Minecraft: How to Build an Island Survival Base [Tutorial] 2020

Hi everyone we hit 1000 subscribers last week and I just want to let you know how much I appreciate all of your support in today’s video I’m going to show you how to build an island survival base which consists of a large house a dock with a fishing hut and a boathouse

A nether portal a farm a mine entrance and custom palm trees the first build i’ll be showing you is the large wooden beach house start by placing strip tote logs spaced apart according to the graphic on screen to create a rectangle that is 16 by 15 blocks as shown

Add another log on top to make them all two blocks high and then join them all together on the second block using sideways facing stripped oak logs then at each of the supports add another sideways facing log coming out on the second block and join them all together with oak slabs

After this fill in the inside of the structure with more oak slabs as shown and we will move on to the construction of the house on top of each of the supports place another two striped oak logs to mark out where the window spaces will be towards the front add an extra two

Columns three blocks away from the front middle supports as shown and then build all of the columns up by two blocks making them four blocks high in total one blocking from the logs in the space place birch planks going up by four blocks and join together with birch stairs

Repeat this formation in all of the gaps between the logs to create the window spaces but miss out the gap in the middle of the house as this will be the doorway i’ve made all of the window spaces

Follow the same design to make it easier for you to build if you decide to follow this tutorial you can find the finished shots of all of my builds over on my instagram the link is in the description if you’d like

To have a look in the middle gap on the back wall there will be a large window going across both floors of the house so miss out the top stairs in the window space here carry on with the same window designs back around to the other side to finish the main structure

Of the first floor of the house remember to leave any feedback that you have about this video in the comments section below it really helps me out for the doorway place birch planks going four blocks high on both sides and join them together across the top with some birch stairs underneath

After that add birch planks on top of each of the window spaces as shown missing out the front sections of the house that stick out we will now start building the second floor of the house on top of each of the logs on either side of the birch planks that you have

Just placed build up by another five logs do this around the whole house including on either side of the doorway but miss out the logs at the very front again this will create the window spaces for the second floor of the house in between the areas where you have just

Placed more logs create the exact same window spaces as you did on the first floor using birch planks and birch stairs this is an exact copy of the first floor windows to make it easier for you to follow along and build build up from the birch planks below and

Add birch stairs at the top to create a large window here if you’re enjoying the video so far don’t forget to leave a like and consider subscribing if you’re new here if you already subscribed remember to click the bell so that you never miss a new video

On top of the doorway build up by five birch planks on either side and add birch stairs to create a three block high window space in the gap next to this add a two block high window space using birch planks and

Stairs that is in line with the ones going around the rest of the second floor do this again on the other side so that you have two normal sized windows and one larger window in the middle in between the two floors where the layer of birch planks is that we placed

Add sideways facing stripped oak logs going around the outside of the house with more logs sticking out at each column as shown do this all the way around including where we have just built the window spaces at the front of the house as the middle window is larger above the

Doorway place the logs one block lower here we will now move on to the roof design at the front of the house in front of the striped oak log place a spruce plank then follow the graphic on screen to create the roof design that we’ll be using

We’ll be using the same roof design for all of the builds on the island to keep it easy to follow carry on the spruce slabs down the side of the house up to the oak column then follow the roof design backwards

Using oak planks and stairs until it meets with the second floor of the house as shown use spruce again for the top layer of the roof to give it more depth and detail and then continue with oak until the spruce slabs at the bottom again

Now do the exact same roof design again on the other side of the house adding an outline to your roof by using a different colour of wood for example is a simple but effective way of adding more depth to your build so that it is

Easier on the eye and doesn’t blend in at the bottom of the roof here bring the spruce slabs across going above the doorway so that they join with the roof on the other side of the house for the last bit of roof detail add some

Stripped oak logs behind the spruce stairs as shown for the window spaces at the front of the house add birch stairs facing outwards at the top and bottom on both sides then fill in the window with light gray stained glass panes and add some lanterns hanging from

The roof repeat this pattern again for the smaller side window at the doorway add oak stairs facing inwards in the top two corners and then carry on the window design around the other front section of the house the lanterns are just for some extra

Detail but you could use torches on the columns instead if you’d prefer we will now do the window designs for the main section of the house add another lantern or torch on the first column and then place oak stairs facing inwards in all four corners and fill in the window with light gray

Stained glass panes do all of this again for the next window and then place another lantern or torch on the last column as shown for the big window at the back add the oak stairs at the very top and bottom of

The house and fill in the entire window with light gray stained glass panes this large window is just to add more detail and to make the back of the building look more interesting now carry on the same design for all of

The remaining windows remembering to add a lantern or torch on each of the corner columns don’t forget to do the small window at the front of the house that i have missed add one more stripped oak log on top of each of the oak columns on the second

Floor of the house and join them together across the sides you don’t have to fill in the front and the back like i have done as i will be removing these shortly after this carry on with the same window designs that we did on the first floor of the house

