Minecraft Realistic Street Tutorial

Hello my name is green and welcome back to another minecraft tutorial as you can see in front of me and from the title and thumbnail of this video i’m going to be showing you how to make a realistic street in minecraft so what i’ve got to show

You today is three examples so i’ve got this grey building here with a couple of variants on them a sandstone building and a red brick building and when combined together they look like a realistic early 20th century street and i absolutely love this style now this is a style that i haven’t really

Covered before except for in my evolution series so this video is going to be a bit longer and it’s going to take a bit more explaining than perhaps normal but i will take you through the theory the techniques and these individual designs so that you will be able to make any

Kind of building like these and hopefully by the end of it you’ll also be able to build in this style and create your own 19th or 20th century cities or houses or streets or whatever you’re trying to make and by the end of it hopefully you’ll be

Able to make a proper looking street like this with both sides complete with all the little details and trees and everything that you need in them each house has its own little flare a bit of distinguishing factor but making these buildings is actually quite easy surprisingly easy and before

I go into the details of the block for block time lapse tutorial i want to show you the theory and explain how these buildings work and why they look so nice so let’s head over to an example like this one now obviously i’ve not detailed this i’ve not stylized it it’s not using

A particular palette this is literally just to show you the three main parts because if you have this in mind when we’re doing this tutorial and when you’re making your ones you will really come to grips with this house design so there are three main parts to the building and

Then a few optional bits as well uh the bottom is the foundation this bit here is always one block forward and how high it goes is up to you sometimes you might want to have a lower foundation and this just helps the building look like it’s really sitting

On something solid you could have this go all the way above the door line maybe even incorporate some windows it’s up to you but you definitely want a baseline the second part is the wall itself now this includes the doors and many repeated patterns of windows as you can

See here obviously there’s no details here these are just plain windows but one of the biggest features is that it is very tall this building type would not work so well if your windows were only two by two i recommend going four five tall on your windows

So that you really get a sense of grandeur on these buildings they’re not particularly wide you know roughly between 15 and 20 blocks but they’re not particularly wide they’re nice and tall these really do imitate real life and then of course the third part which is very important but the most forgettable part

Is the lip at the top of the building now as you can see this one goes two blocks over the edge so it covers over the top of the base layer and then a little bit more now this overhang here really sort of sets this apart so when i

Look up i’m looking in at the building and then this lip here just focuses my eyes downwards into it it’s just a really nice bit of decoration those are the three main parts now obviously after that you can take the optional route of having a

Roof on the top no problem but that is again optional and that is basically the example of the building that is roughly every single one of our buildings it’s how it works so with that in mind we can now dive into the tutorial of this and really get

To grips with it and start making a few examples with the aim that you’ll be able to make pretty much any real-life building from london or any 20th century city like new york and be able to replicate it in minecraft and create your own city streets okay let’s begin

We’re going to start off by making the gray townhouse from right the start 15 blocks long along with stone brick and either side place some light gray concrete 28 blocks tall but i want to emphasize that you can use different dimensions to me this is just for those of you that

Really want to replicate it block for block that’s absolutely fine and i also want to stress that you can use a different palette as well you don’t need to use stone brick and you don’t need to use concrete if you don’t want to this is just what i chose so either side you

Need to put some stone brick towers up to that 28 block mark and then down the center you want to put another tower so that we’ve got three in total so it should look like that it’s a fairly easy start and this is a good way to start

Any one of these townhouses just starting with the frame of the front at the bottom we’re now going to start working out what the repeated pattern is going to be i started filling in the space with some stone and then having a few bricks that are protruding inwards

To it and this kind of helps highlight where the window’s going to be and i’ve left a space for it but when you get to the top of your window you need to kind of have a dividing sector between window one and window two and so on and so

Forth but once we have this pattern we will be able to repeat it so i got some stone brick staircase and placed it just along the top of the window and then placed a slab on the top that creates a quarter of a block line and then i put

Some stone brick a block behind and created another line that was slightly deeper this created two lines that were one smaller than the other and this is going to help divide you could just have one line there are so many options and then at the bottom i added that all

Important base layer that we talked about in our structural design and then i added in the windows and one of the most important bits that we didn’t really cover is the detailing above the window so i added a little windowsill at the bottom and i’m adding a little

Decoration above it both of them are very necessary for these to look good so i added some staircases along with some slabs and you will just need to experiment with that to see what works i would say you want it at least one block thick perhaps 1.5 but maybe don’t extend

