of kai from ninjago

Which had actually the minecraft styling so of course i had to get that set and honestly that just opened me up to an entire world of lego collecting that i honestly was not even aware of and that’s kind of why i wanted to make this video to showcase just how fun these

Sets are you see minecraft is almost like the closest thing we get to an original lego action and adventure theme that is location based sure it is officially licensed with minecraft but 99 of the builds are just random stuff that lego designers throw together obviously because the point of minecraft

As a game is to build your own structures that’s exactly what the lego designers do maybe once in a while we’ll get a set focused on an officially generated build from one of the games but for the most part most of the lego minecraft sets are just wacky ideas that

They’re trying to incorporate for different sorts of adventures like modern bases or ninja dojos or just sorts of different temples and buildings and palaces and large landscapes and it truly feels like a fully original lego concept that just kind of has the minecraft license added onto it besides

That the coolest thing about lego minecraft is that all of the builds are fully modular so not only are these sets themselves allowed to be reconfigured in different ways and actually encouraged to be rebuilt and reconfigured at the end of all the instruction manuals but every single minecraft set can be

Combined with another set they all basically use the same base plate layout and you actually can shift them together like forming puzzle pieces and create a massive minecraft diorama so personally i am on a quest to own every single minecraft set and while i’m missing one or two here or there i

Pretty much have most of them which is why i figured now is a better time than ever than to actually put all of these sets together play around with them in different layouts showcase the different styles of play that you can get out of all these sets and honestly just treat

Them like i was a kid again really just bring them all together and just play with them which isn’t really something i’ve done in literally years and so since 2020 again i have been collecting all of the rarest and pretty much all the oldest minecraft sets off of

Bricklink and ebay and whatnot and finally we have a large enough collection to bring them all together now just one note the newest 2022 sets i actually have in a completely separate location so unfortunately the 2022 minecraft sets will not be featured in this video at least for this main

Diorama i’ll add on a section at the end showcasing all of them fully built and actually reconfiguring them in their own diorama but that’s going to be completely separate for this it’s basically just everything from 2021 and before so without further ado let’s just jump right in because i’m excited to

Play with this diorama alright so here we are with every single lego minecraft set i own besides the 2022 sets there’s quite a lot here again i’m only missing one or two sets here there this is almost the 100 complete lego minecraft line from 2014 all the

Way up to 2021 and obviously these are not arranged whatsoever there’s some end stuff over here some nether stuff a lot of overworld stuff a lot of underwater stuff and they’re all really just kind of scattered around so my goal is to see what i can do by

Taking these sets and trying to come up with a somewhat realistic configuration for them or just kind of doing something fun and see what we can put together so one of my major goals for this is to actually combine all of these sections of the railway into one large track and

I think i’m going to start with that because that’s probably going to be the most restrictive in terms of placing bits and pieces around i think it’ll be really cool to say at the end of the video track the journey of a minecart from say the very first 2014 mindset all

The way down through the nether out of the nether up to the mountain cave which is the largest minecraft set and there’s a lot of different railway bits and pieces that can be found in these sets so i’m very excited so i’m going to start with that

We’re going to take all of the railway bits put them over to the side and see what we can do so starting off here i’m seeing the massive mountain cave when we go to the back of the set the railway actually continues all the way to the

Back and it actually leads out here it’s currently blocked off by a wall but that wall can be removed and it’s specifically designed to be removable so you can actually attach this to other places so we will do just that i think this is going to be kind of the

Centerpiece of the whole diorama because it is the largest minecraft set and now we have a few different nether stuff here what’s really awesome is that we have a over world to nether railway converter in which case you go straight through the portal and it converts to

The nether railway so i absolutely will be using this to actually bridge the gap between these two things and of course we have the mine as well so this is again another large railway which thankfully has the mine carts right on the ground exactly in the same configuration and they just simply go

Out the back there now these ones will be a little bit harder to integrate i don’t know if i’m going to be able to successfully put in this particular block of the bedrock adventures one as you can see there there’s just literally one railway so not really sure

How i’ll be able to do that we’ll figure something out maybe and the same kind of goes for this one right here which is kind of the follow up to the bedrock adventures although at least for this one the tracks actually do go along the bottom so maybe that will be a little

Bit easier finally we have the creeper mine here which again is in the same railway system like so so we’re going to take all of those i don’t see anything else and try to put them together oh and there seems to be one more section right

There with the mine so let’s try to throw that in too i’m gonna try to focus on this area which is kind of a wide open space so let’s take this guy here first and i do kind of want this to be the center piece so let’s kind of push

It over to this side here trying to see where the railway will go out so it seems like there’s just a function to remove this entire block and there we have a bit of exposed railway so let’s see what can we do here i’m gonna set

This aside for now not really sure what i’m gonna do with this extra block here but maybe we can use it to connect a few things and let’s first start off by taking some of the individual chunks there’s a few of these sets here that have individual railway chunks i don’t

Want to miss any so let’s start with those first off i am seeing a bit of a railway chunk here this appears to be part of one of the market stalls for a little bit of a village again there’s a bit of an exploding feature where you can just

Blow up this block and open up the railways so let’s see how are we going to connect this i may have to do some removal here because the blocks just are not lining up for the railway here it just has some stuff in the way and i’m not quite sure

What i’m going to be doing because obviously as you can see with this model the railway just leads to nothing so maybe i’m actually going to have to reconfigure this one let’s see okay well let’s set this aside for now and we have another bit and

Piece of a railway here with the cave set again this is a bit of a railway that also goes nowhere so this is just going to be a bit of a challenge to figure out i mean obviously i can connect these two and this works out totally fine the railways actually do

Connect that way but then they both lead to nowhere so we’re gonna have to get a little bit more creative okay we’ll set that aside for now let’s see what else do we got so i’m going to leave the nether to overworld railway connector piece to the end there because i think