If you have any feedback on how i can improve my builds or my videos let me know in the comments section below you can also comment any builds that you’d like me to make a tutorial for and i’ll do them in a future video

Keep going with these last few windows and we will move on to the main roof design go around to the side of the house and place a spruce plank on the oak column then follow the graphic on screen for the roof design

This pattern is slightly different to the ones we just built as it is bigger and therefore needs more blocks repeat this same pattern on the opposite side and join them together at the top with an upside down spruce stair facing outwards with a slab on top

Now do all of this again on the opposite side of the house don’t forget to leave a like if you’re enjoying the video so far or check out the timestamps in the description below if you’d like to move on to another build on the island

Join the two sides of the roof together with spruce slabs going across the whole of the house then place two oak planks followed by two spruce planks and then place spruce slabs going across to the other side where we’ll then repeat this pattern

Build another block using spruce slabs as shown and then begin the roof pattern again do the same on the other side to bring the two parts together adding extra detail like this to the roof makes the whole build look more interesting and complex compared to if it was just a triangle

Then do all of this again on the opposite side of the house to complete the main outline of the roof once this is done we can use it as a template to fill in the rest next to the spruce stair at the side place four oak stairs going towards the

Middle of the roof above this place more oak stairs and an oak plank next to the stairs that you placed previously then join the oak stairs to the spruce stairs and carry this on for each layer for the top layer of the roof use spruce stairs again as shown to create an

Outline then do all of this three more times to complete the main structure of the roof after you have joined all the corners together add spruce slabs across the very top of the roof to finish it off at the side of the house place spruce

Slabs going across the top half of the oak log to join the two sides of the roof together and add some lanterns for detail then bring the middle oak column up so that it reaches the top of the roof and fill in the gaps with birch fences

Remember to light the inside of the house up as you’re building so that nothing is able to spawn in there for the roof at the back of the house bring the oak columns in and up to reach the roof on both sides and join them

Together with more stripped oak logs then fill in the gap with birch fences again repeat all of this for the roof at the front of the house and do the same steps as you did on the left side of the roof for this side too

Add lanterns or torches to the corners for detail and that is the roof finished at the doorway make some nice bushes using a flower pot a dead bush and a leaf block do this on both sides and then add oak doors to the gap inside the house fill in the ceiling in

The front sections with oak planks and then add oak slabs underneath these to cover up the birch planks and oak logs showing through then fill in the rest of the floors as shown on the images at the very front of the house create a staircase leading down to the ground

Using oak slabs then create railings on either side using stripped oak logs without slabs joining them together across the top and that is the island house finished I really hope that you like this design the next build I’ll be showing you is the docks with the fishing hut and boathouse

To build the docks I have done a three wide section of oak slabs going out into the ocean at the start i’ve added a column of stripped oak logs with another column three blocks away from this and so on

For the first build i’ve brought the dock out to the side so that we don’t keep going straight out into the ocean if the ocean is too deep for the column to reach the bottom you can stop halfway where it gets dark and you won’t

Be able to notice build a three wide section coming off the dock a few blocks and then add five spruce slabs in front of it after that follow the graphic on screen to create a 7×7 square using strip spruce logs with the corners sticking out the same as we did with the house

Underneath this you can bring the corners down to reach the bottom of the ocean or you can just leave it floating if you’d prefer now fill in the gaps in between each corner section with spruce slabs and then fill in the middle so that we can start building the first hut

In each corner build up by four blocks using strip spruce logs to mark out the corners of the build next to the front left column and in one block place four rope planks on both sides and join them across the top for the doorway place the oak planks next to the column

Again at the side but this time join them together using upstairs to create a window space create this window space two more times on the remaining sides of the build at the front place a spruce plank in front of the column and follow the

Graphic on screen to build the outline for the roof repeat this on the other side and join them together at the top with an upside down stair and a slab now build the same roof design again on all sides of the building

Like i said earlier the roof design will be the same for all of the builds on the island the only difference is that some are bigger or smaller than others now join the corners of the roof together using oak planks and upstairs as shown all of the corners will have the same

Block placements after you’ve done the corners join the top of the roof together with spruce slabs behind the spruce stairs on the roof add a row of strip spruce logs then add some spruce stairs facing inwards in each corner and add some upside down oak stairs in the doorway to create an arch

Add lanterns or torches for some extra detail and then move on to the window spaces add the strip spruce logs across the top again and spruce stairs in each corner then fill in the window with spruce fences and add a lantern or torch for detail

Then repeat this design for the other two window spaces remember to leave any feedback requests or questions in the comments section below and make sure to read all of the comments on my videos we will now move on to the decorations for this hut add an item frame above the door with

Something in it to represent the building then add some torches to the logs in the roof and create a ceiling using spruce slabs add another torch to light up the hut and then add some barrels a crafting table a furnace if necessary and then some more item frames to represent the building

My build is a fishing hut which is why i’ve included a furnace and that is the hut design completed you can extend the dock and repeat this design again to create another hook like i have done the next build i’ll be showing you is the nether portal