Over two and make sure you’ve got plenty of bits that protrude and you’ve got some lines in it it’s very easy to do to experiment but it’s also quite easy to make it look a bit off sometimes you may even sit there for a few minutes

And go this doesn’t look right what am i doing wrong absolutely nothing just keep trying and experimenting until you get the one that fits the build that you’re doing or if you’re replicating it then it should be fairly simple as it’s just a bit of upside down staircases and using the

Slabs to kind of create that little protrusion out the sides so as you can see this is mainly just a repeated pattern one two three on the right and then two of them on the left so once you’ve got that one segment that’s only one one-sixth of the entire building you

Can just replicate it so all you need to do is get that little bit down get it looking as you want and then you can replicate it no problem now this sixth is where the door is going to be so this will always look a bit different so what

I decided to do with some quartz pillars either side of the space where the door is going to be and it’s going to mimic the size of the windows roughly by adding in just a two wide door and then of course you need a bit of a staircase

Most townhouses in these kind of city style buildings usually have some kind of staircase up to the door that goes over the base layer that we talked about i made a very simple one with some stone brick walls and some staircases leading up to the door you can see that the

Window and the door are roughly in line and then we just need to decorate it most townhouses from those 20th century cities have some sort of window above the door and then they’ve got a more decorative archway or something similar now i decided to go for an archway but

Then basically put slabs on most layers to kind of give it an ornate feeling and then mixed in the door with normal logs so the door is quite an important part of it but there are so many designs i’d love to see what you guys come up with

And i’ll indeed show you a few variants on this as well so we’ve actually got two main parts of our building complete the wall being the main bit and it is as simple as that there is is just a front wall that’s one of the great things

About this now you may want to actually add in a pavement to your street just to make it seem like it’s actually connected to something obviously i’m in a flat world so it’s a bit different and you’ll see that i left a little l shape there that we’re going to come back to

Later but now it’s time to work on the third part of the building the overhang at the top now this is very similar to the example actually but i’m going to use a bit more of a better palette and stuff like that so i’ve used some of the

Chiseled stone brick and then interlaced it so you can see it’s already one block over now on either side of the concrete i’ve actually made it overhang even more so it looks like it’s connected and supported between them and then an upside down stone brick staircase that

Runs all the way along to create that final bit of overhang so it is two blocks over from the original wall now i’ve started to create a bit of a structure either side because we’re going to add a roof on this one it wouldn’t look quite right

If it didn’t have one so this roof is actually very very simple to do but in order for it to look right we need to add a few walls so the great thing about these kind of buildings is you only need to do the front face because the sides

Are usually going to have more houses and the back you may want to do a back of the house but even if you look in real life they were kind of just built for practicality and never for their looks it’s always the front of the building that was made to look really

Really impressive so once you’ve got a couple of walls in there and you can make it go as deep as you like all the way to the back you can make it 20 30 40 up to you then you want to go and make a nice archway over those walls making

Sure they’re always one or two blocks over your roof itself so it goes up two blocks at a time one two one two and then for the final one it’s just a one block flat surface so if i look quite close up you can see that the side walls

Go dip over the top of the roof itself and they have a bit of shape using some stone brick staircases and then you can go all the way back as far as you want i tend to leave these quite thin in that regard but i didn’t actually do any

Interior for this building at all so you may want to consider that it’s not a wide building you probably want a bit more space so for the back of this i’m basically going to keep it nice and plain because the front of the building is the detail

Part of the bit that you’re going to see and there’s going to be houses either side it’s unlikely unless you’ve got a full cityscape that you’re going to see this part of the building and if you put windows there you basically see all the way through to the other side which is

Not really what we want so just to keep it nice and simple i’m going to leave it blank but with the basics that we covered earlier and from this side you can see what the actual profile of the building looks so that you can see kind

Of how this works now i’m going to go back to this bit that we mentioned earlier this is actually where there’s going to be a little bit of a basement in real life these buildings basically go three up or three stories tall and then one or maybe even two down as well

They built underground and this was a way of letting in some light so it’s kind of like a front garden but also not but it also helps that it looks like more of the base layer so it’s one block out from the wall and then we’re going

To add an iron fence around it much like real life this is very much a londonesque style house and it’s made of cauldrons anvils cobblestone wool and some iron fence to give it some spikiness and that really helps sort of cement it and bring it round and help