That we still have a lot more to do in terms of the layout here i’m gonna go ahead and grab the massive mindset and see if we can somehow connect it to this because it’s also a pretty tall build let’s try not to break anything with

This okay there we go so put these aside for now this is the bigger mindset and let me just make sure that all of this is currently on camera yes it is okay perfect and now let’s see if we can actually connect these up it’s starting to look

More and more likely that i have to take off this section here from the actual set let’s see if i can just kind of remove this platform easily yeah i guess okay so this just came right off which is nice so now that kind of frees up this section i’m going to

Remember where all this goes i might regret this later on so i’m going to end up with a lot of chunks of just random blocks that i don’t know what set they go to but hey sacrifice it for the diorama so let’s see will this look good if it’s just attached on

Right here and there are some blocks in the way so if i can get one of these blocks and shift it over maybe a little bit let’s see can we can we configure ourselves like this see if we can attach there okay this is a good enough attachment i guess yeah so

This is this is all fully attached i guess it’s a little bit of a weird setup because obviously this layer is not technically on the same height as this but i guess it works out and it does provide us a continuous track now the question is the problem with this track

Is that it kind of just wraps around and it just goes all the way back and terminates here which would be fine except that we don’t actually have any other railway spaces to actually extend it because it’s going to hit here so let’s see if we can actually reconfigure

The way that this particular set is set up here let me see what we really need is like a curving piece here and that’s a problem with some of the minecraft railway stuff they don’t actually just sell track separately you kind of have to figure out how to piece them together from

Existing sets so railway goes out here is there anything i can do with that or do i have to make it kind of go out hmm this is interesting hmm let’s see i think it’s time to take a look at some of the other railway bits and see if we

Can do something here so let me go ahead and grab this set you can’t see it right now but we’ve got the creeper mindset this is another one of the railway focus sets and let’s see can we get anything in here to actually make this connect up so okay

Let’s see what we can do we’ve got this railway here but unfortunately this kind of just terminates and i don’t really see an easy way to make this extend outwards without literally just completely disassembling the model so maybe this should be like a stopping point for the railway because it seems

Like it kind of just stops here and i guess that is another problem with actually combining the railways this is a lot harder than i thought because it’s hard to get a solid through line to different sets let’s just bring all them over and see what we can do so this one actually

Might be a bit of a blessing in disguise because obviously each of the different pieces here can come apart and separate out and this is a perfectly serviceable curved piece so maybe what i should do is sacrifice this part of the nether railway and take some of these pieces to

Actually create some additional connections for the rest of the railway parts there so only if i have to let’s do that if we have to is there anything else i’m missing here with the railways i don’t think so let me see going back to our main railway here

Let’s kind of take a look at this whole structure right here again we have this segment that is a little bit hard to get out of so let’s see what happens if we just take one of these pieces let me move this aside take one of these

Can we make this just angle outward so i’m going to change the connection point to here see if we can squeeze this in and there already are some lego pieces there that’s going to make this a little bit more difficult so what if we just remove some of these

All right oh okay well that works here we have it now bending so now the railway just bends straight out so we can actually go outwards here which is very nice uh let’s see what else we can do so that actually gives us a lot more

Freedom we also have a bit of a connector piece that might come in handy later on so i’m going to set this one aside as well let’s see what have we got so can we attach it no not there yet it’s not quite long enough maybe we can

Attach it here then we have to do something creative with how this is set up so okay this can attach right here very easily so let me just remove one of these segments here and get this all set up let’s go here come on get these pieces all back in

And this might require some major major rebuilding okay but there we have it now this segment is fully connected up i had to remove this wall which was blocking the railway so i’ll just keep that right there so i don’t lose it and let’s see what else have we got here so okay

Some random bits and pieces of blocks that i definitely am going to regret taking apart from the official sets but now we have a few options because this goes out this way if it’s possible to remove the action feature here there’s a bit of an action feature that allows you

To blow up the tracks which is a fun feature but obviously we do not want to have our tracks to be blown up here unfortunately it’s actuated right here so i don’t know if we can get an easy way around this unless we may have to remove the function entirely

I don’t know how i feel about completely modifying the set so let’s see what can we do here the track goes this way and it kind of goes down a little bit i guess we can sort of pretend like this is a continuation of the track

Maybe if we have to and then now we can connect up something like this right here let’s actually get some bricks in there to connect this up fully or at least attach it by a couple studs just so this is actually fully attached on and yeah i guess you can pretend that

This is a continuation of the railway system obviously this could really use a couple more pieces but i think that generally does the trick okay-ish it’s not perfect i think there’s probably a better way to do it but maybe i think that’s the best we got so

Next up i kind of want to integrate this section right here so let’s see what do we have with this part you have oh hmm interesting this may actually come in handy it’s a part of exploding railway here if i’m not able to actually hook up this

Railway i might just lay this down right here and allow me to actually use this as a connecting point as you can see i’m putting this down right here and let’s see if that works okay so we’ve got this got that down i guess that could kind of work i don’t

Really know how convinced i am with exactly how everything comes together i’m going to need a bit of a spacer underneath here let’s see can we get a flat tile piece to use here for my lego parts bin perhaps okay so this this works this is pretty good and now we can

Connect this here and have a continuous track all right perfect cool all right so we have connected this part but now this mine actually goes nowhere so let’s see what we can do about that can i actually remove some of these modules no just everything everything here is one structure that’s

A little disappointing i would have wanted to remove some of these modules right here um because otherwise i don’t necessarily know if i can do anything with the railroad tracks here they’re nice to have but i can’t really use them it feels like a bit of a waste to me

