How To Build Castle Walls in Minecraft

Castles a staple of minecraft no castle is complete without good castle walls lucky for us castle walls are very easy to build in minecraft today i’ll walk you through five simple designs and not only teach you why each one looks good but how to use the techniques to design

Your own castle walls let’s get started also 88 of you aren’t actually subscribed so if you liked the video consider subscribing and if you change your mind later i completely understand it’s no big deal so let’s start with this wall now i’d say this wall looks pretty nice

It’s a pretty reasonable height for survival like i don’t think you really need something much taller than that if you’re just doing single player or maybe a small base but why does this look good let’s start with the colors and first of all if you’re interested i have a video

On minecraft’s color theory if you’d like to watch that next all these grays have no actual color to them they’re just kind of a mix of white and black so all the color comes from your extra blocks here we’re using not only just spruce logs to add a really dark nice

Texture that seems sturdy because you know it’s logs but it also complements these mossy bricks super well green and brown go very well together and adding just a few extra moss all around your build can make it stand out so much more and look a lot more professional the

Absolute biggest thing that will help you in designing your walls is adding depth so you see this is not exactly a flat wall normally in minecraft you see people build very flat square things if you look at this from the side i would not call this flat nor square on any

Spot besides maybe up here a little bit just pushing everything in one block or bringing your supports out one block can dramatically change the feel of the entire thing but also don’t forget to design for the top of the wall as well because you want to look nice while

You’re on the wall so you see here these cobblestone wall blocks not just walls the actual wall blocks add extra depth in between every single support column thing right here on the edge adding details like slabs and stairs within blocks to add little extra holes and divots can look nice but you certainly

Don’t want to overdo it at all because it just looks like you’re trying too hard to make something that just won’t end up looking very good simple details like this lantern hanging from a chain right in the center of this cross shape thing add a whole lot to the build and make it

Seem a lot more like it’s there for a purpose so to build this specific wall which looks very nice you’re going to start by placing down your pillar of spruce logs i’m going to go up seven blocks and again this is a four wide pattern so i’m going to have three spaces in

Between here we’re going to fill up the sides behind this with stone brick like that behind the log you’re going to make a u-shape with stone bricks you’re going to go up three and make two more like that and then you can connect your path here

And then you’re going to come out and up one and now you’re going to do some stairs upside down here and here and bring this one down then make a circular pattern like that and then just add some sideways ones here and then some extra support on the outside

And then we’re going to come back inside and we’re going to make this like cross shape there we go and we’re going to put some cobble around the edges to assist with that nice little detail and then we’re missing one block here so put that there and then we’re

Going to add the chain and lantern right there oh i forgot these two a little bit extra on the top you want to go through and mix everything up i’m just going to use world edit to make it completely random because it usually looks the best and then if you want to

Add this extra detail on the inside and it kind of depends on preference whether you like the brown or the stone there i’ll do the brown because i think it looks better but i can understand liking the stone more so this was an example on a very short high detail wall so let’s

Move on to a very tall low detail wall so what works really well with this wall is the very clear support beams separated by very straight and smooth walls that makes it look a lot more realistic kind of like a dam i guess you can see again we’re using these uh

Greenery mossy blocks and mossy cobble all around the base however i’m only using them on the base because it makes it look a lot more realistic so you see if i were to make everything grass then everything blends in a lot better and it feels like the wall’s supposed to be here although

There’s a there’s a lot of saturation on this grass because i’m in a jungle biome so maybe not a jungle my own but in most biomes it helps blend your wall into the ground almost seamlessly another thing that’s very important for designing your walls is understanding the structure of

Everything so you see here i started with these very strong support beams and i made sure to stick them out because that tells you that this is a lot stronger of support than this so the whole purpose of walls is to have at least castle walls is to have this

Very strong sturdy pillar every so often and then also have supports in between them that hold up the base wall so you see if there wasn’t this walkway on top and there were just these pillars in these walls these walls would seem very structurally sound because of the

Pillars you would not expect these walls to ever fall over unless they got hit with like a meteor or something plus the pillars also support the walkways on top that just rest on top of these walls so you can see here structurally speaking this is a nice diagonal sort of a triangle shape

From this point of the wall up to this point of the walkway which makes it seem like this was all meant to be here and perfectly holds itself up and if i come to the side here you can see the level of depth that makes it look very realistic you can see

It feels as if it’s looming over you mainly because it’s sticking out over you which is pretty nice and this is a three four five six seven eight nine wide pattern so there you go so instead of adding color in this one i decided to

