5 Advanced City Building Tips for Minecraft

Welcome to five advanced tips for city building my name is andy is yoda now the roads that i’m placing in front of you right now took two minutes to place i’m speeding it up by two times so it’ll only take us a minute to watch but two

Minutes is not a long time to bang out these roads i’ve got some roads going north i’ve got some going south east and west so i’m using some very special building techniques which you could use to lay out a city on your world when you play minecraft

I’m just tidying up some details at this crossroads here and i’m going to show you exactly how this all works now to use these stencils in vauxhall sniper you’re going to need three things a server or server edition minecraft yes you can run server edition minecraft in your own little computer at home

Or access to a server which has got world edit and vauxhall sniper and look instant trees instant curvy roads it really is great fun when i build my cities with these techniques and i’m going to show them to you as well and i’m even putting some cars down as well

So thank you very much for hitting that like button the people who do that every episode i really do appreciate it okay a couple more cars to bang down and i’m going to show you exactly how this is done so close look we’ve got some stencils stencil roads dental cards and

Stenciled trees and all the curves and everything are stencils so this is tip number one i like to call it randy rhodes and let me show you exactly how this works i’m gonna place my first section of road and show you exactly how i did this okay you do need vauxhall

Sniper which uses the gunpowder and the arrow it doesn’t actually matter what you make the roads out of i’ve got my own texture pack here but you could just use any texture pack you like now the command you’re after here is slash b st for stencil the word full and then

The name of your stencil arms calling it road north the roads are going to be placed north it says stencil road north does not exist ready to be saved to so we need to save it first so you place with your arrow touch the first block

And then i’m going to reach down and touch that block there which is the second block fill in this gap with brick i said brick not grass and then i’m going to pick the copy point so there’s three points to copy arrow touching there boom that’s my copy point save this road north

Get my gun powder and i can start placing this road super simple isn’t it this is facing north my road is going to go north away from where i’m looking and it’s the easiest thing in the world to place it now some people might be asking why andy

Don’t use the stack command to stack your road well you can’t do this you can’t use a stack very easily to make your road drift round gentle curves just like that what do you think it’s super simple just to make your road deviate off to one side without much fuss at all

All you got to do is tidy up the little details here and again all these little side details whether you use grass whether you use brick it’s up to you what you make your road out of but i love doing it it’s really simple to use stencils now what you can

Do is use the slash u command slash u or slash u2 will undo two of the placements of stencil and because it’s a voxel sniper it actually works at a distance so you can actually just point at a distance and you can get the snipe to work

Um which is really handy you don’t need to be too close to what you’re doing all the time right i’m going to use the next stencil which i’ve already previously made called road south and that way i can turn around and i can bang out the

Road south here’s road east so slash b st full and road e i’ve already made all these stencils previously just exactly is the same as i showed you in the first one and then all i’ve got to do is tidy up the corners again very very quick and easy with the rebel

Brush there and it’s an instant north south and then east facing road absolutely love it and then if you want you can tidy up your junctions with some extra white lines some bushies trees lampposts waste bins whatever you like but you’ve got your basic roads made

Okay what you can do is actually make a big stencil to represent a curved road so here’s some i’ve built earlier i have built a curved road and i’ve duplicated it another three times rotating it each time to make roads facing in four different directions and that means i can actually

Place my curves instantly as well so what i want to do is use the same sort of command i’m facing north and this road is curving round towards the west so that’s the one i want so i’m going to call the slash bsd so it’s the brush stencil

Full i’m going to call it road cnw curve north to west it’s just my convention you could pick any name for these kirby roads that exists already but i’m going to just um run over it again you select that block to the other side of your stencil whatever stencil whatever curve you’ve

Made select it all with the first two clicks and then the third click selects the copy point of the stencil and that is saved as road cnw road curve north west and you can do the same with all the other roads and that means that when you’re ready to

Place with a gunpowder boom you get an instant curved road and it’s just fantastic fun ripping around your map putting roads absolutely all over the shop well played good game slash bst full and then that road c i think it was west south west south makes that hairpin bend

And it’s super simple also to make these roads go up a hill as well all you gotta do is place a block boom there you go you could even use the blocks of the hill as well but i’ve kind of dug into them a little bit as well but there we

Go the road is being placed into and up the hill you get the idea we’ve tidied up the bottom bit as well use some slabs to make it a more of a gentle slope you could use brick you could use brick slabs as well it doesn’t

Need to be my special texture pack we have retextured the red sandstone okay tip number two is trippy trees now warping to warp trees on my server brings me to a sectional map where i have imported the lenta brusha t t pack no tree pack these trees are

Available on planet minecraft and you can plunk them down in your server as a new map or maybe you could do it as uh just incorporating the stencils so this is the same command slash bsd but this time we’re going to put fill and then the

Name of the tree i’m going to call this tree your because it’s european tree 21 s i’ve already made this stencil but i’m going to show you again just to make sure you guys learn it so that exists but we’re going to go over it again and

Show you how to collect a stencil of retreats similar to the road we want to um select some points top and bottom of the object so this will be the first point here select it with the arrow destroy the block as well and then up here i’m going

To use a slash up one command which gives me a little bit of glass under my feet i can hit that and then oops destroy that glass as well and then i’m gonna pick this yellow block here as my copy point underneath the stencil that