Maybe there’s a way i can just remove the plates here but i really don’t want to disassemble any set more than i need to so let’s set this aside for now and we can just pretend it’s kind of part of the diorama with some other minecarts on a similar level here

Now over here we have another interesting structure this is on the base and is there anything i can do with attachment points or we may just have to get very creative in terms of how this in particular is attached as well so let’s see we just need a few more tracks here that

Actually connect these two pieces because otherwise the rails are lining up as you can see i just need a few more track pieces i think it’s time that i just steal it from this set it feels a little bit bad literally just taking a plate out but i honestly think that

Might be what we have to do i just need to remember where i got it from and let’s see if we can just press this all the way down so this just needs to be directly on the studs do i really want to completely take this

Apart yeah let’s do it let’s do it let’s do it okay so we’re going to completely disassemble one of the railway tracks right here i am definitely going to regret this but hey it’s going to look cool when you have the track going through the entire

Thing so i say it’s worth it and it’s lego anyway so i can always look at the instructions and rebuild it if i need to so i’m gonna lay down some track here lay down some track here with this just loosely i’m gonna purposefully make it

Pretty loose and there we have it okay so now this part is attached i’m gonna put this plate back just so i know that this goes back here and i don’t accidentally forget the track is supposed to go on this particular set i don’t think i’m

Going to forget so i think we’ll be fine and now i think we have to detach this part because now we need another connector and i think that now it’s time to actually introduce the nether so i am going to take this and let’s see what can we do

Here because now this is hitting this element so i think we might have to just can we disassemble this easily or remove this plate easily i don’t feel happy about that it’s a little okay well this this whole thing comes off i guess so now we can put this in here okay well

That works a lot of effort just to introduce this one piece but i guess it works out okay-ish let’s kind of line this back up so that at least it kind of feels like it’s in the same biome or the same area at least okay so that that kind of works out and

Now we have a connection to the nether here so as you can see here it might be a little bit difficult to see exactly how this is all set up but i’ve literally got the mine track fully connected from this to this to this to this to this and now

To this so pretty happy with how i actually was able to get that set up and now obviously this kind of bridges us over to the nether on this area i again stole a few segments from this particular track so we may have to get a little creative in terms of how the

Railway is set up here but i’m sure we can figure it out i mean nothing too too complicated so i do want to start off let’s just say this is going upwards and let’s see this is connecting maybe we need to rotate this here so now this immediately goes up

This one curves around so i’m actually going to take this brick here have it attached such that it’s curving around at a slope here and then we can just arc this around like so perfect uh let’s see that correct kind of creates a loop actually that makes a pretty perfect loop so let

Me just take this curved piece put it here so now we have this perfect loop there you go just in case you want to go alongside there and then we can just connect this out to other parts of the nether okay perfect so this is pretty

Nice because now i think all the track sections are fairly well connected and we have this module that we can place somewhere if we actually need to use it at some other point in the model here i’m gonna set it aside here for now because i do want to introduce all of

The other nether pieces here it’s got a bit of a smaller polybag build there actually and now let’s see what else we can do with this area so we’re gonna have to have this terminate at something important i’m going to say it’s going to terminate at one of the nether bridges

Here we actually got two different lego nether bridge sets which are very nice to get and we actually can try to connect these into a much more longer bridge or maybe a larger diorama if it’s impossible to connect them to a longer bridge so again just want to bring over

All the nether stuff here and get this all fully attached to something a little bit larger i think we’ve gotten all the nether stuff that we have so again over here we’ve got a large sum of different bits and pieces of the nether and there’s also one more

Portal to connect the nether the overworld so that might allow us to introduce a few other play features on the other side to kind of have the nether be surrounded by two layers of overworld that’s just an idea we’ll see if that works out but let’s bring over all of our

Stuff here so the idea that i’m having is that we had a ton of overworld stuff there and what if we have a ton of nether stuff in the middle and we use this portal piece here to connect the nether back to more overworld on this

Side so we kind of have a longer diorama it might not work it might it might feel a little bit disjointed but let’s just see how that looks uh first of all maybe the tracks here are leading you to one of the bridges so let’s just kind of have that terminate right there

And let’s see how long we can make this i think we can really make this a cool looking long type of build can i attach some parts of the bridge because it kind of looks like the bridge is attached do i need to rotate it maybe the other way

Let’s get the other bridge here and see how this looks this bridge actually can do a right angle as well so that’s pretty useful in case we ever need to actually move stuff around here let me see what is the best configuration for our setup here

Huh okay i think we’re gonna wanna hmm let’s let’s do something like this so we can have it stretched this way maybe and like this we actually can have a bit of a connection point here so it seems like you get up the bridge onto this part right here and

Then we can connect this aspect of the nether bridge as well it’s not quite perfect you kind of have to imagine that they’re connected but it’s close enough i would say so we’ve got this area here so now we actually have a longer bridge section that connects us over to that way it

Almost kind of feels like you’re going along the bridge there i guess if you really want to use your imagination there and there’s some more brick pieces here so i’m just going to kind of put these all around the display i want to really feel like this is a true large

Diorama come to life so let’s just kind of place these segments here and there i may move these around if i see fit if there’s other spots that might be a little bit better for them but for now let’s just kind of set this up here maybe we can put that

This feels a little out of place maybe i’ll just put this here to kind of add some depth to the railway there that could that could work yeah so now we have this part which is actually part of one of the newer minecraft updates it is the nether

Although it is a completely different area of it so maybe if i just attach that here this feels like a different area of nether and then we have some of that teal piece here so we can connect up this element right here and there you go

We have our portal back to the overworld now this obviously could work as either in the nether or in the overworld but i feel like with the lava vibe of this dual set it’s just a cool thing to have in the nether in general so i’m just

Going to attach it right there and i think that fits in pretty well at home okay so that’s another taken care of and are we sure we are done with the section here i think there’s a little bit more that i can do with this part right here especially because i didn’t really

