8 Underwater Minecraft House Ideas!

Due to the update aquatic added in minecraft underwater houses have become extremely popular and you can understand why the atmosphere down here is absolutely incredible but there’s one part of the ocean that is a little bit of a struggle to come up with ideas for and that’s the coral biome so what i

Want to show you today are a bunch of underwater house designs that will hopefully get you thinking outside of the box when building underwater and as you can see we’re in a coral reef biome which involves many different colors and very very bright ones at that so if you can’t beat them

Join them it can be very very difficult to build with all of these colors but if we build in the exact same colors or clothes too we can make a house that matches rather well then the first one that i want to show you is this one it’s

A very modern looking house and it blends seamlessly into its surroundings so there’s a few things to mention and despite this looking rather complex it’s surprisingly easy to build the first thing that i do want to mention is that it is attached to a bit of terrain at

The back you could make this freestanding however i think it’s much easier to build if you’ve got something to back it up onto so the premise behind this one is that you take a few colors in this case we’ve got magenta and purple terracotta and you place the trim block

As one line making a shape and then you connect it up with whatever now i’ve made a very very rough shape you take the second one and you create an overhang so it’s only one block over the edge so that you’ve got a bit of shape but with that one block difference from

There you connect up the glass and you’ve got yourself a very basic framework to a house the other thing to mention is that it’s not all on the same y-coordinate so it goes slightly up at this end and there’s even another section so imagine that you’ve just made

This just pop another one a few blocks higher and you’ve got yourself a really nice feature now the other thing is that it’s decorated with a bunch of coral gardens which is pretty unique it even has a few fences that make it look like it’s held up even though it’s underwater it

Doesn’t need to be floating that’s why it’s kind of connected to some terrain at the back and it’s got these little stilts on as well the roof is fairly flat made out of full blocks but there’s a trim one and then there’s the darker color on the inside so as you can see

This is a really nice house it works really well so it’s quite a simple but effective building technique to use now if we go on the inside you’ll be surprised at how much space there actually is in here you could utilize this quite well and the main thing is

Because there is so much glass especially in a coral reef biome you get such a great view and i think that’s the main reason to build underwater at least for myself is the views underneath and if you do build onto the back of a bit of terrain there’s plenty of space for

You to build whatever you need underground itself so if i dig dug up here there’s yep bit of sand there already so that gives you oh i’ve met oh dear i’ve yeah i’ve ruined this house already is a bad thing about building underwater is that you can easily break through

Cause a bit of a landslide and a bit of a mess as well however this is a very simple way to build a modern house and this would indeed work above water as well however i think you can agree in this setting with all of these bright colors

It really does fit quite nicely now the next build that i want to show you is more of a conceptual one and you might recognize this or maybe not this is a very old-fashioned sea diving helmet and it used to be made out of metal essentially really heavy metal and that

Would help weigh the person down but this is basically just a giant version of that so it’s kind of an organic when it comes to the build itself and you’ll notice that it’s actually got a cracked glass on the front this is where the person would view out and it’s got a

Pretty unique entrance but let’s talk about the outside for a minute first so this build was made out of stripped acacia and stripped birch wood now that’s pretty important because it gives this really nice faded appearance now i do know that the textures aren’t quite finished but i doubt they’re going to

Change too much from what we’re seeing here under water it makes it seem like it’s really waterlogged and faded and i just absolutely love the appearance of this so as for the shape it is simple but not simple to build it builds itself up and then essentially has a dome on the top

With a few rings around with a larger ring on the front and that’s basically it it doesn’t have too many details except for this little bit at the back which is meant to be kind of like the pipe or a hook then there’s a little nozzle on the front and

Then a bit of iron bars but other than that the main thing is to try and get that giant sphere just right and that can be incredibly difficult to do building circles in minecraft especially very small ones is tough if we built this any smaller it wouldn’t look the same at all

But it is pretty sizable and you’ll see that this entrance is actually made out of reeds so all this is doing is blocking the water from coming in and it has the added effect of making it seem like it’s got a grill on the front because these used to have like a little

Iron bar type thing which is really cool so this is kind of accurate even if it is a bit weird on the inside and as you can see there’s quite a lot of space to work with in here and of course there’s enough space to go underground as well

If you wish most of these because they are on the sea floor will give you that option but because the acacia and birch is fairly easy to get your hands on this is made out of almost entirely wood so if you can build underwater and put up

With the drowning part or even if you can get your hands on a conduit this is a really rad idea for an underwater house this one was placed in the coral biome but i’m pretty sure that this would work really deep down it just looks really nice surrounded by the

