Minecraft Build School: Building Different Styles

Hey this video involves quite a lot of talking about the subject rather than building it yourself so just be prepared put your seatbelt on and let’s get into it hello my name is green and welcome back to another minecraft video and another episode of minecraft build

School today i want to talk to you about different minecraft styles now a lot of people say that they struggle they can only make one particular style of build well we’ve got a few examples here today of different styles of build and i’m going to talk about them briefly and try

And sort of allow you to break out of your comfort zone and sort of tell you the the theory behind each of these styles so that you can explore them a bit more without going into too much of a tutorial on each so what we’re going to start with is the

Modern house now there are hundreds if not thousands of modern house tutorials but people say i can’t build modern well it’s not strictly speaking true and i even did a video about how to make modern houses sort of from scratch using your own imagination you don’t

Have to follow a block for tutorial on this one so let’s take a look outside what we’ve got here is a pretty typical thing it’s quite simple even though it looks complicated it is quite simple there are three main parts to a modern build and they tend to be this one big

White bit here this makes up the sort of structure we have the supporting mechanism which tends to be out of wood and then we have the splash of color which is these or gray that you see there and a bit of orange in there as well so those those three

Things typically make up a house and often on a modern house it includes a lot of windows so as you can see there’s a lot of glass involved big open areas and that’s kind of a big feature of a modern house so let’s go over that a little bit more in detail so

Obviously what we’ve got here is a bunch of white concrete in a big almost an s formation and the whole point of this is is to be a bit thicker and this makes up the bulk of the house this is like the foundation level without this here the

House would not work whereas if you took out all this middle bit it would still kind of stand on its own as a shape as a structure whereas all this stuff would clearly just fall apart so when you’re sort of considering a modern house build that bit first and then everything

Else fits in nicely the other thing to point out is that there’s a lot of right angles in this it’s very square very brutalist this is the sort of style that we see even in real life on these kind of houses so once you’ve got something

Like that you don’t have to make an s shape you can you know do any kind of shape as long as there’s plenty of right angles in there you don’t tend to see a lot of curvature in it that is more resigned for very futuristic builds but once you’ve

Got that shape it’s then time to like you know fill it in and it’s typically done with a color usually wood of some kind now if anything this is used to support what’s already there so for in this example it got a big right angle but it’s not supported underneath on the

Left hand side so you can see that the wood there kind of does that and in fact this does here as well the stone brick and one of the key things on a modern house is having these overlapping layers so if you’ve got three different bits of

Structure so as you can see the wood sort of permeates through this all the way to the top instead of just having it so it’s kind of you know stops here they overlap quite a great deal and each one overlaps so you wouldn’t have for example

That you wouldn’t have them sort of hit each other side by side always have a bit of an overlap so it doesn’t matter what direction you see it from there is a gap between each line and that really helps sort of cement each one as its own individual structure and it’s the same

Here with the stone brick there’s just sort of a third color set in here as well and even out the back here with the details this is all just for the looks of it but they all overlap in some way so it gives the impression that each individual

Block is its own structure but they fit together perfectly almost like a little bit of a puzzle once you’ve got all your structure in place with with these kind of builds you typically then just try and detail it lots of big open windows they make up the majority of them it is really

Important in modern builds to have a lot of windows because it just mimics what we have in real life then once you’ve got your windows in you’ve got your basic shapes then you can go nuts with sort of these modern you know details and stuff even

Add a car in your details should really match what you’re building so for example there’s a modern car here now if there was a horse and carriage there instead of a car you might think oh that’s a bit weird so you really want everything to synergize together and it

Really helps cement it down let’s take a quick look inside because i know a lot of people are interested in interior now in a modern house there tends to be a very open plan as you can see the kitchen and the living room are only separated by one bit of decor and even

That is just a bit of freestanding wall pretty much and then from there you get like you know the extractor fan you get very sort of the same sort of color palette with the modern styles this is meant to be like a bit of modern art because it’s

Very abstract it’s just shulker boxes stacked on top of each other and if we head on upstairs there’s a well obviously this is a different kind of staircase but if we head on upstairs the rooms tend to be quite big again open lots of windows the modern house style

In minecraft kind of relies on mimicking what you did on the outside to the inside so you can see the stone bricks are here the spruce is here and then you decorate it very eloquently if you want to have a look at modern furniture i suggest just googling modern furniture