Add a lot of contrast so i put a very dark black concrete powder for these pillars and then i also used blackstone walls up here on top so you can see this also looks very nice from the walkway you have a lot of depth in between each

One you have a lot of color changes also these cracked bricks work very well for breaking up the contrast of these blocks because you see like this looks really boring and patterning just with these stone bricks here but adding these cracked stone bricks not only just breaks the texture pattern but also adds

All these little things that are the same color just in a slightly different order just to make it look a lot more realistic and different up here at the top we have the support pillars being carried out a little bit further at the top you can see they all stick down one

Block further we have some basic detailing right here which all this is is slab stair slab stair slab stair and this is a very common and very useful thing to use on castle walls below those we have these three sword archways archways are very important in castle walls as well you’ll

See a lot more in a minute because that’s how a lot of castle walls are at least like roman built walls and those kind of styles were all started with tons of arches i did originally only have stone for these center walls but i thought it was a little bland so i added

Andesite wherever these bottom and top pillars met just to give it a little more character a little more detail and seem like it’s in the right place the trick to building if you didn’t know is just to keep doing it i i’ve spent hours building these today because i’ve just

Been making small tweaks and looking for ideas i forgot to put these here if you watch any of your favorite building youtubers they don’t just do it on the first try unless they’ve built very similar things a bunch of times before they play with it forever and ever and

Ever and then they go in and record and build it once they know what they’re doing so if you want to build this specific wall for yourself i’m going to come out one two three four five six and then make a three by three pillar going to make it three high

And then we’ll start with the actual support so we have a three by three by three cube we can add a plus on top we’re going to shape our stairs to face the inside and outside like this i’m going to get some black concrete powder

Sorry i had to count i’m going to bring it up 11 and then in the front you’re gonna have cobblestone walls go all the way all 11. on the sides it’s only going to go 10 all right and yes that is correct so now we’re going to put one block on each of

These and we’re going to come up one two three four five six on all sides and then we’re going to connect all this so we’re just gonna have a three wide thing go all the way and it meets in the front right here just finish that on the front up here

You’re going to alternate so slab stairs slab stairs slab stairs slab stair slab and then on top of all of the stairs you want to come up two blocks which is just every other and put stairs on top then in between you’re gonna put stone brick walls

And then normal black stone walls so let’s fill in the wall at the back and then i’ll go through and we’ll do the details so you’re going to have two high right here like this and then one more on each of these andesites you’re going to have your stairs

Curve like this on the inside and then the opposite right here and then you’re going to have slabs on top of these and i think that’s correct that is correct so up at the top we’re going to do the same pattern we’re going to have our stairs curve in like this

We’re going to have these come down one extra block we’re going to have these rounded stairs in the middle and then stairs here so same pattern except that one uses stairs and this one uses slabs on the points so now let’s fill this in real quick

All right and now we’re going to pick our two pillars so two above here we’re going to go like this and there should be a two gap in between each of them we’re going to put stairs on the bottom and stairs up in the arches or at least the corners

To make them arches and there you go so let’s try a new style let’s try double walls so you see we have our arches up here for the bottom half and then a big indent and then the second wall up on top we’ll start with the bottom you can

See once again we’re using this mossy pattern to break up the stone but also it’s blending very well with all these dark oak fences and these spruce logs so one thing that might you might not know or notice is that spruce logs and dark oak fence are like the exact same color

So i always use dark oak fins instead of spruce fins i wanted this bottom wall to seem very structurally sound so i left it a little bit blocky it’s not too uh depth oriented as you can see here it’s pretty simple but because i used all my

Simplest steel on the bottom i decided not to use any at the top aside from these big cobblestone pillars and you see the cobblestone matches the support stairs down here so you have these big pillars at the top of every arch so these would be your secondary arches

Like this in between them is birch leaves which looks very nice obviously goes with the spruce logs and the dark oak which is the same color and then behind all of these details i have the spruce logs again just to really push the color on you to make sure you

Understand the palette the depth of this wall is very nice from any angle it seems like it’s very detailed and on top i decided to use oak slabs because the brightness of the oak goes really well with this spruce and dark oak thing if it’s like

Sort of outlined so if you have this on both sides that look really nice and go with this darker color now if that was seen from this side you would want to add that somewhere else but it’s not seen from the side so it’s fine and this

One is an eight long pattern so we’re going to start over here by bringing up this little border eight more blocks and then we’re going to make our archways two three four five high like this i’m going to have a three gap in between them and we are going to

Make them archways like this whoops on top of each of the stairs you want to place a full block and then a slab in between all of those blocks and if we come down here we can put down our cobblestone stairs cobble works really good at the bottom because it kind of