Bright colours as it does make it look even more faded than it already does so let’s move on to the next one shall we now you might have expected this because this isn’t going to be the only shell house now this one is a spiral design

And this one is slightly harder to make i’m afraid because it’s a bit of a unique shape building at an angle is already tough but building an angle then giving it ridges is even tougher so it’s basically trying to mimic a shell from real life and then

It’s got all the space that you need inside on top of that we’ve got some highlights for some windows and it doesn’t have to be an entirely white build you could mimic loads of colors the best thing to do on this case would be to go online have a look at some

Shells it may not even be this one in particular i’m not very well versed on the names of shells but you could just find any and i’m pretty sure it would look really at home underwater so let’s go and take a look inside this pretty unique house

This is one of the few designs that works really well with multiple layers of course the further up the house you go the less space you get all the way up to the top where there’s a tiny bedroom and a little bit of space in here you can

Add little touches such as coral on the top of course lighting it up with sea pickles helps an awful lot and then adding chimneys and all that kind of stuff you can really get creative if you wanted to you could even build a mollusk inside you know poking its head out and

Saying hello because they do sort of scuttle along the floor or if you wanted to make it even more realistic as if you didn’t need to you could create a little trail from the mollusk all the way like over here just creating a ridge that would make it seem even more like it’s

At home any kind of shell design should work underwater and this isn’t even the last one that i’m going to show you today so let’s bear that in mind and move on to the next one now the next one i want to show you is kind of one you might have expected as

Well this is an atlantis style build or a ruins now this is the only build that i’m going to show you today that doesn’t have an interior because it has a nice feature of a conduit inside of the top of this dome and that of course will give you unlimited

Breathing and swimming etcetera is a really useful thing so there is no air pocket in this build at all so all of the chests and the furnaces and the crafting table they’re just all out here the only thing you really need air for is when you’re starting to farm in which

Case why not go straight underground for that as there’s plenty of space down there and you don’t really want to ruin the effect going on here i did try and make this with some air in it however it looked much more at home especially in an atlantis style theme

Just completely waterlogged and this house on its own wouldn’t look quite right if it wasn’t for all of the ruins next to it this is what really makes it feel at home are these abandoned and very old looking pillars i want to briefly talk about making ruins because

It’s not quite as easy as it seems there’s a bit of an art to it you can just make a bunch of pillars then break it down a little bit but it doesn’t quite work so you see that this bottom half is relatively intact but at the top

What we’ve got is exactly the same thing but some of it is broken off now that’s fine but the next one along is even more ruined and that one is the most ruined so this one doesn’t match at all i’ve knocked off some of the blocks and put

In some slabs and this one has even more some of it should be like a staircase there but it’s just a slab underneath and it gets progressively lower as it does and this helps feed your eyes into the main thing which is the house itself now over here we’ve got another one but

This one is connected up slightly and then we got a ruined at the end so if you’re going to do something like this and this one is full but this one is broken make sure you put some debris on the floor as well so it actually looks

Like it’s fallen apart and sunken down and don’t forget to texture the floor around it as well all of that together really binds it in and works as one complete build all right let’s move on to the next one shall we this is the

Next one that i want to show you and it rather cleverly uses the conduit as a pearl that’s right this is another shell but it belongs to an oyster this time and this is another one that fits absolutely perfectly within the barrier reef biome so this is not easy to make

This went over several iterations before it reached here the key is to start at the back and gradually work your way forward but also make sure you have a really nice ovular shape organics like this can be really tough but all i would say is persevere with it and you’ll get

It in the end and don’t be afraid to completely knock it down and start again but anyway all this does is serves as an entrance to our base because the base itself is actually all underground it this is yeah entirely an underground base so what i’ve done here is i’ve got

A trapdoor which is waterlogged with water and then i’ve got another quartz lab here which is also waterlogged and when you open it the water will flow down and not spread everywhere ruining all of your carpets like i did earlier so the inside of this does look the same

As like the oyster up there it’s all made out of quartz but all it does is lead downstairs into a proper cave system since i thought that you know this is underground i might as well keep it within that underground theming and i think this works really well the

Transition from nature to nature works really really well in this case now i’ve gone over making this sort of thing in the past the key is to knock out a shape and then build lots of arches over each wall and the opposite so it kind of circles round and you create a really

Three-dimensional space and then you just fill in all of these right angles that would look rather out of place with some slabs and that creates this really smooth appearance you add some of these cobblestone walls as stalactites or is it stalagmites i always forget and you get this really nice appearance and you

