Hello there and welcome to 80 craft people often ask me how they can become a better builder well today is the first episode in a new series that will help you improve all elements of your building ability whether you’re starting out in the game or a seasoned professional there will be something Here to level up your builds covering the fundamentals of building and design and methods that you can apply to any style or size of builds the series will be broken down into manageable sections each focused on a particular piece of the puzzle with all of these put together there’ll Be no limit to what you’ll be able to create the first video we’ll be looking at the start of the process build planning size and shape before we get started in the video please take the time to hit that like button and hit that subscribe button if you’re not Already so you won’t miss out on any future episodes it’s free and it really really helps the channel now this may seem like an obvious one but knowing what you want to build is an important first step if you have a clear vision of what you’re looking to achieve Then the finished outcome is going to be much better than if you just start placing blocks if there’s a certain style that you’re looking for then maybe look at some reference pictures online to give you some ideas understand what the purpose of your build is and if you’re just looking for an aesthetic Reason or if you want to use the build itself in a particular way once you’ve got a clear view in your head of what you’re looking to achieve then you’re ready for the next step the phrase location location location also rings very very true in minecraft as there are Three different dimensions that you could choose to build from and within those dimensions any number of different biomes and biome combinations that might fit your build it’s also important to understand the geography to make sure that your build will fit in and also with you’ve got enough space so that you Can actually do everything you’d like to do because of this it’s worth exploring and looking around at the various different terrains and various different areas that you could build in just to make sure that you’ve picked things that are right because there is a huge variety of possibilities another thing To actually understand is the direction of your build and what i mean by that is shown here so as you can see we’ve got a house here that looks looks lovely just a pretty basic house same kind of starter house that many people might build i’ve built this and i’m using shaders Here and i’ve built this so that the sun will catch it and it looks fantastic in the shaders now over here we have exactly the same house but as you can see it’s just built in a slightly different direction because of where the sun is in minecraft particularly with Shaders this will never ever get the sun on the front of the building so again it’s very important to make sure that you are getting the right direction the right location and the right terrain in order to start your build process size and shape the next things to consider Once you know what you’re building where you want to build it and i’ve hopped onto my japanese creative world to show you what i mean so the first thing that i’m going to be talking about is scale a minecraft block as you probably know is one meter by one meter by one meter If it were in real scale so you can scale your builds to the real world if you wanted to using the blocks however you’re obviously not going to be able to get so many details in it’s not quite going to match up because when you’ve got me to scale things then thin walls Partitions stuff like that is always going to look a little bit strange you can however scale your builds up and make use of some of these blocks to give you more detail more depth and things like a more rounded pillar that you’ve got on this particular tory gate here Then using some of the things like the the trapdoors you can carry that on round the bottom so once you’ve picked your scale then you can think about the size of the build as well uh so again all of these are tory gates but as you Can see they come in a variety of shapes and sizes so you need to know that you have got enough space in terms of the footprint around your build so you need to know roughly what size it is are you building a little tiny small starter house in Which case you won’t need much space or are you building a giant mega base in which case you’ll probably need tens if not hundreds of blocks in each direction to work out what you’re going to build here we have an example of this in the pagoda in front of us now this Has got a 29 by 29 footprint so this is actually quite a big build and obviously it goes quite high up as well so if you’re building this on top of a mountain then you need to make sure that you’ve got enough space at the top so That nothing interferes with it again if you wanted to build it in a cave you need to understand the height you need to understand the dimensions on the floor you need to think about things like is there going to be an overhang for a roof like this alternatively you might want a pagoda But you might want something that’s considerably smaller so you might want something that’s a bit more like this which has only got a 19 by 19 footprint and is significantly shorter so understanding what the scale is and what the size of your build is going to be Lets you work out what rough area you want for the footprint and then you can start on the next stage of planning laying out your builds is a great way to make sure you understand more about what the finished result will look like it lets you experiment with different ideas And it means that if you’re using something like creative or world edit and you choose to use something like wool you can quite easily replace this with the right blocks that you’re actually going to use and and try different combinations of things if you’re in survival using something like Dirt or netherac is quite useful because it allows you to place blocks that are easily removable and switch things around if you’ve got different ideas that you want to try out so if we were for example creating starter house we might first of all just create a simple box like this Now this gives us an idea when we stand on the ground or stand inside of what kind of space that we’re going to be working with and what we might want to do with things it’s not a very interesting shape so once you’ve got something like this you might want to Add some additional areas to it but again you can do this using your wool so you might say okay i’m going to use some wool here and i’m going to come out and create a little annex or extra portion on the back of the build here that makes It already much more interesting so say that this is the front you might say okay i want to have a nice entrance way so let’s have a front coming out like this and let’s make it so we’ve got a nice double door in the middle so we’re going To have it too wide like so and by adding these on and using this the wool method to actually put your frame