So that style is incredibly different to what we’re normally used to in building in minecraft but let’s head over to a slightly more common one which is the suburban house so this is much more of a common kind of house than the expensive modern house you would see there you’d typically expect someone

Very well well off to be living in something like that anyway so the key here is plenty of shape now we’ve obviously got some a-frames now this is normal this is sort of the triangular shape and there’s nothing wrong with just using basic staircase a-frames all the way to the top where

They meet in the middle and the other thing and i’ve gone over this and i will go over this in future videos over and over again is that you’ve got different colored for each bit so if i made this fully green just all of it the same

Green color it wouldn’t look as nice each part of the build looks separated because there’s a different color almost like the same with the modern house where you’ve got the spruce bit and the stone brick bit and the white bit well this is similar but we’re distinguishing

Each part of the build just by using a different bit of color and you don’t have to do that you could have the whole house as green but i do recommend in you know trying to mix up the palette a little bit on these sort of builds now

Let’s just talk about the shape for a moment so we talked about how there’s an a-frame which is totally normal but notice how there’s different sizes there’s lots of different shape a house doesn’t have to be a single block with one a-frame on it this one is made up of two major

A-frames and then one that goes straight through the middle this direction and that makes up the bulk of the house so basically you’re working with lots of rectangles and lots of a-frames so also notice how this a-frame is slightly lower than this one and they differ in

Size the work so there’s a lot of different things going on here to do with the shape but they are quite basic like this rectangle here is only a block bigger than the sort of the main one let’s call it and this one here is just

A smaller one that works all the way through and it doesn’t have to go through the inside like if we go through you can see that this stops here it’s just about the color change and the shape that sort of sets each part of this house apart the other things to

Mention are the setting again there is a modern garage other features include like the patio area this is quite a common thing particularly in sort of american builds let’s take a quick look on the inside now we’ve kind of got a modern suburban house so there won’t be too much

Difference between you know in what is in this one to the one we just looked at but you might find that the rooms are a little bit smaller on the inside not quite as open plan as the other one going upstairs you might find slightly smaller bedrooms but overall

You’d kind of expect your detailing to be the same yeah there’s there’s a lot of things going on in this style house but mainly for the exterior purposes there’s a lot going on with the shape of it and how you differentiate the different pallets so also notice that the roof is the same

Changing the roof color from bit to bit is a little bit risky in my opinion and another thing to mention is the overhang like there is two blocks of overhang from the wall that’s a very key part do not forget that that sort of thing you don’t have to

Mention too much i mean they all are separate from each other in their parts but this one because of the a-frame because of the very significant roof the the overhang is a very important part of it and remember there’s two floors to a house like this so you might have some

Parts that are only on one floor and then some of them have two it’s a good way to sort of half the house so that’s a quick look at the suburban style hopefully i’ve picked that apart so next up is everyone’s favorite the rustic house so there’s a big difference between this one

And the suburban house and it’s not just the palette yes this one’s mainly made out of wood and stone which is a big part of it but the main thing is the framing now this does not have any framing it’s just open walls what you would see in

You know common practice today but on this build there is a oak wood framing all the way around it goes in every single corner it halves the house it has an overhang so the reason it looks so rustic is because it looks like it’s made out of hanging

Timber and the the sort of the timber frames have been filled in so this is kind of what you would expect with rustic builds as long as you include this framework and include like filling it out with smaller windows than you would expect over there the windows are you know two

By two and maybe a little bit more that you know glass wasn’t as frequent it will look like it along with the palette using more of the earthy textures you got the wood the oak you know the spruce in here for the overhangs all of that

Kind of thing will contribute to it you can still include normal a-frames but another part of this style is by making the roof look kind of messy to be honest with you if you add lots of slabs and sort of make it not as uniform see that

Just goes straight along easy easy to do on the the suburban house but on this one you’ve kind of got to balance out it looking messy and then it looking right as well because if you go too nuts on it it could look a little bit

Imbalanced but you see how it’s got a little bit of everything going on here some of them are full block some of them are half and then it equals a very sort of cobbly handmade look build which is is kind of what we’re going for a rustic

Build will look cobbled together more so than the sort of factory packed house that you might expect over there so that’s the big difference these two are very similar in size and they’ve even got the same a-frames and stuff but there’s the framework and the pallet change make