Mix in some stone brick along with cobblestone slabs of course in the new 1.14 update we will get stone slabs so you could imagine that this would have no texture whatsoever because we could do the whole thing with the stone texture now that would be really really

Cool but it would be a very different result as well and then you decorate it with the normal stuff bed bookshelf your chests everything you might need i’ve kept it fairly minimalist because i want to keep the overall effect of this cave and the dripping also makes it really

Feel like this is an underwater cave so this is pretty much a cave house but the entrance is fairly underwater themed if only i could leave the house it doesn’t want me to leave so this was a pretty unique one but i’ve got a few

More to show you this one is also more organic than it is structural but it is rather ironic because what we’ve got here is the reverse fishbowl this is kind of like sandy’s house from spongebob squarepants where we’ve got a fishbowl but instead of water on the

Inside there’s air on the inside and it’s all about the shape now this is kind of reminiscent of my underwater bottle you know the shipwreck in the bottle and this has a really nice wide fishbowl shape now the best thing that i can suggest to do if you’re going to be

Making one of these is to google up some pictures of fishbowls and try and recreate it as much as possible so on the top we have a little stopper made out of wood and then some decorations to make it seem like it’s been here a long time and overgrown and the entrance is

Very simple it’s uh just a normal very slow entrance as you fall down the water onto a ladder now the only thing that i will say is that the interior because it has all of these organics in like the fish and some grass custom-made stuff

There’s not a lot of space in here for your house but if you made it big enough you would probably find that you could make a whole bunch of stuff in here and it’s mainly a gimmicky kind of house but just like i did with the shipwreck

In a bottle it does serve as a pretty nice and unique starter house even if it is a little bit of a pain now remember draining the water out of here is not an easy task so if you’re going to be doing this make sure you’ve got

Some sponges on you the next house that i want to show you is the turtle house now because turtles are in minecraft it seems pretty fitting that we actually have a turtle shell house itself now this is another organic build and again these big curved designs can be a little

Bit tricky but if you give it enough practice you’ll be able to make one like that one like this and even the diving helmet it just takes a little bit of time to get used to it with this one it’s got a really nice green concrete trim and it’s got all the terracotta

Blocks mixed in there as well giving it that spotty appearance and the main thing here is we’ve got a nice chimney everything else is just incorporated underneath now this stripped birch log is almost identical to the underside of the turtle so that works quite well and then as you might expect

It looks like this on the inside it does look exactly like the inside of a turtle shell there’s actually a surprising amount of space in here the only thing i might change here is the fireplace by adding a couple of fence gates and then you could create like a bubble elevator that goes

Either in or out or if you’re really good at redstone you could create one that does both the other thing that you might want to consider if you make this turtle house is take it even further and make sure you hatch loads of turtles on beaches nearby so that this place

Could be absolutely swimming with turtles you could even hatch a bunch inside and then let them roam free and they will always return here so this could become a hub of turtles and the final one is yet another organic build now you may be wondering these are a lot of organic houses but

The thing is making houses underwater is not that different to making houses above water because it’s just a structure with a bit of air in between but these are meant to be inspirational ideas for keeping it in theme underwater and the last one that i have to show you here is this fallen

Vars now back in that whole atlantis kind of vibe lots of things get lost into the ocean whether it’s shipwrecks or entire cities according to atlantis but pottery is another thing that is kind of associated with being dropped into water so what we’ve got is a massive one now i must

Admit from the side it can be mistaken for a fish but as soon as i’ve told you it’s a pot you can kind of see that yourself so it’s got this nice pattern in between and again we have this very complicated spherical ovular shape but you will get

Used to that if you give it enough practice as i said earlier having builds underwater is all about the view because this is unique in the new 1.13 update and you really wouldn’t want to lose that so inside you can see again it’s fairly spacious

And that’s all i really have to show you for today’s video there’s not a lot to say about this interior other than it’s exactly what you would expect it to be full of air in a vast shape the only difference here is that there is an oak

Fence gate door which you can open and close like that nothing too crazy but this organic shape is really nice and if you are rich you could drop a few coins there as well it’s all to do with theming and hopefully all of these have given you some inspiration to build your

Own or maybe you’ve come up with a completely unique idea that works especially in a coral reef biome so i want to say a big big thank you to my crew you can see the fishbowl and the turtle in the background there’s the oyster and semazi tenku and pearlescent moon along with lovey

Dubai all helped put this video together and i want to say thank you very very much to you for watching and i hope that this has given you some inspiration and let me know what kind of house inspiration you might want to see next thank you very much for watching good bye