Minecraft: How to Build a Greek Temple (Ancient Greek City Tutorial)

Well hello everyone and welcome to a brand new minecraft tutorial series here we are in this beautiful savannah or should i say the mountains of ancient greece as today was the first of many tutorials on how to build an ancient greek city that’s right guys you voted

For an ancient greek city series and here we are with the first video on how to build an ancient greek temple i hope you guys are just as excited as i am and if you don’t want to miss the rest of the series then hit that subscribe button and join the whale watching

Community so i thought this beautiful savannah depicted the warm hills of greece perfectly however i think we need to make a few tweaks here and there to accommodate our first greek building so the greek temple i’ve designed is quite large so i wanted to create a

Platform to build it on top of where we could extend stairs and pathways from in the future to lead to the rest of our city but don’t worry if you don’t want to build a platform that’s absolutely fine just find a large flat piece of land and you’ll be just fine i’m just

Using some sandstone here to form a large plinth which took a very long time so long in fact that i actually decided to download world edit to give me a helping hand so i soon found out i needed to push this beautiful mountain back a bit so

Well that it was very helpful for that and then i somehow needed to make the mountain look natural again i’m in nowhere an expert with world edit and it took me absolutely ages to figure out how to get this mountain looking natural again but i chipped away until it

Somewhat looked like a mountain again i’m still not fully happy with it but it’ll do for now and we can always amend it later on i’ve been doing lots of research and looking for lots of inspiration for our city and i’m really excited at the prospect of a new challenge and building

Journey however i’ll still need you guys and your ideas if you have any ideas what you want me to add to the ancient greek city then let me know i have a few ideas for bills but i’m sure you guys can think of plenty of ideas i haven’t

Even thought of to make our city the best it can be finally before we start our temple build i’m going to add a set of stairs to the front of our platform that we can use to get up to the temple and uses a starting point to extend the rest of our

Beautiful ancient city so let’s see what we’re going to need to build our greek temple now to build our ancient greek temple we’re going to need some quartz blocks some smooth quartz some quartz pillars some chisel quartz blocks some quartz bricks some quartz stairs some quartz slabs some granite slabs some brick

Slabs some acacia leaves some spruce fences some chains and some candles this is quite an expensive build so be tricky to build in survival unless you had a quarter trading villager or a lot of patience but hey rome wasn’t built in the day so let’s get cracking

So for this build we’re going to need a 43 by 64 block area marked out here with the blue and white concrete so clear plenty of space so the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to grab our quartz stairs and we’re going to create a line of

Stairs all the way around our area facing outwards like so Next we’re going to grab some blocks of quartz and we’re simply going to fill in the area we’ve just formed with the quartz stairs i could have done this as well lettuce as can you but i did it manually just to show you don’t need the world edit and it really doesn’t take

That long to do now to build our first column we’re going to go three blocks in from the front left corner of our little quartz platform we’ve just created and we’re going to build a two by two block column of quartz pillars 18 blocks high make sure your quarter pillars are all facing

The vertical direction otherwise it’s going to look a little patchy now we’re going to leave a five block up to the right hand side of our pillar and we’re going to create another pillar exactly the same repeat the process along the front of the bill until you have six evenly spaced columns beautiful

Next we’re simply going to repeat the process all the way around the build again leaving a five block gap between each column so that in the end we have a total of twenty six two by two eighteen block high columns it’s quite a tedious process but don’t worry it’ll all pay

Off in the end The next step is to grab those quartz stairs again and we’re going to place 12 around the base of each column like so do this on all 26 columns around the build Now we’re going to do the same thing again on the top of each column but this time make sure the stairs are upside down repeat it again on all 26 columns Now in the center of our temple we’re going to carve out some greek style patterns into the floor you can do any pattern just search google or pinterest for some grig style patterns and carve them out into the floor then simply fill the gaps with some chiseled quartz

Blocks for a subtle yet beautiful tiled floor design next grab some quartz bricks and form a line all the way around the top edge of the columns like so joining them all together Now i’m afraid it’s another slightly tedious part we need to just fill in the area between those quartz brick lines with more quartz bricks as i said it’s a bit tedious but doesn’t take too long once you get into the rhythm of it Then what we’re going to do is using more quartz bricks is form a four block high wall all the way around the edge of the platform we’ve just formed now on the outside of the wall on the second quartz brick up we’re going to form another line of quartz bricks all

The way around the build like so to form a sort of wrench we’re now going to do the same thing again but this time on the highest row of quartz bricks now to add some detail we’re going to place an upside down stair on every other block underneath the lower lip

We’ve just formed like this make sure you go all the way around the build To add some extra details we’re going to replace some of the quartz bricks in the middle with some quartz pillars do this on the quartz bricks in line with the columns below to add a sort of striped effect now grab some quad slabs and on the

Front left corner add a slab and then next to it add two slabs on top of each other then repeat the process in an upward diagonal line like so until you reach the middle if you don’t know where the middle is then start on the other

Side and keep going until both meet in the middle this will now form a lovely shallow slope triangle for our temple roof next we’re going to do the exact same thing on the other end of the temple like so now with some smooth quartz blocks we’re going to build a wall behind the

Triangle to fill in the gap make sure you’re only using full blocks and that you can still see the slabs of the triangle peeking over the top of the wall like so do this on the rear end of the temple as well Now on the front of the wall we’ve just made we’re going to add some more subtle details by knocking up a large circle in the center and two smaller ones either side and filling them in with some regular quartz blocks and you guessed it do this on the rear side too Next using more quartz slabs form a long line down the long side of the temple like so joining the lowest of the quartz slabs together on each end do this on both sides of the roof now grab some brick and granite slabs and we’re going to do the same thing

Again joining the next two slabs in the triangles together make sure you place the two different slabs randomly to create some texture in that lovely red roof now just repeat the process joining the front and rear triangles together forming a lovely contrasting roof if you’re in survival you might want to

Light up the inside of that roof or build something inside of it Speaking of lighting we need to lighten the inside of the temple up a little we’re going to hang some chains from the ceiling and create some fence post chandeliers lighting them up with some lovely flickering candles Next at the front of the temple i’m going to create these beautiful skinny tall custom trees that i seem to be seeing in most images of ancient greece i’m not sure what they’re called if anyone knows let me know in the comments but i do know that they really

Complement the look of the greek temple As the series goes on we’ll add more and more details to the area but for now we’re going to add some hanging leaves from the roof of the temple which gives it an amazing mystical appearance we’re then going to add some leaves twisting up a couple of the columns and

Then add some texture to our large sandstone plinth using sand finally we’ll add some leaves hanging off the plant just to finish it off nicely And there we go ladies and gentlemen our ancient greek temple is constructed and our ancient greek city is underwear i’m so so happy with the finished product but i think we could maybe add a statue or something inside the temple so give me some ideas of what that could be i

Think it looks perfect sat in the savannah landscape and i can’t wait to expand into the rest of the city into the surrounding hills if you enjoyed the video don’t forget to drop a little like and let me know what you’d like to see added next if you’re still waiting for

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