in place you can start to really get some interesting outcomes with what you’re looking to build so let’s add another section on the end for just a little overhang bit And what we’ll we’ve note what i’ve noticed here is we’ve actually built ourselves something that’s got a two block center and now for doing a roof and things like that it’s generally not the best so what we’ll do is we will move our wall about like this and then We can make sure that we’ve got ourselves a one block center when we do have the roof coming across the middle and just little things like that being able to assess what you’re actually doing as you go makes it so much easier when you come to the build because You’ve got your basic structure to work from you’re not working from nothing now the builds themselves when you’re looking at a single build like this you can also quite easily come up and say okay how tall do i want it do i want it to be this tall No that’s a little bit too tall so we come across like this and we add our frame right the way around which not only gives us an idea of the floor plan but can also give us an idea of the structure and by doing this you can Check out the different heights that you actually want to use for the different sections so if this is going to be an entrance way let’s say we don’t want it to necessarily come all the way up so let’s link that up and you can see that you’ve got a height Differential there with your main area standing in front of the build you get a good idea of what it is i’m going to be walking through here so we can knock through this i’m going to be coming into the build there’s not going to be this Stuff here it’s going to come up this height so we’re going to have a wall that comes up like this and yeah i can now see that i’ve got space i can have a a little storage area in here i can have all my crafting you know exactly what You’re working with when it comes to planning villages or towns or anything slightly more complicated than just a simple house then that’s really when the layout of your build does come into its own so as you can see here we’ve set out a little settlement and we’ve got a wall Going around the outside we’ve got ourselves a nice little entrance way here and then we’ve also got various different things a place that we’ve got with a lighthouse here so you can use then the terrain to say what do i want to do we’ve got like some little fishing Huts down here on the edge and then we’ve got this big castle here it’s also what i’ve done here you’ll notice is i’ve brought everything for each build up to the same level uh and then you can actually understand how the height difference is in the ground that you’re actually Building on because you can’t always build on flat ground because in real life that doesn’t really happen so much um but by bringing everything up to the same level you can see where you will need to make allowances for these different heights and yeah for things like this one you Can see that well actually you could have a floor that’s one level beneath and some windows potentially here or a back entrance and yeah by bringing everything up to that same level you can see how things are it it’s also good when you are planning something like This to make sure that you mix up the shapes that you’ve got so we’ve got some basic square type shapes and rectangular type shapes and what i’ve also done is i’ve thrown in some angled builds as well some on 45 degrees like the majority of the castle here some on different angles Now i will be covering uh angle builds and curves and things like that in a later episode of this series so make sure that you do subscribe for that but as you can see here it gives a real nice idea of where everything needs to go obviously you won’t necessarily be Flying around but if you are in survival what you can just do is simply pillar up and have a nice bird’s eye view on exactly what you’re looking to create the other thing that you can do when you are creating builds like this is you can use uh The wool in the same way to actually understand a little bit about the height that you want the builds to be so here we’ve got a nice circle which as i said could be something like a lighthouse what you can do is you can pillar up with the build Um and with the wall in the middle and that can give you just an idea of how tall you want it to be so you might look at that and be actually it needs to be if it’s a lighthouse it needs to be a bit taller so working again in the three dimensions Like you might do and have something here to say well it’s meant to be a tower so up here i still want to be able to see it as i’m coming across here so that’s a really nice build and that’s a good height that we’re going to have Maybe even a little bit taller because we can have that and that starts giving you some structure it gives you an idea of the variance in the height because when you are planning your builds again try not to make them all at the same height if you’ve got something like a Little town or settlement here then obviously there will be some that will be similar heights but it’s the variation if you go and look around real buildings apart from specific lines of terraces or if you’re building something like that there is quite a lot of variation in things like roof height so Consider that when you’re building things out so in terms of the first step of getting your build planned choosing where you want it to be choosing which direction you want it to be the size and scale that you want for your build specifically and how you can lay that out that’s covered everything For this first episode i hope you’ve enjoyed it please do make sure that you leave a like and a comment if you have there will be more of these episodes coming out as i said they’ll be stepping through the other areas of the building process but if there is something Specifically that you want me to cover let me know in the comments beneath and i’ll make sure that i can put that in a future video but with all that said the last thing to say is thank you very very much for watching i will see you all Next time on 80 craft bye Video Information
This video, titled ‘Minecraft Building 101 – Build Planning, Size & Shape – How to be a better builder in Minecraft Ep.1’, was uploaded by AdieCraft on 2021-08-22 12:00:15. It has garnered 79781 views and 3429 likes. The duration of the video is 00:12:10 or 730 seconds.
Welcome to Minecraft Building 101. A new and highly requested series on the channel looking at how to level up your building skills in Minecraft. With something for everyone, this step by step series will help you understand the fundamentals of Building in Minecraft and how you can improve with any size or style of building.
Episode 1 looks at the planning aspect of a build, what to do before you even place a block to make sure that your build gets off to the perfect start.
0:00 An introduction to Building 101 0:46 What to Build? 1:14 Location, Location, Location 2:36 Size & Shape 4:55 Planning & Layout 11:55 Goodbye
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