To start build a 7 by 5 frame using strip spruce logs the same as we have done for the house and the huts then bring each of the corners out by one block after this fill in each of the sides with spruce slabs and also the inside of the frame

This time leaving the middle row empty fill in the gap in the middle with five obsidian then build up by another five go across the top and back down to the other side to create the portal that we’ll be using in front of the obsidian place a column of strip spruce logs

Do this on both sides front and back of the portal then add spruce stairs facing inwards at the top and bottom of the portal on all sides as shown and join them together along the top with spruce planks placed in front of the obsidian

Starting at the top of the spruce column create the roof design by following the graphic on screen repeat this on the other side and join them at the top with an upside down spruce stair remove the corners of the portal and replace them with oak planks for the

Roof then add spruce slabs along the side and then repeat the roof design again on the opposite side of the build i’ve also done another video showing a unique nether portal design on my channel if you’d like to check that out too

Join the two sides together with spruce slabs and then carry on filling in the rest of the roof with oak planks and stairs fill in the middle section with oak planks so that there’s no dark spaces and then add spruce slabs along the top of the roof

Then fill in the rest of the roof with oak stairs to finish it off behind the spruce stairs at the top of the roof add strip spruce logs on both sides then add spruce trap doors along the side of the portal to cover it up

Finally create a staircase connecting to the ground using spruce slabs and create a railing using strip spruce logs with spruce slabs on top add some more spruce slabs around the portal for decoration and then light it to finish it off add some lanterns or torches for detail and that is the

Portal design complete i hope that you like this island themed portal design the next build i’ll be showing you is a farm design mark out the area of land using stripped oak logs that are spaced apart around four blocks where you want your farm to be

After this make the land inside your area flat and made out of dirt or grass blocks if it isn’t already then smooth it out around the edges to make it look more natural like i have done build each of the stripped oak blocks up by one block and add leaf blocks in

Between each one to create a wall make sure to miss the front one out though as this will be the entrance then add oak slabs on top of each of the logs and join them all together with more oak slabs which are half a block above the leaf blocks as shown

Do this all the way around to complete the walls of the farm at the front you can add a step using oak slabs if you need to add a few water sources around your farm you don’t need to add many for the whole

Farm to work properly you can also add a light source block in the water and a lily pad on top for extra decoration then till the land and plant whatever crops you want for lighting remove the slab on the corner block and add two oak fences with

An oak plank on top then surround this with oak slabs and add a couple of lanterns to create a small lamp post repeat this on all four corners of the farm so that it is well lit and will provide extra light around the farm at night

Finally add some oak fences at the front to stop anything from walking inside and that is the farm design completed the last build i’ll be showing you is the entrance to the mine follow the graphic on screen to mark out

A 9×6 area using stripped spruce logs the side logs should be three blocks apart and the front and back logs should be four blocks apart now build each of the logs up by another three blocks making them four blocks high in total at the front of the build place a spruce

Plank in front of the log and then follow the graphic on screen to start building the roof repeat this on the other side and then add spruce slabs all along the side of the build then repeat all of these steps on the opposite side of the build

If you’re enjoying the video leave a comment down below telling me which your favorite build on the island is now fill in the rest of the roof with oak planks and stairs remember to use spruce stairs for the top layer for the outline your mine entrance can be anywhere on

Your island it doesn’t have to be over a cave like mine is add some lanterns or torches around the outside to light the area up if your entrance is over a cave don’t forget to light that up too at the sides join the logs together with oak fences that are two blocks high

For the back fill the whole of the wall in with oak fences as there will be a drop here then carry on adding more oak fences around the sides of the build at the front just add some fences at the top for some extra detail

For the floor do an outer layer of stone bricks and then add stone inside going up to the middle column then add some stone brick stairs leading down into your mine if your entrance isn’t over a cave you’ll just have to dig a staircase

Going down here you may have to remove the two stone bricks at the back to make sure there’s enough room to go up and down the stairs finally add chests a crafting table furnaces and some lanterns or torches to finish off this build

And that’s all the main builds on the island completed i’ll now show you how to decorate your island with custom palm trees similar to what i built in my beach house video place oak wood going up by four blocks

Then two blocks then one block as shown to create the trunk of the palm tree after this place a three by three square of leaves on top and then add extra leaves coming out of the middle on all sides

Then place another leaf block coming out and down in front of the middle blocks as shown finally add more leaves in a cross on the top to finish it off you can repeat this design as many times as you like to decorate your island

To make slightly different palm trees make the trunk bigger or smaller and pointing in different directions you can also add diagonal leaves to add a bit more variety custom trees are a great way of adding more detail to your builds to make them stand out and look unique

To bring everything together you can add a simple path using oak planks and sandstone to connect your builds you can also add more plants and lanterns around the island to add that final bit of detail thank you so much for watching i really hope that you’ve enjoyed this video

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