Minecraft – Let’s Build a Fantasy Village – Alchemist’s Laboratory

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the christian bullion let’s build a fantasy village in the last episode we built a housing block for the residents of the village so now they have somewhere to sleep and stay and i’m inside one of those houses right now keeping warm

By the fire but in today’s build we’re going to move back towards a fantasy style theme we’re going to be making an alchemists laboratory now i do apologize in advance my voice may be a little bit rough this week because i’m recovering from a cold but if you want to follow me outside

I’ll show you where we’re setting up the alchemists laboratory so i’ve already placed the foundations and around the perimeter i’ve used some chiseled stone brick to make those cool sort of roman pillars around the perimeter and i’ve also used lapis lazuli blocks which give a cool blue cobblestone flooring effect in

This texture pack now these yellow wool blocks are not permanent they’re just here to show you the pattern i’ve used a minecraft circle pattern to make the circular portion of the alchemist laboratory and if you’d like to find out how to make a minecraft circle or you need to find a pattern for

Different sizes of circles you can just google image search minecraft circles and there is a bunch of reference images for you to use i’m going ahead here and starting to fill in the walls with white clay which in this texture pack is just the regular clay

And you may notice that i’m filling in the walls quite a lot faster than usual that’s because i’ve installed voxel sniper onto my server so voxel sniper is a minecraft world editing program and what that means for those of you not in the know is i basically have photoshop in minecraft now

So the function i was using was the copy paste function which allows me to literally copy a selection of blocks and paste them and i’m doing the same thing on the floor here but voxel sniper also has a lot of different brushes as they’re called like in photoshop that

Allow you to edit the terrain of your world which i may use later down the road in the build but for now i’m going to stick with the copy paste function and that alone gives me a lot of a lot of new versatility in my builds because i can

Quickly fill in large portions of a build that use the same repetitive design so i’m doing the same thing here i’m copying and pasting columns around the perimeter of the second floor and we’ll do the same thing with the clay wall and really quickly we’re going to flush

Out the alchemist laboratory you see in the background there there’s a watchtower i have done some building on the server actually at this point i’ve done a lot of building on the server outside of recording eventually i will do a tour and give you guys the show of the entire village but for

Now i’m just recording the things that are unique or cool and the alchemist laboratory i definitely think is cool it’s a unique building in the village so far it’s definitely using different design themes it’s got the white clay to give sort of a sterile science feel and those chiseled stone

Columns that we haven’t used anywhere in the build and i’ve also separated the different stories of the building with the black wool again a feature that we haven’t used in the build yet a lot of different colors and textures that we haven’t used yet in the village but that’s because

The alchemist tower really needs to stand out it’s a really unique building the alchemists are really unique people the circular portion of the alchemist laboratory is going to be an observatory and that’s because the alchemists maybe need somewhere where they can observe the stars because i don’t know i’m not

An alchemist but maybe some of their experiments are based around the alignment of the stars and the planets and that’s really why the alchemist tower is so unique alchemists are crazy men of science and magic they blend science and magic to make crazy experiments and discoveries and

Because of that we want to make sure that their laboratory is very unique very science fictiony and interesting looking it’s got to stand out from the rest of the architecture of the village so now we’re making the observatory at the top of the circular portion of the alchemist laboratory we’re using the same

Chiseled stone bricks to make those columns but we aren’t filling them in because this is an observatory they need to be able to look out and see the night sky we are putting a roof on this portion however and because we’ve used a circular base

We can’t use the same kind of roof that we’ve used in the rest of the build we’re going to make a dome so because of that we won’t be using the same stairs that we’ve been using to make roofs in the rest of the town instead we’re just going to use regular

Full bricks i’m using some red nether brick just to add a bit of different color to the build making sure that it’s not too monotonous and what i’ve done for the taper of this dome is i’ve just followed the same pattern of the circle but i’ve made the base of that

Dome two blocks high and every sequential piece that i taper inwards i’m going to make only one piece high now the reason for that is i didn’t want the dome to feel too shallow so i just wanted to start it off with one block of extra height and i’m not doing anything specially

Unique all i’m doing is moving inward incrementally by one block to make the dome taper inwards it’s right about here that i completely forgot what i was doing and i just kept going upwards which is not what we wanted to do because it made a pointed roof

So i remove that chisel away at those blocks to make sure that the dome stays domed and not pointed and there you go that’s our domed roof and as we have it that is the main shape of the alchemist laboratory now i’m adding to the perimeter of the