Has saved as euro 21 s so i can go back and that means i can place this tree anywhere i want in the future just by using slash bst fill euro 21s and you can do that for all your trees isn’t it great now the reason you’re using fill instead of full is

There’s a bit of a difference between those two commands when you’re using stencils let me show you so imagine this is the side of a building and we’re going to stack the building up let’s just stack it up in 10 blocks okay so that’s my building

And i want to put a tree right close to the building so using my gunpowder to place the tree with the fill command means it won’t um place the tree into any existing blocks it will only fill in air blocks but if i was to put the wrong command in

Here and put slash bst full then that’s not a good way of placing trees as you can see it places the full stencil basically and doesn’t fill in the air now you want full for roads but you don’t want fool for trees you want the fill command

For trees okay what about those random trees i was placing at the start well if you use your ftp program to navigate to plugins and then voxel sniper and then find your stencil folder look i’ve got all these stencils in here of all the trees that i’ve

Already made i’m going to go to notepad and i’m going to make a stencil list so pasting in all those um stencils i want to remove all this information here so i’ve selected it i’m going to put it into find and replace and it’s replaced all that mess and

Again a dot v stencil i don’t need that as well so i’m going to put that in find and replace replace them all and that gives me a nice concise list of all the trees euro one two three and four big and small trees i’m going to call it trees i

Want save that text document and then what you want to do with that text document is just find the stencil lists folder in your voxel sniper plugin folder stencil lists with a capital l if that folder doesn’t exist you have to make it yourself i’ve got some stencil

Lists in there already and then all you want to do is upload that text document to your server into the plugins voxel sniper stencil list folder and that means that when you type in this command slash bsl for stencil list fill and then the name of your stencil

List trees i want was the one i just made that exists was loaded and i can use the gunpowder to go placing forests trees you’re a forester now look at all these tiny little trees i’m placing it’s kind of cute but i wanted the big one to finish up this segment

Give me a big tree come on yes there we go i’m happy now okay that brings us on to tip number three the plot thickens if you’re a server owner or you’ve got you’re in charge of a section of the server and you want to make some plots

Okay it’s not an ordinary flat plot which you could use the walls command to mark out the plot boundaries i’m going to use slash bs then slash v glowstone and that means i can use the gunpowder again to use glowstone here placing and marking out the outline of my plot

Over uneven territory and then you can assign your builder to build something nice in that location so slash bs and slash v glowstone and the gown powder is a nice tip tip number three brings us straight to tip number four i call it which way a lot of people have these

Highways in their server um double lane dual carriageway kind of thing but if you’re going that way how do you get over in that direction and if you’re on that road how do you how do you swap carriages well we’ve been playing about with some bridges underpasses and roundabouts or

Circular junctions and we’ve come up with this design so if you’re traveling on the right you can come off this runway here or exit get to that roundabout and choose which direction you want to go in so this junction which goes under the road here is very flexible because no matter which way

You’re traveling you can actually change and go back either way do a u-turn you can go left right it gets you absolutely anywhere so look at this diagram if you want to come onto my server the link to my website is in the description which gives you details of how to apply

To get onto my server as a guest we do have some details to put onto this road uh white lines and trees and bushes and to just to complete the bridge and tidy it up but you can see it’s a very flexible junction indeed i hope you do appreciate

That yeah if you do warp junction once you’ve got into my server now tip number five trim that boosh sometimes you have too much vegetation in the way and you want to make it a bit smoother so people can build you want to get rid of the

Trees and so on and you could use a replace command select the area and replace the grass the flowers the leaves and the wood the trouble with just a and of a naked replace command it leaves lines lines where there is a very straight line very unnatural where

You’ve got these trees kind of just finishing so i like these commands let me undo that and show me how to do how show you how to do this with voxel sniper so succession of commands what we want to do is slash bb to select the voxel

Sniper ball the brush type ball slash v0 which means we’re painting with air and then we’re going to type in vl and list all the materials we want to is mask these are all the materials that we’re actually going to replace with air so 31 1 for example is grass 38 3 was

Azure bluetooth the flower and so on think 37 was dandelion we also need slash pnm which means we’re going to include those materials and then using the gunpowder we can simply paint with this ball of air now that brush is a little bit small so

Slash b12 makes a nice big ball of air only selecting the bushes the plants whatever we have chosen so it’s how to use a mask with vauxhall sniper it’s really good it’s really accurate you can use a nice big size 12 ball to get the rough work done just like that and the

Great thing about it is you can choose to leave certain kinds of vegetation around as well for example i’m leaving this big long double grass in place and all the red flowers in place see told you it’s there um what you can also do is uh reduce the size of the

Brush as well so if i do slash b3 it’s a nice small brush and there we go we are just trimming those bushies uh basically block by block but nothing else is getting destroyed it’s a long-range tool don’t forget so actually you could trim somebody else’s bush from a long way away

Um yeah only ever do that in minecraft i don’t know what i’m saying but anyway i hope you have enjoyed this video i’m gonna tidy up these bushies here if you did hit that thumbs up button and yeah thank you so so much for watching i hope

You like these tips let me know what you think and yeah i mean the blocks be with you