Give this a bit of composition and one of the final things to do for this building in particular is of course a chimney london is famous for its chimneys going out of every building because of course there was no central heating back then and even now we add

Chimneys on our buildings in modern life but they don’t actually work they’re just for decoration so this is actually the same that it doesn’t work but it does decorate the building quite nicely so you want a nice and tall chimney with a little bit of detail much like the separators between

The windows so that is it that is the first one but of course the building on its own is quite nice but it doesn’t really constitute as a realistic street we’re going to need many more of these terraced houses for this to work so what i’m going to do is

Replicate this building over two more times and i’m going to show you some variations that you can make on this design in particular that will give you a bit more diversity in your street and once you’ve got one house you can actually reuse it several times even if

You don’t change it at all as long as you mix in some of the other ones so on this middle house we’re going to make a couple of changes some very simple ones we’re going to create more of a patio area instead of just a normal archway so

I did mention that the doorway was quite important and one way to make this look a bit nicer is to have your archway extend over into the street and create a little bit of a roof between the wall and that archway so again that was a very normal upside down staircase kind

Of archery with a few slabs either side i basically mimicked and imitated what was already on the wall but i just moved it a few blocks out and then added a roof in between it doesn’t really look that different but it’s enough to set this house apart from the other two and

One thing that i would also recommend that you do is add some dormers on the top of these buildings especially if they have a roof this space can look quite flat it can look quite rigid but if you add in some dormers especially if they’re sort of two or three wide

Depending on what your center block is you might have a one block or a two block center you want to add in something directly in the middle or two either side up to you again and i kind of imitated the very same archway that has the ornate bits of slabs either side

To give it some really nice details so you can really go nuts with the staircases and the slabs to give an ornate feel to these kind of things and then of course just connect it up to the roof add a window in and don’t forget to

Add a slab on the bottom that acts like a window ledge that’s very very important and if you zoom out you can see that this house has now been truly set apart from the other two and it doesn’t look like these two have just been copied over and over and over again

It really does look like each individual one has its own flavor another thing that you can do which is what we’re going to do on the third house is add in some flower beds or some overhanging flower beds almost like a balcony but instead we’re going to add in some plant life

Adding a bit of green and a bit of flowers as i’ve said in many videos before is a great way to add color to your building without having to go nuts on changing your palette so all i’ve done here is created a stone brick overhang using some grass in the middle

And given it a bit of a ledge to sit on so it’s just half a block to cover up the dirt underneath and make it nice and thick so that it looks like it’s really rigid and in place these 20th century houses really used quite a lot of stone

And they looked quite bulky i absolutely love this style so using a lot of upside down staircases and slabs this can look quite complicated but if you keep experimenting with it and just get it to sit nicely you could leave it fairly detailed or just very plain it’s up to

You then i would recommend using the two block high flowers and grass and ferns because they stick above the rest and then you might want to put some flowers in there as well admittedly i did use the small white flowers which doesn’t actually add that much color but we’ll

Just skip past that you could put any flowers that you want there at all because any color would work with this very gray and white palette also there are some trapdoors that are laid across they’re not tall enough to block the view of the flowers but they kind of

Match the whole gray and white thing going on here and there’s a good look at the underside of one of these flower beds and you can see how ornate it could get but you can also you know keep it nice and flat like some of the ones above and even here near the

Basement you could create even smaller flower beds just outside the window and you could do that on all of them on this particular design all of them are going to stretch the whole width of the building and it’s even going to go across the door so instead of having the

Archway the flower bed will sit just above the doorway and it’s just going to kind of mold into one so if you get a good look at the underside here there’s still the archway it still feels like it’s being held up but the flowers do

Sort of cut in across there’s a lot of opportunity to experiment here so if we take a step back and we have a look this is the ideal situation where you’ve got the same house three times but they clearly stand out from one another in some kind of way and that’s really

Important maybe on the first one there’s a tree and you can reuse these houses over and over again but of course that’s not quite enough it’s gonna be a very very gray build if our street is just composed of this house even if you changed up the pallet it would still

Look very samey so what we’re going to do is make a few more examples i did consider putting this video into like a series of making lots of different ones but i thought why not just do them all now so this is 17 blocks across the

Other one was an even number this one is an odd number this will determine whether it’s a one block center or a two block center which will slightly change how this build works out so as you can see i’ve extended the pathway all the way across and i’ve used smooth

Sandstone i’ve even put in four blocks there on the left where the door is going to be it kind of helps to plan ahead and then we’re going to build up six blocks using the smooth sandstone and this is going to be our base layer different to the last one our base layer