A big difference on this particular build let’s take a quick look inside and again we’re matching the sort of palettes with the earthy frameworking bookshelves it’s very wooden so that’s the key difference here now if you’re going to make a rustic house i do recommend i’ve got a couple of really

Good tutorials that will show you a different variation on this house but the key thing here framework color set making it look a bit messy right let’s move on now this is a style that not many people tackle but i can try and go over it i’m not a

Particularly strong builder in this style now this is another one that you see in real life but in sort of asia now i don’t want to pin this down to any particular place but i did google japanese house when we were we were making this so so the big key here

Is that you’ve got a different style roof now roofs are so so important as we already know i mean the first build didn’t even have a roof at all it was just flat on the top it was different now obviously the iconic shape here is that these corners

Stick up a little bit and we have these very gentle a frames that aren’t as rigid as just straight up they sort of curve in a little bit first before they sort of peek at the top and mastering this style is definitely a bit of an art you need

To do a lot of research look at a lot of reference pictures and try and mimic the sort of shape and style that you would see on those images and then as for the underneath there’s it’s a it’s a totally different way of building so you’ve got a sort of pillar

Set not quite a framework but a pillar set here and you fill in the walls with white on top and wood on the bottom it could be something else but you get the idea you sort of match the colors of reality on this one since we are

Mimicking builds that exist in real life one of the key things are the sliding doors that are typical of this kind of household and we’ve mimicked that using wooden trap you could use any of them to be honest these ones are great because i got holes

In them and you can kind of see it gives it more airy feel and then on the inside we’ve got kind of similar thing here just trying to mimic some of the decorations that you would expect in this household and kind of try to mimic tatami even with with this oak wood

Floor and it’s got a different pattern as you go around with the rotations it’s a good little tip there rotate the blocks to try and get a pattern using the same particular block there so yeah mastering sort of the japanese style house or the asian style is is

Quite difficult another thing to add is again the setting we added the car in the first one the garage in the second one try adding a zen garden or something i know it’s very stereotypical but it does help cement what you are trying to make so you know if you’re out learning

People should be able to get it you know the rocks are very important in this kind of thing the other thing here is that in these very traditional houses now obviously modern houses in in asia look very different but in traditional ones you tend to have a platform raised

Off the ground and that’s a quite a key difference you don’t really tend to see that on like the rustic houses or the modern ones so that is a good key difference there so hopefully that’s kind of piqued your interest in this particular style and don’t be scared to

Try this one out it’s very difficult just give it a shot so let’s move on to a more modern style but more city-like so i’ve done a video on skyscrapers before but they are a different technique and style to everything else now you could make very very different skyscrapers to the

One i’ve made but the point here is that it’s got a repeated pattern one to you know these layers are all the same and then you’ve got a bit of variation in the shape and then you get the idea it’s a repeated pattern all the way to the top

On this particular skyscraper i’ve gone for a few things obviously there’s the repeated pattern there you can see the andesite working all the way through to the top in a pillar style but the actual sort of foundation level the quartz here does not remain the same some of it’s

One this bit is sort of the strengthening bit you got a big structure almost in the same sort of mindset as the first modern house this one has a key definition so without this structure here it would just look like a bunch of steel girders it wouldn’t look

Like it’s got any structure at all and likewise if the andesite pillars were taken out it would look like this is a rib cage in in the middle of the air so you’ve got to kind of consider how these two bits fit together now you don’t have

To do this entirely if you want a more window orientated one stick the pillars on the inside and then put all of these windows on the outside this one’s got more of an overhang feel now obviously some skyscrapers just have sort of the windows up there now i do recommend

Trying to add some depth to your skyscraper even if in reality they look like this all the way down to the bottom very flat it doesn’t translate very well into minecraft so i would definitely recommend adding little balconies that people can walk out on or even if it just means using

Pains to your advantage because these offer that little bit extra depth and it’s something to work with rather than just having an entire flat face so there’s a lot to say about skyscrapers in general but on the whole they’re a repeated pattern all the way to the top they’ve got a main structure

Made out of a key color and then you’ve got the support of everything else and it does work it does it does give the impression that this is a skyscraper but a skyscraper on its own looks very very odd i would recommend almost making a city you need to have

Lots of them together for the context of this one so you can’t just slap a zen garden on this one or the equivalent and have a skyscraper like the equivalent of a skyscraper setting is just more skyscrapers and not the same one i might add you need to try different ones and

