Minecraft: Structure Building Techniques! | A Build A Day Challenge – Week 3

Hello everyone my name is Paulette moon and welcome back to week 3 of our year-long a build a day challenge for anyone new to this challenge the basic idea is that I create at least one build per day for a full 365 or 366 day

Duration in the last video we did a full week of organics and now we’re back to structures now that that’s out of the way let’s get into day 15 every day for the third week I researched traditional herim architecture from all over the world this involves bringing up the

Britannica and starting right from the top the first one to catch my eye were homes from Albania they seemed very rectangular in nature but exhibited somewhat flat roofs with curved corners I grabbed a white and brown palette based on my inspiration and went to town for this one I began building by

Figuring out what terrain I wish to build on my reference in mind at this sloping Street met with a gated driveway so I shaped it all out in stone with lapis marking areas for the structure to go and diamond marking very territory once that was established I blocked out

My base shape and refined oil blocks to help me get a basic idea of the composition I wanted after that is roughed out I just had to do a base replacement of my placeholder blocks to my chosen palette and then detailing could start acacia trapdoors reuses railings sprue slabs adorns the edges of

The roof for more shape and assorted dark oak blocks were added as roof supports in order to break up large blocks of color I added the diorite as edging along the bottom which helped form the foundation look once all the details are in I was able to work on the

Landscape with some simulated crop bushes to the side of the house and alternating grass blocks and concrete powder for a rolling Laurent field adding trees and broad rule together I find I love to add a gradient to the trees by starting with spruce at the bottom moving to birch and then using

Oak or acacia leaves at the top it just adds a bit more depth to the color palate and overall look in the ends this one didn’t feel all that close to the style I was going for but I think it turned out fairly cute regardless the

Base idea is that you learn new things as you go and find a building look that suits you for several months my home country Australia are being plagued with massive fires billions of animals have lost their lives hundreds of homes have been lost and many have lost loved ones never

To return and so this day the fires still run rampant in some areas they are slowly getting them under control but there’s still a few left to go on day 16 I wanted to show my love through a Minecraft build as well as challenge myself to make a traditional countryside

House from iron culture to start off I researched smaller country homes normally found in the desert outback this involved tin roof brick or wooden walls and small overlapped balconies of the front of the house I decided my palette was bricks and hardened clay for the walls with acacia planks and

Stripped logs jungle wood and sandstone for the roof this created a bit of a nice rusts look to it quite a few inspiration sources showed off the a free roof with some also meeting up in the middle like a triangular prism so I based my style of that curving it

Ever so slightly at the bottom to create the lip over the front entrance due to the dusty ground for my research I went for a coarse dirt ground with some granite rocks spread around to complete the scene I created a small shed or outhouse a gum tree and windmill

And a raised water tank I felt fairly happy with this one in the end and it was pretty cool to be able to build something originating from right country they three of week three was my attempt at a traditional home style from Thailand’s towards the end of it I

Wasn’t feeling well and decided to go back to it on a second day with a fresh mind and body to rethink the detailing I had done on the previous one I am glad I went back to it as I felt it was an honest large improvement regardless as

Usual I started blocking out my structure the inspiration sources I found typically had architecture raised off the ground so I put it on stilts to support the main section the roof of my sauce joined up at the topmost middle with some smaller a-frame dormer sections coming off the front I decided

To use a contrasting gray concrete for my roof pellet shade it with wool and terracotta to simulate texture the orange acacia vive I had going on with the walls acted as a nice separation from the roof where I also used the trapdoor equivalent for the balcony

Railings I felt they works nicely due to the straight horizontal and vertical lines simulating bars or wood of course all these colors were picked based on my inspiration as pictured yep I thought it was a gorgeous home to make and add my orange LED to using spruce

Trapdoors at the bottom of the pillars just as that extra needed shape and detail to the structure as well as utilizing barrels for horizontal line support although the spikes included on the roof within my reference image weren’t as prominent I also felt like exaggerating them a bit more on the

Build every bill that I make is typically accompanied with terrain so I moved on to that after I felt somewhat satisfied with the base structure and started to put together the scene I loved using green concrete powder as extra depth to the grass as it has a similar texture but a slight enough

Shades and mix in pretty well for a gradient going back to the build on the second day saw some extra lighting revision for the outdoor area at the front and slight details to just bring it all together the main part that felt uncomfortable was the terrain at the front I wanted to

Give it more purpose so I added a path that descended and extended the stone platform a bit further out to cover the seating area adding a foundation to the section also melted it with the terrain a bit more and allowed it to feel a part of

The structure day 18 was one of the biggest builds of made that week and in the challenge thus far I ended up basing this one on traditional Italian harima architecture in a city like location judging from my image search it came up with buildings packed quite tight together with plants intertwines

Throughout I loved the look of it and decided to try a small scene myself I’ve always wanted to go to Italy and specially Venice so it definitely was a built inspired from that my vision included buildings making their way up alongside a sloped clay road like stairs

Otherwise would with a small path that stemmed off from the side as a small walkway of sorts mixing in diagonal off axis and straight buildings all in one gave it a bit of flow and depth the build as I previously mentioned in week one of this challenge if I were building