Is actually going to incorporate some windows and some of the door as well so there’s also a bit of a top to it using quartz quartz and sandstone quartz and these uh gray blocks are all really good combinations quartz is a very good one indeed and then if you use more

Sandstone make it 18 higher from the quartz not from the floor 18 high from the quartz all the way up of course you can make it one or two blocks higher it really doesn’t matter that much now for the base layer in this one it’s going to

Need a bit more attention than what we did before so this is one block forward and it’s kind of in line with the rest of the street all i did was highlight where the door is going to go where the window is going to go which is going to

Be two blocks wide as it typically is on these style buildings and then i just filled in the space with some staircases and that created quite a nice effect and don’t forget the window ledge with the quartz slab the door i have highlighted but that is about it for that little bit

There so the door is going to go here it’s going to have a little bit of an archway over it we can come back and detail this properly later on in the video for now we want to make sure we’ve got the structure of this and this style

Is going to be very similar to what we’ve done but also there’s going to be a slight difference as well so we’re going to again use the staircases in a flat wall to try and give it some depth but this time it’s going to be a consistent pattern and not

Just used to separate the windows so on the left there’s two blocks of staircase then two sand then staircase and two sand and then we’re going to place in where the windows are now i mentioned this was 17 wide for a reason because i already know exactly where my windows

Are going to go and how wide they are so that’s kind of something to take into consideration when you make these kind of buildings that you want to know what the width is and where your windows are going to sit because if they have an odd

Number you’re going to want to make sure it’s got at least a proper center to it now contrary to what we just did where the windows just sit in the wall we actually have a bit of a framework this time so we’ve got a window ledge which is actually upside down staircases this

Time and we’ve got two quartz pillars either side of our window this is really going to highlight where the windows are and they’re going to sit quite nicely and then the decoration on the top is similar to what we just did but i’m gonna go for a slightly different design

Where they overhang even more and they’re even more ornate so you can see that that covers three blocks in total you’ve got half of the bottom then two staircases then one at the top so you can go really nuts with these and that’s why these windows

Need to be so tall is because all of these ornate decorations will take up a lot of space and also it’s 17 blocks wide meaning that there is one block center meaning that there is a gap between those two window decorations that’s also something very important to to mention you don’t want those

Decorations to touch otherwise it will feel quite strange you want each window to kind of have its own thing for it and then replicate that above and this one’s only going to have a set of four windows because they are very very tall they’re very big they’re very ornate so

Overall that is it it’s a very simple repeated pattern for the wall the sand then the staircase then the sand and the staircase but the windows are what really make this happen and you can see that it’s got a framework with the smooth sandstone either side the base

Layer really gives it something to sit on and now we need to do the third part which is of course the overhang at the top this time we’re actually going to go for more of an ornate design i know i’ve said ornate quite a lot in this video

But it’s kind of important we’ve got a slab that runs across the top of this and we’ve got a slab underneath as well on the sides and in the middle because there’s a one block center you’re able to do that sort of thing and there’s a

Line in between you can see that there’s a gap and that gap is just going to make it look a lot nicer and match what we’ve done with the windows the slab underneath is to kind of make it look like they’re actually connected and supported and not just sitting on top of

Each other and then there’s quartz slab behind it just to give it a bit more depth and a bit more character and design and then there’s another bit of slab that goes all the way up so again i’ve got two blocks that overhang into the street and it connects quite

Nicely to the next door neighbor that’s something you should also consider if the terraced house to your left or right is one block back and your overhang is sitting on nothing it’s not going to look quite right so for the roof of this one i have opted to do a

Roof on this one it’s very similar but it’s just a stone brick with a staircase on the top then another stone brick with a staircase on the top all the way up to the top where there’s just a cobblestone wall upside down that runs all the way

Across to the end and then of course adding in the chimney afterwards the chimney is quite an important part do not forget it because it does look quite strange without it it is it is a very very nice addition to it and it’s of course made of sandstone as the rest of

This building i think this particular building is my favorite out of all the ones in the realistic street and i would even say you could replicate this even more one two three four more times because these do have a very nice segmented repeated pattern the last one

That we’re going to do is a red brick building now this one is less reminiscent of london and more into the territory of a new york style but i wanted to really cover a good few designs so that you can make a realistic street of your own