Connect up these areas so let’s just try to play around with it a little bit i’m going to put this railway cart just kind of randomly there and this is really the main section that i want to mess around with so you can put that there

Maybe here but then it kind of blocks the angle of the mountain cave here maybe you can kind of put it on the back side here make it feel like an extension to the mountain cave i think that kind of works that really kind of feels like it

Is part of the diorama okay i’m pretty happy with that because these are some of the taller minecraft sets and then we can get to some of the shorter stuff once we go through the nether passageway so you can kind of imagine your player starts here you go through the nether

And you come out somewhere completely different to find some more stuff that’s a pretty fun setup let’s see what we can do here so our portal here allows us to travel from the nether back to the overworld i don’t know what we’re going to do with the end

Yet we have two different ender dragons there is an end portal that i have so we’re going to set it aside for later it’s a surprise tool that will help us later and i will put these away for now and we’ll figure out where to put them later on

So moving onwards to this stuff there’s a lot of really classic minecraft sets here some of my favorite things we’ve gotten from minecraft oops before we go we should put in some of the mobs in the nether as well these gas just kind of sit there they don’t really have any

Major attachment points so i’m just going to try to place them on high up points and make it work another railway piece right there we’re going to do a railway section at the end as well as one of the nether slimes here let’s just kind of put them in a pretty

Prominent location i think it’s a nice little mob to get and a little spider as well okay so this over here is more civilian stuff we have some let’s see moving the camera upwards a little bit so we can see the stuff over here let’s try to kind of

Organize these into sections so we have some of the farmyard stuff here i think these two absolutely belong together with the yellow roofs we have the village set which is one of the largest minecraft sets definitely works as a complete unit i do not want to

Break that up we also have a desert village set which i feel like with enough modification could probably fit right there in the desert section of the village we have a player built fortress which honestly again kind of fits within the village area and then we just have a

Few different caves and houses here and there i think that modern tree house absolutely fits with the waterfall base which also has some modern architecture the first house here probably also kind of fits in with the city-like area and of course we have a few other biomes as

Well because we have some of the icy stuff and then some living area with farms so i want to make a massive player-built base that really feels like it was built by a player here so first of all i think what’s important is that we try to separate out stuff by bio

Because obviously these sand stuff should go with the other sand stuff got some jungle stuff here so the jungle tree house should absolutely go with the jungle temple as well as leading into some of the sand stuff so already i’m trying to trying to picture the biome

Here i think the swamp can lead into the jungle which leads into the jungle temple we’ve got a bit of sand here which can lead into the sand biome which leads into the sandy part of the village which connects our village the village connects us to the fortress and the

Fortress connects us to the rest of our living spaces across here i think that works let’s uh let’s go ahead and try it so okay what are we going to do let’s take first have the portal bring us the swamp i think that’s a pretty smart idea first

To kind of bridge these biomes together so we’re going to place this right here i think that works perfectly well now moving aside here let’s now take the jungle tree house and have the water connect here so i want to make the water kind of feel like it’s

Connecting to the biome kind of like this sure i think that works okay this also feels like it could be part of the swamp it kind of feels like a treehouse to me so if there’s a way that i can make this fit oh could this could this work does this

Fit in uh let’s see this is barely oh i think this fits i think this is i think this is gonna be good let’s see let’s see before we before we mess around with this here let me just make sure okay yeah yeah okay does that work oh that works perfectly

Yeah that’s a perfect fit okay perfect perfect uh let’s see what else have we got so set these aside for now we’ve got the jungle temple here now halfway through the video i’m just realizing that this is oh my goodness this is gonna look like a jumbled mess

By the time i’m done but hey you know what it was fun to put these together so i’m gonna say it was worth it but anyways we’ve got the jungle temple here i think that’s important to have in this section of the biome and ooh so the only

Problem is i wanted to use the sand here as a transition into these sandy areas of the biome what happens if i rotate this around does that even uh do we even still need i guess i guess it could work like this okay i think it could work like this

Yeah push that aside and then get this into here and get that into here so put that in there put that in here attach it like this i guess that kind of works can i move this aside a little bit yeah i can okay can i move this in and then shift everything

Shift this all inwards okay pretty happy with this layout uh let’s put the jungle temple here almost kind of make it feel like it is part of the nether here there’s like a dividing line that breaks up the nether to the overworld here going through the portal

And now we have the desert area that’s wide open perfect okay just what we were planning now we can take this desert outpost here put it along the side of the jungle treehouse right here so now this kind of is a perfect transition to the desert

Set this back here push this back a little bit as well i’ve got a stray enderman okay so first we’re going to take the desert village area which is this i want to rotate this around to have a good transition to the desert so let’s move this whole village structure

Around like so okay let’s do that what else have we got this is again some more village desert stuff that just came right out so this this is not actually attached okay so let’s see here put this desert building which is one of the newer sets actually this is one of the

Newer desert village style buildings which actually is a really nice style build i actually really do like how this one turned out uh let’s see we can put that is there a way that we can make this and we don’t need to have these attached either these can act on their own so

Let me try that first i’ll grab the carrots that i lost and some of this as well let’s see so desert biome let’s see can we can we configure it like this maybe maybe just have it attached around around the center here have this piece sitting here

And then we can just have the set up here bring the entire village over so that we have the whole village area that fully connects up here actually this is perfect i can make this part of the village all the way inwards to connect with the desert bio here and

Have this other desert building just sitting right in between them like this okay so this this this works i think this is a pretty good setup can we do anything else to fill in the gaps is there any other village related thing here i guess that we can get

The tiger adventures just a little ten dollar build here feels like it fits the same exact sort of biome that we’re setting up here so let’s just kind of wedge that into there okay so this like really just fits like a puzzle piece here i’m gonna move this around so you