Breaks it up and looks more support it’s like this looks a lot more structurally sound than just a flat stone wall and it looks like it is holding that up now we’re going to come through and fill in these back walls like this and then we’re going to add these fences

In the center and oh we do have this block actually i forgot about that we have this chiseled stone brick in the center that rests the torches and we have these dark oak fences on top so now for the top half wherever you have these dark oak pillars

With the fences you’re going to come out two with your cobblestone and then bring it up six and then one more on the inside and curve it with these stairs then down here at the back right above the stone you’re going to bridge this with full blocks

On the sides you’re going to put slabs in between you’re going to put upside down stairs and more upside down stairs here and then two blocks another upside down stairs and then block slap so it’s a little bit detailed but once you get it once or twice you’ll learn it so let me

Do it again over here we’ll connect these we’ll do slab slab stair stair stair block stair block slab and we’ll add these dark oak fences in between and then i may as well do it over here too we’re gonna go around back and everywhere that there is an exposed

Slab or stair surface we’re going to cover it makes this kind of like an n shape although i guess you don’t really need these corners and then the best part is having fun with your leaves you can do a lot of shapes you can do like the middle you can do the sides

You could even just do them like that you can have them flat whatever you want to do you can just mix it up have some fun now here’s another different style i kept it very simple just so we could focus more on the roofing thing so you can see this

Has an internal pathway up here which looks very nice on the inside you have tons of this depth with these stone brick wall blocks right here along with the support logs sticking out and all the roofing and everything this just looks really nice on the inside however

Externally not only do you have these log support beams that go back about two or three blocks but you also have the fence coming out that gives a little bit of detail especially these little connection lines right here there’s a ton of depth inside of each one of these

Little sections you can see how far in it goes and then we also have that supported with these dark oak fence gates just to kind of bring the color in together make it look more like this is all supposed to be here and all the weight looks like it’s right here in the

Center so we wanted to add an extra support beam in the middle just to make sure this didn’t seem like something that would just fall over or collapse any day the roof actually looks really nice you just kind of have it hang over slightly barely at all and then you have the

Supports for the roof hanging over the oak and then also slightly over the oak and this just gives it a really nice structurally sound feel also down here what’s really nice about this cobble is that it super breaks up the pattern so you see these really nice this shut up

You see these really nice stone brick textures all over the place but then you have this really smooth background and then this really broken up cobblestone and it just really sets it apart so we’re gonna start by bringing out our support pillar eight blocks five six seven eight

And we’ll do our dark oak fence up along the side there we’ll drop to the bottom i missed my button i’m going to go three out like this bring it up with stairs and then we’re gonna go on the inside bring these up five like that and add a row of cobblestone

With a stone bricks in the middle and then stone brick slabs on the sides and to bring this up once more and then put stone behind it then we’re going to put our path here of stone brick slabs which looks pretty nice and we’re going to put

Our dark oak fence gates here then on the front we’re going to put upside down stair block upside down stair upside down stair and we can hang our lantern from this in a second i just don’t have it in my inventory and we have our stone brick walls right here so

Now let me get my chain and my lantern and there’s the wall so for the roof over this uh dark oak fence you’re going to put a stair a spruce stair and then you’re going to staircase spruce planks like that cover them in stairs and put another one on

Top like this then you’re going to get your spruce slabs and pull them out three on the tops and bottoms and make sure you leave this extra bit of space on top just to have the support stick out more because it looks nice going to get your oak

Stairs and put them on top of these stone brick walls and meet them up these slabs up here on the inside you’re going to do the same with upside down oak but then you’re going to put oak planks all the way across the top here and then spruce planks here oak planks here

And two spruce logs sticking out and then that would connect on either side oh and also i have these torches here because they look nice another way you can break up walls is not simply just adding different depths of blocks and a bunch of pillars and a bunch of

Stairs and slabs and everything so here i have my working gate which i guess i’ll show you in a minute but all i did to break this up was use stair increases like this i don’t know if increase isn’t the correct word but indents there you go

And then i added walls here just to make this stick out a little bit and then for the actual depth i just used uh these trapdoors a bunch because they add just a little bit of depth and they’re super easy to put anywhere it looks very nice i really

Like this stripped oak texture that goes really good with a lot of spruce stuff and it fits really good with this oak fence i have here and these are just like this is kind of like a trench sort of thing so these are trench walls i

Wouldn’t try to build these for a castle it’s kind of boring you can also top your stuff with like fence and gates like this but it doesn’t look too castley this is more like a village sort of thing if you’re interested in getting this to work this is quite the interesting thing i’ll

Put that up on the screen