These homes all straight the build will feel vastly more flat and less interesting to look at adding height to either side of the road envelops the player went on the ground and gives that populated feeling I was going for for the palette I felt that playing around

With different Browns and whites if at this soft and slightly warm atmosphere at the same time supporting the natural green of the plants while building I had three main book types hardened clay fern block and sandstone I alternated these three choices in order to create a separation between each building I added

Spruce and dark oak with my main planks of choice to alternate between for the roots in order to fill in some awkward areas that I felt ruins the flurry I’d added in a few balconies a bridge at the back to go over an archway made the

Scene feel like it could also keep going if I wanted to rather than being confined to the 2×2 junk area I admitted it it also served as a nice point of focus for the bills traditional Danish homes were the inspiration for day 19 I felt like trying to incorporate some

Sort of body of what I was in the build so I went with a canal that would run alongside the streets of buildings accompanied by a little bridge that went over the top to create more flow off to the side somewhat similar to the concept

Of the tunnel on the day prior I used my Italian build from the previous day as a bit of inspiration for trying some sort of diorama type mini build so it ended up as a town encased with a border however the elevation on this one wasn’t

As drastic as a lot of Danish homes I found on quite flat lands one mistake I made while making this however was that I added to high levels worth of homes but these particular buildings from Denmark were typically one rural buildings with open air above them I was

Given this feedback on Twitter and looking back at it I believed that to be true regardless I was still fairly okay with how it turned out as a general build as it started off inspired by that particular style and I added my own flat to me I’m sure one day I’ll give it

Another go with that feedback in mind the palette of the reference images I found were all fairly saturated ranging from bold red to a vibrant blue so I attempted to add that level of colour in the separate buildings are created a struggle I had while making this one is

That the buildings typically included some type of two-door vibe with small world details that displayed wooden beams crossing as supports this was very hard to replicate in Minecraft so I had to simplify it quite a bit yet at the same time add a bit of my own personal

Detailing as usual to tie the scene together I had to add some form of greenery kinda feels like it gives a bit more life to the build by day 20 I was slightly running out of time so decided to go for something a bit smaller while I was in California late

Last year I visited a Japanese tea garden in San Francisco it was an absolutely gorgeous garden and I came across a small gift shop within where I had to take a picture the structure had a very traditional Japanese architecture cabin feel to it so I felt inspired to try my hand at

Making something similar within minecraft I kept to a very Brown palette but break it up with some white walls on the side and sandstone or birch details I found putting a spruce sign on the side of a trap door gave me the balcony fencing I was aiming for and was super

Happy about that while building I definitely recommend trial in different ways you can make small details as you may find yourself pleasantly surprised or may even come up with some cool new way to make something by complete accident by the words of Bob Ross there are no mistakes just happy accidents in order

To get that very green nature feel I enveloped this structure in trees comprised of jungle wood and four different types of leaves including spruce birch oak and jungle I put together a few trees to pace around the side I also find adding a little bit of

Grass on top with well edit is more of a fluffy feel to it unfortunately it’s not possible in survival or vanilla creative but if you have worldedit as a plug-in on mod in your single-player client it’s well worth trying out in Japan you’ll typically find bamboo forests scattered around the

Country and I wish to add a bit of that in utilizing the new bamboo plants that came with 1.14 a couple days with just a bit of sugarcane as a farm for the countryside forest appeal some garden details and some white fence work to

Call it a day in the end I wasn’t too sure about the build but I think it could look alright in a logic context the final day of week 3 was inspired by Norwegian homes these particular choices of reference had the traits of brassy roofs wooden walls and balconies

Overlooking a bottom level alert based on this I went to town I just love me some in nature in order to put a bit of a spin on things I made the last one entirely on a diagonal plane I’m not sure if it was worth doing this in the end as it felt

Quite busy but it was somewhat fun to put together I tried to create some sort of palette contrast by making the walls a darker Brown but the shadows of the build seemed to eliminate that contrast a bit however I do build all of these in Rudy lighting so maybe turning it up could

Have proven a different result I love the shutter depth moody lighting adds the builds which is why I have that sitting on my building chuck me into survival and I’ll put it up all the way well hunters can’t see in caves with low brightness whatsoever

I guess this last day can be defined as yet another cabin but in a way it’s nice to see the difference of architecture between the two cultures side-by-side for this particular build I chose a more open grassy hill with only a couple trees here and there as per the

Photography references I found while researching adding that path cutting down the hill to me felt like it added a bit more interest and explore ability to the build and well that’s week three done what did you guys think of the different structure styles I’m very curious this challenge can be slightly

Stressful but I’ve also learnt so much while challenging myself to create builds out of my comfort zone not to mention its really upping my motivation for putting more effort into what I make building smaller than my previous massive scale allows me to focus on the minuscule details which was

Been really cool to try as usual if you guys would like to see the builds ahead of time I’m posting them daily on my Instagram and all Twitter which I’ll leave the links for learn I believe we’re up to week seven now so it worked quite a bit ahead thank you

All so much for watching and I’ll see you again in the coming weekend with a video on week 4 alright bye guys