Can see what i’m doing but as you can see it really just feels like it’s setting up a nice world and a puzzle piece everything really coming together and with that we can now move the fortress over and actually call it part of the village so i think the fortress

Should go here i’m going to get the house out of the way first so just kind of put that to the side there move the fortress over here well that works out pretty well pretty happy with that and there’s another kind of fortress style build with one of the more creative things i’m

Just going to put that alongside here because i feel like the architecture’s match does it fit better like this i think this this works this works this feels like a good complex that you have you go into here go into there hit up the traders on the way and this also is

A villager styled set which focuses on the villagers farming bees so i do want to incorporate that here somewhere it doesn’t need to be forced if i can’t actually put it in but i think this is a nice place for it feels like that fits fairly well okay any other villager

Focused stuff i know there’s probably a few more there’s a set that i’m missing from the village lineup it’s a small 10 set the melon farm but i think everything else here is pretty good let’s see okay so now of course we have the villagers we should introduce the pillagers as well i

Want to get over some of the pillager items because those make sense to spawn to attack a village so we’ve got some of their buildings here so let’s just kind of place these around in a village layout and just have this guy be just wreaking havoc in the center square

There to cause one of the village raids which we can see right there okay so pretty happy with how that looked let’s now move this around and see what we can do with this other side right here again we still have a lot more sets to go let me see what we can

Do about this layout right here so now i think it’s a good time to introduce maybe some of the style of living and just modern farming type stuff that could pretty much fit perfectly well with this sort of area so let me see we’ve got a few of the large

Scale animals which are specifically built to resemble the farms that people will use to actually demarcate certain animals like we have a sheep wool farm and a chicken farm here and there should be a big one as well so i think we can kind of get into that stuff let’s put

This house here feels like you can kind of just go along the street to this house let’s see i wanted to put the modern house besides the larger tree house so let’s first surround the main house with some of the animal aesthetic inspired uh buildings here so

This is the chicken coop and the sheep farm i think there’s some water here so we can make it seem like the water is flowing together this seems like it works out well maybe we can cause to integrate some of the river elements on this piece right here

Maybe make that sit there or just have the builds like this i think having them face each other is a pretty neat and fun little trick that you can do here okay so pretty happy with that um let’s see what else have we got a little bit with a creeper there kind of

Fill in some gaps again some more pillager inspired builds here which does fit in with the village aesthetic and we have a bit of a training grounds area as well so let’s kind of just put that uh that could fit like right here i think that

Fits in pretty well to kind of add some depth and world building here a bit of a panda farm as well i do want to link up the water elements so let’s kind of have the water also be connected to this area let’s actually move that put that in

Here put that there there we go okay that works uh set the end portal to the side i think the end portal will be the final destination of the journey here so i’m gonna set this over to the side and just move in some of these standard cave-like elements here again there’s

Some water here that i just want to take advantage of in terms of having a shared water spot kind of a pool or lake in the center there so we’re going to line that up here and maybe it’s a good time to introduce some of the mushroom islands which are again

Specifically water focused let’s see can we integrate some of the buildings here that works perfectly ah amazing okay like that there we go okay perfect and we have some more water areas so let’s kind of make this the beach side area with the pirate ship which i think works

Out pretty well so we’ve got the pirate ship right here so there we go that’s kind of the whole water area and i think i thought of a good way to introduce the icy biome because the ice biomes are surrounded by water so let’s just try to integrate some of those right here

Going to put this right in there and get our other igloo like i actually made two of these ones set these aside and put this in right there okay perfect all right so we have a bit of a biome grid set up like so i’m pretty proud of how that one actually turned

Out you can really see the water inspired there and we’re gonna be going through this entire thing later on so definitely it will become a lot more clear hopefully by the time we actually go through everything but now i think it’s time to introduce some of maybe the more modern style of

Elements with the houses as well as the farm stuff so before we get into that i want to specifically attach one of the caves here so we got one of the other caves but we have another one this is one of the first ones let’s just kind of there’s some

More water in that cave so let’s just kind of put that maybe we can put it here not too convinced with this placement let me see what is the best place to put this hmm that’s interesting now how are we going to do this maybe maybe here maybe here i think feels

Feels fine yeah that this feels pretty happy to me let’s now take some of the farm elements so we’ve got one of the farms here and this actually is perfect because there’s some water elements to the cave so we can have the water be flowing into the farm here

And we also have a piggy house this is a house right here with a bit of a waterfront at the front so maybe if we just move this to the side put the pig house here so you actually have the water flowing in does that fit not really can we

No that’s that’s good as it is let me think let me let me think here maybe we move this to the side put this in here instead and then we can have this flowing into it and the farm attached on here maybe let’s see how that looks uh

Yeah it’s okay i think it could be better what if we got rid of this put this here and set it up like this which now has a pool of water that everything is kind of gathering in as well as just some other spots for the villagers to sit i think that’s probably

The best configuration i’m going to get at this point so let’s move on to something else because this is already getting oh this this just pushed us out didn’t it this pushed out this whole base oh that’s annoying oh that’s not too bad actually that’s not too bad if i close this up

Yeah that’s okay okay problem solved we’re fine we’re fine uh everything’s fine here there’s no problem at all perfect there we go okay so what else do we have um yeah it really just seems like some of the more modern stuff left so we’re going to take

The modern waterfall base here and we’re going to actually set this aside as its own separate thing here so this is pretty interesting i don’t know why there’s a zombie with a shovel right there but okay we’ve got this right here i think it’s good to

Kind of set this aside to demarcate this land barrier and i wanted to take the modern tree house and specifically put that alongside the more modern waterfall base as well so let’s try to take this larger build and put it right here oh that’s perfect there we go okay