Making so what we’re going to do is again start with the very first base layer this time it’s sort of halfway between the two we’re going to create some windows in there but not the doorway so it’s three blocks tall and it just leaves enough space for some very

Small windows with upside down staircase arches and you’ll see that the slabs and the staircases are really really important here so we want an overall minimalist design but it’s the overall effect of the street which is going to be very nice so we’re going to have a

Staircase up to this one we didn’t on the last but this one we will do that depends how tall your base layer is so we’ve obviously put the door above these two windows on the left on this one so that’s kind of why the staircase has to

Be there and then we’re going to go for a red brick building doesn’t matter what you think about red brick it does actually make quite a nice pallet with the sandstone sandstone brick and stone and quartz and sandstone and quartz as well work really well as

Pallets but i’d love to see what you guys come up with for your pallets now 34 blocks up from the end of the sandstone base which makes it the tallest building in the entire street but also the thinnest at 14 blocks wide so you can really sort of go a little to

The left or right of whatever sizes i’ve done it’s completely up to you you can really work with this experiment but for the most part they need to be much taller than they are wide for the doorway here i’ve used nether brick because it fits in quite nicely with the

Normal brick itself and it’s a very similar design with the staircases and the slabs on the top now we need to work out what the repeater design is here and because of the style of this build we’re going to try and squeeze in more windows

Than we did in the other ones but detail them less so the bigger your windows are the more you want to detail them the smaller they are the more simple you want to keep them so we’re going to be using more and more staircases again because it gives that little bit of

Depth without going all the way back or going too far and then we’re going to work out exactly where these windows are going to go because it’s 14 blocks that makes it a two block centers there’s going to be one down the middle and two at the sides of course i already knew

Exactly where my windows were going to sit so make sure you try and plan out where your windows will go now for this one it’s not going to be the same repeated pattern all the way to the top what we’re actually going to do is create a halfway point so we’re going to

Create three sets of windows so two at the bottom three in the middle then three at the halfway point and you can see because these aren’t too tall we haven’t actually covered all of the building we’ve got maybe just over halfway so this is slightly different to

The other ones in terms of structure because we will just have a halfway point so i’m going to fill these in with windows and you can kind of get the idea of where this building is going and how it works you’ll notice that all of them use that staircase type

Way of detailing and they’ve all got window ledges and they’ve all got a little bit of detail above the window even if it is just a bit of polished granite like i have here but the main point is on this one we’re going to create a bit of a separation if you’ve

Got a really tall building and a repeated pattern you might want to try and break it up in some way and what i’m going to do here is try and create a bit of an overhang but then it goes straight back to the building so essentially try

And act like it’s going to be the overhang at the top but make it a slightly smaller perhaps and try and make sure it’s nice and connected like this one i’ve had to use staircases in between because obviously it’s a two block center so the block won’t sit

Nicely you want to make sure it’s nice and symmetrical but instead of just finishing the building there or making it overhang even more we’re just going to go all the way back and continue this building as if it’s going to the top itself you can mess around with the

Details as much as you like but the separation bit should be maybe two to three maybe 2.5 so i’m going to create a bit of the walls and we’re going to basically continue exactly what we were doing but there’s actually a slight variation on the windows for this half

Again it’s very simple staircase brick staircase brick staircase brick stake staircase brick and then that separation line between the two windows these windows are slightly bigger because they don’t have the polished granite they actually have just an archway made of staircases but you can see how that simple separation has made this building

Look a lot more easier to look at if it was all the same it might not seem like it’s detailed enough so finally the third part of this one again is to create the final overhang and i did use spruce wood for this one i’m not entirely sure why but it seemed

To fit quite nicely in with the palette but i’m sure there are many other blocks that would also do the same you need to kind of imagine what the overall effect is going to be it’s quite an odd combination of sandstone quartz brick and spruce but i think it works quite

Well so this overhang again goes two blocks over the edge but because the building’s so tall and it’s above its next door neighbor it doesn’t matter that it overhangs even further but it actually fits in really nicely maybe on its own it might look a bit strange but

In the context of the entire street it looks absolutely fantastic i’ve had a really good time designing all of these streets but i did actually get some inspiration from a planet minecraft project that i found on the internet so i’m going to link that down below

Because whoever it was that made it was absolutely amazing and inspired me to do this building for you today and to teach you how to build in this style and i’m really hoping that you will go on to make your own buildings and come up with your own designs using these techniques

And these styles i can’t wait to see what everybody comes up with this is a fantastic way to build thank you very much for watching and good bye