Open balcony for the square portion of the alchemist laboratory using the chiseled stone bricks to make some shorter columns on the corners of the balcony and this is this is an open balcony because the alchemists maybe maybe they just need somewhere to go out and and have their lunch

But uh it’s also probably important that they have somewhere accessible to fresh air when they’re doing a lot of experimenting with that who knows what poisonous gases it’s probably a good idea that they have some open-air access now because the alchemists are men of science i’m putting in some different

Lighting that we’ve used in the town so far those are redstone lamps i have them powered on top by a redstone block and then i’ve surrounded them with trapped doors closed to surrounding the redstone blocks you don’t see it and then i’ve just put some more of

Those daylight sensors that we used over in the blacksmith’s market stall just to make it look sciencey now for the windows i’m using blue stained panels because i wanted once again to keep sort of a science fictiony feel to the alchemist laboratory so i wanted some colored glass thinking it would

Look interesting and unique and it does but i do eventually remove that later in the build because the blue color wasn’t working i’m making some window treatments here now because we have the main shape of the building completed so as always i’m just going around to

The outside to make sure that the walls are not flat and to make sure that they have dimension so i’ve used trap doors there upside down red nether brick stairs and some nether brick posts i’m mimicking the same design theme from the top windows down to the bottom

And now i moved back to the balcony here because i did not like the way that that white clay looked as a as a barrier wall the balcony it was too flat i test out with some cobble walls i didn’t like those either and what i eventually do is i lay down

The perimeter of the floor with clay blocks you see me doing that right here and as for the barrier for the balcony i actually end up using iron fences and that’s something that we haven’t used in the village so far make sure to make it two blocks high

Just in case any of those alchemists have inhaled any noxious gases and we don’t want them loopy up on this balcony they might stumble over and fall so let’s just make sure they’re protected and now moving over to the circular portion of the observatory just to make sure that we add dimension

To all sides of the build once again i end up using the blue stained glass for the windows on the observatory but i do go back and change those i mimik it to all sides and then what i’m doing here is just looking for somewhere that i can add a bit of trim

To the observatory to make sure that it’s not too flat and monotonous we’ve got a lot of dimension right now going on in the square portion of the alchemist laboratory but not so much on the tower portion so i’m running around with red nether brick half slabs

And adding a trim right at the bottom of the black separations of each floor and just mimicking that around the entire perimeter of the building right here i’m coming around and just mimicking it around the square portion of the aqueous laboratory too and i ran into a problem i couldn’t put

Those half slabs on the same elevation that i had those trapped doors of the window treatments so momentarily i removed it and just brought it back around the circular tower portion but i didn’t like that i really wanted the trim to continue around the entire building

So that you got a sense that this was one connected building so i just removed those trapdoors and i continued with the red nether brick half slabs around the perimeter of both parts of the building and i do like the way it turned out remembering to add it to the dome as

Well to make sure that we carry the same design themes throughout every aspect of the build sometimes it’s easy to overlook portions like that where the the dome you kind of classify to yourself as a separate portion of the building but in reality when you look at the stories of the building

The dome is sort of like another story it really the flow is the same so we should add trim to the dome as well as each story of the building and now here i’ve copied using the copy and paste brush of voxel sniper those redstone lamps and i’m just toying around with

Some different configurations to see where to put them around the alchemist laboratory because the alchemist would probably light up the perimeter of their building with the same kind of technology that they’ve used inside and now we move around just to make sure that we have the same

Themes on all sides of our building because again it’s important to remember that builds are not just seen from one direction these are three dimensional objects and we need to pay attention to every side of the build so all we’re doing is copying the window trim i decided i didn’t like the redstone

Torches there there just wasn’t enough room and interesting i decided to take out the window trims we’ve used that in a lot of the builds so far in the village and i realized i wanted that white clay wall to stand out it makes the alchemist laboratory unique

And i didn’t feel it needed all the dimension in the nether brick fence posts on as a window trim and there you go that’s the alchemist laboratory so why don’t we take a look at some shots of the alchemist laboratory oh actually sorry guys before we take a look at any more shots

I forgot to show you one of the best parts of this build now we get a sneak peek at the inside of the alchemist laboratory with all their sciency bits and and bobs but there’s one piece the resistance of this build something that the alchemists have up

Their sleeve let’s take a minute to absorb in all the beauty of the interior but here we go the piece the resistance of the alchemist laboratory so wow and there you go guys i hope you enjoyed that little special surprise that the alchemist had in store for you

We’ve done a lot to make sure that the design features of the alchemist laboratory stayed science fictiony and magical but i hope you’ve enjoyed this episode and until next time bye you