Very nice very nice very nice very nice okay perfect perfect and here we have a bit of a base over there move some of this to the side i don’t remember where some of the stuff goes and all right so we are almost done the only thing that kind of doesn’t really

Fit in here is the ocean monument because that specifically is supposed to be underwater i guess maybe we can pretend like someone drained it and now it’s just a temple sitting on land i don’t know that kind of fits in here with the rest of the ocean theme stuff

But it’s a little bit of a stretch i will admit that down here we also have a coral reef build which is an amazing build that also kind of feels a little bit out of place here however there is a perfect spot for it literally it fits in perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle

Right in here so i am not complaining about that we’re gonna fit that in right there like a jigsaw puzzle look at how well that piece fits in very very nice how that particular element fit in right here and there we go so let’s put the dolphin in the middle got a treasure

Chest in there as well okay so we are almost nearing the conclusion here we have one of these sky towers let’s just kind of put that here because it is on a white cloudy base i think that fits fairly well get some of the other land pieces there

All right uh what else oh the farmland areas okay so we’ve got two of the farm areas here i kind of forgot about um yeah i kind of forgot about the iron fleet here okay so farm houses i think it’s perfectly fine to just put them right here oh that actually works really

Well it’s not even really a compromise that just works totally well in general and can we put the other one if there’s somewhere i can put the other smaller piece of the uh the stables here alongside the farmhouse maybe it’s on the back yeah i think this works out pretty well okay

Problem solved okay finally let’s now go to the end because that is basically the last thing we have to do here we have our end portal let me just kind of zoom out here so you can sort of see where the layout is going in particular we’ve got the layout here and now

We can have it loop back around to where we started back to here which is nice there’s also a lot of snowy aspects here so this is pretty perfect because it connects right to the snowy biomes we can have that connect right there and this is our portal to the end perfect so

I’m just going to put the end stuff right behind there and we’re actually going to act like there’s a loop here so you start here go all the way through here and make it way to the back so that’s actually a really cool setup i really like how that works out let’s

Grab this here please don’t fall over and for whatever reason now two ender dragons have taken over the end because why not it’s lego so now there’s two of them maybe they’re fighting each other maybe they’re trying to assert dominance here so maybe when you get there you

Don’t even have to fight them at all they’re just gonna try to fight each other but yep here we have them facing each other and there we have it that is most of the minecraft stuff besides just a few things for the minecraft action game that actually isn’t related to the core

Game but we’ll just kind of scatter those here and there as well because they just don’t generally work as good fill-in scenery bits so let’s kind of put that there maybe by the jungle part we have some other bits and pieces here of different minifigures and different outfits and whatnot

Using their weapons and all sorts of different tools on this particular area here so let’s just kind of get that set up we have a tnt cannon i don’t know you can have that set up right there just filling in some gaps here random enderman is standing right

There random cave spider i don’t know where we’re going to put in um all right let’s put him put him somewhere there that works i guess nothing too too special going on with this one and yeah that’s really honestly that that basically sums it up we almost have

Every single set managed to be fit inside this massive diorama very exciting because this is something i’ve been wanting to do for a long long time but i wasn’t really sure exactly where to put everything together or if it would actually look good together but honestly i’m pretty impressed by how all

This looks together let’s just set aside some of the boss fight creatures here and voila we are good to go almost once we put this down okay all right i am very excited because now is the moment of truth let’s see if we can track the journey of one single

Minifigure across this entire diorama okay so now it’s time to track the journey of a minecart or a minecraft player all throughout the entire diorama we have built here from the entrance of the minecraft rails all the way through the nether onto the next part of the overworld the jungle the village area

Over here the desert and then up to these snowy areas to the end portal and finally to the end so let’s see how that all looks i’m quite excited to see how this all comes together in general so first of all let’s just uh take our boy

Steve here kind of it’s like a standard traditional one to get for this kind of build and actually we’re gonna start him off here this it actually does have an elevator so you can bring him down or you can bring him up get him started on

His journey so he is all the way up and ready to go so let’s now move him down and just kind of move him along the tracks and he will encounter some mine carts on the way and we’ll have to push them out of the way because we are just

Following him so you move the mine cart down the track here and let’s just get rid of this for now man i would have loved this as a kid i mean i’m loving it right now but as a kid i would have gone crazy to have something like this and

Moving around to the back here we now get into the main section so we could of course have him go back up the elevator you can see the empty spot right there is where the elevator docked but instead let’s have him move onwards to our next official set so let’s turn

Our boy right here and continue the cartway onto the next portion going through the mountain cave here going all the way through all right so going all the way through going past back around the mountain cave set and then we go to the 2014 mindset so this was the very first standard

Minecraft mine we ever got and to this day it’s still one of the largest ones so we can have him go up the ramp but to be honest there’s not really anything he can do up there because this track doesn’t really lead anywhere i guess he

Could just go up park his car here do some mining around the mine fight some zombies spiders what not and then turn his cart around and head all the way back down so let’s now move down the track here this is kind of on the base of the cart

System getting the other cart out of the way let’s now go through this bottom piece here we have him now rounding the curves here and thanks to the nether railway set we were able to introduce the curved element at a very crucial point the curved element right there for the

Railroad track so let’s get our guy all the way through here make the curve around and now we’ve made it to one of the more modern sets the creeper mine so he could stop here do some mining wait for some of the pieces to kind of fall down the mechanism here or

Back up and we’re ready to go out the front so bring him out to the front here he now emerges from the creeper mine and we can get him to go through the custom railway here oh let’s get this out of the way first so underneath the archway here oh he’s kind

Of hitting this is not built too too well you can’t actually get the guy in there if he’s holding a sword that’s unfortunate so put your sword down steve okay now you’re gonna barely fit through oh man this is a is there something catching here no i feel like honestly that’s kind of