That’s again mimicking real life trying to make something look at home and that’s kind of part of building is not just making the building look nice on its own but sort of the landscape around it how can you do that so with the japanese house with the zen

Garden and then the nature and you could just put a forest around this and it looked totally at home if you put a forest around this skyscraper it look abandoned i you know you’ve got to put more skyscrapers for this to look and feel like a city block so skyscrapers is

A whole different kettle of fish and that’s kind of why i’m going over these different styles to try and sort of pique your interest in different areas and finally you might seen out the corner of your eye it is the castle the sort of medieval style now this is again

Different to everything else but it’s similar to rustic in a way because we’re going back to these earthy feels more natural materials lots of stone lots of wood the difference here is that the walls are obviously made out of stone and again we’re matching or mimicking what would have been real-life fortresses so

They come in all different shapes and sizes but in the sort of fantasy style that we’re going for here you want to make up the majority of your wall out of stone and then create some sort of living spaces on top made out of wood

Now this is one particular way to do it you could make a fork completely out of stone i have done tutorials on that in the past obviously castles weren’t built with complex machinery like today so if you try and mimic a very hand built style you know by mixing in textures

Like this it makes it seem more messy and more realistic because of it now if we go through the gate here a couple of cool little tricks here is is the gate entrance which is made out of spruce fence but it’s also got buttons on the

Top this is obviously weld edited in but it’s such a cool little trick especially with dispensers on the floor with the holes in it just makes it look completely at home it’s cool little trick and then fire on top of the hoppers again got our own little building tricks going

On here but they do help set the scene so again in here this is a very typical thing of a castle to have a courtyard in the middle this is where people would gather horses again instead of a car just stick a mob there you got you know

Slightly bigger doorways not just the two by one you get bigger arches and you know anvils forges anything to make this feel more at home obviously there isn’t water coming out of castle walls but that sort of thing it fits this style immensely being able to walk along the walls so a

Lot of this comes down to how you plan out your castle and i’d say the key here is scale don’t make something too small i think this is probably one of the smallest castles that you could make that looks fairly formidable i tried making a tiny castle

In a video a long time ago maybe you guys remember it but it just it looked a bit puny so when it go when it comes to castles you really need to go big or make a rustic house so i would recommend sort of scaling up your builds on this and taking again

Another look at google look at the shapes that they do and try and mimic them so let’s talk briefly about the style of the roof now you could go for a bit more messy like the rustic style but these tend to be a bit more small now i wouldn’t say go

For giant a-frames like on the suburban house because i just don’t think it would fit most of the time building at medieval level at the castle level wasn’t very complex it was big walls that were very strong but when it came to timberwork and stuff it just wasn’t quite as strong

So i would recommend going smaller if you’ve got a big castle i would still make stuff this sort of size and attach it to the side of things to try and you know make that work so i think that’s kind of everything that i i’ve covered hopefully even just looking at all of

These builds will help you get some inspiration get you thinking about these different styles and if you struggle with different styles of building different styles in minecraft maybe you’re a one trick pony you’re definitely not you are all very very talented and if you can follow a block

For block tutorial you can definitely build something from your own mind in a different style it just takes practice the first time i made a house it wasn’t very good at all so i wouldn’t worry about trying things and you know maybe it doesn’t look right the first time but

Give it a few attempts even making this this went through a few iterations before we got to this and that leads me on to say thank you very much to jazzy and palestine who helped me put these together and i really hope that seeing these different kinds of styles

Sort of gives you more inclination to what you might give a go next maybe you’re finished with modern houses that you know in my opinion modern houses are actually the easiest to make once you’ve got this technique down and you know i did dedicate an entire video to coming up

With your own modern house if you follow the steps you’ll make something unique every single time suburban houses are really effective it’s got a simple building pattern with a really really nice result i think that all suburban houses usually look really good especially at the larger scale like that

Rustic houses are actually one of the hardest bits to make if you ask me i think those two examples were easier to make than a rustic house so all of these styles have their merits their pros and their cons and it depends what you’re into maybe you’re into making cityscapes

With giant skyscrapers or maybe you’re into the medieval fantasy where you want to make some small thoughts all of these are achievable and i hope that this has helped so the only thing left to say is thank you very very much for watching i hope you enjoyed this video and please

Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below and what you want to see next good bye you