Minecraft MEGA AXOLOTL VS ELDER GUARDIAN Build | 1.17 Update Inspired!

Hello everyone my name is pleasant moon and welcome back to another video this video is a long time coming as i’ve had the build done for some time now however i’ve just now gotten around to editing all that sweet sweet video footage i’m excited to present to you my elder guardian and

Axolotl build this build is directly inspired by 1.17 and the teasers shown at minecraft live where they had shown a peek of a player in an ocean monument fighting an elder guardian alongside their faithful cute axolotl mobs and i wanted to build just that but in my own way spicing up the scene

With a touch of fantasy and style this build also has its own article on minecraft.net if you’d like to give that a read i’ll leave a link down below in the description of this video with all that said let’s get into the build process when it came to building the elder

Guardian i imagined them as some sort of eyeball creature with spikes and a tail and that’s exactly what i ended up creating starting off a sphere utilizing placeholder lapis blocks i began to mold my shape i suppose i like to consider the stage of the build to be like sculpting

As if you were to shape it with clay this is the moment where i grab the ball brush with voxel sniper and create my rough shape with each sphere as i go once that is done i then smooth it over to create that soft curvature of the

Eyeball head and the tail out the back i avoid creating too many diagonal flat areas to ensure the smooth organic flow carries throughout the belt for the eye itself i simply hollowed out a semi-sphere shape into the larger zone in order to embed the eyeball into the socket

Keep in mind i’m probably going to be saying sphere a lot in this video yeah anyway creating the eyelid over the top gave it that extra bump on the body all the while helping to create the intimidating drooped eyelid to be seen later in the process now the eye isn’t attached to the

External layer so i did dig a few layers behind the eyelid to separate the two pieces from one another afterwards came the fun part the spikes i think my favorite thing to make in any build whether it be structural or organic are spikes i don’t know why they just look cool okay

Creating a thick face and then tapering to a fine point allowed that spiky shape as seen on the elder guardian mob itself however of course because i was taking this in my own fantasy direction i added some subtle curves as if they were flowing through the water

I imagine sea creatures to be quite elegant regardless if they are horrifying monsters or not so it had to get its beautification with each spike added i had referenced the placement on the real guardian and i’m quite happy with how they turned out because the guardian shape is quite

Simple i could already move on to the coloring of this creature i went through a few palette iterations moving from purple to blue and then to a prismarine aqua overall i got the feeling that despite the spikes being purple on the elder guardian the aqua shades blended quite nicely with the body itself

And i eventually decided to take my own route the eye in the model has a slight red hue so i went for a contrasting bronze look in the eyeball itself for my build looking closely at my reference i noticed there seemed to be cracks running through it

So i added some of my own cutting a block deep into the shape had successfully created the crevice i was going for so i darkened it further with some cyan terracotta all the while adding some smooth color gradients around the build for light simulation and color depth

Without this stage the build would feel flat and i really wanted this to pop in its own stylistic way utilizing stone light gray concrete the base clay diorate and then white concrete i was able to create that shadow and highlight shift throughout the body after a while of avoiding the tail

Entirely because i wasn’t happy with it i decided it was too stiff and restarted that portion completely in the tail reboot i created more flow that was similar to the spikes allowing that stylistic elegance decision to carry on right to the tip of the tail even with the revision i still felt like

I needed to take a step back a bit so i decided to move on to making some small cute axolotls unfortunately the design of these did not come as easily as i hoped they would creating organics at a smaller scale is quite challenging the smaller you go the cuter it gets

The details i was hoping to put in had ended up a little awkward not to mention i would really love some more subtle pink blocks i struggled getting the right tones that i wanted for your standard pink axe a little you’ve pretty much got white terracotta and

That’s it in terms of pink a good gradient anyway everything else is so vibrant anyway in time i created larger axolotls that were able to hold more of the shape and position i was going for but i’d still kept the smaller version alongside them for a little bit of variance and scale

In real life axolotls can be pink black and green among many more as their common colors so i decided to base mine off that when this build was created axolotl mob colours weren’t really final so i had to take some guesses as to what colours the ones in minecraft specifically

Might be these creatures also tend to have a very transparent tail so i ended up using some glass to simulate that as well as various fences to act as their small feather-like earpieces they’re so fluffy i mean they look fluffy anyway after taking a break from the tail with

The axolotls i moved back to it to finish up that colour touch that it needed this is the time that the build itself had to be placed in a proper environment the easiest and most fun way i could think of doing that is by grabbing some vanilla generated

Terrain and then smoothing it over while using my voxel sniper brush tool i did this part while i was live on twitch and unfortunately forgot to hit record while smoothing typical so this is what some mountains looked like after being smoothed over from there i was able to use the angle

Mask within world edit to color my terrain the mask allows me to select all blocks under a desired sloped degree so then i can then recolour them this was done colour by colour decreasing the mask angle each time until my shallowest layer of grain was placed on top

Using this just makes the process quite a lot faster for me to continue building all the important details atop the terrain itself i felt that a large scaled kelp plant was a nice accompaniment to the older guardian and created my own variations to then paste around the build and decorate the environment

Smaller forms of coral were added alongside some small puffer fish from my ability series week 2 video and i was pretty happy with how it was all coming together in the end i decided to place the whole build on a type of box in order to restrict it to its own space

Without it the build would feel like it could stretch for miles on such a flat creative world and with that added i called this creation done it was a super fun piece to make while i hadn’t made any large scale organics in some time and i was able to see my own portrayal

Of a fantasy version of that scary elder guardian mob what do you guys think are you excited for the 1.17 cave update to release let me know in the comments below now i don’t usually ask this but if you enjoyed the video and would like to see more please consider subscribing to the

Channel where i’ll have many more wacky build creations and tutorials to come thank you guys so so much for watching and i’ll see you in the next one bye guys goodbye he’s a cool little guardian yes he’s very cute see everyone bye you