An oversight i feel like it’s kind of dumb to make a minecart railway set and not allow you to pass your figures through the railway so let’s just pretend he goes through here i mean the empty minecart can but that’s no fun set our guy back here and now finally we

Can actually go to some of the other sets that actually have the railways built in so hopefully it won’t be that big of a problem up here we have a nether portal so after he passes some of the village area this is kind of one of the newer sandy biomes with the llamas

And the traders right here so stocks up on some gear here let’s now go through the portal now we have made it into the nether itself and this actually is a pretty cool loop so let me just get his sword reattached here so it doesn’t keep on

Falling off and now if he wants to he can go up here and can he please can he please go underneath okay so i guess he he does okay so he does fit we’re just going to remove the sword for now makes it up to here

Ish it’s a little bit of a tight fit but we made it through okay goes around the track here goes all the way down and down here so he could have just gone the easy way and just looped around this way but hey this is more fun so

Set aside this one let’s continue our journey and right here is where our journey ends and notice that this railway actually has a fun feature where as you ride along here the slime is going to the magma block is going to jump up and down

So that’s just a fun feature to have for the railway but now we are done so let’s remove our guy and have him kind of journey through the rest of the world so come on steve let’s get your sword here and bring you through the rest of the

Entire village so first of all now we are in the nether so we have to be very cautious there’s lots of enemies around in the nether like this large-scale magma cube hopping up and down i think they’ll definitely pose a threat to steve get those out of the way and let’s

Just kind of ignore the wither i don’t think we’re going to be beating him today so get across here go across this bridge here go through some ghasts and then we make it to this next level we have to fight some blazes next this one has a fun play feature where you twist

It and the blaze itself will spin so maybe we can enact some battles with our steve figure here but honestly i think we’ve seen enough of the nether there is enough stuff that we’ve seen here so now let’s just kind of fight our way through here say hi to our companions and make

Our way through the next portal the way that this portal works is actually a completely different mechanism so let’s kind of get our guy all set up to exit the nether you can actually see this play feature involves a ruined portal where you kind of have to put on the

Right amount of pieces because this is supposed to be a ruined portal you have the portal be fully completed here with the right number of obsidian blocks that i’ve mined we can make it back to the surface put the portal up here activates the portal go all the way through and

Maybe by then we’ll have upgraded to netherright armor so now we have some netherride to actually go ahead and continue on our journey so let’s do just that and now we’ve made it to the swamp so first off we have a witch’s hut with

A witch to fight so we can take a boat to the hut get the treasure from there now we can go all the way through from the swamp to the jungle tree house here be careful of the jungle abomination from one of the games you can see

The jungle treehouse right here so we can do some rest here kind of stock up on some tools rest in the bed save our save points here so there you go now we’re on the bottom and we’ve made it to some of the desert biomes be careful of

Some of the exploding sand pieces there’s a bit of a desert outpost here which we can again stay in to stock up for the player and we can move on from the outpost which also has a bit of a boat area too as you can see here

There’s a launching off point for a boat for a player to go in the water but let’s just start off here and now we’ve made it to the first part of the village here we have our desert village here it’s kind of under siege by some pillagers i guess we’ll have to fight

Them off first before continuing onwards so let’s get our our guy here move him alongside the village here wow this is who have not played with lego like this for a long time this is a lot of fun so get our guy around here and now we’ve

Made it to the main village so the village here is actually a much more massive expansion than you may seem because you can actually go inside the fortress to stock up on supplies here so let’s uh get some supplies here do some trading over here and we can move on to

Another gatehouse fortress right there in the back which is just directly connected here surrounded by a bit of a river or moat now we’ve made it to the back here you can observe some villagers doing some bee farming there’s another player in a fully kitted out elytra here as well so

That’s kind of a nice deal to have clearly this player has already been to the end so let’s keep moving here can’t be outdone by other players in this world and no no we’ve ran into some pillagers so after we fight these pillagers off in their little hut here

Where they’ve imprisoned an iron golem we can now continue onwards our journey to a more peaceful area here we have some of the large-scale animal-themed farms from a chicken to sheep to a pig all of these large-scale animals are really just for us to restock moving

Onwards now we have some more of the wilderness sections over here we have a lot of the cave sections just kind of the random cave sets that lego likes to do with lego minecraft they don’t mind to do a standard cave-like set here here honestly it’s really even hard to tell

The sets apart in this particular area they’re really all blending together which again is one of the strengths of lego minecraft look at how well all of these sets blend together and it’s really hard to tell where one set finishes and another set begins which again adds credence to the whole modular

Aspect of minecraft building but now we’ve got our guy let’s kind of have him continue to go on through and look at that we have discovered a shipwreck here with probably some hidden treasure this is kind of washed up on the shore but we can go in take a look inside and

Continue on to some of the mushroom islands as well from there the ice starts to form and the water turns to snow here we have two of the different snowy igloos thankfully we have a snow golem protecting us on an igloo here and some polar bears as well for one of the

Newer ones let’s rest up at one of these sky towers you can see another player with a full elytra who’s already been to the end and speaking of we should start getting there pretty soon take a slight detour at the ocean monument fight off some of the guardians until finally we are ready

To make our journey to the end and so here we are at the portal to the end after placing in all of the ender pearls and all the different eyes of enders we can now switch us over from the end portal location jump right in and use this slider right here to

Transport ourselves to the end dimension and so going into the portal we have now made it to the end where i don’t know why but there’s two different end dragons someone’s been fooling around with spawn commands i guess but here are the two different lego minecraft and related sets i’m actually kind of

Shocked that we haven’t gotten any other ones we got just one in 2014 for the first minecraft wave and then another smaller one for the ender dragon as well but nothing actually focusing on the brand new end expansions or the slightly newer end expansion so that is a

