Hey guys what is up it’s Dan lags and today I’m going to be giving you guys some basic tips on how to start a city in Minecraft so I feel like I’m pretty qualified to do something like this considering I’ve been building a city For over a year now and I’m going to be giving you guys some tips on things that I do every single day on Los Angeles and also some things that I have made mistakes with along the way so let’s go ahead and get started with it our first Tip is make sure that you find a Plains biome everybody Plains biomes are absolutely the best kind of biomes to build cities on not only are they flat and easy to terraform but they also give you that nice lush green grass instead of like the crappy desert grass it looks Like vomit or even snow like you don’t want snow biomes or any of that stuff because you know you don’t want snow on your city on all your buildings jungle biomes are ok you can if you clear out all the jungle but the jungle trees jungle biome grass is actually Incredible but jungles tend to be pretty mountainous as well I would recommend Plains biomes and also forest biomes and even if you want to build over an ocean biome that works too but those are pretty much the two biomes I’d recommend planes and forests obviously planes and Hearts are pretty much the same thing you know farce you just need to clear out the trees but that’s where I would start when you’re comes to you know at the very beginning of your city make sure that you find a good biome and obviously I’d recommend Plains biomes Going along with biomes my second tip is make sure that you build a city by the water a lot of cities in real life are built right next to water give you some examples like Chicago New York Los Angeles what are some of the major cities in the United States are built Right by water and this is something that you can do in Minecraft to make your city not only look more realistic but it just looks really good in general so I’ve done this in Los Angeles my city is obviously in the core in a map pretty much surrounded by water and even when You switch it over to Xbox one there’s still quite a bit of water around the city so I would try to find a Plains biome or a forest biome with an ocean biome next to it that’s going to be your ideal starting point when it comes to The very beginning of your city design so when you’re first starting up your city make sure that you do your roads first roads are important you want to add your roads and your plots that’s the first thing you want to do because roads are obviously extremely important to Making your city look realistic so I would start off with some small roads don’t just jump right in and just build a huge highway going straight down the middle of your map I did this when I first started on my city and it was a big failure and I ended up Tearing the whole thing down so I would start with some basic city roads make sure you add bunch of intersections and a bunch of plots just just to get yourself started and you can start to put some buildings in and go from there so my next tip is is pretty important And this tip is something that I really struggled with when I first started my city and it’s something that I have started to learn along the way and that is don’t plan too far ahead so when I started my city I was like you know going through all these different ideas In my head I was like oh I’m going to build a city hall I’m going to build a bunch of skyscrapers I’m going to make some companies I’m going to make applause I’m going to build houses all that stuff it piles up and it’ll make you very stressed out you want to make Sure that you do one thing at a time don’t try to overdo it make sure that you finish your buildings from start to finish before you move on to it and the second building that you’re doing so if your first building put up the building do the entire interior before you even Move on to the second building this is something that I don’t do mainly for the interest of time but this is something that if you’re building a city on your own I’d recommend doing this part so and that kind of goes along with the interior idea make sure you don’t ignore The interior buildings make sure that you do them all I mean you can have friends help you out if you want to do like one floor and then have your friends help you duplicate it throughout all the floors just make sure you don’t ignore it because it gives your city a Lot of life and a lot of character and having a bunch of empty buildings is just really not that cool so my next tip guys is small details loom large so what I mean by small details is adding things like street lights street signs stop signs like Pretty much all that stuff adding the nitty-gritty things on a city that’s just going to give it a lot more character in life so basically those things you want to add signs on your buildings and just give your building give your buildings a lot of character don’t just build like no standard Buildings and stuff like that maybe add some billboards if your F your on your eye on your highways you want to add some you know billboards and the highways or some you know I guess exit signs and stuff like that just make sure you add all your small details don’t Ignore that kind of stuff and wait until the end add that stuff along the way because it give your city a lot more theme and if you want to name your roads that’s also another thing that gives your city a lot of character and it’s going to be makes it unique from other Cities going along with making your city unique I suggest you guys create company names so this is something that I in Los Angeles and something that’s been really fun so I’ve made companies like flower pot coffee shop Taylor Swift neskowin what else we have we have the Outback Steakhouse which is not an Original name and a McDonald’s but we have other things like beacon industries I can probably name a whole bunch more than not even thinking of oh yeah Los Angeles customs so we have a whole bunch in Los Angeles and this is something that you want to make puns with your Name or just think of cool things to do it’s something that definitely is going to make your city have a lot more character and separate it from other cities getting on to some more technical tips I would recommend mixing up your Heights on skyscrapers don’t make every Single one of your buildings the exact same height they’re all going to look kind of weird so on my city I’ve mixed up the heights big times you go anything from the Eclipse Tower which is something like a hundred and seventy blocks tall or something like that Anyway and you have a bunch of other stuff on my world that’s I guess like much shorter than that I kind of mix up the levels obviously the Eclipse towers being the tallest but then we have some other things along the way so just make sure you mix up your Heights don’t build Every single skyscraper the same height it’s just going to end up looking way too monotonous all right guys well these are some of the tips that I’ve that I’ve come up with to help you guys with your cities some of these things that I do all the time on Los Angeles and Diseases Some other things are obviously things I don’t do like interior you know I’ve been kind of neglecting interior on my city this is something that no I have made mistakes and I’m trying to like you know continue to improve my city and these are some of the tips that I follow So hopefully you guys got a lot out of this and my last tip for you guys maybe the most important one of all and that is to have fun and play with your friends it might sound silly but playing with your friends and building a city together is something that is so cool Unfortunately I build my city by myself I don’t get a whole lot of help with it which makes it kind of boring sometimes but when you’re playing with friends and this is what it is in most games it just makes the game a lot more interesting a Lot more fun so I’d recommend maybe putting together some sort of building group or something like that and starting up a city with a bunch of your friends especially on Minecraft Xbox one it can get a little bit laggy sometimes on console but overall it’s definitely worthwhile you’ve got to get a group Together and just build some buildings together create a city together it’ll be it’ll be a blast it’ll be so much fun but anyway guys that’s my video thanks for watching everybody hopefully guys got some cool tips these are the tips I put together there’s plenty of other Things you can do but I want to gonna give some off-the-wall tips some things you guys may not before and with that guys hopefully you did enjoy this basic city building tip video it’s been dan lags give it like you would enjoy it and I’ll see you guys next time peace out you Video Information
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