Surprise but let’s say we defeat the dragons now we can start all the way back at the beginning again and continue our journey from the start and that was this massive exercise in combining minecraft sets as you can see here this forms a very very impressive layout it’s

One of the largest layouts i’ve done in lego and it’s really just made by combining different bits and pieces of sets together one thing you may have also noticed in the video is that this took basically no rebuilding of any set other than having to take apart some of

The railway tracks at the initial part here to actually make a cohesive track particularly in this section here that just needed a much longer track on this platform everything else basically just stayed the same and it’s really a testament to how well the minecraft sets their design by looking at this and

Seeing that it feels like a full-on diorama i can clearly see that different bits and pieces are meant to fit within the same aesthetic like for instance the farms all kind of have the same style we’ve got a few different farms here and there there’s multiple different animal

Focus sets which again lend credence to this farm-like building and all in all this is just a really really fun diorama where you can clearly see the delineation between different biomes from the swamp or jungle here to the desert biome here to more of these standard plains villages

To the water themed biomes as well as leading into the ice biomes here again some more underwater stuff all the way to the end and of course as we move all around here it’s a really clear transition between here and the nether because legos release two different portal sets our first dual function

Portal and railway was right here which was extremely convenient to transition the tracks from the over world to the nether and then at the end here we have our second portal which gives us the ability to actually integrate this whole on nether section into the whole diorama itself while not feeling necessarily out

Of place or not really understanding how one player gets one place or another all in all this is a really really fun exercise i really enjoyed putting all of these sets together and again i do not really often get to play with my lego tons so this was just really really fun

It was just honestly kind of fun imagining these scenarios that a minifigure would get up to when traveling from point a to point b to point c and finally to point d and back to a again i would highly recommend playing around with these if you have

Even just two minecraft sets you can easily combine them more than one minecraft set is more fun and obviously as you can see here i had a lot of fun putting these together and i truly feel like the minecraft line is extremely underrated for lego sets especially

Because a lot of eiffels and myself included typically tend to disregard them as just some random stuff for kids to play with but this was really really fun and very very satisfying to put it all together in one day in the future if i ever have the chance to make a

Lego-like museum i absolutely will be putting this exact diorama or a massive minecraft diorama for lego in that much larger space i really wish that i honestly just had the space to leave this out and display it because it’s just a really cool thing to have on display unfortunately my one major

Display space is taken up by this massive underwater moc which i can’t really do anything about but i’m hoping one day maybe if i had some sort of a lego museum it would just be so cool to have a full table but for now i’m gonna have to disassemble them and put them

Back into those empty spaces in the drawers which is unfortunate but hey this was a really fun exercise and i’d love to hear what you think of this massive diorama so that was fun i’m going to say this right now hot take incoming minecraft is the original fantasy location based action theme that

Afolds have been asking for for years it’s been right here in front of all of us and we have not been paying attention to it and i for one am certainly much much more appreciative of the lego minecraft line after putting all these sets together it’s just super super fun

To kind of just feel like a kid again tracking the journey of a single minifigure across this massive world and i can’t wait to add in the 2022 sets because there’s still a lot more you can do with them speaking of them let’s just take a look at some of them right now

I’ve got the january 1st 2022 sets at a completely different location let’s see how those ones compare as well and i’m sure there’s a lot of great areas that i could actually plug them into this particular build that would really fit in all right so we’re back at my apartment

Here are some of the 2022 first half of the year lego minecraft sets obviously there’s going to be more coming out later this year but at the time of this recording these are just the newer ones that have been released you can see that they had a bit of an animal focus with

The two different animal lodges as well as a ninja theme with the monastery there i really do love the large scale animals so i’m glad that they’re continuing them as lego sets and we also have a bit of a mushroom nod which we haven’t gotten mooshrooms in quite a

While so it’s nice to see i can already imagine these sets fitting perfectly in the diorama especially the underwater stuff and the animal stuff so let’s just get back to there and take a look now all right so with that we have summed up this pretty fun journey taking a look at

Many of the different minecraft sets putting them all together in a diorama and it makes me again really appreciate lego minecraft as a theme i really truly feel like this is probably one of the most innovative action and adventure fantasy location based theme we’ve ever gotten from lego

In the modern time when we typically just get maybe one or two location sets per wave for some of lego’s original themes like for instance ninjago and monkeykid despite being really good themes are typically just focused on say a ton of vehicles and mechs and planes

And maybe if we’re lucky we’ll get a temple or a city or a location based set here and there which are always fantastic but always just stand alone as well these are not only location based as sets almost every single set by its nature has to be a different location

But they’re fully modular so you can put them all together they look really good together and again when you have them all together here it’s really hard to tell where the delineations between sets are sure for some it’s more obvious than others i think some of them like the

Ocean monuments stick out like a sore thumb and being the closest thing to what would be kind of a standard lego temple build and another theme but honestly a lot of this other stuff like different expansion packs to the farm or the village or different kind of animal

Farms over here just all sorts of really great stuff you can’t even tell where one set begins and another set ends so so so happy about this theme i again really really appreciate it after putting this all together and i do hope that maybe this may have changed some of

Your minds as well if you’ve been on the fence about lego minecraft if maybe you played minecraft as a kid but don’t really play it anymore or even if you’ve never played the game if you can get behind these style and aesthetics of this theme you can make amazing dioramas

Just by buying multiples of the official sets that’s all i have to say with this video i just kind of wanted to put this together i basically just documented a play session which i haven’t had in literally years so this was a really cathartic experience really enjoyed it

And let me know in the comments below have you ever done this with your own minecraft sets what do you think of lego minecraft as a theme do you agree or disagree with the thoughts i shared in this video of course let me know and i hope you enjoyed this definitely

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